The Earth Living Experience

SURVIVAL 2: Earth Living Details

1 Day – Earth Living Essentials

Course Overview:
This day introduces you to the living edge of self-reliance—where survival becomes lifestyle. You’ll craft a debris shelter with your own hands, make fire from natural materials, and begin to read the forest like a trusted friend.

Topics Include:

• Cultivating the earth-living mindset: comfort, clarity, and capability

• Building effective debris shelters: design for warmth, weather, and longevity

• Airflow, heat loss, and thermal envelope design

• Harvesting safe drinking water and preparing wild foods

• Hands-on practice with natural materials and techniques that increase comfort and connection

Takeaway:
A felt experience of what it means to dwell, not just pass through, a wild space—with the skills to make it a home.

Weekend – Shelter, Fire & Nature as Teacher

Course Overview:
In two days, you’ll work with the land, not just on it—building shelter, gathering resources, and sparking fire from the materials around you. You’ll begin to move like someone who belongs here.

Topics Include:

• Survival mindset: shifting from panic to purpose

• Debris hut construction and refinement

• Airflow and heat retention strategies

• Bow drill fire on the landscape: rhythm, form, and technique

• Reading the landscape for water, shelter, and food

• Connecting routines that build mindfulness and resilience

Takeaway:
The beginning of long-term confidence—practical skills that carry over into off-grid living, backpacking, homesteading, or simply living more intentionally.

5 Day – Living in Rhythm

Course Overview:
This five-day immersion is for those ready to settle into the wild as a teacher and ally. You'll not only build shelter and fire—you'll understand how weather, terrain, and wildlife inform every decision. You'll forage, fish, track, and craft your way into a rhythm that feels deeply familiar.

Topics Include:

• Debris shelter evolution: door plugs, thermal layering, air control

• Bow drill and hand drill fire: friction fire mastery

• Water collection and purification

• Spear fishing and primitive hunting tools: snap bows and quick arrows

• Rock tools and natural cordage

• Awareness practices: field meteorology, bird language, and situational presence

• Advanced traps and snares for long-term food sustainability

• Practical foraging: identifying, harvesting, and preparing wild edibles
  

Takeaway:
This is where nature starts to feel like home. You'll leave with a real ability to live comfortably off-grid—and an even deeper desire to continue the journey.