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Women's Wild Heart Wilderness Immersion Galax, Virginia

Discover capability and resilience with skill based medicine in the natural world to awaken your lionheart within.

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Wildcard Wilderness Survival

Wild Heart Wilderness Immersion • VIRGINIA

$1,195.00

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WILD HEART WILDERNESS IMMERSIOM

$1,295.00

  • Meals PROVIDED
  • Lodging PROVIDED (See Additional Information)
  • 5 DAYS/4 NIGHTS (Ends Saturday Evening)

COURSE DETAILS​:

• Riverside setting in the Blue Ridge Mountains

• Build confidence through hands on wilderness skills and real world practice

• Optional swimming/bathing in the river

• Learn essential firecraft using primitive methods like bow drill and hand drill

• Discover water procurement and storage methods

• Learn the art of marksmanship with archery and arrow making

• Work with the elements of matter to lean into emotional freedom, intention setting, courage awakening, and nature connection

• Learn knife safety, tool use, and woodland craft fundamentals

• Explore wild edibles, useful plants, and natural resources found in the landscape

• Strengthen resilience through guided meditation and holding space for intention

• Experience deeper connection with nature through observation and awareness exercises

• Participate in immersive outdoor living experiences that build capability and union

• Spend meaningful time around the campfire sharing stories, laughter, knowledge, and community

• Return home with greater confidence, competence, resilience, and a renewed connection to your wild heart

Sleeping Arrangements:

Lodging is provided bunk house style where students may have to share beds.

Participants are encouraged to bring their own linens/sleeping bag liner or sleeping bag for comfort.

Students are not required to stay in the lodge, but a tent you bring or vehicle camping is the alternative option.

Restrooms:

A restroom and shower are available indoors and a seconday Port-A-John is on site.

Food:

Meals are provided in this course!

Coffee and tea will be available for consumption throughout the day.

There are scheduled blocks for breakfast and dinner but lunch will be "grab and go."

If you choose to bring snacks, then we recommend bringing a cooler with ice to store perishable items to keep everything fresh and ready to enjoy.

Students should inform the instructor of any critical food allergies and dietary restrictions if any.

Not all dietary restrictions will be accommodated.

Everyone gathers around the campfire during mealtimes, creating a warm and inviting atmosphere for fellowship. 

Some meals may include a wine or fermented beverage pairing.

More information about meals will be sent prior to the course's start.

Terrain:

The property is rich in resources on top of a diverse range of edible and medicinal plants. 

Participants should be mindful of their physical limitations and potential for mechanical injury when navigating off the trails. 

Cell Coverage:

Cell service is sparse.

WiFi is available.

Water:

Potable water is available on site.

Power:

There is access to power for limited use so participants should bring their own power stations or chargeable units for cell phones, head lamps, etc.

Trash:

Please respect this land and “leave no trace" principles.

TRAVEL ITEMS REQUIRED BY THE PARTICIPANT:

  • Optional Sleep System (Tent)
  • Sleeping Bag and Liner for Lodging
  • Collapsible Chair
  • Headlamp with Spare Batteries
  • Proper Clothing for Season and Weather
  • Leather Gloves
  • Canteen w/ lid for water and teas
  • Mess tins and utensils for share meals
  • Hygiene items and Medications
  • Notebooks and Pencils
  • Combination Tool like a Leatherman or SAK

TOOLS AND GEAR FOR COURSE USE WILL BE PROVIDED by Wildcard Wilderness Survival

If you choose to bring your own gear, then below is what is recommended and not required!

OPTIONAL GEAR LIST:

  • Fixed Blade Knife with Sheath (4" min blade length)
  • Folding Saw or Bucksaw
  • #6 tarred bank line

 Recommended Gear for this Class

Private Property

Galax, Virginia

Lodge located where the New River and Little River meet.

Driving instructions will be sent prior to the course's start.

FINE PRINT:

  • Instructor is Wilderness First Responder certified and a licensed HAM Radio operator (KE8WHY)
  • Potable water is available on site and in the classroom
  • Be prepared for All Weather as this class is in an outdoor setting
  • Students can tent camp or hammock camp, however, space is limited for hammocks
  • Firearms are not permitted in the classroom
  • Alcohol and drug use are not permitted during class hours
  • Students accept all liability for personal injury

Proud Partnership and Host

Private Property

Galax, Virginia

Set in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the lodge is located where the Little River and New River meet

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Discover Your Inner Lionheart with #WildcardJacks

Join Jacks Genega, the only featured female contestant from Season 13 of The History Channel's Alone: World Championship, for a riverside wilderness immersion that celebrates ancestral skills, craft, and community that will deepen your relationship to your wild within. 

This is not a typical Wildcard Wilderness Survival course with a heavy focus on survival priorities and fear-based obstacles, instead, this immersion is curated for deepening our connections to the natural environment as we focus on the four elements of matter: earth, air, water, and fire. Through relationship and ritual we will embrace the fifth element, heart, which speaks to how love and resilience rounds out our rooted belonging to the natural world and awakens our divine embodiment of a shared union.

The Wild Heart Wilderness Immersion is a transformative experience designed for women who want to reconnect with their confidence, capability, and authentic selves through wilderness living skills, community, and emotional freedom. Set in a supportive and encouraging environment, this immersive experience blends ancestral skills with nature connection and personal growth that allows one to step away from the noise of daily life and rediscover their inner lionheart.

Awaken Your Winning Wild Hearts

Deepen your connection to the natural world and discover your wild within.

What will you embrace?

Day 1 - Earth: Learn various medicinal and edible plants, create medicine for use at home, discover pivotal grounding techniques to aid in stress reduction

Day 2 - Water: Discover passive and active ancestral fishing techniques and embrace the flow of emotional freedom

Day 3 - Fire: Learn primitive firecraft, remember your capability, and embody your courage and desire as we release what doesn't serve us in our central fire

Day 4 - Air: Nod to the spirit of the huntress learning archery and arrow making while setting intention for life's projection

Day 5 - Heart: Discover your power in the natural world and within, welcoming your capability, curiosity, self-preservation, and infinite love

Throughout the experience, participants will learn essential wilderness skills curated to life along the water's edge, firecraft, archery, and medicine making from wild edible and medicinal plants, each paired with one of the four elements in nature: earth, air, water, or fire, and developing resilience, self trust, and a deeper connection to our ancestors, ourselves, and the natural world we are blessed to embrace.

Whether you are completely new to outdoor skills or looking to deepen your existing knowledge, this immersion provides hands on learning, meaningful community, and the opportunity to empower rather than overwhelm. 

More than a wilderness course, Wild Heart is an invitation to remember that confidence is built through action, resilience grows through experience, infinite love is all healing, and the wildness we seek in nature often helps us rediscover the wildness within ourselves.

Come learn, love, grow, and return home to yourself with new skills, lasting friendships, and a renewed sense of who you really are. 

Projects include: medicine making, primitive fishing techniques, natural containers, arrow making, archery, primitive firecraft, and community building

"We are conditioned to believe that vulnerability is a weakness. We are trained to suck it up and grow a pair in a world designed to create distance from ourselves, each other, and the wilderness.

Through emotional freedom we can rid these barriers and enliven our spirit that belongs freely and safely in the natural world.

Skills can aid us in returning to what it is to be human, an embodiment of what lives and breathes around us.

Through the power of the heart, we can return to a state of belonging and trust in ourselves that we are capable of dreams beyond reach and are a part of the immeasurable gift of being alive."

Stay wild.

Jacks Genega, Founder of Wildcard Wilderness Survival and Featured Female of The History Channel's Alone Season 13, World Championship

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