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Posted: March 27, 2023
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White Pine Wilderness Academy was founded in 2014 and rapidly grew into the largest forest school in the midwest. We were faced with an urgent need for competent wilderness mentors and guides. Experienced educators and skills practitioners stepped […]
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In spite of all the positives that have come about from the advancements of the digital age, modern life has become a labyrinth of traps. Addiction to devices, political polarization, longer working hours, and social isolation, all seem […]
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We have identified three primary attributes of a deeply connected person; Peace, Power and Purpose. We find these qualities increasingly elusive in the digital age. It is our mission to nourish the fruition of these qualities within individuals […]
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In Eve Ball’s early 20th century interviews with the Western Apache she quotes elder Daklugie, ‘Our people roamed following the ripening foods, so that they could provide a year’s supply. They killed deer when venison was at its […]
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Posted: February 24, 2023
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The Shikari System is designed to create holistic Wilderness Skills Practitioners embodied in their own ‘Power’. Shikari will guide you into reconnecting with nature, community and yourself. The methodology is based on decades of research and experimentation with […]
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Each Handbook is a manual designed to support your research, training and advancement as a Practitioner in that Pathway. The Shikari System is comparable to a belt system in martial arts. Each Pathway follows the same cadence. It […]
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We are not attempting to replace your practice in Yoga, Jiu Jitsu, rock climbing, hiking, birding, foraging, or meditating, rather, we are aiming to deepen your practice through augmenting it with the core routines of Shikari. Industry leaders […]
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X is for experimentation, the essence of the Shikari Wilderness System. SKILLS JOURNALS – The Skills Journals, mentioned above, accompany each advancing skill. These journals are for drawings and notes about successes and failures in techniques, materials etc. […]
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In order to keep the price of the Shikari Handbooks down we have separated the cost of Correspondence. This allows anyone with the Handbooks to train in the Shikari System for only the cost of the Handbooks. If […]
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The greater Shikari Community finds expression in countless ways through workshops, evals, forest schools, rendezvous and social media. Council members will find comradery, peer mentoring, elders, and balance within a larger wilderness skills community.
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