Gravatt Retreats/Events Calendar

Lenten Retreat

Sunday & Monday, February 17 & 18

$90 includes three healthy, delicious meals and double occupancy lodging

Facilitator Mary How will guide participants through 24 hours of self reflection with yoga, prayer, meditation, and creative self-expression. The retreat centers on remaining present in body, mind and spirit. This year’s theme is Questions of Jesus. Questions can transform us as they help us reexamine our lives, our biases, and our relationships. Participants will be led through a series of creative and reflective exercises that will assist you in listening to the guidance within as you prepare for the season of Lent.

Friends of Gravatt Oyster Roast

Donor Event

Saturday, February 23, 6 PM

All Friends of Gravatt are invited to join us for an evening of oysters, chili, and a camp fire by Lake Sylvia. Not a Friend of Gravatt yet? Make a donation of $25.00 or more to the Friends of Gravatt Annual Fund and join us in February!

4th Annual Bass Fishing Tournament

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Registration Deadline: April 15th

Sign up your two person team for the 2013 Gravatt Bass Fishing Tournament on Sunday, April 21 to benefit the camper scholarship fund and the Gravatt Environmental Education Program. This event is family friendly so take this opportunity to share to the outdoors with youth you care about. Your 2 person team can choose to fish from the bank, from a Gravatt canoe or your own canoe, or you may bring your own boat (trolling motors only).

Pre registration is required.

Big Delicious Event - Registration is now closed.

Cooking Demo and Three Course Dinner

May 5, 2013

Participants will enjoy a tasty 3 course dinner while award winning chef Brandon Velie, owner of Juniper in Ridge Spring, demonstrates how to cook each course. The menu will feature the freshest, locally grown, produce and meats.

Tickets for the event are $45/each. For more information or to make a reservation please call 803-648-1817. Register online here.

Farming, Food, and Faith Conference - Click here to register

June 28 - 30

Learn how to create effective and low cost programs and practices for your Church, community center, school, and home that address healthful living, hunger, and poverty during this weekend conference. Participants should come ready to work hands on in the Gravatt garden, build their own container garden to take home, and work together to develop strategies for implementation in their own organizations and personal lives.

Tentative Schedule:

Friday 6/28
5:30—Registration & Reception
6:30—Dinner
7:30— Opening Session
8:30— Evening Prayer

Saturday 6/29
8:00— Morning Prayer
8:30—Breakfast
9:30—Garden tour & work, tour chickens and bees, composting and container gardens
12:30— Lunch
1:30—Intro into Community Gardens, Food Banks, and Educational Programs
3:30—Discussion: Needs & Goals of Our Parishes and Communities
4:30—Food Uses, Canning, and Preserving
6:30—Dinner
7:30 — Evening Prayer
8:30—Social

Sunday 6/30
8:00—Breakfast
9:00—Closing Session: What’s Next?
10:00— Eucharist

Yoga Retreat - Click here to register

July 19 - 21

$250

Connect to your body and mind during this weekend yoga event. Experience full and healthful living through yoga classes, mindful walks, and meditation. Of course, our lake will be available for swimming and canoeing.

More details and schedule to come.

Fee includes all meals and double occupancy lodging. Private rooms are available on a limited basis for an additional fee. Private yoga sessions and massages will be available for an additional fee.

Friday 7/19

4-5:00 Registration & Reception
5-6:00 Yoga
6:30 Dinner
8:00 Social at Campfire with Smores

Saturday 7/20

(Private session time)
8:00 Juice & Muffins in Dining Hall
8:30 Morning Yoga
10:00 Brunch
11:00 Meditation
1:00 Lunch
2:00-5:00 Free Time: canoeing and swimming available (private session time)
5:00 Afternoon Yoga
6:45 Dinner
8:00 Night Zip

Sunday 7/21

(private session time)
8:00 Juice and Muffins in Dining Hall
9:00 Yoga
10:30 Brunch
11:30 - 12:30 Meditation/Closing
12:45 Lunch
2:00 Depart

Instructor

Allison Hall discovered yoga as an overworked Type A personality in 2007. After dislocating her shoulder and being told she could never swim again, she turned to yoga to find a source of healing. What she found was much more than physical strength, but also a source of revitalization and awareness. Through yoga Allison has established a great deal of body-awareness and acceptance. Allison comes to her mat to find the calm among a whirlpool of change and to turn the focus away from what cannot be altered. Allison currently teaches yoga at Zanti Power Yoga in Greenville, SC.