Explore rootstock
Finding grounding, comfort, and peace in our chaotic world can be challenging.
This sacred hill is here to support you.
Rootstock Retreat’s ten magnificent acres are flanked by forests, meadows, pastureland, ponds, and wilderness and filled with gardens, temples, and meditation spaces, stone walls, walking and ski trails, a small orchard, and an edible forest garden. The whole hill is 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.
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.
Accommodations
If you find yourself called to Rootstock, trust that the perfect nest awaits you. Scattered across this magical hill are a range of accommodations, including a beautifully designed off-grid tiny house, a well appointed communal bunk house, “The Toad” (a campy, rustic vintage trailer), multiple campsites, and our cozy and inviting main cabin.
Bathhouse
The Oasis at Rootstock is wood-fired bathhouse and elemental healing sanctuary. This clothing-optional, co-ed, sober space offers a unique rustic hydrotherapy experience that you won’t want to miss. Whether you attend a Community Bathhouse, reserve the Oasis for a private event, or add on a few hours of bathhouse time to an overnight stay, you’ll emerge from the pristine, chemical free, wood-fired mountain water feeling refreshed, transformed, and more fully grounded in your physical body.
The Healing Yurt
Our Healing Yurt offers an intimate therapeutic treatment space to offer or receive massage, myofascial release, sound healing, or energy healing.
Cosmic Egg & Outdoor Kitchen
Our 5 ton masonry oven, the Cosmic Egg, is our temple of the hearth and an amazing tool for crafting wood-fired feasts of pizza or our gardens bounty. The Outdoor kitchen is equipped with 4 propane burners, a hot water sink (3 seasons), refrigeration, and a space for meal prep and dining.
Tipi
Our 22’ Tipi Temple is where we gather for community circles, medicine retreats, morning meditations, drum circles and more. Stepping inside you’ll find yourself on the Crystal Path, a stunningly beautiful path of over 600 pounds of polished crystals, with seating inside for 10-12 laying down or 15-25 sitting. A sunken fire pit warms the space and creates a beautiful altar space for ceremony.
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.
Wheel of Time
This electromagnetic vortex and temple space was dowsed and gridded and built by seven women while seven planets were in retrograde. The Air element is strong in this space and the Obsidian Altar, a gift from Mount Shasta, punctuates the center of the temple. Perfect for meditation, singing, and ceremony this beautiful new temple at Rootstock is worth a visit.
Gardens & Forest
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. 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.
Surrounding Area
The seasons will dictate your options but you’ll find that there’s no shortage of activities to enjoy any time of year around the Northeast Kingdom.
Whether you just want to explore for a few hours or a few days, there are so many wonderful offerings in and around West Glover. You can stitch together your own itinerary or let us know what you’d like to experience and we can suggest one for you. There are also many concerts, feasts, fires, farmers markets, workshops, dances and gatherings that our beautiful community offers throughout the year and we’re happy to weave our guests into the fabric of our community when there’s something wonderful happening that we want to share.