Archive for December, 2008
Awareness Course
WILDERNESS AWARENESS
The 9 levels of Wilderness Awareness as well as the 7 layers were taught to me as a regular part of my training and lifelong journey. My childhood Teacher held the skills of complete Wilderness Awareness (external awareness) as one of the most important of all living skills. All other wilderness skills revolve around complete awareness. In this course students will learn the intricate details of how to be completely aware of everything in life through the ways of the wild and then can be taken into every facet of the modern world and further. This training goes far beyond the common “sit spot” study that is found in so many places.
The skills in Awareness that are taught here at Ways Of The Wild Institute are laid out in a well organized, easy to understand fashion that I created from the many lessons I have had in Awareness throughout my past. Not only did my childhood Teacher show me the ways of Awareness, but my skills were also sharpened and honed to a high degree when I worked for the government- as can be read about in my book Shadow Scorpion. Many times my life literally depended upon the level of my Awareness abilities.
In this section of the course you will begin to learn:
- how to truly observe
- how to fit in with your surroundings
- how to relax in any environment
- how to see what is really there
- how to connect with your surroundings
- how to see the hidden
- how to sense what is around you
- how to become the observation point
- how to understand all surrounding interactions
- how to tap into muliti levels of the surroundings
- how to use all of your senses
- how to see the many connections within you and outside you as one
- the 9 levels of skill to learn and work true awareness
- the 7 layers of mind set along the path of awareness
- how awareness abilities create the foundation for all other skills
- how to bring this awareness into every area of your modern life
- and much more!
SELF AWARENESS
My childhood Teacher told me many times that most modern people do not know who they truly are and why they do the things they do. He said that most humans today do many things everyday without even realizing it. The true power of who we are and what we are, how we relate and exist in life comes down to the knowledge of Self Awareness. (internal awareness) In this section of the Awareness Course you will be learning many techniques to master the self through total Self Awareness. You will be learning how and why you do and choose everything you do in daily life. Techniques will be taught to help you discover who you truly are. This ties hand in hand with Wilderness Awareness (external awareness) and you will be shown exactly how.
During this section of the course you will begin to learn:
- how to find what you are thinking on many levels
- how to find exactly how you are feeling
- how you are interacting with self and surroundings
- how color affects you
- how sound affects you
- how smell affects you
- how touch affects you
- how your own energy is affect you and your surroundings
- how to read yourself on all levels
- how to read self and others by hair, clothes, walk, stance, movements, etc
- how to “decode” your life by what you learn about your everyday likes, dislikes, actions, reactions…etc
- how to see why events from private to global connect to self and what they mean
- and much more!!!
The first two days will be filled with Wilderness Awareness skills and practice. The third day will involve a full day of Self Awareness techniques.
Upon registration of this course you will receive an equipment list, directions and any details concerning local environmental conditions.
Students must be a minimum of 18 years old.
A list of local lodging will be sent to any who ask. This is a daylight hour workshop, not an overnighter in the woods.
There is free PRIMITIVE camping for those interested in the wilderness area.
A complete equipment list will be emailed to students upon registration. Pre-registration is required for this Awareness Course. Pre-registration requires a $75.00 non-refundable deposit. You can make your deposit here.
Total cost for the course is $375.00. Once you pay the deposit of $75.00 the remaining cost of $300.00 can be paid below through paypal or with money order.
All payments can be made by money order, cash upon arrival or Paypal.
Self Healing- The Art Of
Prerequisites:
- None
Self Healing is one of the most important set of skills anyone can acquire in life. The state of our personal well-being determines the quality of our ability to interact with the world and all life. Just look at how we interact when we are healthy and full of energy compared to when we are sick and exhausted. There is a huge difference!
If we want to help others and help the world, we must first be able to help ourselves. During the time frame of this course, Self Healing, students will be learning many techniques from many different angles in which will allow them to work on a regular basis to improve their health and overall state of being (mind, emotion and body). The following areas are some of the angles and skills that will be taught in this course:
- What is the true purpose of the chakras
- Proper Chakra Spinning
- Chakra Health (care of)
- Color Therapy (muscles, tendons, ligaments, organs, blood, nerves, wounds, bruises, sprains, bones, etc)
- Green Flow technique
- Breath Work
- Mind to Energy work (working foundational levels of mind-body control)
- Creation of health (truth behind)
- Earth Connections for health and well being
- Elements and personal health
- Centering and Grounding techniques
- Sacred Space Within
- Proper Exercise par individual and blood type
- Proper Stretching
- Visualization work
- Beyond the mind with health
- Sexuality in health and the truth of
- Behind the scenes of crystal energy
- Dangers of many so called Health Fads and self heal methods
- The truth about cancer and chemo
- and more…..
During the length of this 2 day course you will find a vast amount of priceless knowledge through techniques, practice and interaction to truly begin the rest of your life’s Self Healing!
Students must be a minimum of 18 years old.
Students should be prepared for long days that are filled with actual Self Healing work, not just talk.
A list of local lodging will be sent to students upon registration. This is a daylight hour course, not an overnighter in the woods. This course will take place indoors.
A complete equipment list will be emailed to students upon registration. Pre-registration is required for this Self Healing Course. Pre-registration requires a $75.00 non-refundable deposit. You can make your deposit here.
Total cost for the course is $290.00. Now for only $225.00!!Once you pay the deposit of $75.00 the remaining cost of $150.00 can be paid below through paypal or with money order.
All payments can be made by money order, cash upon arrival or Paypal.
Family Healing
Prerequisites:
To go beyond Self Healing we revolve into the life and health of Family. Family Healing is the next layer within the concentric rings of personal healing work. However, to begin working on Family Healing, we must first be able to understand the complexities if Self Healing.
Today life is filled with non-beneficial energies that run ramped at a pace that is simply destructive and dizzying to think about. It is a sad thing when I look around at how many families suffer greatly at the hands of this ridiculous modern pace. Family’s are torn apart by stress and confusion.
After ourselves, who do we look to for support? I should say, who should be next in line to look to? Family. Many people today don’t even have family left because of the many hardships that have been endured or experienced by individuals as well as the family unit.
This course is designed to help individuals who have begun their own Self Healing, to understand how to expand that into the progressive action of Family Healing. It is never too late to healing, whether that be the self or the family. Within the this 2 day course students will be learning:
- How to help others heal
- The truth about relationships
- The layered meanings of energy bonds and connections
- Visualizations
- How to read family members energies
- How to communicate with others through higher communication techniques
- The difference between Vertical Communication and Horizontal Communication
- Working with energy to repair family frequency damage
- How to re-connect as a unit through individual energies
- and much more!
This is priceless knowledge that will be clearly and fully presented during this Family Healing course. In times of such stress and invasive and destructive modern ways, learn to take back what is being lost; learn the vital skills of Family Healing!
Community Healing
Prerequisites:
Times are rough and at the rate things are going, they aren’t going to be getting any better or easier anytime soon. Community Healing during such modern times becomes essential as a part of the whole if we as a species wishes to right all that has been wronged. Of course Self healing must always come first. If we cannot Self Heal, we have no chance to expand this into all aspects of life.
Community is the next concentric ring beyond Family. This is the next level of support we as humans have. For this reason we must have a healthy community to be able to expand into and gain beneficial support and guidance from. If the community is unhealthy in energy, mind-set, motives, etc, we as individuals and families have no hope of progressing in beneficial ways within the context of our evolutions.
Community Healing is what this course is all about and the following are areas that will be fully covered:
- Visualizations
- Community Frequency
- Community to Self Associations
- Self Expansion techniques to heal community
- Tapping Higher energy sources for Community Healing
- Community symbolism
- among many other areas!
If you wish to make a difference beyond self and within community, you will require the proper understanding and techniques to do this. many people try to make a difference on a large scale, but fail in their attempts because they are missing the key pieces to be able to understand the intricacies of self to family to community to universe connections. Come join us for 2 days and learn how you can be a core piece in Community Healing!
Earth Healing
Prerequisites:
Earth Healing is a vital aspect of modern life. The earth is home to us all and from our own self neglect, non-beneficial mind patterns and self punishment issues, we have been marching the steady trail of the destruction of our home planet. None of us can claim otherwise with any truth. No matter how we look at it, we are all responsible and it is up to us to make changes beneficial to all.
This is the next concentric ring out from Community Healing. Self supports self, self supports family, family support community and the earth supports everything as all resources come from the earth. Earth Healing is the next level on the expansion process of healing energy. During this course students will be learning many techniques which can be used by Self, Family and Community for Earth Healing.
It is advised that the other three healing course be taken first, but Self Healing is the ony required course to be taken before Earth Healing.
Students will learn how to utilize healing techniques from Self Healing, Family Healing and Community Healing to expand into Earth Healing in the length of this 2 day course. Come and learn how to do your part and truly make a difference on very deep levels.
Winter Survival- level 1
Prerequisites:
Winter Survival is a different world then survival in warm seasons. It takes true skill mastery on all levels to successfully life in the wild using primitive techniques. Here in the Green Mountains of Vermont we have the perfect environment to learn and test our skills in winter’s grip.
The Winter Survival Course is laid out in 2 sections. Both sections are filled with techniques for both physical and mental/emotional survival during the winter season. The first section, which is this one consists of the following:
TREE IDENTIFICATION
You will learn how to identify and recognize trees in their dormant state by learning the details of their bark, twigs, smell, structure, growing site and energy.
EDIBLES
Learning how to obtain food in the winter is vital for living or surviving in the wilds of the Northlands. You will discover where to find foods in the northern woods, how to gather it, how to prepare it and what nutrients it contains. You will learn how much you need and what foods contain what energy properties to best suit your wilderness needs.
SHELTER
In the deep snows of the northern mountains it is essential to know how to build the proper shelter that will keep you safe in the long, dark winter nights. I will show you how to choose site, materials and how to construct shelters that will protect you from the harsh elements in the depth of winter.
Fire
Fire making is an all together different skill while surrounded by billowing hills of snow and freezing temperatures. While of course it is still fire, the skill level and tools you use will have to adapt to the environmental conditions which greatly vary from the warm season. You will learn all about fire in the winter and how to make it and work with it. Not only is fire covered but techniques for expanding your heat source away from your fire and keeping yourself warm while working in other areas beside next to your fire.
Water
Water, water everywhere…but its all frozen solid! We will cover winter water during the Winter Survival course.
TRACKING
The art of winter tracking will be covered which will include finding, identifying and following tracks, finding, identifying trails, beds, territorial marks, scat, rubs, patterns and habits of specific animals. You will discover the deep aspects of tracking and how it comes from the whole and not just one skill.
Winter Travel
Traveling by foot is also hugely different in winter than in the warm season when snow doesn’t cover the ground. Proper safety, walking methods, snowshoe techniques and body positioning are fully covered concerning winter foot travel.
Heat Loss
A very important set of information is on Heat Loss in the wilderness, especially during winter! All forms of heat loss are fully covered and techniques to prevent this dangerous action that an easily bring a survival situation to fatal levels within minutes.
Because of the intensity of winter survival we require that interested students first take the Wilderness Survival Course which is done in the warm season. This way all students coming into Winter Survival have a good solid skill set foundation that they have proven in the warm season.
This is not an overnight class. Two full days are spent in the Vermont mountain wilderness during the heart of winter, but at night you must find local lodging. During the second level of Winter Survival students do spend the night outdoors
First Newsletter
Hello Everyone!
Welcome to Ways Of The Wild Institute’s first newsletter. Hopefully the first of many!
To begin I would like to tell you about the Institute itself but I have had many people tell me they want to hear about me first. Well, I suppose I could give my introduction and then roll into the Institute. I would like to state that I am going to keep this brief and to the point because I do not believe in glorifying oneself.
About Me
When I was 9 winters old I met my second Father and Teacher. He was a full blood Native American man from the Lenni Lenape people. Meechgalanne was his name and he was 86 winters when I first met him. His whole life was lived within the vastness of the Old Ways of the pre-technological cultures of this world. Never did he take or use anything from modern societies and thus lived his entire life in the wilderness by the Old Ways. I partially lived with and fully trained under him for just over a decade in the traditional ways of his people that had been passed down from generation to generation from the elders. It was within his life’s vision that he would one day meet me and he was to pass the wisdom of his elders onto me. Those who come to the Institute will learn much more about this.
After Meechgalanne left this physical world, I moved away from my training grounds in the Pennsylvania Appalachian Mountains and headed west. I did not stop until I was in The Rocky Mountains. It was in those power mountains that I met my wife, Raven. She and I lived and traveled all across this country, including Alaska and Maui. Our son was born in the midst of this journey that spanned over a decade of winters.
I have brought my skills in the Old Ways and lived for varying lengths of time in every environment this country has to offer. I gained the wisdom of my skills and training. I do not believe in “titles”. I do not call myself anything but a true creature upon the Earthmother. However, many people have tagged me with “Master” and “Shaman”. These are now used in my internet profiles but I myself would not use them freely in conjunction with “me”. I do not consider myself to be one. When I say “Shaman” and quote it, I am using the term to describe a Natural Medicine Walker and Guide. The term “Shaman” is not a native term of this counrty , but since everyone seems to have adapted it freely and loosly I use it so we are all somewhat on the same termonology until you learn further the proper terms of the teachings I share. Meechgalanne was 96 winters when he left this physical realm and always stated that he could spend another full life upon this world learning more. I do what I do and I am good at what I do because I know who and what I am and I truly believe in it. Yes, I was trained in the ways of the “Shaman” and Warrior. I have walked this path for many winters and utilized many depths of both these ways more times then I can count. But I will never stop learning and striving for greater knowledge. I must stress that I was not trained specifically in any one Native American Tradition. Even though Meechgalanne was a Lenni Lenape, as was told to me, he traveld far and wide gaining many skills from many people. He taught me the ways he combined together.
For those of you who want to see titles…
- I have walked the way of the “Shaman” and Wilder for over two decades.
- I have a 10th degree black belt in Small Circles Of 5 Animals Jujitsu and am considered the grandmaster of the style.
- I have a 1st degree black belt in Shao-lin Kung Fu, a 1st degree black belt in Muai Thai, and a 1st degree black belt in 18 hand Kung Fu.
- I have the training of Reiki Master.
- I have the training of “Shamanic” Journey guide.
- Blah, Blah, Blah…
Very simply put, I am a natural creature of wildness upon the Earthmother who lives by the ethics of the Old Ways, runs with my wolf brothers, seeks my higher purity, helps others in their healing journeys, teaches those who wish to learn in the skills that have become my life, a loving father and husband, and brother to friends. I am humble and strive for balance and fairness in what I do. Enough about me for now. Those who train with me will know me deeper then any words can ever say.
Let me speak of the Ways Of The Wild Institute.
It is part of a vision I had during a very critical time in my life…where death was upon me. In this vision I had the sight of the elders of Native peoples. In this sight I saw my path along the lands of the North Country, through the wilds reaching out like giant roots from ancient times and spreading across the face of the Earthmother. The roots were many colors and made of much energy. Each one represented a different alignment. Other beings and many humans who had darkness as cloaks were drawing the colors of these roots to them. They looked at these colors and began to observe them. Soon the roots became part of the humans and the humans became part of the roots. Other roots came from others who hold the Old Ways and eventually the roots began to meld together into one giant root system of the same center tree of life. All the humans began to grow roots of their own and soon all life was once again firmly rooted upon this world like in the days of old. The face of the Earthmother changed from that of strain to that of peace and health. Balance spread far and wide as the energy of wild purity echoed through the eternal realms. “When the Great Storm comes to this life only those who have their ancient roots dug deep will remain”. This last sentence is a piece from one of the prophecies that Meechgalanne compiled through his many journeys and interactions with other tribes.
That is just a small part of the vision that was shown to me. The Institute is a manifestation from that vision. I could not do my part to help by disappearing into the wilds. I had to come out to the fringes of modern society to reach those who truly wish to learn. I have seen many across this land teaching parts of the Old Ways and some are very pure and advanced. Those few are true to the power within. However, many teachers today teach what they have learned. But the difficulty is how they learned. Most people today who want to learn something go to a university and read many books and listen to lectures or other people who have learned what they know by reading a lot of books. Or they will take a field guide and wander the trails or parks and learn only what limited knowledge can be found in that book. The truth of the Old Ways becomes watered down, depleted and then the vital details are lost. Then partial knowledge is taught and passed down to others.
So I decided to teach the complied Old Ways through the Institute in its pure form. The wisdom is not watered down and I teach in a very real, hands on way. I share the details and vital information that the books do not tell because the authors did not know. Since I was taught directly by an elder and lived these ways, I teach these ways much the same that I was taught. However, as I stated before, I do not teach the pure Native American Ways. I teach natural wilderness living ways that were taught to me by an elder. I leave out traditional details of his people so as to not offend the still living elders of that tribe. If you seek scientific information and Latin names for everything, you will not find it here. I teach the old knowledge that stems directly from the depth of spirit and the high powers that course through life’s veins like warm blood. The knowledge that is available to all who are pure of heart and take the time to listen to these depths.
Through full length Courses to introduction Core Workshops, I teach this information year round. I openly invite anyone who wishes to learn these ways passed down from many native cultures, anyone wishing to return to the wildness in life, anyone who wishes to further their own evolution through balance and true inner self discovery to join me in the mountains of Vermont.
Medicine Blessings,
White Wolf 
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