Klara-Marie Schulke

A past Living Wild Student, assistant and Immersion participant, Klara grew up on a peninsula in the baltic sea in the north of Germany. When she was 19 years old, she started to learn about wilderness skills and shortly after began teaching them.

For 12 years, she lived several times in the wilderness from 1 month up to a year
and participated in a horse back riding to cross the Andes from Chile to
Argentina. She also has the german hunting license, is a certified tracker (Cybertracker
International, Track & Sign Level III), certified wilderness guide and Field guide
(Field Guide Association of Southern Africa). She visited different Wilderness schools
around the world.

Klara is the founder and organizer of the wilderness school called "'WegWeiser Wildnis''
in Germany. She has developed different year long classes and projects to accompany
people seeking to deepen their connection with nature. One main part of her wilderness
school is to pass on the different methods of hide tanning with natural materials, buckskin clothing making for the modern – and the wilderness world, as the same with self made gear and taking
people out into nature. Her intention is to connect both worlds – the ancient and the modern world – so that it can enrich people's daily life and routines.
She also teaches at different wilderness schools and institutions in Germany and is networking with them in Germany, Europe and the world.

Find more information at www.wegweiser-wildnis.de

Jane Robertson & Jessie Watson Brown

Jane first studied with Lynx in 2014 where they became close friends and began collaborating on courses and immersions around Europe.
Jane lives at the end of a track in the beautiful hills of Mid Wales and runs camps with teenagers out in wild places of the UK and Europe, hoping that the power and therapeutic miracles of nature will inspire the teenagers involved to stand up and act for the future, whilst falling in love with the earth.

For some years now Jane and Jessie Watson Brown have been working together teaching hide tanning and other primitive skills. They run lively, in depth hide camps which are growing in success year by year, as well as one to one tuition in brain tanning and bark tanning.
See their website for hide camp dates and more details
www.oakandsmoketannery.co.uk

Thomas J Elpel

Thomas J. Elpel is a past skilled participant of several Living Wild projects as well as the founder and director of Green University LLC and Outdoor Wilderness Living School LLC (OWLS). He is the author of numerous books on wilderness survival, botany, and sustainable living, including the best-selling Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification.

“Primitive living is a metaphor we participate in and act out. Life is simplified down to the bare essentials: physical and mental well-being, shelter, warmth, clothing, water, and food. We go on an expedition to meet those needs with little more than our bare hands. In our quest we learn to observe, to think, to reach inside ourselves for new resources for dealing with challenging and unfamiliar situations. We build up our personal strengths, and at the same time we interact with and learn about the world around us. In a story we can only join a quest in our imaginations. But in primitive living, we physically leave the contemporary world. We journey into the world of Stone Age skills, and we return with knowledge, wisdom, and strength to enrich our lives in contemporary society.”

Find more information at https://www.hollowtop.com/

Talcon Quinn

Ethically crafted. Sustainably Harvested.

In an age where it can be difficult to navigate ethical purchasing choices, one can rest assured that these pieces of art carry *no soul tax. Talcon Quinn exclusively uses sustainably, ethically, and naturally collected materials, that are processed by hand, caringly, without the use of toxic materials.  

Talcon Quinn is not only the designer and craftsperson of these beautiful pieces of adornment, she is also the gatherer and processor of the materials. These marvelous pieces help one carry their connectedness to the natural world as a reminder to make choices that respect all life.

 Talcon Quinn shares these skills by teaching classes at her home, gatherings and folk schools around the country. She is very enthusiastic about sharing traditional skills, ensuring that they live on. To sign up for upcoming classes or see if Talcon can teach near you, email her at reachout@talcon-quinn.com.

For more information check: https://talcon-quinn.com/classesandworkshops

Benjamin Pixie & Maeyoka Brightheart

Benjamin caught his first swarm of bees in 2006, and that was the beginning of a lifelong marriage to those ladies who do the love work of the plants. In 2007, he began the Pixie Honey Company. (https://www.pixiemead.com/) Benjamin has taken his background in botanical medicine and years of experience in potion crafting to offer truly unique and potent botanical meads that celebrate the plants and the bees, while returning reverence, magic, and medicine to the imbibing of alcohol.

We need the lessons of the bees now more than ever! Honeybees have been working to make the world into a flowering garden of abundance for millions of years. The Earth needs us humans to apply all of our ingenuity and reverence into joining them in stewarding green, living, blooming diversity in the land that we tend and that feeds us.

Benjamin first crossed paths with Maeyoka Brightheart in a luscious meadow on a golden June afternoon in 2013. Over the years a love and eventually a partnership grew, fed by their mutual reverence for the honeybees and passion for the wild. Maeyoka brings to the table a decade of experience tending bees, working with herbal medicine, and deepening her embodiment of the lessons of reciprocity and interconnectedness imparted by the bees and plants. The Brightheart-Pixie family now calls that meadow where they first met home. Benjamin, Maeyoka, their four children, and a growing community are the stewards of a 160 acre honeybee sanctuary and retreat center, called Skalitude, a name that means "to live in harmony with nature".

Learn more about Skalitude at : http://www.skalitude.com/