You were born to be wild
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Literally, and not in some cheesy pop song way. You evolved to be dependent upon and interdependent with wild nature.
The ability to hunt, gather, and craft the things you depend upon for daily life is written in your DNA and the need to do these things shaped your body and your mind.
Whether you live in a high rise in the city or a shelter in the wilderness, there is something incredibly empowering and deeply satisfying about learning to do more with your own two hands. Practicing timeless ways of being and awakening the skills your ancestors depended upon for food, clothing, shelter and more doesn't just help you feel more self confident and secure, it also reminds you what it is to be truly and deeply human.
Through my teaching, writing, speaking, consulting and more, helping people be their wildest, freest, most deeply connected selves is my passion.
I look forward to connecting with you
The ability to hunt, gather, and craft the things you depend upon for daily life is written in your DNA and the need to do these things shaped your body and your mind.
Whether you live in a high rise in the city or a shelter in the wilderness, there is something incredibly empowering and deeply satisfying about learning to do more with your own two hands. Practicing timeless ways of being and awakening the skills your ancestors depended upon for food, clothing, shelter and more doesn't just help you feel more self confident and secure, it also reminds you what it is to be truly and deeply human.
Through my teaching, writing, speaking, consulting and more, helping people be their wildest, freest, most deeply connected selves is my passion.
I look forward to connecting with you
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Learn with Woniya
Teaching is the heart of what I do. Whether it is offering workshops at gatherings around the country, teaching in-person at our beautiful land in northeastern California, or connecting with people around the world through my many online courses, seeing new skills and understanding change people's lives is what keeps me inspired and enlivened.
Click the following links to learn more about my different offerings:
Sneak Peek of upcoming classes happening soon:
Wet Felting: Flat projects with inlaid patterns July 27, 2025
Learn to transform raw sheep wool into beautiful, durable fabric. We'll explore different color patterns and inlay techniques to turn our flat felt into high art!
Nevada City, CA $150 Fee covers material and instruction
Surthrival Intensive August 25-30
In this deep dive into the skills for surviving and thriving in the wilderness, you'll learn about reading your environment and understanding its resources and challenges, sheltercraft, firecraft, foraging, water, snaring, tool use, and much more
Nevada City, CA $1475 Fee covers materials, instruction, and camping.
Online Courses:
Learn from anywhere in the world, whatever your schedule, with my online courses at Buckskin Revolution Academy
Buckskin Sewing 101, New session happening Online August 4- Sept 4
Join Woniya online this August for an in-depth exploration of sewing with brain tanned buckksin.
This four week online course involves pre-recorded video classes, live mentoring calls for Q&A, and enrollment in BR Circle, our exclusive online learning community
$128 includes registration for the 4 week live session plus evergreen access to the classes
The Buckskin Revolution Online Gathering May-October 2025
This course is ongoing, but joining now you'll have access to all of the classes released so far, plus be included in the new ones as they come out. This event runs through October 2025, so there is still plenty of time to jump in and join our international community learning about Survival and Wildernes Living, Rewilding Your LIfe, Homesteading, and Ancestral Skills: Fiber Arts.
Wet Felting: Flat projects with inlaid patterns July 27, 2025
Learn to transform raw sheep wool into beautiful, durable fabric. We'll explore different color patterns and inlay techniques to turn our flat felt into high art!
Nevada City, CA $150 Fee covers material and instruction
Surthrival Intensive August 25-30
In this deep dive into the skills for surviving and thriving in the wilderness, you'll learn about reading your environment and understanding its resources and challenges, sheltercraft, firecraft, foraging, water, snaring, tool use, and much more
Nevada City, CA $1475 Fee covers materials, instruction, and camping.
Online Courses:
Learn from anywhere in the world, whatever your schedule, with my online courses at Buckskin Revolution Academy
Buckskin Sewing 101, New session happening Online August 4- Sept 4
Join Woniya online this August for an in-depth exploration of sewing with brain tanned buckksin.
This four week online course involves pre-recorded video classes, live mentoring calls for Q&A, and enrollment in BR Circle, our exclusive online learning community
$128 includes registration for the 4 week live session plus evergreen access to the classes
The Buckskin Revolution Online Gathering May-October 2025
This course is ongoing, but joining now you'll have access to all of the classes released so far, plus be included in the new ones as they come out. This event runs through October 2025, so there is still plenty of time to jump in and join our international community learning about Survival and Wildernes Living, Rewilding Your LIfe, Homesteading, and Ancestral Skills: Fiber Arts.
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Patreon membership- join Woniya's inner circle
Patreon members visiting the new land in October 2024
This year we'll be meeting with Dug North from Season 12, who also happens to be a long time member of our Patreon family! We also have a yearly Patreon in-person retreat.
A lot of the educational and land tending work I do is unpaid. Patreon members help support all I do and get a lot of wonderful benefits in return. Membership starts as low as $5.00 a month, with more benefits for higher tiers. |
Personal connection with the people whose lives I've impacted is a huge part of what keeps me inspired. Over the years, my Patreon team has grown from a group of supporters who believe enough in what I do to help support it, to a community of trusted friends.
Member Benefits:
Woniya's Patreon family having dinner together at Rabbitstick Rendezvous
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Writing
Read Woniya's debut memoir,
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Clay Hayes, winner of Alone Season 8, relaxing with a copy of Woniya's memoir at his elk hunting camp in 2023
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Praise for Never Alone:
“Well written, sometimes hair-raising, and always moving. She tells us what it is like to live in that primordial way, with unflinching honesty and vivid insight. Truly a memorable book."
-Kim Stanley Robinson, award winning author of Shaman, Ministry for the Future, The Mars Trilogy, and more.
“Like Eat, Pray, Love, only without the eat part"
-Tanya Wexler, director of Hysteria, Jolt, and more.
“Well written, sometimes hair-raising, and always moving. She tells us what it is like to live in that primordial way, with unflinching honesty and vivid insight. Truly a memorable book."
-Kim Stanley Robinson, award winning author of Shaman, Ministry for the Future, The Mars Trilogy, and more.
“Like Eat, Pray, Love, only without the eat part"
-Tanya Wexler, director of Hysteria, Jolt, and more.
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 “We wouldn't be here today if our ancestors hadn’t learned to live and thrive in the wild with the resources around them, their ingenuity, and the creative capacity of their own two hands. Those capacities are still alive in you, and reconnecting with them brings fulfillment on many levels.” – Woniya Thibeault
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Woniya on Alone
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Woniya Thibeault is best known for her appearances on Alone, on The HISTORY Channel™, which has been referred to as the Olympics of Survival. It drops participants off in extreme wilderness locations with only 10 items of gear, to live on their own for as long as they can. No food stores, no camera crew. The rigors of filming the adventure themselves is part of the daunting challenge.
Woniya approached the experience not as a competition, but an opportunity to experience a life-long dream: living wild in an intact and benevolent wilderness. She spent 73 days living on her own just below the Arctic Circle on Alone Season 6, and was the runner up of that season. Three years later, she was invited to participate in an even more rigorous challenge on Alone: Frozen, where some of the strongest competitors from past seasons were dropped later in the year than any previous season, into even more challenging terrain. This time the challenge had a time limit: everyone who stayed for 50 days could win. She loved the idea of an Alone challenge that wasn't an elimination game with only one winner. The conditions were challenging enough that Woniya was the only one to last all 50 days, and became the first woman to win an Alone solo survival challenge and, with both Alone seasons combined, the record holder for cumulative days out on Alone, with a total of 123 days. |
Alone Season 6 and Alone: Frozen episodes are available on Amazon Prime, the History Channel website, and many other venues
Woniya on the Media
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Since her appearance on Alone and release of her memoir, Woniya's message of wilderness survival as a call to connection with, rather than domination of nature has spread to audiences far and wide. She has had numerous television appearances such as on MSNBC and New York Living, been written about in Outside Magazine, The Guardian, The New Yorker, USA Today, and more, been a story teller on The Moth and been interviewed in many podcasts, such as On Point on NPR.
Follow this link to read some of the articles about her and listen to the podcasts. |
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Learn Ancestral Skills and Immerse in Wilderness Living
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Kind Words
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Woniya ThibeaultBased in the foothills of the beautiful Sierra Nevada Mountains, Woniya can generally be found popping back and forth between the eastern and western slopes of this mountain range or up and down the west coast.
She is available to teach and speak in person across the USA, and virtually around the world.
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