OUR STORY
Back to What Matters
Kyashar begins with a simple observation: that too many of us spend our best years running from ourselves, mistaking busyness for purpose. We built Kyashar as an invitation to stop running — to step into wild places, slow down, and remember what you actually value.
What We Believe
We don't believe purpose is something you find once and carry with you forever. It's a direction you keep choosing to face — and it's remarkably easy to lose sight of, buried under deadlines, screens, and the quiet agreement to keep going rather than ask why.
Kyashar exists for the people who've noticed that drift: burnt-out professionals and entrepreneurs who've built something real, and are ready to build their relationship with themselves back up alongside it. We don't do wellness clichés or forced positivity. We take people into genuinely wild places, strip away the noise, and let the work happen honestly — through movement, stillness, and real conversation.
Who We Are
Kyashar is led by Stuart Rose, an outdoor leader and facilitator whose work sits at the meeting point of wild landscapes and human behaviour, alongside Chantalle, a psychologist and team consultant who has spent over twenty-five years asking why people do what they do. Between us, Kyashar draws on years spent guiding people through difficult terrain — both the kind with mountains, and the kind without.
What We Offer
Every Kyashar experience sits under one of three doors: Find Your Purpose, our workshops and guided reflection; Back to What Matters Retreats, our terrain-based retreats in Morocco, the Alps and beyond; and Factory-Reset Expeditions, multi-day wilderness journeys built for a genuine reset. Wherever you start, the aim is the same — to come back to yourself, and to what matters.
If any of this sounds like where you are right now, we'd love to hear from you.
THE NAME
Why Kyashar?
A photograph in a 1988 magazine, a Nepal expedition in 1995, and a mountain Stuart still means to climb. The story behind our name.