I spent a total of three years from 2011-2014 on and off living in a tipi starting in summer and acclimatizing myself to winter by dipping in the cold mountain streams every day in incrementally longer times. When true winter hit it was still a shock. Would this really work? My fingers were so numb […]
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My own story on how I discovered paleo… I got sick from not following Paleo/Ancestral. I was vegan for 20 years with constantly declining health thinking I had the right diet, tried every diet/modality I could find, spent thousands of dollars and lived a compromised life, until I discovered paleo/primal. I started healing instantly. My
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Spirit Guides and Nature are one and the same thing. The world speaks to us through symbols and each being and element in nature is a part of that language. So merely cultivating a relationship is all that matters even if it seems we don’t know what we are doing. The understanding can follow naturally. I
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People often ask me how I got myself to fit into a 184 square foot tiny house (8’ x 23’). The answer is, by changing my paradigm about how I think about space, stuff and redefining what quality of life means to me. It didn’t happen overnight. It has taken me years of consistent effort
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This Native American delicious pemmican dish is a superfood that works great for modern day backpacking. Super light and nutrient dense!
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Tipi as shelter. It’s more of an escape from shelter. When shelter becomes numbing, cutting me off from the things I want to experience. I want the wind, rain, sun sweet breezes, birds. I WANT it. Tipi is not the best SHELTER as far as protecting from the environment. There are better, easier things out
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I had a strange entry into the world of Rewilding. When I was 15 years old (1979) I had a sudden awakening when watching a Native American History documentary that caused me to go home and reinvent my life. I got rid of the furniture in my room, taught myself to make moccasins, and started
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During a two year span I spent six months on and six months off living in a tipi as I was exploring how to merge with nature, sleep on the earth, and all this without leaving my job and society. I started in the summer of 2012 and practiced Cold Thermogenesis in the South Toe
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© 1993 Patrick Clark (First published in Kokopelli Notes) From the travels of Marco Polo through China to those of Lewis and Clark across North America and Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon, people have long been fascinated with travel and mobility. Today transportation dominates the social landscape. A cursory glance at any town or
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