1st lesson- what do you see?
Look at the person to your right sit back to
back and describe wall (awareness)
Homework 5 pieces of garbage
2 sticks of cedar, 1 stick of pine and 1 stick
of oak.
How can you tell if it's dead?
Squaw wood
Challenge
Wide angle vision
Awareness exercises
smell awareness exercise
feel awareness( ant)
Wandering: Free wandering, switch leads.
Skill: Knife safety and carving
meditation breathing and movement
lunch/ tor0
sit/quiet
movement: fox walk
shelter: minis
fire: minis
water: minis
food: some introduction
Homework breathing and movement
name game review
Day Two: Review names, who are you today?
Awareness: fox walk and wide vision
Flash colors and shapes
how many?
cards
get sticks
dress strangely, who's missing, what's different
Homework review, discuss review of what's dead.
Poison ivy
smell awareness (rub and smell)
feel awareness (blindfold)
wandering exercise, phalanx, offpath, barefoot,
move silently.
1 group blind, freeze.
move and freeze every time a bird tweets.
move only when you hear the wind
freeze when the wind dies
skill: shaving and tapering and making a prong.
knots in wood
cordage
lunch/tor0
shelter: 1 team of 8 return to the earth.
fire: 2 teams of 4
water: solar still
food: sassafras, pine sit/quiet
movement thunder thigh exercise, fox walk: look
at your tracks
run: watch your tracks
jog: watch your tracks
plaster cast
who are they/praise
Homework: watch someone you know walk.
thin, just listen to them.
Walk: can you tell who it is by the sound of
their walk?
Day three:
Game: tribe building leading the blind: who is
leading you?
Hwk: review
awareness: camouflage
shelter: 2 person team
water- 2 person team
fire 8 person team
food- 2 person team
movement: silent swamp walk
throwing sticks lunch
silence
bow drill
cordage
wandering lead the blind
carving use of fire, drill
homework: take a cold shower completely cold.
how long can you stand it? Praise.
Day Four:
Hwk: review
awareness do camouflage
swamp walk "amphibious: sit spot and silence
tracking not aniimal tracks
finish shelter
fire-
food: big plant gathering day.
rootlets and water, splints
lunch with teas and berries
plant walk
carving fire bending prongs
cordage-making at least twisted
leaf-dipper challenge
bone and stone
homework how far can you throw your hearing?
How close?
target practice.
Day five
Finish huts, return them to the earth
camo and swamp walk
complete team, team a must move past team B
eat with dippers
target practice
the slows
praise
ceremony
plant walk
Homework for all days:
Day One:
Smooth out an area somewhere around your house.
What type of surface did you choose?
Step onto the surface
draw the surface.
what's the weather? did it rain last night?
wind direction? (hang a feather from two sticks
and a rope)
Strength? (How strong is the wind?)
Day Two:
Go somewhere quiet. Listen to yourself breathe,
see if you can hear your breath, can you feel and hear your heart beat?
Sit still for ten minutes.
Make a new track. Compare it to the old one. Record
weather conditions, wind.
Day Three:
Close your eyes and listen to people moving in
your house. Can you tell who it is by the way they walk?
See if you can identify the people in your house.
Make a new track. Compare it to the two old ones. Record weather conditions, wind.
Day Four:
Take a shower completely cold. Concentrate on
your breathing, and relaxing into the coldness.
Make a new track. Compare it to the three old ones. Record weather conditions, wind.