November 13–15
Mid-November in the Berkshires, the land goes quiet. The leaves are down, the growing is finished, the year is winding toward its end. Sound carries differently through bare woods — farther, cleaner, with less between you and it. It's the one stretch of the year when the landscape is doing what we spend a weekend trying to learn how to do.
This edition of Resonance is about listening. Most of us go weeks without giving one thing our full attention for an hour. Attention has become something we split, not something we spend. When it stops dividing, the noise drops, and you start registering things that were always there. Your own pace. What you've been carrying. The people next to you. Strike one string and the string beside it moves on its own — that's resonance. Two nights in the right conditions, and something in you comes back into tune.
At the center of The Thyme is the Temple: 4,000 square feet under a high peaked ceiling, ornate wood paneling, carpet wall to wall. Two seven-foot loudspeakers hang in the room, custom-built for this space by A for Ara, routing multiple drivers through a single horn. You don't hear speakers; you hear the source. Behind the walls, in two sealed chambers, infrasonic subwoofer arrays reach down past the bottom of human hearing. That part you don't hear. You feel it in the floor and in your chest. In a room like that, attention has nowhere else to go — the music finds you whether or not you were ready.
Three musicians play the Temple this weekend. Friday, Hudson Valley composer Monte Weber performs on a modular synthesizer he built himself over years of study, folding field recordings from the woods around his studio into music that unfolds live, played alongside violin. Saturday night, harpist Ellana Phillips opens for double bassist Garth Stevenson, who plays against underwater footage of whales he recorded in Baja and tells stories from playing for icebergs and seals in Antarctica.
The rest of the weekend takes the listening outside. Saturday begins with a sweat lodge with Tim Walsh, in the dark and the heat, where the sound in the room is ours — the oldest sound practice of the weekend, and the one you're inside of rather than in front of. In the afternoon, a silent hike up the ravine to a waterfall, with an optional cold immersion for anyone who wants it. Sunday, a ridge hike to the edge of the Appalachian Trail, then a float in the pond: insulated immersion suits, open sky, and sound while you lie on the surface of the water. Between all of it, unstructured time and 85 acres to spend it on.
Resonance works with heat, cold, sound, and the land. First Resonance or fifth, no experience needed — arrive as you are.
The Experience
Daily Programming
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Sweat
Experience a traditional sweat lodge ceremony that purifies, cleanses and strengthens connection to community.
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Cold
Participate in guided cold immersions to invigorate your senses, enhance clarity, and cultivate inner resilience.
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Sound
An immersive live music journey designed to support presence, reflection, and emotional resonance.
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Nourishment
Our weekend chef will be cooking nourishing meals using local ingredients, which will be shared in our cozy dining room at the communal table
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Movement
Feel Trip is more than movement, it’s a journey back to yourself. Drop the rules. Let the music move you. Return to your natural rhythm.
“A hidden gem! I spent a beautiful weekend retreat curated by a caring team that lead a guided breathwork, sweat lodge with hot stones, sauna, cold plunge in the pond, yoga, astrology and delicious meals among a wonderful group of guests. The immersive music concert by Nakaloka was so unique and deeply emotional! The weekend reminded me to be present in mind and soul and that mother nature has amazing powers to heal and bring inner joy and peace. Thank you all for creating this safe home away from home. I can’t wait to be back!!”
— JT, recent guest at Resonance
Facilitators
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Garth Stevenson
Raised on family excursions into the remote wilderness of British Columbia, double bassist Garth Stevenson approaches music as a conversation with nature. Often composing in the forest near his home in Western Massachusetts, he creates spatially immersive music through deep listening, inspired improvisation, and textural experimentation. His commitment to conservation has led him to play alongside pods of breaching whales in Antarctica and Baja, Mexico, while his original scores have accompanied feature films by director John Curran, as well as the biopic Bob Marley: One Love. As he continues to refine what it means to collaborate with the natural world, his albums have become companions for those at life’s thresholds: birth and death, meditation and grief, heartbreak and renewal.oes here
IG - @garthstevenson
Website - garthstevenson.com
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Mento
Monte Weber (Metno) is a Hudson Valley, New York–based sound artist and multi-genre composer whose work drifts between the atmospheric and the immediate—spanning concert halls, black-box theaters, indie rock clubs, and immersive sound installations. His music is introspective, experimental, and deeply emotional, often shaped by the quiet presence of the natural world surrounding his home studio in Stephentown, NY.
Weber studied under composer Marcos Balter and later at NYU Steinhardt with legendary electronic artist Morton Subotnick and avant-garde vocal pioneer Joan La Barbara. He continued his research in computer music at IRCAM in Paris and formerly taught electronic music at Montclair State University. His work has been commissioned and performed by members of the International Contemporary Ensemble, with performances at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival and National Sawdust.
At the core of his practice is a commitment to intimate, immersive, and ambient sound. His compositions unfold through evolving sonic textures—tones that swirl, resonate, and transform in real time through generative processes performed on a custom modular synthesizer developed over years of study and experimentation. For Metno, composition is as much meditation as performance—an exploration of flow state, presence, and emergence.
IG - @metnomusic
Website - montewebber.com
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Tim Walsh
Tim Walsh is an outdoor educator and instructor trainer who specializes in guiding people through the internal and external wilderness. He offers curated, customized experiences and rites of passage for those seeking purpose and spiritual development. Tim advises and develops experiential education models, adventure therapy initiatives, and mental health awareness programs for schools, youth programs, treatment centers, holistic retreats, and national conferences.
Tim is the Founder and CEO of Adventure Recovery, and lead author and trainer for Adventure Recovery’s accredited professional Guide development and Recovery Coach curriculums. He has earned advanced credentials in wilderness medicine, swift water rescue, whitewater paddling and multiple outdoor skills disciplines.
Tim studies and is trained in various wisdom traditions, healing rites, and practical tools from elders and practitioners from both Western and Eastern disciplines. With reverence and respect for ceremony and ritual, Tim crafts a tailored approach to the personal transformative process, creating healing experiences for individuals of all ages.
IG - @adventurerecovery
Website - Adventure Recovery
Schedule
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3:00 PM | Arrival & Check-In
Settle in, explore the land, enjoy the spa, and begin to slow down.
6:00 PM | Introduction to The Thyme
Explore The Thyme’s 85-acre retreat grounds—including lodges, gathering spaces, and outdoor features—with an overview of our history, facilities, layout, and land offerings.
7:00 PM | Communal Dinner
A nourishing meal to welcome you into the weekend.8:00 PM | Monte + Opening Circle
Composer and sound artist Monte Weber’s work explores the relationship between acoustic landscapes and electronic sound. Field recordings drawn from the natural environment become part of his musical language; their textures, rhythms, and gestures woven into and informing compositions that unfold through modular synthesis, electroacoustic violin, poetry, and movement.
Weber approaches performance as an evolving, immersive form, where sound, body, technology, and space continually shape one another. The work invites listeners into a heightened acoustic environment—a space for stillness, transformation, and deep listening.
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6:30 AM | Daily Offering
Ease into the day with fresh coffee, herbal teas, and light seasonal fruit /snacks before programming begins. Settle into the cottage or the warmth of the lodge for quiet moments of journaling, meditation, or simple stillness.
7:30 AM | Light Nourishment / Fasting Window
Guests are invited to fast in preparation for the sweat lodge ceremony. For those who prefer to eat, a selection of light, grounding nourishment will be available to support your morning.Fasting before the lodge helps deepen the experience by allowing the body to move energy more freely, enhancing clarity, focus, and the physical cleansing process.
8:30 AM | Sweat Lodge
A powerful purification ritual. Harness the transformative energy of fire and steam to cleanse body, mind, and spirit.12:30 PM | Lunch
2:00 PM | Silent Ravine Hike
Hike up the ravine to a waterfall in silence listening to natures sounds. Optional cold immersion in natural pool behind a waterfall.
6:00 PM | Dinner
Gather in the Temple for a live musical experience designed to open the senses and invite deeper presence. An evening of live sound, held simply and intentionally, creating space for listening, presence, and shared experience.
7:30 PM | An Evening with Garth Stevenson
Join Garth for an evening of music, storytelling, at The Thyme. He will be playing alongside footage and underwater recordings of his interactions with whales in Mexico, telling stories about his time in Antarctica playing music for penguins, seals, icebergs, and performing music from his albums, as well as improvising.
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7:30 AM | Daily Offering
Ease into the day with fresh coffee, herbal teas, and light seasonal fruit /snacks before programming begins. Settle into the cottage or the warmth of the lodge for quiet moments of journaling, meditation, or simple stillness.
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Hike
Trek through The Thyme’s deep forest to a majestic ridge top, at the edge of the Appalachian Trail.
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Join us in the Reflection Pond at Thyme for a one-hour Outdoor Floatation Therapy session with Stillwater.
Outdoor Floatation Therapy is a guided experience that invites participants into a state of deep rest, presence, and relaxation while floating effortlessly on the water beneath the open sky. Participants wear specialized waterproof 5mm neoprene immersion suits that provide buoyancy and insulation, allowing them to remain warm, dry, and comfortable throughout the experience.
During the session, Stillwater facilitator Tyler will guide participants through gentle breathwork and sensory awareness practices designed to calm the nervous system and cultivate a sense of spaciousness and ease through the subtle art of surrender. The experience culminates in a 30-minute curated “sonic” sound bath while floating peacefully on the water.
Other participants can enjoy guided cold immersion in a serene natural setting—clarity, resilience, and elemental renewal.
12:00 PM | Farewell Lunch + Closing Circle
Enjoy once last meal together and discuss reflections from the weekend.
3:00 PM | Departures
All Inclusive Price
$1,200
Per person, not including state and local tax
Join Us
FAQs
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What’s included in the all-inclusive price per person:
2 nights / 3 days shared accommodation
Chef-prepared meals made with love and local ingredients
Snacks
Sound meditation
Breathwork
Music
Trail hikes
Sauna + pond cold plunge
Sweat lodge ceremony
Massachusetts state and local sales tax
Loving vibes
What’s not included in the price:
Alcohol
Private bodywork / massage
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Arrivals begin at 3pm Friday and ends at 3pm Sunday. We request that everyone starts and ends the experience together. This begins with our dinner at 7 pm on Friday, followed by Feel Trip Breathwork and an opening circle.
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We are offering 1 all-inclusive price, which covers all accommodations, meals & snacks, programming throughout the weekend, and state/local tax. See “what’s included in the price?” in this FAQs section.
You will be sharing a room with 1 other person, and be guaranteed a queen bed or bigger, as well as a private bathroom.
Should you wish to turn your room into a 3 or 4 person room, it is possible to add floor mattresses to the room. There would be a reduce per person rate depending on how many people are in the room (we would refund you part of your booking if this becomes the case). This price is TBD. If this is of interest, please indicate this on the Join Us form below and we will try to accommodate.
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Bookings are refundable up until 2 weeks before the event starts. You can transfer your booking to a member of the Othership community up until the event.
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Yes, we are happy to help pair you with someone you specifically request, or someone who is also looking for a roommate. Please indicate your preferences on this form.