3 Day Rest & Restore Retreat - Experience Sabbath in the Mountains

With Martha Stuart Williams, PhD and Stacey Moore, MPA, RN

November 7 - 9, 2025

Date and Time Details: Friday, November 7th (4pm) - Sunday, November 9th (11am) Air travel: Fly into the Charlotte airport (CLT). Car rental services available. 2 hr 15 min commute to Sundown in the Blue Ridge mountains.

Location: Sundown

Address: 5487 Carsonville Road, Fries, VA, USA

  • Downs – $1,750.00
  • Huffman – $1,500.00
  • Jackson – $1,500.00
  • Highland – $1,500.00
  • Stumberg – $1,500.00
  • Riverbend Room - Double Bottom Bunk – $1,200.00
  • Riverbend Room - Single Bottom Bunk – $1,000.00
  • Riverbend Room - Single Top Bunk – $1,000.00

A Retreat for Women Ready to Come Home to Themselves


Experience Sabbath

Because true rest is sacred.

This is your invitation to stop striving and enter into rest. Rest & Restore: Experience Sabbath is a 2-night, 3-day retreat designed for women longing to step off the treadmill of busyness and taste the wholeness that comes when you truly pause.

Held on 140 acres of stillness in the Blue Ridge Mountains, this isn’t just time away—it’s a sacred experience of Sabbath: rest for your body, renewal for your mind, and refreshment for your spirit.

 This Retreat is Different—and Worth It

A Sacred Pause
You’ve given and carried and done enough. This retreat is an intentional Sabbath—a reset button for your soul, honoring the ancient wisdom of rest as essential, not optional.

Sabbath Practices for Modern Life
You’ll experience practices that restore your rhythm—restful reflection, nourishing meals, unhurried time—that you can carry back into your everyday to protect your peace long after the retreat ends.

Freedom from the Pressure to Perform
Here, there are no roles to play, no checklists to finish, no expectations to meet. Sabbath gives you permission to lay it all down and simply be.

Sacred Community
Sabbath is meant to be shared. Gather around the fire, share unhurried meals, and connect with women who understand what it means to long for rest.

Lasting Renewal
You won’t just feel rested—you’ll leave with rhythms, insights, and Sabbath-inspired practices that will sustain you back home.

What You’ll Experience

🌿 Embodied Rest
Guided meditation, gentle yoga, and Sabbath reflection to help your body, mind, and spirit exhale.

🌿 Unhurried Living
Slow meals, long walks, quiet spaces. A weekend where the pace is sacredly slow.

🌿 The Gift of Stillness
Step away from the constant noise of work and worry and learn what true stillness feels like.

🌿 Sacred Conversations
Meaningful exchanges with women who are also seeking renewal—community without pressure, connection without agenda.

🌿 Sabbath Practices to Take Home
Practical, soul-filling habits like intentional boundaries, tech-free rituals, and time-blocked rest you can carry back into your everyday life.

🌿 Rest That Lingers
You’ll leave not just refreshed, but re-centered—with the gift of Sabbath woven into your being.

The Promise

Come weary. Leave renewed.
This retreat is your chance to experience the beauty of Sabbath—to step off the hamster wheel of life and rediscover the peace, joy, and presence you were made for.

Your registration isn’t just for a weekend—it’s an investment in reclaiming the gift of Sabbath so you can live with more rest, more rhythm, and more life.

About the Leaders

Martha Stuart Williams, PhD

Martha is a seasoned healthcare executive, leadership coach, and purpose-driven guide who knows burnout—because she’s lived it. Over the past two decades, Martha has led large-scale operations and transformation efforts across the healthcare industry, from startups to public and private equity-backed companies. She’s held executive roles including President, COO, Chief HR Officer and Chief Administrative […]

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Stacey Moore, MPA, RN

Stacey Moore is a seasoned nurse and clinical health leader who brings over 27 years of clinical expertise, executive leadership, and soulful insight to the work of helping women heal—inside and out. With a career that spans critical care, nursing administration, functional wellness and healthcare entrepreneurship, Stacey has worn many hats—but her mission has always […]

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