Four seasons of bushcraft

This is your chance to step away from the busyness of modern life and technology and come in to deeper connection and slowing down with ancestral skills. Join us one weekend a season for this wonderfully connective journey.

SPRING - is about bird language, listening to the concentric rings of nature. (22-24 November)
SUMMER - takes us bush with natural shelters.
AUTUMN - brings alive a whole new world of tracking. Reading the stories left on the earth.
WINTER - build a relationship with fire skills and the way they can support us.

BIRD LANGUAGE

This is not about naming the birds, though this will come. It is about the expanding of our awareness out into the sounds that are all around us every day.

The birds are a watchful bunch and if we tune in to their telling of the story of daily life we can learn so much about the world around us.

I have found this knowledge and this listening to give me another dimension of seeing life around me. The world has become much more vibrant and telling.

And it's not just the sounds they make, it's the shapes they make, and the sounds they don't make, and it ties us to everything, to the trees and plants and animals and to ourselves. Like a mirror informs us of our image, the birds inform us of our being and our feelings.

That's a lot to lay on a little bird but I think it's part of their original instructions.

Logistics

When: Arriving from 5pm Friday, start with 6.30pm dinner.

Where: Human Bushcraft and Wild Living, 57 Parenga Road, Otaki Gorge

Price: $350 (all food included). $100 deposit payable now, remainder payable on the weekend.

What to bring:

A note pad and pen,
A torch/headlamp
A tent and sleeping bag & mat
Appropriate clothing (that can get dirty). Warm gears for this time of year.
A drink bottle and a few snacks
Rain jacket, togs and towel(the river is right there and great swimming)
Any personal medication

We provide all organic food but you may want to bring your favourite snacks.

Tell us as soon as you can if you have any dietary requirements so we can try to meet them.

We have a few extra basic sleeping mats if anyone needs one. Please call us with any questions. We look forward to sharing with you.

We keep this land free of drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, vaping, and cell phones. You are welcome to use you phone as a camera but we ask that you have turned off the rest of the time. We do have coffee and tea.

Health and Happiness,

Steve and Jenny

Note: We need a minimum of 12 attendees in order to go ahead. If we have not reached the minimum number by 13 November the event will be cancelled and a full refund will be provide