Wilderness Survival Training | Aurora Sacred Healing Centre

A U R O R A
Sacred Healing

Wild Survival Training Program

AURORA has developed a complete theory and practical component to this Survival program. Participants upon completion of each Session Survival Task will receive a certificate of participation.

There are 5 Sessions in this program:

Before one starts learning survival skills, it is important to understand what the biggest threats to your survival are and how to deal with them. Therefore, we will discuss what your priorities should be in any survival situation. Participants will start the process of building their own survival kit. This session ends with a work session collecting firewood that we can use for the remainder of the program

Clean drinking water is high on the survival checklist, second only to shelter. We'll discuss water collection and purification in the outdoors – depending on the time of year, we could tap birch trees for water. We will build a water filter out of natural sources and discuss water filtration systems you can buy.

Fire is crucial for your survival in the wild. You need fire to heat your shelter and keep you warm, to cook your food, and purify your water. It also helps ward off wild animals and bugs. What’s more, it gives you important psychological comfort and boosts your morale.

We will practice making fire from only natural sources (which means using flint not matches) in the poorest of conditions. We will also build a Signal fire using the skills we learnt in Session 2 to build a large tripod.

We'll start by discussing food to bring on the trail, what provides good energy, how to pack it, and different options on how to cook it. I'll bring some samples of dehydrated food from the recipes from the Aurora Trail Cookbook which I will share with participants. Then it's time to get into the forest!

Identifying edible plants is one of the most important skills for surviving in the wild. They’re a good source of vitamins, starch, and fiber. In addition to food, you can also use plants for fire, shelter, hunting implements, fishing tools, and medicine.

No Wilderness Survival Skills training would complete without going over basic navigation skills using a map & compass, phone apps, GPS, the sun, and the stars. If we add another session - I'd like to do some GeoCaching or an activity whereby participants have to complete a course using the map & compass.

We'll also discuss various topics like preparing for emergencies before your trip by leaving a trip plan with a contact person at home or setting up your satellite phone service contact information.

Then it's time for the final evaluation by going over some possible emergency scenarios and looking to Mother Nature to see what resources she provides - like herbal remedies for injuries to building a Signal fire.