StoneWind Facilities
StoneWind
Institute, situated on StoneWind
Retreat's 160 acre mountain top campus in Arkansas' beautiful
Boston Mountains, is located midway between Fayetteville and Ft.
Smith, Arkansas in the northwest corner of the state. Institute attendees
can stay in any of StoneWind Retreat's eight fully furnished, elegantly
appointed Yurt Cabins, conveniently equipped for long or short stays
with complete kitchens, central heat/air, washer/dryers, and 709sf
of living area. The Cabins are built on
40'x40' private decks, all with hot tubs,
elegant amenities, and panoramic views of the mountains. In addition,
classes are held in the 1600sf East Room located in the Red Barn
office building. The 160
acre campus includes walking trails, natural and man made stone gardens,
ponds, woods, and picnic areas with ancient stone tables and benches,
plus 30,000 acres of Ozark National Forest just across our western
fence. From the earth friendly yurt environments to our mountain
views and natural surroundings, StoneWind
is the perfect setting for a healing and learning retreat.
StoneWind's
Yurt Cabins are available in two configurations: the Deluxe
Mountain Cabin with Hot Tub and the Sanctuary
Suite, which is setapart on another finger of the mountain
for that 
special getaway. The basic size and design of both types
of cabin is identical, with the same
elegant furniture and amenities and the same size deck with mountain
views. Nothing
compares to basquing in warm water under an inky
blanket of night with
only the moon and starlight above--the way it used to be before light pollution.
All our Yurt Cabins invite you to enjoythe beauty of the woods and mountains
in the comfort ofelegant surroundings. Deck tables with woven chairs overlook
the mountains providing the perfect spot for a leisurely breakfast, a romantic
sunset dinner, or a place to surf the internet on your laptop
Classes are offered on a regular basis in the teaching
facilities, with 
students free to commute,stay in nearby accommodations,
or stay in the the Retreat cabins.
StoneWind Retreat extends an Institute discount on Yurt Cabins to those
enrolled in Institute classes or coming to the Wellness Center. Those who
are simply looking for a place to get away for a healing rest can enjoy
the comforts of StoneWind's yurt cabins through StoneWind
Retreat, which is open to Guests year round.
Students and Guests are invited to stroll gravel walking
trails to stone meditation gardens, sit on million year old boulders, green
with moss, white with lichen, watch deer graze our fields while hawks,
owls, and the occassional eagle glide overhead. Or you can take one of
the many 
grass pathways that meander through the fields, past ponds, stone
tables and benches, circling back to the residences. If you feel adventuresome,
leave the beaten path and cross our western fence into the wilderness of
the Ozark National Forest for a day hike or go a few miles north on I-540
to Devil's Den State Park and hike miles of prepared hiking trails. In
the evenings, come home to spectacular sunsets from StonCara Lagoon or
from the vantage point of your own private deck.
The East Room is open evenings
and between classes as a quiet place to meditate, and each of the Yurt
Cabins is
designed for optimum peace and quiet for meditation and study. There are
lending libraries in the Office with books, magazines,
DVD's, Videos, and CD's on a range of topics related to holistic healing,
methaphysical topics, and entertainment.
Living the "Unplugged" Life on StoneWind's mountain
Each Yurt is specifically designed to support the teaching
and healing mission of StoneWind Institute, which means the usual noisy,
disruptive and interruptive devices are simply not here or no longer allowed
to be noisy and disruptive. For instance, there are no phones in the yurts,
although all major cell phones work well
on the mountain. For maximum relaxation, we encourage you to turn your
cell phone off and put it in a drawer while you are here. You will find
radios, CD players, and new televisions with DVDs and VCRs in each Yurt,
and a rich lending library of audio/visual materials related to Institute
programs and to general entertainment (or as we say it, Soul Food, Mind
Food, and Junk Food), but there are no connections to cable or network
TV. Our signature tees say it all: "Take back your
life. Turn off the TV." For
confirmed news addicts who find cold turkey too painful, NPR comes in loud
and clear with great indepth reporting on all the day's events.
"Unplugged," Yes. Unconnected, "No." Each yurt has wireless
internet, which means with a WIFI Laptop you can surf the Net anytime (most
of the yurts require ethernet connection to get fastest service with the
mountain fall-off). If you are
not WIFI-Lap equipped or don't want to lug it, you can pick up email at one
of the computers in the main office.
Bottom line: there are important lessons
to be learned about ourselves, each other, healing, Nature, the world, but
those lessons can only be learned in the silence of the individual heart. Next
to potable Water, Silence is the most precious and the most scarce commodity
in our world. It is the Gold Standard at StoneWind. Our mountain shares its
beauty, its energies, its stones, its messges with us, but we must be able
to listen with the quiet attention lost everywhere else beneath the unceasing
din of our technological world.
At StoneWind, we listen.
