Stone & Soul:
A Men’s Wilderness Gathering

March 6th-8th 2026

There is a remembering that happens when men gather on the land—
bone to earth, breath to breath.

This retreat is an invitation to restore sacred kinship. To touch stone, wood, fire, and water. To root strength in vulnerability and humility, and to bring what has burdened or silenced us into the healing light of brotherhood.

Across these days, we step away from the noise and return to practices that endure because they work. Ancient, embodied tools for human resilience—shared not as theory, but as lived experience.

We will hike the land, enter sweat lodge, and meet fear and trust through rappelling. We will learn bushcraft, survival skills, and nature identification; move energy with QiGong; gather in ceremony; and allow sound to recalibrate body and soul. Each practice is guided by teachers who have walked these paths for decades.

Stand strong.
Rooted in earth.
Clear in purpose.

Stone and Soul.

Held at The Thyme, our mountain sanctuary in the Berkshires, where land, tradition, and human connection meet.

The Experience

  • Sweat Lodge

  • Sound Journey

  • Masculine Embodiment

Lead Facilitators

  • 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.

  • Jedidiah Shields

    A keeper of the trees, Jedidiah is a professional arborist and climbing instructor who has been based in the Berkshire Hills for over 20 years. Introduced to sacred Indigenous ritual and the spiritual arts as a teenager, he spent many years traveling and studying, growing into the art of sharing ancient teachings.

    With a lifetime of experience guiding individuals and groups in the knowledge of—and movement within—the landscape, his recent years have blossomed into teaching the arts of Tai Chi and Qigong, as well as the healing wisdom of sound ceremony.

    A writer and performer of poetry and short stories, Jedidiah is passionate about working with intention and word to help create safe spaces for connection, vulnerability, and inner growth, while honoring the sacred elements of life on Earth.

All Inclusive Price

All-inclusive price is per person, including state and local tax

Lodge | Solo Room $2000

Lodge | Shared Room $1200

 Schedule

  • 3:00 PM-5:00 PM Arrivals and Check-in

    6:00 PM Welcome Orientation and Dinner

    7:00 - 10:00 PM Opening Session

    • Intentions and expectations

      • Medicine Wheel | Introducing the wheel and its ancient uses for creating sacred space and intention. Offering tools that represent skills to be practiced and opening discussion for intentions.

  • Dawn | Hike to Vista: A wide forested trail guides a 30min uphill walk to our own private, stunning vista. Greet the rising sun of a new day, as we gaze eastward over the Thyme property at the historic Housatonic River Valley, the centerpiece of life in these fertile lands for thousands of years 

    Qigong | An ancient Chinese practice, born within the art of Kung Fu, combining gentle movements, deep breathing, and focused intention to cultivate and balance for improved physical, mental, and spiritual well-being.

    Sweat Lodge Lighting | Place stones and light fire for the sweat lodge ceremony

    8:00 AM Light Breakfast

    9:00 AM Sweat Lodge Ceremony

    1:00 PM Lunch

    3:00 PM Council Circle and Breakouts

    7:00 PM Dinner

    8:30 PM Sound Ceremony | At a microscopic level the solidity of our bodies looks much more like fields of energy and crucially, vibration. All cells in our body vibrate at various frequencies. The rigors of life cause these frequencies to fall out of tune, creating an imbalance that is the root of illness. The ancient practice of sound therapy, now holding the wisdom of modern science alongside that of our ancestors, will promote relaxation & balance, to better enable the healing abilities of our mind, body & spirit.

  • Dawn | Hike to Vista| Qigong

    8:00 AM Breakfast

    9:00 AM Rappel | Standing on the edge of the precipice, envision being at the threshold of the fears that restrain us in life. With the support of a professional guide and equipment, step over the edge, experiencing the adventure and fulfillment of facing the places we find uncomfortable.

    Noon | Lunch

    1:00 Ancestor Walk/Closing | Gather the stories of your unique ancestral past. Walk through time and memory to unlock all the choice points of our collective experience of what has brought us to this moment. Return to the beginning of your lineage. From this place, move forward through time, meeting each challenge our ancestors faced with the wisdom of now knowing a different way. Collectively we gather all this new possibility to guide us into this new vision of how we wish to be in the world.

    3:00 Departure

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