Align with Your Heart

Amid the rugged beauty of the Talkeetna Mountains, Align with Your Heart invites you to slow down and listen: to the land, to your breath, and to the quiet wisdom within. Traveling through alpine meadows, glacial valleys, and high mountain passes, you’ll reconnect with your natural rhythm and rediscover what truly matters.

Guided reflection, life coaching, and time in the wild help you move with intention rather than urgency, opening space for clarity, authenticity, and a renewed sense of purpose. In this landscape where weather, light, and terrain are always shifting, you’ll find both great challenge and stillness. A chance to come home to yourself.

About This Trip

Navigate through the Talkeetna Mountains, where ancient peaks, alpine lakes, and vibrant tundra set the stage for self-discovery. Travel at a mindful pace, allowing yourself to attune to the rhythms of nature and your own inner landscape.

Throughout the adventure, we navigate through guided life coaching, reflection exercises, and breathwork, helping you explore your purpose, clarify your goals, and reconnect with your authentic self. Each day offers moments to pause, reflect, amidst serene mountain meadows, glacial streams, and breathtaking vistas punctuated with a journey that challenges your endurance and proves your stamina.

Led by an experienced all-women team with deep knowledge of wilderness skills, backcountry travel, and personal growth facilitation, this course nurtures confidence, resilience, and a renewed sense of connection to yourself, to the natural world, and to the people around you.

This Talkeetna Mountains adventure is designed to leave you invigorated by the absence of technology, inspired by challenges overcome, and grounded in your sense of self. Ready to carry the clarity and connection you discover into your everyday life.

Highlights

Prepare with intention: Participate in a pre-trip in-person coaching session to clarify your goals, explore intentions, and set yourself up for a personally meaningful journey.
Soar over untouched wilderness on a bush flight, gaining a rich overhead perspective on glacial valleys, alpine lakes, and rugged mountain ridges
Travel in across rich tundra above sweeping valleys and along side pristine alpine lakes in the heart of the Talkeetna Mountains.
Experience navigating through trailless, engaging backcountry terrain, while moving at a pace that challenges you to be fully present
Be supported by a skilled all-women team proficient in wilderness travel to break away from traditional norms
Cozy reintegration: Unwind and reflect in a warm, welcoming setting as you process your journey, share insights, and gently transition back to everyday life with clarity and intention.

What You Get

Master personal leadership skills – Engage with a compassionate, yet straightforward approach to leading and navigating your life. Learn how to make decisions in your own best interest, build the habits you need to make your ideas a reality, practice self-compassion so the changes you seek can take hold and become permanent. This is not a “bootcamp” approach. This is the soft, warm, yet firm, boundaried guidance and reparenting you need to shore up your confidence so you can reach your next level.
Nervous system regulation skills – The key to sustainably creating any dream or goal is knowing how to get yourself back into a calm and centered state. Hiking in the backcountry will present you with ample opportunities that will challenge your personal “status quo” and require you to be calm and collected so you can navigate the wil path in front of you.
Learn about area plants and animals – Our journeys through the Talkeetna Mountains offer more than breathtaking landscapes. Learn about local plants and animals, their adaptations, and the interconnectedness of the ecosystem, while reflecting on your own patterns, strengths, and growth. Guided exercises and daily prompts are woven throughout the experience, helping you draw insights from nature and apply them to your personal journey.
Wilderness dinners created and packaged by local female chefs – Enjoy high-quality freeze-dried backcountry meals thoughtfully prepared by talented local women chefs. Delicious and convenient for the trail, each meal provides the fuel you need while offering a taste of local flavor and care.

Join Us

Offerings (Benefits)

Available to intermediate - advanced hikers?

6 SPOTS AVAILABLE
Month XXth - XXnd, 20XX

PRICING
$5,750 USD

If paying in two installments, your second payment will be due on January 1st, 2026.

View our terms here.

INCLUDES +
Price includes: meals, guides, cooks, helicopter flights, and pilots. A bed in a shared room, admission, and transport to and from the heliport in Talkeetna .

Price does not include: travel insurance, flights to and from Alaska, and transportation to Talkeetna. Group size: 6 riders. Weight restriction ? for helicopter?

Meet Your Guides

Margaret Stern

Margaret Stern is a naturalist, wilderness guide, and advocate for Alaska’s wild places, based in Talkeetna. With a background in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic and an Ethnobotany Certificate from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, she brings scientific knowledge and field experience to every adventure. Eight years of living and building a homestead in bush Alaska, seasons of backcountry travel, stints as a field biologist in remote settings, and flying bush planes have honed her skills in navigation, survival, and observation, allowing her to share the land with others safely and meaningfully.

Beyond guiding, Margaret leads nonprofit advocacy focused on watershed protection and community engagement. She is also the owner of Talkeetna Field Company which weaves together storytelling, ecological insight, and backcountry travel, helping participants connect deeply to the landscape. For Margaret, time outside is a way to inspire curiosity and a sense of purpose in the people she guides and in the landscapes she protects.

Shannon Post

Shannon Post is a career coach—but not your conventional blue-suit-and-tie career coach. She’s a former professional classical singer, dog musher in Alaska, CIO and senior IT executive who believes loving your work is a rebellion that will change the world. Shannon works intimately with clients to help them find a career path that not only fits their financial needs, but also celebrates their talents, lifestyle, and desire to make a difference.

She received top honors at the University of Montana and studied at the University of Virginia and Stanford University. She's been certified by Kathy Kolbe, a leading authority on human instinct, and Dr. Martha Beck, a Harvard-educated sociologist specializing in human behavior.

Shannon has lived and worked in Alaska for over 20 years, disrupting the myth that you can't live your dream and make a positive impact.