No. UT: Hiking & Healing: Tuning in on Twin Peaks

About This Event

Join us for our first 2025 Hiking & Healing event—an elevated hiking experience designed to help you connect deeply with nature, other hikers, and yourself. The Hiking & Healing Series mindful hiking with inspiring guest speakers, hands-on workshops, meaningful activities, and guided coaching—all curated to spark growth, connection, and empowerment.

For this kickoff event, we’ll hike to Twin Peaks via the Twin Peaks Connect Trail. Once at Twin Peaks, meditation guide Chalise Porter will lead us in a calming session focused on learning how to tune out the noise so we can tune in to what truly matters.

About Chalise Porter

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Chalise Porter is a native of Utah with an absolute love for the mountains and a propensity for adventure and travel. She admittedly claims that she would be “directionally challenged” if she had to live in a location that didn’t have mountains to be her guide.

Chalise has a lengthy history with the martial arts as both a student and an instructor spanning over 37 years. She holds rankings in two martial systems: a 2nd Dan Black Belt in Shotokan Karate and a rank as Master Fighter in the Chinese combat system of Tang Wei. As a certified Crisis Intervention Instructor, Chalise specializes in women’s self-defense, Qigong, meditation, and breathwork.

When she’s not gearing up and sparring, you can find her hiking, reading books other people consider textbooks, analyzing fight scenes in movies, and recording as a professional voice overs, or indulging in true crime. She lives by the mantra passed down to her from her mentor, Grand Master Tom Garriga: “Follow your true self and it will rescue you.”

About the Hike

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TRAIL RATING: Moderate (1118 ft elevation gain)

LENGTH: 3.2 miles RT

CARPOOLING: Watch for an email from [email protected] about 5–7 days before the event, which will include a link to join a private WhatsApp chat for carpool coordination and last-minute event updates.

ALLTRAILS LINK: Twin Peaks via Twin Peaks Connect Trail

GEAR:

• Proper clothing / layers for summer  evening hiking conditions
• Proper footwear
• Water and snacks
• Headlamp
• Something lightweight to sit on while we meditate and share (i.e., a backpacking chair, rain jacket, plastic bag, etc.)
• Hiking poles (optional but recommended)

Since we’ll be meditating, let’s leave four-legged friends at home.

ALCOHOL NOT INCLUDED