Bark Eater Experiences

Enhance Your Stay

We can customize your stay to create the Adirondack getaway you’ve been dreaming of. We emphasize health, wellness, and connecting with nature. These offerings are hosted by us and our favorite local entrepreneurs. These experiences can be arranged for individuals, couples, or groups. Locations vary from on-site, on the land, in your room/cabin, or in our yurt.

Night activities

meditation & Wellness

Yoga

Food & Nutrition

Outdoor Activities

Massages

Yoga

Hatha Yoga with Gretchen

Gretchen can tailor this private yoga class to your needs. Your session can be taking in the sounds of nature, deep stretching to support your Adirondack adventures, breathwork, or even philosophical teachings of yoga. These can be held in guest rooms, the yurt, or outside on the yoga deck (weather permitting)

Yoga with Meghan

Our hostess, Meghan, is excited to now be offering private and group yoga classes. While she’s been practicing yoga for over 15 years, she completed my teacher training in the winter of 2023. Her training was rooted in the Hatha tradition but her practice is strongly influenced by vinyasa and ashtanga styles. She enjoys weaving in inspirations from the deeper teachings of yoga and the natural world along with breathing and meditation practices.

Meditation & Wellness

Personalized Ceremony with Meghan

Meghan has a decade of experience in creating personalized ceremonies for intention setting, letting go, abundance manifestation, birth blessings, women’s circles and much more. Her ceremony is aimed at helping you pause, witness, cherish, or bring closure to our most precious and monumental steps as we walk forward on this grand journey of life.

Breathwork with Meghan

Our breath is our connection with the source of all life. Fully utilizing this gift is one of the most simple and effective ways to enhance our physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. These sessions are accompanied by music that will help you focus and feel, as well as affirmations and guided meditation. In private, couples, or group sessions, Meghan’s role is to hold space for you to dive into the healing power of your own breath.

Ayurveda Consultation with Gretchen

This consultation provides a deep look into your personal health, historically and now. Together with Gretchen, you will assess your body and mind and determine your unique constitution. During this consultation, you will receive Ayurvedic education and guidance that will best support your specific needs. Gretchen will provide you with a personalized plan which includes Ayurvedic dietary guidance, personalized yoga and breathing techniques, as well as recommendations for herbal formulations. This knowledge base will guide you through the changing seasons and chapters of your life.

Mindful Nature Walk with Meghan

Awaken and engage all of your senses on a healing journey of deep connection surrounded by the meadows and forests of the land. This mindfulness experience, offered by Meghan, is an invitation to slow down, clear your mind, and settle into union with this inspiring landscape. We’ll let loose, put on the lens of childlike wonder and set our playful spirits free.

Food & Nutrition

Whole Food Cooking Class with Wynde

Wynde Kate Reese holds a BS in Holistic Nutrition and has been a practicing Nutrition Counselor and Whole Foods Culinary Chef for over 20 years. She believes that the quality of ingredients, methods of preparation, and mindfulness of the personal preparing the food all play a vital role in the nutritional value and physical benefits of every meal. Since food is the foundation for every living being, whole food preparation and consumption are essential for wellbeing. In this class you will identify your personal elemental constitution and learn how to maintain equilibrium in the body with food choices, learn basic food preparation skills, understand ingredient selection, prepare a meal using local organic ingredients, an explore ways to adjust the recipe for every season and taste.

Wellness Consultation with Wynde

Wynde Kate Reese holds a BS in Holistic Nutrition and has been a practicing Nutrition Counselor and Whole Foods Culinary Chef for over 20 years. Since the body is the expression of our mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing, Wynde Kate helps her clients interpret the messages their bodies are communicating to improve their health. She uses whole food nutrition and supplementation, plant medicine, lifestyle improvements, and spiritual practice. In your consultation, you will identify your personal elemental constitution and learn how to maintain equilibrium in the body through food choices, discuss your three main wellness goals and receive a personalized plan on how to achieve them, learn how conflicts and traumas contribute to your symptoms of disease and how to support your body, and receive recipes that help you achieve your goals.

  • $80 per hour, includes PDF of suggestions and recipes; barefoot46er@gmail.com

  • Combination consultation and class: $160 + cost of ingredients

Health Coaching and Holistic Nutrition with Angie

Our bodes are amazing and when thrown out of balance, we can experience negative health outcomes. Most ailments are reversible through whole-food plant based diets and specific supplements tailored to meet your needs. Consultations will focus on habits for consciously eating healthy foods that promote vibrant physical and mental health while supporting a strong immune system and preventing disease. Sessions include a program that includes foods to eat/avoid, supplements, and lifestyle changes to enhance emotional and physical stability. Programs are focused on gut health, which can balance your hormones and result in numerous benefits. A health intake will be filled out prior to consultation.

Massages

Massage Therapy with Jess Wimett

Jess is an LMT and body worker who serves to facilitate a holistic massage, tailored to the individual needs of each client. Jess draws upon her background of Swedish massage, deep tissue, somatic trauma and anxiety release, fire cupping, pregnancy massage, chakra assessment, and Thai massage techniques to create an integrative and revitalizing treatment experience. Jess gives great reverence to each treatment goals and intentions, and works collaboratively to get to the root of disease, pain, and trauma.

  • $130 for 60 minute or $195 for 90 minute onsite massage

  • $80 for 60 minutes or $145 for 90 minutes for Plattsburgh office massage; jessie.wimett@gmail.com

Massage Therapy with Elin

Elin is a massage therapist specializing in myofascial release. Each session is customized to your needs, focusing on using gentle pressure and sustained stretching. Myofascial release stretches the connective tissue to reach deep layers of muscle and nerves, addressing the root cause of pain. Elin also draws from her background in Swedish massage, deep tissue, and prenatal massage to create a balanced massage session that will leave you feeling relaxed and recharged.

Massage with Angie

Angie is versed in Swedish, Prenatal, Chinese cupping, deep tissue, myofascial release, hot stones, trigger point, aromatherapy, orthopedic, and table Thai massages. Depending on the needs of the client, a session can involve a mixture of the listed treatments. Angie has been practicing massage for 6 years and started to dive into her careers after experiencing chronic pain for most of her life. Angie has an intuitive nature in working with clients to help them relax. Her style works toward getting her clients into a deeply relaxed state to encourage healing when the parasympathetic is fulling engaged.

Night Activities

Star Parties with Ed

The Adirondacks boast spectacular star-gazing, with dark-sky sites and (mostly) clear weather. A star party is where you get to connect with the night skies through looking and learning about different celestial objects. During a Star Party, EphemerADK brings a variety of star-gazing gear to your site. We will lead your group in how to identify and spot different stars, planets, and other celestial objects. Star Parties are great yearround, with different objects being visible in different months. Star Parties typically last a few hours, giving ample time for everyone in your party to look and learn, and simply enjoy the outdoor experience. In addition to being a registered guide, Ed is a lifelong star lover and enthusiastic amateur astronomer. He began learning about the night skies at the age of four from his father; an activity to pass the time while together in the woods. Ed has been a guest presenter at regional astronomy events, interviewed on podcasts, public radio and local television, and featured in Astrophotography Magazine.

Outdoor Activities

Garden Tour with The Bark Eater*

Take a guided garden tour with the Garden Designer and Creator, Meghan, or Garden Manager, Wynde Kate, to learn about the diverse array of vegetables, herbs, and flowers that flourish here. Herbal remedies, edible flowers, pollinator heaven, tasty treats, colorful fruits; what delights does the garden hold today? Ask all your questions and enjoy a cup of a garden grown herbal tea.

*Only available during growing season

Nature Walk with Meghan

Explore the 150 acres grounds and trails on the Bark Eater property with Meghan. As a naturalist, herbalist, gardener, and lover of this land, Meghan loves to tour people around the property sharing insight about the plants and animals that share this incredible property with us.