Get in Shape for Your Dream Trek and Join the Community

The weekly 1 hour and 45 minute sessions start out with a hiking specific warm-up that includes stick rolling, a 5-10 minute walk, simple glute strengthening exercises, and dynamic stretches. We then begin the "workout" where we intermix hiking with exercises that specifically train the muscles you will utilize on the trail and will help to improve your mobility, stability, and strength. Another part of our workout includes interval hill training to help increase your cardiovascular endurance for those long climbs on your treks.  This portion is done at your own pace as everyone walks at different speeds. The session ends with a cool down that includes a relaxed 5-10 minute walk back to where we started and static stretches to help improve flexibility and help prevent injuries. Rest assured that at any time during the session, if an exercise is taught that you do not feel comfortable doing or you know that you should not do, then Sheri will help you find an exercise that suits your comfort level or your needs, or you can opt to rest as well. 

Each month at a different park in the greater Seattle area, you will have an opportunity to immerse yourself into the woods in a different way, a slower way, a way called forest therapy also referred to as forest bathing. During a session, participants will be taken through a series of invitations inspired by the natural surroundings of the park. These invitations help to bring awareness to our 5 major senses, bringing us more into the now moment. Being more present and focused on our natural surroundings can help us to connect and create relations with our natural world as well as ourselves. After each invitation participants will have an opportunity to share what they noticed. The forest therapy session ends with a tea gathering prepared by the guide. Participants of forest therapy in the past, have noticed one or more of the following: improved mood, a sense of peace and calm, improved creativity, improved sleep, increased energy, reduced mental fatigue, increased patience, improved relationships, increased sense of gratitude and more. *Please note that forest therapy is not a workout or a hike nor is it a naturalist walk in the park where you learn about the plants and animals, and the guides are not therapists, the forest is the therapist.