Twin Eagles Wilderness School
eNewsletter - October 2013
Welcome to our October eNewsletter! Fall is in full force here in Sandpoint, with the trees giving an absolutely beautiful display of their autumn colors. The mountainsides are alive with rich yellows and oranges as all of life seems to be busy preparing for the winter ahead.
We're grateful to have settled into a rhythm with our six year long programs having been launched. The Art of Mentoring was a huge success, with many more people now having been touched by the rejuvenating vision of deep nature connection mentoring.
If you're in Sandpoint next weekend, be sure to stop by our Fall Harvest celebration, which is another large scale community event we host each year! More info below.
Here is a quick list of what's in store for you in this month's eNewsletter:
- Feature Article: Feverfew Migraine Treatment
- Fall Harvest 2013!
- Wilderness Immersion Program 2013-2014
- Twin Eagles Youth Programs 2013-2014
Feature Article: Feverfew Migraine Treatment
Come learn how feverfew migraine treatment is one of the most powerful herbal remedies. The feverfew plant is a potent medicinal herb which can cure the most painful of headaches, just one of the many feverfew benefits.
I'm excited to share with you some great feverfew migraine remedies and to help you on your way to health again following a migraine. We'll also cover feverfew plant identification so you know what it looks like when you find it.
Ready for more? continue reading here
Ninth annual Fall Harvest celebration!
Special Community Event for the whole family!
Saturday November 2 · 10 am - 4 pm
Cedar Springs, Sandpoint, Idaho
Free for families with children enrolled in our youth programs,
Otherwise suggested donation of $5 per person
Please join us as we "gather the tribe" to celebrate the fall season, deep nature connection, family, and community! This day will be a celebration full of fun activities for everyone. We'll have songs, storytelling, games, ceremony and wild foods! We'll be focusing on various traditional primitive cooking methods for you to sample and savor! All activities are optional, and we'll keep a warm fire burning in the tipi throughout the day for you to kick back and relax.
Please be sure to contact us to let us know you're coming, and how many are in your group, so that we can prepare adequately for the big day. Thanks!
Volunteers are needed to help with a variety of projects so please contact us if you would like to help out in some way before or on the day of the event. We would really appreciate the support - thank you! As always, we encourage carpooling to this event. Hope to see you there!
Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program
The first month at this year's Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program has been an incredible journey. Already, participants have discovered a whole new possibility of what it means to connect with the natural world through activities like sensory immersion, bow and drill firemaking, mind's eye mapping, wild edible & medicinal plants, bird language, and natural caretaking. Not to mention a week long Art of Mentoring experience held by over twenty staff that facilitated an inter-generational, nature based, annual gathering of renewal.
What touches my heart the most though is the sense of hope I feel in my body as I witness this year's crew begin the journey of discovery. Already I've seen each individual's heart light up as they enter the deep nature connection mentoring experience here at Twin Eagles. It is like there is a certain part of them, a child like part, that has been freed to express itself fully. For some it is expressed through rubbing sticks together to make fire, for others in the richness of brewing up medicinal concoctions, and still others in the freedom of wandering the mountainsides. For each of them it is a renewed connection to their authentic passions, resulting in authentic, bright eyed inspiration and living life fully. For that I am grateful.
Do you yearn to feel like a part of nature rather than an onlooker? Do you feel a responsibility to our Earth? Are you seeking your contribution to the world? Do you want to fully experience nature rather than just learn about it? Do you want to find a community of like minded people? Are you seeking truth, the truth of who you really are?
If you answered yes to even some of these questions, then consider the Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program. It is all about taking the essence of nature and weaving it into our modern experience. It is about feeling the kinship that comes only from roaming the wilderness together. It is about diving deep into the underground of human consciousness, and discovering the hidden gems that await. It is about deep mentoring that brings out the very best of who you are.
The Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program is a transformational, nine month journey that brings back to life the skills and wisdom of our earth based ancestors:
Wilderness Survival & Primitive Skills
Wildlife Tracking
Wild Edible & Medicinal Plants
Permaculture & Regenerative Design
Nature Based Mentoring & Cultural Restoration
Naturalist Training
Bird Language & Native Scout Teachings
Inner Tracking - Know Thyself
This program is a huge step forward on the path of deeply connecting with nature, community, and consciousness.
Interested, or know someone who might be? Learn more about the Twin Eagles Wilderness Immersion Program here.
Check out our Facebook page for updated pictures of last year's Wilderness Immersion Program!
Monthly Preschool Nature Program
Forest Children
For kids ages 3 - 6 · Spokane, WA
One day per month · October - May
Offered in Spokane, WA, the Forest Children program gently guides young children to a deep relationship with the natural world. Children are encouraged to learn about the fundamental elements of life through 100% direct experience with nature. Activities may include foraging seasonal wild foods, crafting toys from objects found in nature, connecting with the lives of animals through games, creative movement and tracking, developing bonds with trees through learning safely about fire, sparking the imagination with storytelling, and much, much more! Click here to learn more about Forest Children!
Twin Eagles Monthly Youth Program - Spokane
For kids ages 6 - 13 · Spokane, WA
One day per month · October - May
We are pleased to be entering into our eighth year of bringing traditional ecological knowledge down to the Spokane area on a monthly basis! Spokane area youth have a rare opportunity to slow down to nature's pace and experience themselves in a community of passionate nature based learners through activities such as fire by friction, local species interrelations, songs, animal tracking, group challenges, wild edible & medicinal plants, natural shelter building, storytelling, sensory awareness and much, much more. Click here to learn more about Twin Eagles Monthly Youth Program - Spokane!
Weekly Homeschool Youth Nature Program
Twin Eagles Community School
For kids ages 6 - 13 · Sandpoint, Idaho
One day per week, Fridays 9 am - 3 pm
Autumn, Winter, & Spring Seasonal Blocks (~8 sessions each)
Come join our original weekly program for homeschool youth that explores deep nature connection and the wilderness arts through nature based mentoring. Students truly steep in a timeless experience of the natural world with teachings of the naturalist, the tracker, the wanderer, the herbalist, the ecologist, the survivalist and the scout. Now in its ninth year, Twin Eagles Community School is a tremendous opportunity for youth to experience knowledge of place and nature awareness all in a powerful atmosphere of cultural mentoring. Click here to learn more about Twin Eagles Community School!
Weekend Teen Wilderness Programs
Twin Eagles Seasonal Teen Rendezvous
For teens ages 13 - 18 · Locations throughout the Inland Northwest
Weekends run Friday evening through Sunday Afternoon
Autumn, Winter, & Spring Sessions
Twin Eagles Seasonal Teen Rendezvous offers awesome experiences to teens throughout the Inland Northwest and beyond to sink deep roots to the earth through wilderness skills while soaring high through full-on group adventures. Teens learn leadership by working together as well as applying their sensitivities through ancient earth based skills and crafts. This is a powerful opportunity for teens to encounter the wild around them. As well, teens have a chance to touch their own inner wildness by giving unique voice to their inner selves amongst a community of peers and mentors. Click here to learn more about Twin Eagles Seasonal Teen Rendezvous!
Teen Mentor-In-Training Program
For teens ages 15 - 18 · Sandpoint, ID & Spokane, WA
Twin Eagles Mentor in Training (MIT) program is an incredible opportunity for teens to step forward into becoming authentic nature based mentors. Twin Eagles MITs receive guidance from Twin Eagles' seasoned adult staff to move into a mentoring role with Twin Eagles Youth Program students, thereby experiencing themselves as powerful role models and leaders. It is a rare opportunity to be mentored into their greater potential as they experience the joy of mentoring others into a deep relationship with the earth. The MIT Program runs alongside all of our Youth Programs, so teens are able to select which one(s) they wish to participate in. Click here to learn more about Twin Eagles Mentor in Training Program!
Thanks for reading, and blessings to you this Autumn!
Tim Corcoran
co-Director & co-Founder
Twin Eagles Wilderness School
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