You were born to be wild
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Literally, and not is 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 to hands. Practicing timeless ways of being and awakening the skills your ancestors depended upon will help you remember 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 to hands. Practicing timeless ways of being and awakening the skills your ancestors depended upon will help you remember 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
With in-person classes around the country and on her land, Timeless Ways, in northeastern California, and Online courses through Buckskin Revolution Academy, Woniya shares ancestral skills, wilderness living and survival skills, nature connection and ecology, and more.
Upcoming classes include:
Wet Felting: Flat projects with inlaid pattern (In person at Timeless Ways)
Surthrival Intensive August (In person at Timeless Ways)
Buckskin Sewing 101 (Online August 4- Sept 4)
For more information about Woniya's teaching, custom and private course, see the Learn with Woniya tab
Upcoming classes include:
Wet Felting: Flat projects with inlaid pattern (In person at Timeless Ways)
Surthrival Intensive August (In person at Timeless Ways)
Buckskin Sewing 101 (Online August 4- Sept 4)
For more information about Woniya's teaching, custom and private course, see the Learn with Woniya tab
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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Patreon membership- connect more by joining Woniya's inner circle
A lot of the work that Woniya does is unpaid or minimally paid. She relies on the support of her Patreon team to keep doing all she does, and in return members receive exclusive content, early access to her writing and course registration, regular live Zoom calls (including annual Alone watch parties and Q&A with cast members), a yearly patreon in-person retreat, 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
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. Woniya won Alone: Frozen, making her both 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.
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. Woniya won Alone: Frozen, making her both 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.
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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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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