Struggling with mindset in your climbing?

Crack climbing is blue collar work! I’m a little beaten up after days of splitter cracks, offwidths and chimneys. 🥴Besides all the grunt work, the retreat had a decidedly spiritual component… sound baths, yoga in the desert on a stormy day, clarifying intentions and setting goals. The energy with this crew of lady crushers was pretty magical. I wanted to find more ease in crack climbing, and came back with much more.

I even despise offwidths a little less! Thanks @heidiwirtz and @coachingwithmarta for guiding us on this journey! - EMILY, Portland OR

 Adventure coaching

Rock climbing is the ultimate way to step out of your comfort zone. When you find your edge in climbing the opportunity opens to do it in other areas of your life. Life coaching in these unique moments has a potential of awakening your purpose, leaning into your potential and getting real about what you want in your life. If you are ready to push your life to unprecedented levels, this intensive retreat is for you!

 Complete Transformation

Examine your deep thoughts and beliefs under the magnifying glass and gain awareness to create your life on your terms. 

Climbing can be the fastest way to our transformation, as it shows you yourself in real time. The problem is that we often don’t pay attention to what it’s telling us. This is why we bring in Life Coaching. In this intensive you will have a unique opportunity to see yourself in the exact moment when the rubber meets the road.  

Most of our life we run off of a default map that we created. On autopilot. That's why we often see patterns in our relationships and some things always happen to us. We have to experience something differently to update our maps. This intensive retreats will be a major update to your map.  

 In Adventure Coaching you will:

• experience things you didn’t believe were possible for you

• turn your trigger points into superpowers. 

• explore wild and untamed parts of you being

• experience unprecedented level of connection to self others and environment

• tap into wide net of resources that you didn’t know you had

• earn another level of intimacy and connection with nature

• learn how to treat yourself as the high quality asset to the world that you are

How do I use Rock Climbing to take clients beyond their performance edge?

Climbing has a way of really showing us who we are. Relatively safe when done safe, it feels to our brain NOT SAFE AT ALL.  It’s the best extreme activity to show us where our brain wants to protect us & how. This can be very helpful when we want to push our performance elsewhere. In our normal activity, be it business or athletic activity we have often difficulty seeing our habits, seeing how we might stand in our own way. Especially when we are top players, and there is nobody above us to show us what we lack. 

Climbing is unique in a way that the very first time you climb, you can actually do the whole activity. Other extreme activities like say kiteboarding take a lot of initial skill training. It takes days or weeks to actually be DOING it. The way climbing feels on the first day is how it will feel always. This makes it a good “intervention” and “auditing” activity. 

What are the things we can learn about ourselves while climbing?

• Sensory awareness: which part of body are we sensing or not, what are we overlooking. Climbing trains body awareness like no other sport (maybe gymnastics) - it provides opportunity for extremely intricate in all body positioning. It provides a great window to how we use or fail to use our body in other sports.

• Climbing done in nature has a unique capacity to recruit all the senses. The more sensory we can make an activity the faster we get into flow. When we train getting into flow we have capacity to enter and exit on demand. 

• It reveals our strengths and weaknesses in both body (breathing, muscle asymmetry, flexibility, recruitment) as well as mind (decision making, proper timing, giving up, excuse making, giving into fears, not wanting to “give” effort, performance anxiety etc.). It gives us access to both our strengths and weaknesses from a different than usual angle. It might be easier to “receive” it from this neutral angle (it’s just climbing, not your whole life) because we have no expectations, we don’t identify with it. 

• Seeing how we overuse strengths can help us stop and look at the aspects we are underutilizing. When we find it in climbing we can apply in life. 

• It can reveal habits that might be small and hard to spot and possibly seem meaningless. However when we play the top game, even 1% improvement matters enormously. 

• It can help us see our motivations for doing things. Do we want to gain acceptance / love? Do we do them out of joy and abundance or fear and lack? 

• The more mastery we have at any practice, the more we fail. We realize at some point that practicing is all there is. 

• Climbing is extremely humbling. Rock doesn’t care if it gets climbed. It can teach us that we will never arrive, and all that there is is a journey of giving intention, effort time and energy.  The more we give the more we get. There is no destination, just a focused mind, aware body and full commitment.