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Co-Living 2024-2025

at Montaia Basecamp

2024 -2025
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Everything Is Relational

Where unity emerges from diversity.
Where singularity intersects multiplicity.
Where the “I” becomes the “We.”

Community
Co-Living

For 7+ years, Montaia Basecamp has been our most longterm project and our community home. It is a regenerative community co-living space. Here we currently provide long term housing (6mo+) for individuals who wish to be deep in nature while also having access to high-speed wifi and value-aligned community.  It is located in the Eastern Sierra Mountains, between Bishop and Mammoth Lakes, California.  

Community
Retreats and Immersions

In collaboration with our partner orgs, we hold retreats, immersions, and residencies around the world. The focus of these experiences include topics like relational somatics (such as Contact Improvisation), social technologies (such as Authentic Relating and Circling), and ecopsychology (through our Wilderness Expeditions collabs). Please check out our Calendar Page to learn more about upcoming events near you.

Community
Builders
Collective

Our mission is to gather and share resources that support new and seasoned community builders in growing their capacity to co-create. We are co-creators of The Community Builders Collective, an educational platform for those who are interested (or already active) in creating their own communities. Alongside the folks from Authentic Revolution, we provide tools, mastermind gatherings, and immersive courses for Place-based, Practice oriented, Interest/Identity focused, or Socially driven communities.

Montaia Basecamp

a Community Co-living Space

Connect. Support. Inspire.

"One of the wildest places left in Caliornia."

Montaia Basecamp is where our organization and our community first came together with a shared mission. The space is now a longterm co-living community, providing homes for both local workforce and remote workers choosing to make their home here in the remote Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains.

The Space

Highspeed Wifi (fiber optic)
Abundant Mountain Spring Water
Outdoor Hot tub
Greenhouse for Fresh Herbs
Private Desks + Group
Co-working
Yoga/ Meditation/ Dance Space

The Place

within 30-minutes of Basecamp
Alpine Mountain Lakes
World Class Climbing
Hundreds of Hiking Trails
Local Winter
Ski Resort
Natural Volcanic Hot Springs
Milky Way
Nightly View

The Culture

Connect
Communicate
Collaborate
Conserve
Co-create
Contemplate

The Community

Builders & Gardeners
Artists & Musicians
Nature
Lovers
Optimists & Activists
Climbers,
Hikers

Our Upcoming Offerings

Nov 1, 2024
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Oct 31, 2025

Co-Living 2024-2025

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Nov 1, 2024
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Oct 31, 2025

Co-Living 2024-2025

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“Come here for the community.”

What People are Saying

“The Montaia Wilderness Expedition I attended was nothing short of catalytic and life-changing. Come here for the community. I am truly thankful and proud to call Montaia home, and belong to it.”

Jules Broillet

“The location is unique and special but I think one of the most precious things about Montaia is the community. Montaia attracts some of the most lovely people and Kaela and James have created an amazing atmosphere for people to be themselves fully and connect deeply and authentically with others.”

Andrea Nicole Livingston

“The Montaia Basecamp is a space unlike any I've been in before. With a warm wood stove, cozy living space, and spacious bedrooms, it quickly becomes home to anyone who walks thorough the door.”

Emily Ghallagher

“One of the most beautiful places I have ever worked! My time at Montaia Basecamp transformed both my inner state and relationship to work and life. I came out of my time there motivated, balanced, and refreshed.”

Makenna Drake

Your Hosts

Kael/a Atleework - Founder

Kael/a Atleework is an experience designer, a human connection researcher, and an international community builder. She is the co-founder and landlord at Montaia Basecamp. When she is not facilitating co-living residencies or guiding eco-pyschology wilderness expeditions (4months out of the year), Kael/a travels the world collaborating on intersubjective projects that focus on relational somatics like Contact Improvisation and communication techniques such as Authentic Relating, NVC, and Circling. She is currently working directly with the Auth Rev Org to launch their newest proejct: The Community Builders Collective.

Robert Atlee - Land Steward
James Redenbaugh - Co-Founder

James has facilitated month-long intentional coliving retreats in 5 different countries over the last 5 years. This is the 10th iteration of this model, and each iteration has been evolved from the previous. James is a certified Integral Facilitator, he’s also been trained in Art of Hosting, Creative Facilitation, Authentic Relating, Emergent Dialogue, Theory U, and Spiral Dynamics. Although James no longer lives in the Eastern Sierra, he continues to inform its culture of practice from a distance, and his creative digital studio ‘Iris Cocreative’ is responsible for Montaia Basecamp's online presence.

Porter Eichenlaub - Expedition Guide

Porter has been teaching, counseling, and running Rites of Passage for 15 years. He is deeply passionate about creating transformational experiences that sustain change for individuals and groups across the lifespan. He has worked with thousands of youth programs and trained hundreds of educators across the U.S. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he dances, explores the wilds, and is currently completing his licensure as a therapist. Porter most recently hosted a Modern Rites  Expedition based out of Montaia Basecamp in 2023.

Stephen Torrence - Residency Host

Stephen Torrence is ​​​​a geeky wizard from Austin, Texas. He has worn many hats over the last decade and a half, accumulating a wide range of skills and experience. His areas of exploration include technical systems design & integration, sustainable community building, interpersonal facilitation (including Authentic Relating and Circling), and classical Buddhist meditation training. Stephen now lives as a digital nomad in Canada and the USA, facilitating relational meditation and working as a technical consultant for multiple conscious businesses. Stephenmost recently hosted for a 3-month GRAVITY Residency at Montaia Basecamp in 2023.

Our Partners

Authentic Revolution • Authentic Relating Training • Awakened Leadership • Circling • Evolve World • Perspectiva • Prosocial World • Integral European Conference • Inner Development Goals • Wild Vessel • Co-liv • Cabin Dao • Unify • Contact Improv International • Ecstatic Dance