Instructor: Chris Morasky is a wildlife biologist with 28 years experience teaching Stone Age skills and nature connection and is considered one of the top Stone Age skills experts in North America. This program is a rare and unique opportunity to experience living "with" nature from someone who has actually done it. Chris has lived most of the past 20+ years in the wilderness and small communities of British Columbia, Idaho and Utah.
Here is a description of the journey the kids will be on:
This is a mentoring program. We will make fires by rubbing sticks together, learn edible and medicinal plants, move silently, feel the natural rhythm of the land, and discover indigenous wisdom as we "seek what they sought." All classes are taught with love, compassion, non-violent communication (NVC) methods, and the inherent principles of living a life in Harmony with the Earth.
We increase the childrens' awareness and connections with the land/self/others, plus give them the internal resources to help resolve whatever limitations they have placed on their potential. We do this through a combination of sensory exercises and games, stories, and invitations to question what they think they know, plus learning ancient skills. The ancient skills offer a means to get in touch with their "roots" , establishes a foundation that provides stability amidst a society that is unstable, and challenges their abilities (some of the skills that I teach are even challenging for adults). Children discover more about who they are as they are guided in an exploration of their relationships with the land and its inhabitants, the group, and their layers of self.
And did we mention fun? WOW! We have lots of fun!
This program offers children the opportunity to have fun learning the skills of our ancestors from someone who's lived the Old Ways. It's a beautiful way to bring balance to their technology-driven lives, understand the difference between their needs and wants, and gain the self-confidence that comes from meeting those needs directly.
Here is a partial list of experiences children will have over the course of the class:
Sensory awareness, expanded vision
Silent walking and stalking
Tracking and reading animal sign
Camouflage
Safe use of knives and knife sharpening
Edible and medicinal plants
Fire making with flint and steel, bowdrill and handdrill
Preparing char cloth
Preparing tinder
Types of fires for warmth, signalling, cooking and the making of tools
Using fire to shape and bend wood; straightening handdrill shafts and making coal-burned spoons/cups
Shelter design and concepts for insulation and weatherproofing
Shelter location based on topography
Water purification using primitive methods
Making rope/string from plants for fishing line, nets, snares, etc.
Digging sticks and rabbit sticks
Primitive hygiene (making soap, shampoo, toothbrush and comb)
Paiute deadfall trap, quail trap and springpole snare
Lizard snare
Safety outdoors (poison oak, insects, reptiles, bear and mtn. lion)
Useful knots
Outdoors cooking methods and wild teas
Accessing intuition
Navigation
Native and nature immersion games
Traditional and modern stories
Wilderness ethics
Here is a description of the journey the kids will be on:
This is a mentoring program. We will make fires by rubbing sticks together, learn edible and medicinal plants, move silently, feel the natural rhythm of the land, and discover indigenous wisdom as we "seek what they sought." All classes are taught with love, compassion, non-violent communication (NVC) methods, and the inherent principles of living a life in Harmony with the Earth.
We increase the childrens' awareness and connections with the land/self/others, plus give them the internal resources to help resolve whatever limitations they have placed on their potential. We do this through a combination of sensory exercises and games, stories, and invitations to question what they think they know, plus learning ancient skills. The ancient skills offer a means to get in touch with their "roots" , establishes a foundation that provides stability amidst a society that is unstable, and challenges their abilities (some of the skills that I teach are even challenging for adults). Children discover more about who they are as they are guided in an exploration of their relationships with the land and its inhabitants, the group, and their layers of self.
And did we mention fun? WOW! We have lots of fun!
This program offers children the opportunity to have fun learning the skills of our ancestors from someone who's lived the Old Ways. It's a beautiful way to bring balance to their technology-driven lives, understand the difference between their needs and wants, and gain the self-confidence that comes from meeting those needs directly.
Here is a partial list of experiences children will have over the course of the class:
Sensory awareness, expanded vision
Silent walking and stalking
Tracking and reading animal sign
Camouflage
Safe use of knives and knife sharpening
Edible and medicinal plants
Fire making with flint and steel, bowdrill and handdrill
Preparing char cloth
Preparing tinder
Types of fires for warmth, signalling, cooking and the making of tools
Using fire to shape and bend wood; straightening handdrill shafts and making coal-burned spoons/cups
Shelter design and concepts for insulation and weatherproofing
Shelter location based on topography
Water purification using primitive methods
Making rope/string from plants for fishing line, nets, snares, etc.
Digging sticks and rabbit sticks
Primitive hygiene (making soap, shampoo, toothbrush and comb)
Paiute deadfall trap, quail trap and springpole snare
Lizard snare
Safety outdoors (poison oak, insects, reptiles, bear and mtn. lion)
Useful knots
Outdoors cooking methods and wild teas
Accessing intuition
Navigation
Native and nature immersion games
Traditional and modern stories
Wilderness ethics
Notes:
Perfect practice makes perfect
Australian Aborigines - used Atladal (spear) boomerangs, didgeridoo
- dream time
- song line
2 ways to move thru the world-
Heart navigate - awareness
Head navigate
Be open to the world
Be aware of all ur needs
Survival - water, food, knife, shelter, air
Rule of 3 - if u didn't have it for 3 min you would die
3 days - water
3 weeks - food
3 months - people, community (lost will to live if u don't have people)
Cattail - roots are edible
All the fluff has tiny seeds going everywhere (for food)
Stalk give making fires
Rope out if leaves
Eat the shoots (like celery)
Chia - kinda sage
Stinging nettle - stings and leaves have hairs that are like needles and injects poison into ur skin
- also medicine for arthritis -
Also once u break the needles by smooshing u can eat it
Milkweed
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| Stinging Nettle |
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