An All New

Healing from Within Retreat 

 Great Smokey Mountains Gatlinburg, Tennessee

September 4th - 7th 

All packages include: 

• 4 days /  3 nights in Gatlinburg, Tennessee
• Flight and accommodations
• Ground transportation throughout trip
• Welcome packages 
• All healthful meals
• Writers workshops designed to unlock your creativity and overcome mental blocks
• Daily intentional movement with certified yoga instructor
• Intimate sit down with published author
• Time to write, rest, and rejuvenate while enjoying both alone time as well as in community

This retreat centers folks with marginalized identities which includes:

• Black, Brown, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC)
• Gender and Sexual Minorities
• People living with Disabilities and Chronic Illness 

If you have any specific questions regarding the retreat itinerary, accomodations, or accessibility please do not hesitate to reach out to: contact@spirituswellnessinfo.com

Lyvonne Briggs

Lyvonne Briggs: Emmy Award-Winning Leader in Spirituality and Empowerment

Lyvonne Briggs (aka Ifafunmike), MDiv, ThM, is an Emmy Award-winning producer, author, and transformational speaker blending spirituality, healing, and empowerment. A celebrated Afro-Caribbean spiritualist, storyteller, and “lavish soul care” coach, she inspires authenticity, pleasure, and holistic wellness.

Her work has appeared on TEDx stages and in ESSENCE, Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, and The Washington Post. She is the author of Sensual Faith: The Art of Coming Home to Your Body, host of Dawtas of the Diaspora podcast, Sensual Faith Podcast, and co-host of Sanctified on Jemele Hill’s Unbothered Network. Sojourners named her among “11 Women Shaping the Church.” Her second book, Unruly Women: How Liberated Baddies Are Going to Heal the World is forthcoming. 

Founder of Lyvonne Briggs Media Group, she consults for organizations including Lyft, Auburn Seminary, and the San Francisco Department of Health, and serves as an advisor to Art and Abolition and Black Healing Collective. Educated at The Lawrenceville School, Seton Hall University, Yale Divinity School, and Columbia Theological Seminary, Briggs is a native New Yorker and splits her time living between Barbados, WI and New Orleans, LA. Follow her @LyvonneBriggs

Zami Tinashe Hyemingway

Zami Tinashe Hyemingway, also known as Ifawole Osunike Adeola, is the founder and CEO of Spiritus Wellness. Zami has a masters in social work as well as a masters in arts and social transformation, with over 15 years in health promotion, program development and implementation, and coaching.

Spiritus Wellness has three goals:

1. Support new and executive leaders in reducing team burnout and increasing psychological safety to sustain talented and high performing staff. Through technical assistance and capacity building workshops, systems reviews, training and coaching.

2. Support communities in addressing systemic barriers that lead to Care Apartheids through making community wellness more accessible and sustainable.

3.Support entrepreneurs, public health and social workers, cultural workers, care givers, and really anyone who draws breath, in ritualizing their wellness practice and helping them shift their inner narratives from one of deficit and scarcity, to one that leads them towards acceptance, celebration and their ability to thrive.