Calendar of Events
N.E.S.T. closed for private event
Imagine gathering your people in a space designed for connection, beauty, and meaningful moments.
N.E.S.T. offers a unique setting for hosting your own private event, whether you’re celebrating a birthday, anniversary, family reunion, coming-of-age ceremony, intimate wedding, or curating a private healing arts retreat.
Tucked into the natural landscape, this is a place where your vision can gently take flight, supported by the warmth and intention of the land.
We invite you to explore the gallery to get a feel for the atmosphere and inspiration, and if something within you stirs, follow the link to learn more about hosting, including details on offerings, availability, and pricing.
The Temple of Grief Weekend Retreat
This retreat is an offering to the sacred space where grief is fully witnessed and truly released. Here, we honor grief deeply, knowing it as a key to our soul’s healing and remembrance.
Hudson Valley Psychedelic Society - Field trip to the movies
MORE THAN MEDICINE: The Rise of Psychedelic Therapy to Premiere at Woodstock Film Festival Oct 17th
N.E.S.T. closed for private event
Imagine gathering your people in a space designed for connection, beauty, and meaningful moments.
N.E.S.T. offers a unique setting for hosting your own private event, whether you’re celebrating a birthday, anniversary, family reunion, coming-of-age ceremony, intimate wedding, or curating a private healing arts retreat.
Tucked into the natural landscape, this is a place where your vision can gently take flight, supported by the warmth and intention of the land.
We invite you to explore the gallery to get a feel for the atmosphere and inspiration, and if something within you stirs, follow the link to learn more about hosting, including details on offerings, availability, and pricing.
Harvest Gathering at the N.E.S.T. with the Hudson Valley Psychedelic Society
Join us to our Hudson Valley Psychedelic Society Meetup for a Potluck and sharing circle
This event is designed to foster open dialogue, share experiences & build community support with the fascinating world of psychedelics.
In November, we will focus on the topic of “Slowing down with the season”
How are we integrating our psycehdelic experiences?
Talking Stick Emotional Expression Men´s Retreat #5
This retreat focuses on the physical manifestations of these emotions within our bodies, creating a safe environment for their release. This approach helps us move beyond reactive and defensive behaviors, reclaiming the energy once consumed by these defenses and reconnecting with our true selves.
N.E.S.T. closed for private event
Imagine gathering your people in a space designed for connection, beauty, and meaningful moments.
N.E.S.T. offers a unique setting for hosting your own private event, whether you’re celebrating a birthday, anniversary, family reunion, coming-of-age ceremony, intimate wedding, or curating a private healing arts retreat.
Tucked into the natural landscape, this is a place where your vision can gently take flight, supported by the warmth and intention of the land.
We invite you to explore the gallery to get a feel for the atmosphere and inspiration, and if something within you stirs, follow the link to learn more about hosting, including details on offerings, availability, and pricing.
YAKAON -A forest Inititation -Sacred Solitude - Ancient rite of Passage
Return to the Forest: Solitude, Ceremony, and Remembering.
Step beyond the noise of everyday life and into the living wisdom of the forest. This week-long, guided immersion, inspired by the timeless spirit of the vision quest, invites you to prepare, fast, and spend one, two, or three nights alone in nature, supported by experienced guides.
Through solitude, ceremony, and deep relationship with the land, participants return to what is essential.
Alchemical Woman Retreat
Give yourself two days to pause, breathe, reconnect, and remember the woman you truly are.
Alchemical Woman is an intimate experience created exclusively for women—a space to step away from the noise of everyday life and reconnect with your body, intuition, inner strength, and spirit. Through yoga, meditation, breathwork, body practices, cold-water immersion, nature, fire, and sisterhood, we explore the art of transforming fear, stress, and limitation into clarity, vitality, and personal power.
Coyote Institute Healing Camp #6
We’re gathering again for four unforgettable days of playful healing, deep storytelling, and transformative ceremony—all surrounded by the beautiful environment of The Nest in Woodstock, NY. This year, we will work with the energy of masks. Masks have long been considered as a place for spirits to 'land' in order to accompany us on a journey of healing.
Led by Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, Barbara Mainguy, and Peter Blum, this unique retreat invites you to explore the stories that shape your life—and how to reimagine them in powerful new ways.
The Wisdom Keeper Within: A Retreat for the Path Beyond Healing with Bob Vetter
It's not a first introduction to inner work. It's not a healing intensive. It's not trauma work. It's for people who have already crossed those thresholds and are asking what comes next.
N.E.S.T. closed for private event
Imagine gathering your people in a space designed for connection, beauty, and meaningful moments.
N.E.S.T. offers a unique setting for hosting your own private event, whether you’re celebrating a birthday, anniversary, family reunion, coming-of-age ceremony, intimate wedding, or curating a private healing arts retreat.
Tucked into the natural landscape, this is a place where your vision can gently take flight, supported by the warmth and intention of the land.
We invite you to explore the gallery to get a feel for the atmosphere and inspiration, and if something within you stirs, follow the link to learn more about hosting, including details on offerings, availability, and pricing.
Woodstock Festival of Awakening
N.E.S.T. collaborates with theWoodstock Center for Awakening, Friday, Aug. 14th, through Sunday, Aug. 16th
This year, Stefanie will be leading the production on Sunday at the Bearsville Theater, bringing the essence of the N.E.S.T., creating a transformational sacred space with local alliances and friends from around the world.
Stay tuned for more details as this tradition takes form, bringing prayer, medicine, community, healing, and joy for all of our Woodstock family and beyond.
Altar of the Thunder - Traditional ceremony and Fire offering with Andrea Calderón
Gather in prayer, ritual, and sacred song as we open the way together with intention and gratitude.
N.E.S.T. closed for private event
Imagine gathering your people in a space designed for connection, beauty, and meaningful moments.
N.E.S.T. offers a unique setting for hosting your own private event, whether you’re celebrating a birthday, anniversary, family reunion, coming-of-age ceremony, intimate wedding, or curating a private healing arts retreat.
Tucked into the natural landscape, this is a place where your vision can gently take flight, supported by the warmth and intention of the land.
We invite you to explore the gallery to get a feel for the atmosphere and inspiration, and if something within you stirs, follow the link to learn more about hosting, including details on offerings, availability, and pricing.
Umbandaime Concert & Lecture with Dara and Camila
We are honored to welcome our dear sisters, Dara Freire and Camila Vasquez, lifelong practitioners of Umbandaime—a powerful spiritual tradition born from the meeting of Afro-Brazilian and Amazonian lineages. Together, they will open a ceremonial space, sharing teachings, sacred songs, and traditional drumming as vessels to awaken the presence of the Orishas and deepen our connection to Spirit.
Community Temazcal/Sweatlodge Gathering
Join Gala and Stefanie for three days of co-created ceremony, altar building, and sweat lodge/temazcal.
Bring your songs and stories to share by the fire as we deepen our practice and weave traditions. We will weave traditions inspired by Mesoamerican, Native American, Jewish, and Rainbow communities, with deep respect for the elders, teachers, ancestors, and lineages that have guided us.
N.E.S.T. closed for private event
Imagine gathering your people in a space designed for connection, beauty, and meaningful moments.
N.E.S.T. offers a unique setting for hosting your own private event, whether you’re celebrating a birthday, anniversary, family reunion, coming-of-age ceremony, intimate wedding, or curating a private healing arts retreat.
Tucked into the natural landscape, this is a place where your vision can gently take flight, supported by the warmth and intention of the land.
We invite you to explore the gallery to get a feel for the atmosphere and inspiration, and if something within you stirs, follow the link to learn more about hosting, including details on offerings, availability, and pricing.
Kundalini Kriya Yoga & Sound Journey w/ Owen Powell
Kundalini Yoga focuses on simple exercises combined with pranayamic breathing techniques that are highly effective for quick energetic state change, clarity of mind, and overall wellness.
Shabbaton at the N.E.S.T. - Tikkun HaNefesh: Repair of the Soul
A weekend Shabbaton retreat in Woodstock, NY for Jewish adults seeking to bridge the sacred with the mundane. Throughout the weekend, participants will engage in Jewish ritual such as Kabbalat Shabbat, Havdalah, niggun circles, prayer circles, middot learning and practicing Hitbodedut in the woods on the 26 acre property.
Growing at the N.E.S.T. Session 3 - Flowering & Fine-Tuning: Bringing Your Plants to Full Expression
A three-part, hands-on journey into the art and spirit of growing cannabis—where learning unfolds through tending, sharing, and rooting into the rhythms of the land.
Hudson Valley Psychedelic Society - Hybrid Meetup with Naomi Katz and Robert Wordsmith
In June, we welcome Naomi Katz and Robert Wordsmith for a unique journey that weaves together conversation about psychedelic consciousness by deepening our relationship with water—as a living thread that connects, nourishes, and sustains the intricate web of life we are all part of.
Growing at the N.E.S.T. Session 2 - Nurturing Growth: Cultivating Strong, Healthy Plants
A three-part, hands-on journey into the art and spirit of growing cannabis—where learning unfolds through tending, sharing, and rooting into the rhythms of the land.
N.E.S.T. closed for private retreat
Imagine gathering your people in a space designed for connection, beauty, and meaningful moments.
N.E.S.T. offers a unique setting for hosting your own private event, whether you’re celebrating a birthday, anniversary, family reunion, coming-of-age ceremony, intimate wedding, or curating a private healing arts retreat.
Tucked into the natural landscape, this is a place where your vision can gently take flight, supported by the warmth and intention of the land.
We invite you to explore the gallery to get a feel for the atmosphere and inspiration, and if something within you stirs, follow the link to learn more about hosting, including details on offerings, availability, and pricing.
N.E.S.T. closed for private event
Imagine gathering your people in a space designed for connection, beauty, and meaningful moments.
N.E.S.T. offers a unique setting for hosting your own private event, whether you’re celebrating a birthday, anniversary, family reunion, coming-of-age ceremony, intimate wedding, or curating a private healing arts retreat.
Tucked into the natural landscape, this is a place where your vision can gently take flight, supported by the warmth and intention of the land.
We invite you to explore the gallery to get a feel for the atmosphere and inspiration, and if something within you stirs, follow the link to learn more about hosting, including details on offerings, availability, and pricing.
Hudson Valley Psychedelic Society presents: Medicine Music Concert & Lecture with Andrea Calderón
In May, we welcome Andrea Calderón, spiritual Kuraka from Colombia, as she shares her powerful songs and ancient traditional teachings of the Sumak Kawsay.
N.E.S.T. closed for private event
Imagine gathering your people in a space designed for connection, beauty, and meaningful moments.
N.E.S.T. offers a unique setting for hosting your own private event, whether you’re celebrating a birthday, anniversary, family reunion, coming-of-age ceremony, intimate wedding, or curating a private healing arts retreat.
Tucked into the natural landscape, this is a place where your vision can gently take flight, supported by the warmth and intention of the land.
We invite you to explore the gallery to get a feel for the atmosphere and inspiration, and if something within you stirs, follow the link to learn more about hosting, including details on offerings, availability, and pricing.
Growing at the N.E.S.T. Session 1: Planting the Seeds, Starting Your Home Cannabis Garden
A three-part, hands-on journey into the art and spirit of growing cannabis—where learning unfolds through tending, sharing, and rooting into the rhythms of the land.
Yoga Ceremony 101- An Introduction for Beginners
This is more than a yoga class, it’s a ceremony.
A safe and intentional space where breath, movement, and energy come together to support deep physical and emotional healing.
Talking Stick Emotional Expression Men´s Retreat #4
This retreat focuses on the physical manifestations of these emotions within our bodies, creating a safe environment for their release. This approach helps us move beyond reactive and defensive behaviors, reclaiming the energy once consumed by these defenses and reconnecting with our true selves.
HV Psychedelic Society meetup w/Guest speaker Phil Farber of Cannabis Magick
Join the Hudson Valley Psychedelic Society, Forest Haven, and The N.E.S.T.
This event is designed to foster open dialogue, share experiences & build community support with the fascinating world of psychedelics.