Soul Spring Retreat is facilitated by owner and director, Jane Marzoni. Jane has gathered a talented and spirit-filled group of women to guide each participant through the various retreat activities. Please get to know us ~

Jane lived in Nashville for almost 30 years and raised her two sons there. After many years of working as a volunteer and employee of various nonprofit organizations in education, religion, and the environment, Jane turned her focus on her own spiritual journey. Through guided meditation she was “given” a clear vision of a women’s retreat center. This vision and her dream of owning land in the country culminated in October of 2006 with the purchase of a 28 acre private farm about 45 miles west of downtown Nashville, which she appropriately named Soul Spring Farm. It is here that women gather together in search of their own spiritual awakenings.
 

Mary is a national speaker, a therapist in private practice, and an author. She has published books on Women's Spirituality, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Catholicism, and a book of meditations. Her most recent books include The Easy Does It Dating Guide, and The Easy Does It Relationship Guide (Hazelden, 2004, 2007), and this year she is presenting with Hazelden's Women's Healing Conferences. Mary lives on the banks of the South Harpeth River on the edge of Nashville, Tennessee.

Katherine Fowler is an accomplished professional artist and therapist, who utilizes Expressive Art Therapy, Adventure-based Wilderness Therapy, Energy Work, Cymatic (sound) Therapy, Somatic (body movement) Therapy, Yoga and Meditation in her practice. She incorporates her Native American and Welsh ancestral background within her experiential activities amidst natural surroundings. Katherine has spent years studying the role of archetypes and their conscious effects on our daily behaviors. Her Masters Degree thesis from Prescott College in Arizona embodies the experience she offers to women at Soul Spring’s summit for archetypal enlightenment.

Carlene has a doctorate in Developmental Psychology from Peabody at Vanderbilt, with emphasis on women's issues and Jungian psychology. She maintained a private practice from 1982-2000, taught at VU Graduate Nursing program and conducted workshops for many years. As a portrait photographer, Carlene works especially with women and children in recovery. She has traveled extensively photographing cultures and highlighting women and children. Carlene also specializes in Fine Art photography.

Julie Russell began her first yoga classes with June LaSalvia in Nashville TN and has deepened her own practice and teaching from the guidance and expertise of many teachers, the most influential being Erich Schiffmann. In 1985 she began working with Chung-liang Al Huang in T'ai Ji and continues her study with Cielle Tewksbury. Julie also focuses on the Healing Arts, including therapeutic massage, Breema, and art therapy. Twenty years ago Julie began her own Painting Journals. The Painting Journal Workshops she offers invite you to become an active creator in your life, exploring new possibilities in perception and growing daily toward the self-empowering and self-affirming being you were intended to be.

Dr. Julian Sanborn holds a Ph.D. in social ethics, two master’s degrees in theology and religious studies, and a bachelor’s degree in social work. She has worked in the healing professions for over 20 years as a counselor, therapist, mentor, chaplain, teacher, and friend. Her primary devotion is to healing the human heart. Dr. Sanborn has taught workshops nationally and internationally on her unique therapeutic approach called Bkind2u. Presently she works in Nashville as a consultant and trainer within the field of adoptions. She also maintains a private practice.

Ethel is a woman of many talents and considers one of these Fiber Arts, starting to sew at 5 years old and taught by a grandmother to crochet at age 7. Since then she has tried many mediums, including knitting, weaving, dyeing, embroidery, papermaking, bookbinding and more. She is an active member of the Handweavers Guild of Nashville and has taken workshops in many areas of fiber art. She especially enjoys mixing and combining various types of fiber art in her projects. Also in her repertoire is kumihimo, the ancient art of Japanese braiding, which she began in the early 1980’s while living in Kyoto, Japan. Since 1993, Ethel has taught kumihimo at J.C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina and at two previous Soul Spring retreats. She has also conducted workshops in Alabama and across Tennessee and held demonstrations at many shows and exhibits, including the St. Louis Botanical Garden Japanese Festival.

Cathy is a native of Nashville. She received her BA from The University of the South, Sewanee, TN and received her Master's degree from the College of Art, Architecture and Planning at Cornell University. Although she focuses on oil as her primary medium, she has extensive experience with acrylic, watercolor, and collage. Her artworks can be found in the homes of collectors throughout the U.S. and have been featured in galleries in Nashville, Washington, D. C., Hot Springs, Arkansas, and Monteagle, TN. Her artworks have also been featured in Nashville venues, such as the Junior League Designer's Showhouse, the Nashville Ballet Ball, The Belle Meade Mansion, and The Harding Show. She has served on the faculty of the Cheekwood Museum of Art Education Department in Nashville. For more information, visit www.catherineclarkellis.com.

In November of 1986 a life changing event occurred for Heather Thompson: the first night of circle dance in Nashville, led by John and Marina Bear. After that night's dance she was inspired to begin what became years of spiritual seeking. The paths studied were Wicca, Reiki, Native American Spirituality, Existentialism, and Buddhism. The Bear family lived in Middle Tennessee only two years, and when they moved back to California, Heather assumed the responsibility of keeping circle dance going in Nashville. Since then she has been teaching circle dance, choreography, attending and teaching workshops and organizing a few women’s weekends. In January 2006 Heather retired from 25 years as a Graphic Designer and started a dance clothing “cottage industry” with her husband. They continue to travel to a camp in the High Sierras to co-teach four days of circle dance with the Bears. Heather and her husband live a peaceful, simple, quiet life most days, sewing or dyeing silk.  Visit www.roundaboutdancewear.com.

Diana has attended workshops to create decorative papers, jewelry from paper, journals and origami books. As a volunteer naturalist at Warner Park Nature Center, she is first assistant with birdbanding projects, is a leader of guided nature hikes, and teaches classes in wreathmaking. The out-of-doors is a constant source of inspiration for her.

Amy has more than 20 years in financially related services and financial planning and is the owner and founder of Sailer Financial. She received the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation from the College in 1992. Amy is a registered securities representative with Securities Service Network, Inc. - a registered broker/dealer, member NASD/SIPC and is a licensed insurance agent. She is also a member of the Financial Planning Association {FPA} on both the national and local levels. Amy is dedicated to providing comprehensive financial and estate planning services to her clients. Her investment philosophy is based on the belief that the most important investment decision an investor can make is not which investment to buy, but rather, how assets should be allocated based upon investor attitudes, objectives, circumstances and risk-taking capacity. For more information, visit www.sailerfinancial.com.

Nashville native Martha Phelps Stamps is the executive chef and owner of Martha's at the Plantation, and author of 4 cookbooks, including the critically acclaimed New Southern Basics. An avid proponent of seasonal cooking and local sustainable agriculture, Martha is involved locally with Slow Food and The Southern Foodways Alliance. Her cooking style emphasizes fresh ingredients and simple preparation. She believes that who you share your meal with is as important as what you eat. Martha writes a bi-weekly food column for The Tennessean. She gardens, cooks and eats with her family in Nashville. Visit www.marthasattheplantation.com.

Jeanmarie is a teacher and healer in the wise woman way: a tradition of healing based on nourishment brought back to “life” over forty years ago by Susan Weed, author of Healing Wise and several other herbal guides. In 1995 Jeanmarie participated in a shamanic herbal apprenticeship with Susan and since that time has devoted her energy to living this way of life. “I believe Nature and animals are my greatest guides to living,” says Jeanmarie. Her herbal classes include plant identification, the healing and nourishing properties of plants and instruction on making herbal remedies. She is a co-founder of Laughing Winds, a community for the healing arts where she pours sweat lodges and leads workshops. Jeanmarie is also a spiritual recovery coach.

Gracie Vandiver can't imagine where she would be today if she hadn't accepted an invitation back in 1997 from Mark Bryan (Co-Founder of the Artist's Way Workshops) to participate in an Artist's Way course. A few years later, she took a job as Director of Development for Mark Bryan & Company, which landed her in Nashville to assist Bryan with a workshop sponsored by the Country Music Association. As a direct result of that workshop in 1997, Gracie’s dream of being a Nashville Songwriter has come true. So has her dream of being an author with her book, Your First Cut, a Step-by-Step Guide To Getting There. In her own words: "I've become more creatively courageous and productive in my songwriting. (My CD, Trail of Light, was released in September 2007.) I'm aware of synchronicities in my life. I've learned how to stay emotionally connected while hanging out in the deep end of the creativity pool. I've learned how to survive creative failures - - and I've learned how to listen to and trust the ideas the universe is whispering just to me."

Ms. Binet holds an honorary doctorate in counseling and philosophy, a masters in sociology and has many years’ experience as an artist, dancer and student of international culture. Her immersion in native cultures, therapy, meditation, pranayana and expressive arts became the foundation for the integrative process she created. Ms. Binet’s studies and training are very much multicultural. They include the Eleusinian mysteries in Greece and Cyprus, the “teachings of the Gong” in Israel and Jordan, art and spirituality in Bali and India, body rhythms with Marion Woodman in Canada and the healing aspect of nature with shamanic cultures in Mexico.

Tammy Roth, PhD is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in holistic and energy healing modalities. Her professional experience also includes 15 years spent in corporate administrative and HR roles. Her formal education includes 2 master's degrees from Vanderbilt, each focusing on Human Development and a PhD in Metaphysics from the Institute of Holistic Theology. Visit www.holisticgrowthconsulting.com