Lynx Vilden walks a path that used to be natural to all of us, but for most people no longer is.

She has explored the natural environments and indigenous cultures of arctic, mountain, and desert regions from Hudson Bay to the Kalahari desert. She has lived in a Sami village in Scandinavia, in the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico, in the Rocky Mountains of Montana, and the North Cascades of Washington. She has been practicing and teaching primitive living skills in both the United States and Europe since 1991.

She is probably most known for her Four Seasons Prehistoric Projects and the Living Wild school bringing others to live this way for extended periods of time.

https://www.lynxvilden.com/

Do you also want to move like the hunter/gatherer? Do you secretly find that your body is more adapted to the sofa /desk than to the forest? Experience with Daan how you can change this process with clear insights so that you too can move smooth and naturally.

Human health has never (!) peaked as high as in Palaeolithic times. Let’s go back and see what we are missing these days, and even better what do we need to do to get back on track? Issues as not having time will not do. Daan will teach you how to stack your life as the hunter/gatherer. Do the things you normally do but, in a hunter/gatherer kind of way!

https://www.verwildernis.nl/

Teacher in historical shipbuilding, building master in pre-historic dwellings, NLP-coach, bushcraft-teacher and guide to help you learn more about yourself.

Since the end of the 1980's Anton has been involved in prehistoric and historic house- and boatbuilding projects, working with professionals and teaching students develop their craft-skills as well as themselves.

Anton is an open, positive and creative human who loves to be in nature. To create inspiring experiences with others and to expand your consciousness both in the physical and non-physical world.

https://devuurboog.nl/

Monica ‘Mo’ Wilde is an expert on wild food and medicine and was brought up in Kenya. She teaches foraging  in Scotland and is the author of ‘The Wilderness Cure’ and ‘Free Food’. Mo lived on only wild food for a year and then set up The Wildbiome Project - a large citizen science study into Western human survival on hunted and foraged foods, and the effects on our bodies.

With a Masters degree in herbal medicine, Mo also teaches on the Herbology Diploma courses at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and works with the Claid Clinic specialising in Lyme disease. Mo also helped found the Association of Foragers and is a Fellow of the Linnean Society.

Mo is warm, approachable and passionate about restoring vital connection through and with nature. She loves to share her deep knowledge of the plants and old ways, honouring our own ancestral teachings and earth-based ceremonies that still remain, rooted in Celtic and druidic culture. 

www.monicawilde.com

Sofie is a positive woman full of energy and adventures. She finds her inner-peace and connection to Mother Earth by skiing high mountains, swimming in cold water and absorbing the light from the low sun. She’s a mother of 5 children and love to play with kids and teach them everything that they would need to live a life in nature and in the circle around the fire.

Sofie has more than 25 years’ experience with traditional tanning of hides and making of clothes and gear in skin and leather. Since 2006 she has run courses in tanning and sewing in Finland and Norway, and she has a Master's degree in tanning with traditional methods. Especially she admires the beautiful craftsmanship of Inuit’s and their unique skills to make clothes and garments that keep warm and dry in arctic weather.

Together with her husband Roni they run the company “ULU of Norway” and make natural tanned and chemical-free outdoor clothes that fit modern people.

https://uluofnorway.no

Roni grew up in the Finnish forest and has a strong passion for primitive living. For more than 15 years he has joined different wilderness-schools and projects to learn and practice skills that you need to live a life in nature. Roni has been a teacher and guide in “Naturliv” and ''Guardian-training'' courses in Sweden.

Roni is a positive man with thousands of visions and tons of love. He has a great impact on youth and children and enjoys playing and challenging them. With his calmness and self-confidence, he goes for the responsibility and masters the father-ship of 5 children. His strongest passion is to run a primitive school for children and youth where they can play free and learn from nature.

Roni is a professional tanner and skilled craftsman, and together with Sofie he runs the company “ULU of Norway''. His dream is to live a balanced life in the wilderness with his family and a clan.

https://uluofnorway.no

Michael is a founder of ‘Human Keystone’ is an experienced Outdoorsman, Forager, Fisher, Hunter and primitive skills practitioner from Hastings. Through month long solo and group immersions into some of the last truly wild parts of Europe he has over the years developed deep kinship with the natural world.

Using skills as pathways, Michael has formed strong ropes of connection with plants and animals around him. Even though Michael has been trained by some of the best naturalists and ancestral skills practitioners in Europe, his teachings are strongly influenced directly from nature. His teaching style is unorthodox, ancestral as well as process rather than goal orientated.

https://www.humankeystone.uk/

Mathias grew up in southern Funen in Denmark where he spent almost all of his free time in nature. He has always been fascinated by animals and their varying roles in natures ecosystems and wondered about his own role in it.

He has been hunting with his dad since the age of 6 and as soon as he turned 16 he got his own hunting license. Naturally, one of his main interests within primitive skills is hunting and fishing - “not because I enjoy killing, but because that to successfully harvest an animal, you need to understand your prey. You need to know what they eat, where like to sleep, when they move and why they move”. As such, Mathias has had a lifelong passion for tracking, spear fishing, and archery as well as animal behaviour.

https://www.instagram.com/danish_bushman/?hl=da

Ilse is deeply fascinated about the hunter gatherers who lived with the land in Mesolithic times.

As an artist, she tries to find ways and understanding about how these people thrived with only natural materials. She thinks that a modern lifestyle could be so much healthier when we learn from the old ways.

These interests brought her to different disciplines around ancestral skills. She works with stoneage ceramics, plant fibres, basketry, leather tanning and sewing, medicine making and many others.

But one of the most important things is that these skills are for everybody and that’s why she created ‘Wild folk skills gatherings’ where everyone is welcome to practice nature connection, ancestral skills and egalitarian structures.

Ilse is also a forestschool leader and a foraging instructor.

www.ilsedonker.nl

Disa is a wild weaver and a cyclic influence in a linear culture that has lost its connection with the Earth. She is the mother of Leela and Love and keeper of a big garden containing lots of medicinal plants.

She has been guiding people into the forest for the last 10 years via the association Naturliv and has since 2 years back given her own retreats and courses in weaving with wild materials and thriving while living wild in the forests surrounding her home in Småland.

Foraging and weaving wild fibers for ornaments, clothing and basketry is her main interest and what she loves to share with you. 

Wintertime she teaches Fertility Awareness and Evolutionary Medicine for hormonal health and fertility and summertime she travels the nordic countries to teach how to forage and weave with wild fibers.

disamineur.com

“The greatest teachers are the elements themselves. When one surrenders to the elements one can learn in any environment: the sea, the mountains, or the forest. This is how I like to learn and teach letting the materials, surroundings, plants, stones, and animals do as much of the talking as possible.

I will introduce you to butchering, hide tanning, singing with the land, and dancing with the night”.

Steven teaches traditional sailing on wooden ships at the Fosen Folk school in Norway, he builds replica Stone Age structures in his native Netherlands and shares a multitude of other skills including natural tanning, woodworking, fishing, wild edibles, permaculture design as well as being a clan builder and fire keeper.

Yvonne "Yvi" is a wilderness instructor and wilderness hiking guide. With her project "Roaming for Roots", she organizes multiple day wild hiking experiences for all age & experience groups. To create the space for others to experience the freedom and explore the beauty, diversity,  abundance & sensitivity of the natural world is her great passion. A wilderness mentoring that includes the nomadic roots of humans. 

Her different wild hiking trips are taking place throughout the year in different wild areas of Europe. 

At this year Lithica Gathering she will be holding the forest school for our young Lithica members. 

www.roamingforroots.com/
www.enter-the-wild.de/wandern-und-trekking

Poppy has been on a journey back to remembering what it means to be a wild and natural human being in the modern world since she was 14 years old, weaving and cultivating relationships with ancestral skills, the land, and herself. She finds the most joy in tanning skins and honouring the wild animals of Britain, and runs a small-scale tannery in the south-east of England.

Poppy has been teaching and mentoring folks of all ages for several years and is most passionate in helping facilitate rights of passage for teens and working with young girls and women and their cycles. Reconnecting people back to the land and themselves is something she hopes she will always do in her life. 

At this year Lithica Gathering she will be holding the forest school for our young Lithica members. 

Manuel is mentor in Natural Outdoor Life, Crafts & Leadership and NOLS Wilderness First Responder.

He is passionate about outdoor skills and the power of nature to hold space for personal inner journeys. Many years of collecting different pieces led up to founding Wilderness Vision, to share and teach wilderness skills, invite to vision quests and leadership development trails. Together with his family he lives a simple life close to nature in the middle of Norway.

“Let’s celebrate the simple life!
It’s a joy to feel something – at least something real. The wind. The cold. The heat. The smoke. The Mosquitoes. Let’s feel the super-luxury of being offline, unreachable, and not in reactive mode”.

https://wildernessvision.no/