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Guiding you through a world leading journey of practical ancestral skills with experience-led practices rooted in nature’s rhythms.

The Year Course
from £399.00

We are honoured to present the Living by Nature Course.

This inspiring course was developed by Thijmen Apswoude at Living by Nature in 2010 and honed over the years into the life-changing experience which we’re now bring to the UK. Delivered by Adam Logan, Sarah Day, Jamie Dakota, and Thijmen Apswoude this course takes place over 10 monthly weekends in the woods, with an additional craft week and 10 day expedition to Sweden!

Why take the Course?

The modern world often leaves us feeling disconnected and restless, Living with Nature offers a unique escape, a chance to step back into a simpler, more primal way of life. Our course isn’t just a training program; it’s a transformative journey back to the roots of the human experience.

Graduates of the course have the opportunity to join a two week expedition to Sweden in the following September after your course, putting your newly acquired skills and handcrafted equipment to the test.

Who is this for?

This course is for adventurers, outdoor enthusiasts, and anyone longing to embrace true wilderness independence. Are you craving a deeper connection with nature? Do you seek t break free from the digital chains and rediscover your innate human instincts?

The Journey starts March each year.

This comprehensive course, priced at £3995, offer various payment plans to suit your needs

The Year Course — Living by Nature invites you to step out of the modern frenzy and into the whispering hush of ancient woodlands. Over the span of a year, you’ll embark on a deeply connective journey: ten monthly weekends among trees and campfires, a focused craft-week devoted to hand-made creation, and finally a 10-day wilderness expedition to Sweden — all designed to transform learning into living.

This is not a skills workshop — it’s a reawakening. As the seasons shift, so too will your rhythm: forging fire by friction, carving tools from wood, tanning hides, building shelters, sourcing water, foraging, fishing and preserving food.

You’ll craft your own basket, leather boots, clay pots, cordage from forest plants — even fashion nets and bone hooks. Night by night, under flickering firelight, you’ll taste bread baked on embers, smoke venison jerky, stitch rawhide, and learn the ancient language of the wild.

By the end, you won’t just know bushcraft — you will inhabit it. Instructors with lifetimes of field-experience will guide you until wilderness-living becomes second nature.

For those hungry to cast off the digital tether — to feel alive, alert and unshackled — this course gives you the tools, the space, and the tribe to remember what it means to belong to the land.

The UK Team

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