Tribal Life: Hunter-Gatherer Style
Imagine yourself completely dependent upon 3 things: yourself, the land, and your tribe. What would it mean to recognize that you are the most powerful tool you could have? That the earth already provides you with everything you could ever need? And that building a “tribe” of people you can trust will help you to harvest the gifts the first two things offer?
Join us for this week of fun as we spend our days wandering the landscape, gathering materials for tools, making baskets, collecting berries and other wild edibles, playing games, singing songs, catching frogs and soaking in the sun, all while building relationship to the earth, self, and others. At night, we’ll warm ourselves by the fire, talk about our adventures, and take pleasure in what it means to be a member of something bigger than one’s self: a member of a tribe.
The Art of Tracking
Tracking is the study of oneness, the study of how all things are in some way connected. The land is our textbook, the animals serve as our teachers, and the ever-developing skill of the tracker is awareness. In time, we can learn to read our “inner landscape” just as we do the outer landscape and as with all things, the tracker finds him/herself in relationship with everything else in the universe.
This 5-day tracking adventure will take place in multiple, off-site locations with evenings spent camping at Ward-Pound Ridge Reservation. We will be combining ancient awareness/tracking techniques with modern technology in order to create an experience that will teach, thrill, and challenge. Days will be long but totally fun for those who bring their passion for nature and adventure with them. In this class we will track mammals both large and small, reptiles and amphibians, as well as birds. We will also be tracking... ourselves. Participants will be encouraged to bring a digital camera so that they may create a slide show collection of their experiences.
Woodcrafter’s Rendezvous II
Back by popular demand! Woodcrafters Rendezvous II is all about the woodcraft projects you love! First off we’ll fire up the forge so that each person can make his/her very own custom carving knife. Then we’ll carve ourselves some cookware, perhaps a chair or two, and maybe even some “wood spirit” walking sticks and caricatures. And of course, there will be dips in the river, campfire cookouts and tons of fun as well as hikes, games, stories and more!
