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Every message here is read by a real person, not a team inbox and not a sales queue. Before you write a word, take what you came for: straight answers on dates, travel, devices, and what it costs. Then, if you want to talk, a reply comes within one business day.
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Choose the door that fits. Before we ask you for anything, you will see exactly where your note goes and what the reply contains. Say as little or as much as you want.
Root Astro is located in upstate New York, 90 minutes from Manhattan. Exact location details are shared upon booking confirmation.
NOT READY TO TALK YET?
The 48-Hour Attention Reset is the device-free protocol we run on the land, adapted for one weekend at home. One honest weekend will show you the size of the problem, and what is waiting for you under the noise.
No pitch inside, no sequence behind it. When you are ready to go deeper, that is what the land is for.
FREE FIELD GUIDE · PDF, 6 PAGES
One email, containing the guide. Nothing else unless you asked for it.
"I work in tech. The pace doesn't let up, and I've felt my resilience threshold dropping in ways I haven't been able to name. I've also felt a stronger pull back toward nature without quite knowing why. This book gave me the language for both. It's grounded, honest, and doesn't try too hard."
TAMARA KARSTEN · CHIEF OF STAFF · ON HARD, THE BOOK BEHIND ROOT ASTRO
Lee Arthur
CO-FOUNDER · STEWARD OF THE LAND
Built the land at Westbrookville from the first fieldstone up, and wrote Hard: Building Your Inner Citadel.
Marsha Prospere
CO-FOUNDER · STEWARD OF THE PROGRAMS
Leadership coach. Composes the cohorts and shapes every program that runs on the land.
BEFORE YOU ASK
The six things nearly everyone wants to know before they write. Answered here so your first exchange with us can be about you, not logistics.
Mid-April to mid-October. Winter belongs to the land itself, and to composing next season's calendar. If your window falls outside the season, write anyway; next year's dates open early, and the best weeks go first.
90 minutes from Manhattan by car, in the Catskill foothills. By rail, take the Port Jervis line to Otisville and we will arrange your collection from the platform. Exact directions are shared once your stay is confirmed.
Retreats are fully device-free. Devices are surrendered on arrival and kept secure until you leave. Your family receives a staffed emergency line that reaches a person on the land at any hour, so you are reachable for what truly matters and unreachable for everything else. That is the point.
For The Bearing, we compose each room deliberately: five to ten founders, no direct competitors, no observers, everyone carrying real weight. A short conversation before confirmation is how we protect the room, not a gate to keep you out.
Still Point begins at $1,200 per night, all inclusive: lodging, every meal, guided practice, and the full run of the land. The Bearing and Highland are quoted in conversation, because the number only makes sense next to what it contains: facilitation, the room we compose, the land, and everything on it. Nothing here is priced to be haggled.
No. You will get one personal reply and, if you want it, one unhurried call. We keep a small calendar and would rather hold an empty week than fill it with the wrong fit. If we are not your answer, we will point you toward whoever is.
