Specialties
Mountain Valley Retreat is a unique glamping retreat i the mountain back country of San Diego County. We offer the experience of getting close to nature while keeping the comforts of home.
Customized Yoga instruction, Manual Therapies including Watsu, CranioSacral and Shiatsu, Hiking Guidance, Sail Plane Instruction and rides are just some of our offerings. This is a place to retreat from your everyday world and truly refresh, renew and restore yourself.
History
Established in 2013.
Mountain Valley Retreat is the realization of my vision of a safe haven for travelers and hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail. I am a manual therapist and a yoga instructor for twenty years. In my quest to keep accommodations simple and affordable as well as close to nature, my Guests stay in Lakota style tipis which are beautifully furnished as bedrooms and sitting spaces.
The Common House has a shower room, toilets, kitchenette, laundry, writing desk and sitting area shared by all Guests.
The grounds are landscaping co-creatively with Nature and include hammocks under the live oaks, gardens, decks and patios.
Two yurts create unique spaces for classrooms and an indoor Watsu Therapy Pool.
Mountain Valley Retreat is a place to retreat from ordinary life and take the time and the space to release tension as you breathe cool mountain air, gaze at a star filled sky, feel the breeze, drink pristine, alkaline well water from deep in the earth and let yourself heal.
Meet the Business Owner: Chery O.
I am the dreamer, owner and manager of Mountain Valley Retreat. I moved to California seven years ago without a plan and the vision for MVR came to me in 2012. Our first guest, a PCT Hiker from France, arrived on May of 2013. I have been a teacher since I was 22. I have been a student of yoga since I was 16. I have been a manual therapist (massage, cranial sacral, ashiatsu, reiki) since I was 45. I am now 66 and my years of experience and training serve my clients well on the yoga mat and on the treatment table or in the therapy pool.