Majors: By Category | Alphabetically
Minors: By Category | Alphabetically
Ages 10+
Kids race through challenges in teams of two—challenges include the monkey bridge, zip line, alligator pit, jungle swing and mud mountain—and trying to beat their own best time. Students will get very dirty and must wear secure closed toed shoes.
Read MoreAll Day Major • Ages 8-12
This class will immerse students in the landscape to learn through play - games that awaken the senses and hone awareness while cultivating a cooperative community experience. We will explore basic tracking, eat plants, make cordage, build shelters, practice fire building skills, experience camouflage, study natural hazards, and learn other wood’s wisdom that captivates student’s interests. The focus of this class will be to learn experientially as we rediscover our innate woods wisdom and deepen our relationship with ourselves, one another and the earth.
Read MoreAll Day Major • Ages 10-14
This class will focus on deepening student’s knowledge and awareness of woods wisdom through more in-depth experience, exploration and play - games that also awaken the senses and hone awareness while cultivating a cooperative community experience. Students will learn bowdrill (friction fire technique), build shelters, create cordage from raw materials, practice ancestral weaponry, explore tracking (compression shapes and gaits), while immersing themselves in the woods of the farm with awareness practices and games. We Will learn natural camouflage & rely on the interdependence of the class community as we learn how to stalk animals and move across the landscape with minimal disturbance.
Read MoreAll day major Ages 13-18
This class is for students who have participated in the basic Ancestral Survival Arts Program and want to fine tune old skills based on their interests. Each day will comprise part of the day working on hard skills based on group interest, with options such as tracking (cluster tracking, drawing tracks), fire build(bowdrill, etc.) shelter creation, cordage and advanced textile arts (quadbraid, finger weaving), traps, edible and medicinal plants and advanced camouflage. The second part of the day will be immersive practice in applying multiple skills simultaneously, such as awareness practice and games, stalking through the woods while in camouflage and practicing ancestral weaponry OR tracking and trailing in teams while blindfolded. The fun and flow of theis class will be dictated by student interest & initiative!
Read MoreAll Day Major • Ages 13 -17
Coyote Standard Class Ages 13-17
More than a game, Coyote Warriors builds upon a foundation of
athletics to teach young people about teamwork, conflict, work ethic,
awareness and maintaining a healthy mind and body. This course is
about building confidence in teens. By facing hard work and struggle
in a fun environment, we equip students with tools to better prepare
for work and school beyond nature’s classroom. Coyote Warriors relies
upon an ancestral understanding of team sports blended with modern
science and a hint of the spiritual. It is a chance to escape the
contemporary world, examine ourselves in nature, and return to the
challenges of modern life with new training for adulthood. These lofty
ideals are achieved from the ground up, starting from a foundation of
running and team rivalry. Please note, scholarships are not available
for this class.uke McNally, Damien Schierer
Ages 11 +
Come explore some of the older ways of cooking, processing foods, foraging, processing wild game, using plant dyes, making lip balm, candles, homemade kites and fermentation.
Read MoreAges 7–11
Have you ever wondered if fairies, gnomes, Bigfoot or other mythological creatures really exist? In this class we believe! Campers will spend the week exploring the many mythological creatures that live deep in the forest. Students will make art in clay, painting and found objects. They will also learn basic skills of tracking, camouflage and wild edible herbs through games and stories. Of course, camp wouldn’t be complete without some games, songs and creating a mythological creature of their own.
Read MoreAges 7-12
Fish, Birds, Bugs, Beads and Creek Exploration! Every day is an adventure. Spend Monday watching, drawing, and observing bird banding. Tuesday is all about bugs and beads. We’ll learn about the microecosystems around us as well as work on beaded designs of our observations. Wednesday is a day of fishing with guest instructor Brian “Fox” Ellis as Louis Agassiz. Thursday we will track animals and explore the habitat of Crow Creek. Friday we will put it all together publishing our findings in an instant book that celebrates the wildlife of the Sun Foundation as well as end the week with Native American Fun & Games!
Read MoreAll Day major - Ages 13-18
This class is for students who have participated in the basic Ancestral Survival Arts Program and want to fine tune old skills and develop advanced skills based on their interests. Each day will comprise part of the day working on hard skills based on group interest, with options such as tracking (cluster tracking, drawing tracks), fire build(bowdrill, etc), shelter creation, cordage and advanced textile arts (quadbraid, finger weaving), traps, edible and medicinal plants, and advanced camouflage. The second part of the day will be immersive practice in applying multiple skills simultaneously, such as awareness practices and games, stalking through the woods while in camouflage and practicing ancestral weaponry OR tracking and trailing in temas while blindfolded. The fun and flow of this class will be dictated by student interest and initiative!
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