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Wilderness Guide Program

Imagine...

 you are a Wolf and have lived in a cage all your life. You have yearned to learn the natural ways of your ancestors, of your wild and free kin. Then one day the cage door is opened and there to meet you is a wise one who will guide you for the next turn of the seasons. He will help you get in touch with your intrinsic wolfness and help you heal through the pain and numbness of your caged life. You'll learn how to walk honorably and respectfully on The Earth Mother how to reattune your senses, hunt, and find shelter. You'll regain your intuitive knowledge of how to find your way and forecast the weather, and so much more. 

When it is time for your path and your guide's to separate, you'll be well on your way to being the native child of the Mother you were intended to be, ready to rejoin your pack and walk in Balance with all your nonhuman relations. You'll be living from your heart-of-hearts that place of Balance where senses, intuition, intellect, and feelings meet. You'll have the ability to readily adapt to a wide variety of climates. And you will carry the fire of the Old Way within you, so that you can go and ignite the flame in others. 

This one-year experience will greatly advance you towards being earth-sufficient, rather than self-sufficient from survival to living, from spectator to dwelling in attuned immersion. At times, you'll be gathering most of your food and drinking wild water, you'll be making your own shelter and skin clothing, you'll learn what to use for soap and wounds and intestinal cramps. You'll be walking silently and seeing more than you ever knew existed. You'll learn first-hand the spiritual life of the native. You'll know, from their direct teaching, the ways of Wolf and Raven, of the elder Trees and healing Herbs. (And you'll be gaining other skills and awarenesses that would not be prudent to mention here.) 

Survival in reality and much of its mystery and intrigue lies in changing attitudes about such things as food, comfort, and need. Perspective changes when we go from practicing a skill to actually having to rely upon it to live. To learn a skill in a structured environment and isolated from its native context, is simplistic and potentially dangerous; it can handicap you when you actually need to rely upon it. Learning in a real, challenging situation, engages your creativity and adaptability, which encourages success and helps the skill to become second-nature. 

This is a one-of-a-kind program; it has no set agenda, no books, no mechanized transportation. Not even plastic water bottles. Rather, it is the native approach; one-on-one and geared specifically to you a real living-learning experience in the wilderness. 

Qualifications are stringent; they have to do with integrity and strength of will more so than with how much outdoor experience you might already have. Those who complete the program earn Wilderness Guide Certification the only one of its kind. The experience begins with the Melting of the Snows.


We invite you to browse our photo gallery for more pictures from the Wilderness Guide Program
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If you would like more information on the Wilderness Guide Program we are proud to offer an in-depth information packet. We kindly request a $10 contribution plus $5.50 for postage for the paper version. The packet contains writings by Tamarack Song on:
  • Native Lifeway: The Circle Way
  • Thresholds to Wilderness Attunement
  • The Diet We Were Made For
  • Be As A Question
  • Hygeine (how to relieve yourself
    in the woods)

And a magazine article written by a former student entitled, "Into The Wild:  A Journey through the Wilderness Guide Program."

$10 - Paper Version

                     


Order Wilderness Guide Program Packet Paper Version along with Journey to the Ancestral Self , by Tamarack Song for just $17.50 (50% off the cover price)

                     

$7 - Electronic Version

    

By purchasing the epacket you will not pay any postage charges and you'll be able to download it to your computer instantaneously after your payment. In addition, you may print the electronic version on your own printer if you wish.
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