Eastover English introduction
Eastover is a retreat center sitting on a 600 acre sanctuary located minutes from downtown Lenox, Tanglewood Music Center, Shakespeare & Co., and other cultural venues in the Berkshires Mountains of Massachusetts.
In 1910, Harris Fahnestock Jr., a stockbroker from New York City, began to build a summer home named “Eastover” for his family on 1,500 acres of land in Lenox, MA.
For the next 62 years, Eastover served as a year-round recreational family resort, and also housed one of the largest Civil War collections in the country. This resort became an icon in Western Massachusetts and hosted generations of graduation parties, corporate picnics, reunions.
In 2010, attracted and inspired by the natural beauty of this last big track of woodland next to the Housatonic river, bounty of wetland, beaver ponds, trails and lots of wild life, the current steward of more than a decade now still holds its initial intention, keeping the land untouched with almost no development and working toward using the existing buildings to run the holistic operation, striving to sustain and turning the property into a true ecological jewel of the north east, for this reason a water reclaiming plant was built which can process and clean all water used on the property before it’s sending back to the ground. Extensive infrastructure upgrade and renovation are done to the 100+ year old estate main building and the Stable - Tally HO, and other water and wastewater facilities. Two adjacent farms are also purchased and added to the estate to further protect the natural and highly sensitive ecological site.
Eastover now is a holistic retreat center dedicated to serving the greater holistic community. The estate is designed around an evocative “Summer Cottage” to immerse you in a contemplative and holistic environment from the moment you enter its grounds: from its courtyards and terraces overlooking English and Japanese gardens, to its sun-drenched Terrace Café and its inviting mix of manicured greens and meadows, woodland trails and breathtaking views of the Berkshire Mountains. Eastover offers a wide variety of spacious and comfortable overnight accommodations to fit everyone’s budget, from rustic, to contemporary to luxurious.
Dedicated primarily to the holistic community - holding many Qigong, Taichi, Yoga and Chinese Medicine retreats annually, we offer spacious workshop and program rooms with multiple meeting and studio facilities for teachers, groups, corporate training and retreats, even a commercial kitchen for cooking classes.
Located just walking distance from the Mansion is our entertainment venue known as Tally Ho, an iconic gathering place loved for decades by people from the Berkshires and beyond. Tally Ho has the largest indoor space in Berkshire County suitable for receptions, conferences, weddings, lectures, workshops, performances and events of all kinds. It is newly renovated and equipped with a full kitchen, bar, theatrical lighting and state-of-the-art sound system.
Eastover is also ready to host your next corporate retreat. The value of holding a corporate retreat at Eastover is that it distances your staff - figuratively and literally - from day-to-day distractions and allows for a sufficient length of time to contemplate strategic and governance issues. And have you thought about the value of introducing Mindfulness Practice into the workplace? Eastover is the ideal setting to attend one of our Corporate Mindfulness Practice Retreats. Mindfulness Practice is becoming quickly recognized for promoting work productivity and performance and for providing staff with the skills to respond appropriately to their daily challenges in more creative ways. Workplace innovation can be cultivated inwardly and outwardly through the practice of mindfulness.
Eastover offers spacious studio facilities including yoga studios, meditation rooms, outdoor spaces, conference meeting rooms, and even a commercial kitchen for cooking classes.
Eastover is unique in that it offers three components that create a well-rounded lifestyle and help achieve optimal mental and physical states of being:
• Rejuvenating through healthy food and its innate nutritional energy
• Learning the healing powers of Taichi or Qigong to create a healthy, energetic lifestyle
• Healing through Qi energy and Chinese medicinal treatments.
Eastover also welcomes community and school group visits. Eastover’s eclectic, open-hearted receptivity to a broad array of groups and teachers aims to support the continuing emergence of holistic and ecological ideas capable of renewing our culture and leading the way to a sustainable planet.
8 ноя 2021
