Healing and Harmony found at Falls Brook Yurt Stay

Yurts have given spiritual countries such as Russia and Mongolia harmony and balance. Today, Americans can experience the say healing in a Falls Brook Yurt.

(PRWEB) May 8, 2004 --Harmony & healing found in a Falls Brook Yurt Stay

Today, traditionally many of us live in permanent structures with an address, a place we call home. Nomadic people in many countries, even today, continually travel, seeking terrain to feed their herds, harvest food and find shelter from the harsh winters. In Mongolia, nomads call their moveable homes gers. In Siberia, these moveable homes are called yurta or more commonly known as yurts in English. What are these yurts? Yurts are insulated abodes built with ingenuity especially when considering a nomads lifestyle. Nomadic people chose homes that they could erect and take down easily and quickly. These yurts must easily pack into a small load a herd animal could transport. The round walls and roof must withstand high winds and heavy snow fall with strong wood lattice and upright poles. The roof poles attach to the side walls and span up to roof center to form a conical covering with a hole at the top to release smoke from the fires that cook their food and provide warmth inside this moveable home. Ancient yurts did not have windows, but flaps or doors, which let light and people through. The outside coverings even today in many nomadic worlds, are animal skins or felt, painted with symbols of their culture. These yurts rest on grass or dirt and handle the climates like the high mountains of Mongolia and exposed ice world of Siberia. Many nomads as well as those in more developed countries live and vacation in yurts today.

There is no beginning or end to a circular yurt. Walk into a yurt and find harmony with smooth lines that connect, soft wood beams overhead and lattice walls that flow all around you. Todays modern yurts are modeled after traditional Mongolian gers but offer more comfort with modern coverings and insulation, wooden platform floors, a large skylight to the stars replacing the fire hole and windows for light along the circular wall. The sound of rain or hail is entertainment for the evening and soft propane lighting and heat provide comfort, glowing out into the night. Travel close to home to a place where you can experience a modern yurt stay. Falls Brook in the Adirondacks is tucked away and your hosts welcome you to Take the path less traveled". Hike in just 2/3 of a mile from the Stony Pond trailhead along cascading waterfalls, over footbridges and find yourself in a world away from the world. Leave society behind and quickly see and hear nature as a deer walk by and birds chirp and an owl sits quietly in seclusion in a tree. Find tranquility as you sit under front deck of the yurt the water flowing closefy. Sit on the footbridge above the flowing brook with a waterfall view and brook flowing under you. The flow of the brook provides lulling music inside your yurt as well. If you like to hike, step outside your yurt door and explore miles of state marked trails to waterfalls, secluded ponds and a lean-to for a lunch break. Step off the trail to a pond your hosts call Lost Pond" for its remoteness, beauty and rarity on maps. Made entirely of beaver efforts, it sits halfway up Green Mountain and flows off the mountain into a cascading rock ledge stream, creating waterfalls and flowing into an old mining cave. Take an easy bushwhack up Green Mountain for great views of the Adirondacks or just stay close to your yurt. It is a peaceful place and guests have explained that they feel different when at Falls Brook. Your Falls Brook hosts know what they mean and originally found this place while backcountry skiing through, stopping only to say to one another Do you feel something here? Looking back to find a For Sale" sign in the middle of these woods. They believe there is good karma and real purpose for to place. No one can quite explain it, but, everyone who visits feels the positive flow. Is it the brook, the beautiful terrain, the yurt? The environment that surrounds Falls Brook is diverse and guests enjoy the varied terrain by walking a foot trail that passes through hundreds of maple trees, a white birch forest and tall evergreens in less than a half mile. If you are an avid outdoors person, youll love the trails and sites to explore year round by hiking, backcountry skiing and snowshoeing. Unlike many other parts of the Adirondacks, you may be lucky to see anyone along any one of your excursions. If you like to canoe or kayak, Minerva Lake and Creek (non-motorized waters) are just down the road from the trailhead and the town of Olmestedville (2 miles) and North Creek (8 miles) offers some great dining and antiquing. For those who have never stayed in the woods, youll find all you need, inside your yurt. Propane cooking, fully stocked kitchen, comfortable mattress sleeping with double beds, bunks and futon couch. Just bring food and proper clothing for your stay. Each yurt accommodates up to 8 guests and reservations are suggested in advance.

Its a place youll want to call ger, your yurta, your home away from home. Visit www.fallsbrookyurts.com. Call (518)761-6187. Falls Brook Yurts, Minerva, New York.