Fostering healing and resilience
Time in nature has been shown to reduce stress, promote resilience, and enhance vitality. Our organization offers access to a quiet haven for renewal, reflection, and rejuvenation.
We are particularly interested in reaching those at high risk for burnout including bereaved families, healthcare clinicians, international aid workers, and activists.
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
-Rachel Carson
"I go into nature to be soothed and healed and to put my senses in order."
-John Burroughs
Thank you for your interest in our work. We are grateful for your support and hope you will continue to follow our progress as we grow.
What We Do
Our mission is to foster healing and resilience through restorative experiences.
Current research demonstrates that time in nature holds myriad benefits for overall well-being, contributing to a healthier psyche and supporting optimal physiologic function. We provide low or no cost retreat opportunities for those seeking solace in nature.
We particularly focus on reaching individuals in the helping professions and bereaved families. Persons from marginalized and vulnerable communities, spiritualists, creative professionals, and anyone seeking a deep sense of well-being are also welcomed.
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.”
We have partnered with a privately held property that collaborates with us to provide low to no cost accommodations. The land is nestled among the Blue Ridge mountains of Albemarle Co., VA. and boasts gently rolling pastures along with a generous expanse of forest, providing plenty of solitude in which to rest, create, breathe, and reconnect.
Stewardship practices here including regenerative agriculture, riparian buffer restoration, and forestry conservation invite reflective experiences of collective healing as we tend the land, the waters, and each other—restoring what was broken, remembering what was sacred, and reweaving the bonds between people and place.
To date, we have facilitated experiences in nature and connection with the land for more than 400 unique visitors.
Please consider an ongoing monthly donation in any amount to support operational needs. Schuyler Springs currently has scant overhead costs with no paid personnel or permanent office space.
