Sacred Space
West Glover, Vermont was chartered in 1783, though the Nulhegan Tribe, The Memphremagog Band, and the Northern Cowasuk Indians have lived here - N'DAKINNA (Our Land) - from time beyond memory. We honor the ancestors on this land daily with gratitude, service and love.
Located in a region of Vermont called “the Northeast Kingdom,” legend has it that the fields surrounding Rootstock Retreat are the highest agricultural fields between Boston and Montreal. Deciduous hardwood forests, cedar swamps, abundant lakes, ponds, and fields surround us. Blessed with 10 beautiful acres, we are located off a dirt road and perched on top of a quiet, high hill with stunning views to the northeast and Canada. Our small retreat space is flanked by forests, meadows, pastureland, ponds and wilderness and filled with gardens, meditation spaces, stone walls, walking and ski trails, a small orchard and edible forest garden. The whole hill feels like sacred land and you can feel the pulse of the Earth from our perch on top. No matter when you choose to visit, you’ll find that this magical place is vibrant and nourishing in every season, each providing different (and potentially humbling) lessons and its own unique medicine.
Dragon Rock
A temple space called Dragon Rock sits at the crown of the property, flanked in stone walls with a fire pit to the east. Split cleanly in half by a yellow and silver birch, this glacial erratic boulder emanates powerful, healing vibrations and is where many ceremonies and gatherings happen on the property. Altars around the site and within the rock itself hold the offerings, prayers and wishes of visitors past and it was the Dragon that whispered that it was time to activate this land as a healing space and invite the people to share the power of this place.
Since 2015 we have welcomed all kinds of gatherings, teachings, healers, people across generations, genders, socioeconomic layers, and regular passersby to this sacred site to tune in, meditate, listen, heal, seek, and simply share and receive Earth medicine.
Places remember what people forget, and we are blessed to have this grounding and gracious timekeeper in our midst as we remember ourselves back into health, peace, wholeness and radiance.
The Gulley, our gardens, a small orchard, medicine wheel, and other beautiful spaces on the land here invite presence as well as the many lakes, waterfalls, fields and mountains surrounding us. It’s a magnificently beautiful place to live and simply spending some time on the hill here will heal you.