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Thaddeus HouseGlenford, New York
A House Built
by Hand.
Held for a Few.
A small A-frame in the Catskills — timbered by hand, run quietly. Two ways in: the everyday stay, and something more deliberate.
Philosophy
Go Unreachable.
The House was hand-built in 1976 — board by board, neighbors pitching in over one long season.
Thaddeus House sits nestled high in the Catskills, far enough from everything that your phone loses its grip (and service). No microwave. No air conditioning. A rotary phone on the wall and a turntable and large amp in the living room.
Meditate at dawn. Hike in the afternoon. Dance in the evening. Ease into quiet nights as you listen to singing sound bowls as you drift off to sleep. Or ponder in a sky full of stars that will envelop you. Go back a little calmer and more centered.
THE STILL POINT GATHERING — A SAMPLE ARC
Three days, shaped lightly.
Every gathering is different — the guests, the season, the weather all move the shape of it. What follows is the frame we tend to return to.
Day One
Arrival
The woods take it from here.
Guests arrive mid-afternoon and settle in. A short walk on the Ashokan Rail trail before the light goes. Dinner is vegetarian, slow — discussion around intention for the weekend. No other agenda beyond easing into stillness.
Day Two
The Long Middle
The Work of Doing Less
The heart of it. Up early and off to an easy walk through the woods in Woodstock. Late morning we gather back at Thaddeus House for a long-form conversation on Conscious Governance. Afternoon: free time in the house, a hike or exploring Woodstock (alone or together). Early evening: A sound healing journey, shared chanting and a meal and a fire (inside in the winter/ fire circle outside other seasons). Let the day wash and burn over you.
Day Three
The Return
Something Shifts
A morning meditation. A late breakfast. One final walk. We close together, briefly, openly discuss our intentions and we're taking back (and what we're leaving behind). Guests are then encouraged to choose their own adventure in the afternoon before pointing the car back toward their next destination.
About Richard
A career built by adding.
A life rebuilt by subtracting.
Do not live by default.
Then I started subtracting. I stopped drinking coffee — not because coffee is evil, but to see what was underneath it. Then the shopping, the buying. Every layer removed makes something underneath more visible.
That's the practice. Not adding. Subtracting. Most people think they need more — more tools, more certainty, more permission, one more book, one more retreat. You need less. You need to strip the construct until you can see the thing hiding from you. The comfortable life you built is not neutral. It's a cage you decorated.
I teach mindfulness and a framework I call Personal Governance now, and I keep a hand-built house in the Catskills. I'm not speculating about the comfortable cage. I built one, and I know how well made it was.
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The House
Timber, iron, nature.
A two-story A-frame, hand-built in 1976, on a mountain high above Woodstock. Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a long farmhouse table, a swinging couch and a freestanding wood-burning fireplace at the center of it all. A renovated kitchen. Everything you need to cook well and eat better. A turntable, amp and record collection are in the living room. The back deck sits deep in the trees — L-shaped lounge, dining for six, and thousands of stars to wish upon.
No microwave. No air conditioning. No outside world distraction.
MORE ON RICHARD
A steward to a deeper experience.
I've been hosting Thaddeus House for twelve years — something about this land, this silence, this particular quality of light throughout the day, the animals who have made it their home — shifted something deeply profound in me. I host The Still Point Gathering because transformation is meant to be shared and passed forward. I meditate, I practice sound healing, I keep the land. Come find out what three days in the right place can do.
— Richard Coughlin
Two ways to stay
THE STILL POINT GATHERING
A hosted retreat.
Three bedrooms (max 6 guests), three days, one host. Meals, quiet, and enough time on the land to actually arrive. Application-only — I read each one and reply personally.
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