Basecamp Weekend Retreat
The Experience
Imagine yourself at home on Sunday night having just spent the entire weekend treating your body the way it deserves to be treated; eating healthfully, exercising, doing yoga, immersing in nature, calming your mind, reducing stress, and sleeping deeply. Sounds rejuvenating, right?
While that sounds like a perfect weekend, it is much easier said than done. It takes a lot of planning, preparation, and discipline to gift yourself a full weekend of self-care. That’s where we come in.
From Friday at 3 pm until Sunday at 4:30 pm, you and a maximum of 12 guests will work hand-in-hand with award-winning staff, following a program specifically designed and proven to reverse the effects of aging, stress, and overworking (and isolation!). You’ll exercise with our former-Olympian kinesiologist, prepare and eat delicious and nutritious food with our classically trained chef and certified nutritionist, learn and practice mindfulness with our program creator and director, and relax deeply with our expert yoga instructor.
All you need to do is show up and give us your best. We’ll take care of the rest.
Guest Feedback
4.9/5.0 (20 reviews)
The best weekend you will spend in months
What You Get
Clear your calendar and immerse fully into an unforgettable healthy weekend.
Starting with a welcome session Friday evening, we will guide you every step of the way until Sunday evening. Our immersive approach allows a profound health transformation to occur.
The schedule changes every session, but you can always expect these elements:
Optimized Nutrition
You will follow an optimized nutrition plan that takes the guesswork out of healthy eating. It has been designed to reduce inflammation, increase metabolism, improve sleep, and feel amazing.
Cookalongs
Each day you will join Chef Jillian and Nutritionist Jenn for a culinary adventure that shows you, step-by-step, how to make delicious, nutritious food in your own kitchen.
Exercise Classes
Over the weekend you will have two higher intensity exercise classes that torch fat and show you how to properly build muscle, and one functional mobility class that will teach you how to relieve neck and back pain.
Yoga
Start each day with a sunrise yoga session designed to open up tight joints and muscles and relieve pain and soreness. End Saturday night with a sleep-inducing restorative yoga session that will result in one of the best rests you’ve ever had.
Health Talks
Learn from our expert team about nutrition, fitness, balanced health, goal setting, habit formation, and integration. Leave confident you have the tools to live a balanced, healthy life that is an antidote to today’s modern stressors and a prescription for a long life full of happiness and health.
Guided Meditations
Whether you are new to meditation or have been practicing for some time, our guided meditations will show you how impactful this practice can be on your health, physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Nature Immersion
Nature is the most healing environment possible. It has the most beautiful soundtrack, most captivating sights, and intoxicating smells. Throughout your weekend you will get outside and immerse in nature while hiking or walking.
Sleep
When is the last time you had a full night’s rest? Sleep is when our bodies heal and is essential to our health and longevity. Stress-reducing session such as journaling, meditation, or restorative yoga end each day and will send you into a deep and restful sleep each night.
Get A Sample Schedule
If you’d like to see a schedule, please submit your email below:
Meet Your Team
Mountain Trek’s team is composed of world-class athletes, thought-leaders, and innovators. They will nurture and support you throughout the entire experience, ensuring your weekend retreat is a success.
HOST
Kirkland Shave
Kirkland Shave embodies the essence of Mountain Trek. A certified hiking guide and a certified Life Coach, Kirk is a motivator who challenges guests to do more than they thought possible. Kirkland walks the Mountain Trek talk… sometimes barefoot.
YOGA
Kyla Tucker
Kyla’s background in healthcare and massage therapy gives her a unique advantage when it comes to the restorative power of yoga. She brings a genuine desire for her students to experience something special and be inspired in each and every class. When Kyla isn’t on her yoga mat, she’s most at peace with sand between her toes or frolicking somewhere in the great outdoors.
NUTRITION
Jenn Keirstead
Jenn Keirstead has taught about the healing qualities of whole foods for the last decade. With a background in psychology and nutrition, she delves deep into diet, lifestyle and emotional aspects of food, offering insightful and practical changes for our guests.
FITNESS
Kristy Shields
Kristy was on the Canadian Bobsleigh team while attending the University of Calgary, where she received a degree in Kinesiology. She competed for Canada for 6 seasons and was the Assistant Coach for Team Belgium at the 2010 Olympics.
CHEF
Jillian Fae
Born and raised in Southern California, one of the best climate conditions for growing the finest produce all year round, Chef Jillian is classically-trained and has a love for and ability to make people happy by way of good food.
Requirements
You will need the following to participate in the weekend retreat:
A stable internet connection
A kitchen with basic cooking tools
A blender
Access to a grocery store or grocery delivery
Yoga mat
Yoga strap (could be a belt or tie, etc.)
Light weights (2-5 lbs, or substitute, e.g. water bottles)
Firm blanket or pillow
Running shoes
Water bottle
Rates & Availability
The Basecamp weekend retreat is $450 USD for one person or $600 for a couple (or you and a friend!). Switch currency to CAD.
June 11-13 | Eastern/Central Time
In The News
Can a Virtual Hiking Retreat Fill the Travel Void?
Weeks later, I’m still feeling the ripple effects of my 48-hour immersion. I’m back to meditating four days each week, one of the goals I carefully wrote by hand during our final session. When a wave of stress hits, I try to remember to breathe more deeply. To just take a minute. My life, surprisingly, feels richer and a little bit better.
Would I get even more out of a week in nature, way up there in British Columbia? Sure, of course. In some ways, though, I’m more grateful for the opportunity to test out new ways of living in my day-to-day. It’s easy to feel inspired and committed to change when we’re far from home and free of responsibility. But to feel that way in the same place we’ve been for the past 365 days? That’s real transformation.
A (virtual) luxury retreat
This is the best weekend I have spent in months. It’s fun, it’s definitely healthy and it is most certainly lifting my pandemic spirits.
And it’s all virtual.
Welcome to a (virtual) weekend retreat with Mountain Trek, an experience that I didn’t even realize I needed, but one which brought me welcome company, helped me rethink some of my daily habits, exercised my body and cleared my head.
Join The Waitlist
If the weekend retreat you’d like to join is full, please join the waitlist and we will notify you if space opens.
Is Mountain Trek Right For You?
The Mountain Trek program has been designed, delivered, and evolved over the past two decades to help guests reclaim their fitness and health. We carefully and intentionally share and implement science-based methods that raise your metabolism, balance key hormones, reduce cellular inflammation, and modulate your endocrine and nervous systems. The result is lasting, genuine health improvements.
Our guests attend because they are serious about self-care and improving their health physically, emotionally, and mentally. They understand that while taking a weekend to relax and catch up Netflix might sound nice, it won’t result in a happier, healthier life in the long run.
Please email, call, or request more information below if you have questions.
Questions?
For more information about this limited at-home reset, please email us at info@mountaintrek.com, call 1.800.661.5161, or ask a question below.
An Award-Winning Retreat
