One Month Living Wild Immersion

This is an opportunity to spend one month camped out on a private bush block delving into ancestral living skills & connecting deeply with the land.

We have been teaching ancestral skills & bushcraft courses for 5 years & want to offer something for those who want to truly embody these skills & practises as a way of life.

Learning how to live with the land, utilise the resources around in a respectful way & tend the landscape.

Not so long ago, humans were just as part of the landscape as every other animal. We had our place tending the bush as it nurtured our lives. Through reclaiming these ancestral living skills, we are also remembering how to live in deep relationship with the land, knowing our rightful place as caretakers.

During this month-long immersion, you will live alongside your fellow participants, learning & existing within some form of community. There will be skill sharing workshops facilitated 5 days a week, with each weekend being free time. The structure will be weather depending & flexible.

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SKILLS YOU WILL LEARN:

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• Wild foraging

• wild game butchery

• honouring the whole animal (rendering fat, offal cooking etc)

• traditional tanning

• fibrecraft

• vine basketry

• friction fire

• shelter building

• wild medicine

• leather sandals

• leathercraft

• bone tool making

• wild clay & primitive pottery

• fire cooking

• green wooden spoon making & coal burn spoons

• archery

• hunting tools & projectiles

• eel trapping

• bush first aid kit

• Bird language

Other skills:

Tracking, land connection, sit spots, place-based knowledge, nature-based awareness. 

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About the land

The property is at the top of a ridge. You will have access to a beautiful dry sclerrophyl bush land surrounding you, multiple sandstone caves to explore, a tannin rich dam to swim in or craft by, beautiful sunset views of the western horizon, a bounty of birds to get to know, red necked wallabies & a resident wombat to befriend. We are inviting you into our home, to spend a month learning skills that deepen your relationship with nature & self.

Facilities

The immersion is a camp out, BYO camping setup & find a spot on the property to nestle in for the month. There will be a very basic outdoor bush shower, the dam will be available to swim in at all times (no soap etc please), you will have access to rain water, composting toilet. There is no reception on the property unless you are with optus. There will be electricity available to charge torches, phones etc. Many of the meals will be cooked on the fire, there will also be an outdoor kitchen setup for you to use.

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Food

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We will supply locally hunted wild game; venison, goat & kangaroo and basic veges, fruit & wild greens. Each participant will be responsible for the rest of their food needs. 

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This immersion is limited to 8 places, to fill out an application please email us wearewildbeings@gmail.com 

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Cost: Sliding scale between $2500-$3100AUD

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