Ancient Ways, Wisdom & Natural Shamanism
Led by Willow Lohr At COTWild
Dates: 31st August – 10th September 2025
Cost: £1195 Including Camping, Fully Catered
Places: 14 available
Bookable directly through Wilderness Folk School: www.folkschool.uk/ancestral-skills-course
‘Faith in Nature‘ is a 10-day long, deep immersion course located at COTWild. The course aims to bridge the gap between you and nature. Nature will be the central teacher between your heart and soul as you embark on a journey to learn ancient knowledge and traditional skills.
This course is for anyone who wishes to learn traditional and ancestral skills, but also venture deeper into the realm of ‘spirituality’ – not in a religious sense, but as an exploration of what nature can teach us. It aims to bring you closer to what it might have been like to live as a hunter-gatherer, where deep connection to the natural world was essential to life.
Key Course Topics
Mental Tools – learning from nature
Plants – food, medicines, plant teachers, ritual and eco printing
Stones – carving, history keepers, ritual, medicine wheel
Animals – tracking, behaviour, furs, totems, animal teachers
Drum making – tradition, preparation of skins, rawhide, wooden hoop & babiche, making a drumstick.
Drum painting with natural pigments and ochres
Awakening drum, chants and meaning.
Life & death – leather craft, sewing, honouring the dead rituals
Bone identification and crafts – make an oracle set
Fire – primitive fire skills, making tinder, keeping fire, stories and legends, ritual in fire
For further details and booking go to www.folkschool.uk/ancestral-skills-course
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