Peak Serenity Foundation

Empowering the Alpine Community through Transformational Wellness

Discover Our Why

What Is Peak Serenity?

Peak Serenity is a Utah local 501-C3 Foundation dedicated to bringing holistic healing to the Alpine community through sound, movement, and breath workshops. Peak Serenity was founded to combat the mental health crisis known as the "Paradise Paradox". In the Rocky Mountain West, statistics show the mental health and suicide rate in mountain towns to be 3X the national average. By partnering with local organizations, practitioners and ski resorts we aim to make healing modalities accessible to the community.

At Peak Serenity, we see a vision where we are partnered with ski resorts, mountain towns, and competitive programs in the alpine community to give access to our breath, sound, movement facilitations.

Setting up monthly programs in place for resort workers, to combat burnout and create tranquility in the workspace.

Bringing together the community in mountain towns to relive the isolation that can be felt.

And giving competing athletes access to pre and post competition workshops and facilitations for performance anxiety and post comp. decompression.

By seeing this vision through we are empowering and supporting the Alpine Community to live healthier, more connected lives, to dissolve the "Paradise Paradox".

Our Vision

Liliana Tenney DrPH, MPH

Mental Health in the Mountains

“According to the National Institute of Mental Health, an estimated 9.6 million American adults suffer from a serious mental illness —that is 1 in 5 adults. Mountain and rural communities, ski towns specifically, have significantly higher rates of suicide compared to the national average

(14.0 per 100,000).”

The Pillars of Peak Serenity

Breath

“Modifying breathing alters communication sent from the respiratory system, rapidly influencing brain regions regulating behavior, thought and emotion. Likewise, respiration may entrain brain electrical activity, with slow breathing resulting in synchrony of brain waves, thereby enabling diverse brain regions to communicate more effectively. It has been observed that adept long-term Buddhist meditation practitioners can achieve states where brain waves are synchronized continuously.”

Sound

"...effects of binaural beats in which the brain entrains to the hertz difference between tones played in each ear, propelling the brain into brainwave states of deep relaxation, such as beta waves or even meditative or trance-like brainwave states in theta waves."

Movement

“Results suggest that Dance Movement Therapy decreases depression and anxiety and increases quality of life and interpersonal and cognitive skills.”