Woniya Thibeault | Wilderness Skills

Woniya Thibeault

Connecting to the Wild Inside and Out
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The Extended Timeline  Option of the
The Buckskin Revolution Online Gathering 

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Transform your life with the 2025 Buckskin Revolution Online Gathering!

Inspire and empower your journey toward wilder, freer, more intentional and sustainable living. From mastering survival techniques and reconnecting with the natural world and your own wilder nature, to knowing how to grow, gather, and preserve your own food, the course and the community environment will support you in forging deeper connections with the earth and your own creativity.

The extended timeline option was created to fit into even  the busiest of schedules and spreads the content from the original BROG out over six-months instead of four weeks.  

Choose from four comprehensive learning tracks (or get ambitious and take them all):
Wilderness and Survival Skills,
Rewilding Your Life,
Off-Grid and Homestead Living,
Ancestral Skills: Fiber Arts

Each track offers a unique path to a wilder, more empowered and capable future.
I act as your personal guide and mentor, bringing decades of real-life experience to each subject. Pre-recorded classes, interactive Zoom calls, and our exclusive community platform, BR Circle,  ensure personalized support, group learning, and meaningful connections, no matter which track you follow.

Join me in creating a revolutionary way of living of more beautiful life!






Read Woniya's debut memoir,
Never Alone: A Solo Arctic Survival Journey
A best seller on Amazon its 1st week out and getting amazing reviews
In hardcover, paperback, ebook, and an Audible version narrated by Woniya

 Told mostly in first-person, present-tense, Never Alone draws the reader right into the story to experience the pain and deprivation as well as the beauty and wonder. Her message is one of inspiration and learning to trust in ourselves and the land around us; embracing the wild and being wholly and beautifully human, flaws and all. 
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Listen to sample of Audio book

Also available- Signed hardcover copies, personalized by Woniya.
They make wonderful gifts!

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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.
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Inspiring … Empowering … Connecting

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Through Patreon, you'll help support her work and get access to exclusive content and interactive sessions.

Inspiring others to live their best, wildest, most free and connected lives is my work and my passion.

I never set out to be a “survival instructor.” From as far back as I can remember I was driven by two things: A love for immersing myself in and learning about the natural world, and making things with my own two hands. As I grew older and explored both more deeply, the world made more and more sense. Of course I love to do these things- they are what kept my ancestors alive. They are exactly what I evolved to do.

Not many will choose to test their skills in long term wilderness living immersions, but having the skills and knowledge should you ever need to helps you feel more resilient to the challenges life throws at you, and more fulfilled and connected as well.

In service to inspiring, empowering and connecting, I offer online and in person classes, books​, YouTube videos and more. Consultations and speaking events  – coming soon!  Read ​on to learn more.
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Seen on Morning Joe, Good Day Seattle, and New York Living; and featured in USA Today, Outside magazine, the Guardian, The New Yorker, US Weekly, and more, Woniya shares messages of connection and empowerment with a wide audience (below photos are links to media)

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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.
Alone Season 6 and Alone: Frozen episodes are available on Amazon Prime and the History Channel website.

Woniya in the Media

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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 has that special talent of being able to take a complex topic and break it down into simpler steps, so that it’s not overwhelming. And she explains the reasoning behind each step of the process, so it is easier to remember.”  – Indy
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“Woniya, this has by far been the most useful course I have ever taken in my life, and is so fundamentally relevant to these times… My mind is blown. Thank you for everything you have done for us. You are changing lives.” – Madalee

Articles

The Guardian
The New Yorker
USA Today
Us Weekly

Podcasts

Alone
Anchored Outdoors
Dive Right in with Dean Sheremet
Groundshots
Rewild
Wilderness and Wellness
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Woniya Thibeault

Based in the beautiful Sierra Nevada Mountains, Woniya pops back and forth between the eastern slopes near Reno, Nevada and the western slopes in Nevada County, California. 
Teaching and speaking across the USA and virtually around the world.
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