Let's Hike!

Are you ready to smell some fresh mountain air....listen to the roaring creek....feast your eyes on beautiful moss-covered boulders....or destress? Then Let's Hike!

Please join me for another outdoor nature outing at Lamar Alexander Rocky Fork State Park in Unicoi County. Starting on the main trailhead, we will be emerged alongside a beautiful creek with deep pools and eddies and those moss-covered boulders. The Rocky Fork watershed is within an Appalachian cove forest, which is one of the most biologically diverse habitats in North America, with the Cherokee National Forest surrounding the park and it also serves as one of the gateways to the Appalachian Trail.

Please bring a lunch, water bottle, and whatever you might need to feel comfortable for this time together. Plan to meet in the Shakti parking lot at 9:30 am, to carpool to Rocky Fork State Park, which will take approximately half an hour, give or take (22 miles from Shakti). No particular agenda, other than time in nature and with one another.

I hope you can join me!✨

📍Event Details

Saturday, August 16 · 10 am - 12 pm (meet at 9:30 am, see below)

📢 Plan to meet in the Shakti parking lot at 9:30 am, to carpool to Rocky Fork State Park.

Free. Registration required. Donations accepted.

IMPORTANT: If you are not able to attend an event for which you have registered please so that we may offer that space to someone on the wait list. Thank you.

Registration closes 24 hours prior to the event.

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✨ Led by Amanda Chapman

Amanda Chapman is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Spiritual Life Coach, and Certified Forest Therapy Guide. She considers herself to be a spiritual seeker and mystical thinker in the Appalachian Mountains, her native homeland. Always curious with the intention of living a heart-centered life. She strongly believes that nature brings much needed relief from stress and provides connection for us all. She supports people to rediscover life purpose, reduce stress levels, break free from internal blocks, maintain a healthy mindset, deepen awareness and self-compassion and reconnect to true essence.

When not counseling at Shakti in the Mountains, Amanda can often be found deep in a book, journaling, or sitting on her front porch, listening to the birds and watching the deer.

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