Each guest sojourn at Tara's Meadow is "a personal creation" jointly crafted with Seamus’ help. The elements are all there for a refreshing, peaceful and renewing personal retreat: solitude time, beach time, rest and play, forest hikes and ecology, history, and friendly island culture. Some individuals may also be seeking healing and clarity along their life paths. Seamus is on hand with a variety of skills and tools to assist. Tara’s beautiful tree-top hexagon room is the perfect place to practice gentle graceful movement meditations, spirit drawings and shamanic journeying for instance. Simply fixing dinner together in this beautiful place, sharing inspired conversation in the evening as the owls call . . . is a quiet healing gift. Your sojourn begins with a phone call to Seamus, exploring your needs and desires, and the possibilities for your stay. Prime weekends for the summer can fill quickly, so it is best to call by at least by early spring to assure your dates. Call Seamus Norgaard at (231) 347-7957.
Accommodations - cedar home and environs
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A PERFECT SITE Our Cedar Home and "Healing Hexagon" are located at the forest's edge of Tara's Meadow, our beautiful 20 acre retreat site on Beaver Island in North Lake Michigan. This location gives us both privacy and proximity to the open meadow, a spring pond where the peepers sing, and the deep forest nearby. Visitors and pilgrims who stay with us can choose either to tent in the meadow, camp comfortably in our new 20' roundhouse dome, or enjoy the comfortable accommodations in our beautiful home and retreat center.
CENTER ACCOMMODATIONS Our downstairs features a natural stone tile kitchen and great room "in the round", with an adjacent full bath and a quiet guest bedroom. The guest bedroom features warm carpeting and a queen bed, a bookcase library, and a separate entrance to the forest outdoors. Climbing the spiral staircase you enter our new healing space, a hexagon in-the-round, with oak wood flooring and an all-cedar cathedral ceiling. Individual sojourners or small groups can sleep in this magnificent healing hexagon room on mattresses provided. It's an exquisitely beautiful space amongst the trees, with full windows and an enlightenment cupola over head allowing in the soft green light of the forest. Step directly out from here onto the high balcony near the tree tops. This is sacred space; crafted to welcome individual sojourners or small groups for retreats, classes, meditations, or Body Prayers personal healing and discovery work. ROUNDHOUSE DOME SLEEPING OPTION Tara's Meadow now offers a beautiful new spacious Geodesic Dome (10' high and 20' diameter) in a secluded location for meditation, journaling, yoga, camping, and time alone in the beautiful heart of nature. It is great for those preferring the magic of forest solitude and the simplicity of a comfortable camping space, complete with its dancing tree shadows, wind and wild animal sounds. IMMEDIATE SURROUNDINGS Guest visitors are located within a mile of an ancient oak grove on a beautiful inland lake (to our north); a nature conservancy marsh with an interpretive trail (to our south); and the beautiful Lake Michigan shoreline (to our west.) At the west end of Tara's Meadow on the trail to the beach is our ceremonial stone circle and Cairn, available for visitor's use. |
"You were very attentive to my emotional needs yet respected my time and space. I loved talking with you at all levels . . . it's always cutting-edge no matter where you are on the spiral journey. I loved every minute of discussion and understanding achieved. I loved falling asleep on the beach and finding our way through the forest. I loved the mystery of Tara's Meadow and Body Prayers with getting me in touch with my body, as it grounded me as well as made me feel an extra connection with the flow of the universe."
-- Kathy Riley, guest sojourner at Tara's Meadow
-- Kathy Riley, guest sojourner at Tara's Meadow
