Podcasts about rewild yourself

Appreciating the nature around us involves developing a mindful and deep connection with the natural world, which is what we spoke about with Rewild Yourself author Simon Barnes on the "How To Be Books Podcast." Please hit subscribe to hear the whole series on life skills and social change! It should be short and sweet. I look forward to journeying with you through this maze of hacks.Other wonderful guests who took part:De-stress & Wellness Coach Lillian Lartey.Hannah Ross can be found on Instagram @goddesstarotsociety.Jen Le Marinel, coach and founder of Wildfire Walks.Other books/articles looked at:George Monbiot: Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life

Support the Show: Your Donations Are Greatly Appreciated!PAYPALVENMOIn this episode, I share some of my rewilding journey, reconnecting with nature's wisdom. I'm currently reading Rachel Corby's book "Rewild Yourself," and witnessing society's increasing disconnect from nature and innate wildness, leading to mental health challenges and a weak sense of self.I touch on the importance of self-respect, as it impacts every aspect of life. A lack of self-respect can lead to self-sacrifice, vulnerability to exploitation, and a disconnection from our true worth. I get into a personal story of transformation, through the value of seeking support and guidance from an experienced mentor. One of the best investments I ever made on my wellness journey was a breakthrough coaching session with someone light years ahead of me. It helped me regain confidence in my body's ability to heal, especially when dealing with mold issues. The importance of coaching versus consulting is discussed, emphasizing the power of coaching to uncover innate knowledge and find personalized solutions.In our modern world, support and guidance have become essential, just as ancient tribes provided mentorship and guidance. This podcast encourages you to invest in your well-being, seek support, and save time and effort on their journey to vibrant living.Join my rewilding journey and learn how to tune in, trust your inner guru, and reclaim your vitality. Check out the show notes for links and deeper support to navigate your unique health journey. It's time to revive your resilience and embrace the wisdom of your inner wolf. Connect with me on Instagram for more insights and inspiration.*by the way, I recommend listening to my podcast at 1.25 or 1.5x speed (you're welcome!)Links that were mentioned in the episode if you want to dig further: Book an initial health breakthrough session HEREOpen to your amazing beautiful life with Michale Chatham HERE Rewilding: Embracing the sexy foundations of health  HEREReviving our resilience: Unmasking the silent pandemic of adrenal burnout HEREWild food & foraging HEREWhat is body voltage and why does it matter? HERERewilding vs. biohacking HEREFind me on Instagram : @ Lydiajoy.me OR @ holisticmineralbalancing Find me on Telegram: A Joy To Be Me If you are interested in becoming a client and have questions, reach out by emailing me: connect@lydiajoy.me 

In this episode, I am speaking with Daniel Vitalis - the host of WildFed on Outdoor Channel. In 2008 founded the nutritional company, Surthrival, and most recently, he hosted the popular podcast, ReWild Yourself. We are going to talk about re-wilding and why it is an essential key to health.

Dive into the fundamental, revolutionary concept of rewilding with Daniel Vitalis, a renowned speaker on health, human anthropology, and wild food.Daniel is a provocative and controversial speaker, which is one of the reasons he is one of my personal favourite speakers.Daniel is a “real-deal”, no “BS” kind of guy, who is well articulated, well researched and has some fascinating and dynamic life experiences.Discover how our domesticated lifestyles have led to a decline in physical and mental health, increased chronic diseases, and a lack of fulfillment.Daniel sheds light on our disconnection from food and the natural world, emphasising the importance of developing meaningful relationships with the creatures and plants that sustain us. Through intimate killings, hunting, and foraging, he explores the original human diet, natural human living and the benefits of embracing diversity in our food choices. Join us on this journey of rediscovery as we learn how to break free from domestication and reconnect with our wild nature.IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS:

Hello WitchesOn todays episode our book review is Entering Hekates Cave by Cyndi Brannen. Resources mentioned in the Rewilding section - 15 Ways to Rewild Yourself (gatherandgrow.com)How to Rewild your life for mental wellbeing - From Britain with LoveRewilding For Women: 24 Brilliant Ways To Rewild Your Life - The Outdoor ApothecaryThe Cottage Life - An Escapists Guide to CottagecoreBooksFeral – Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life – George MonbiotWilding – The Return of Nature to a British Farm – Isabella TreeThe Hidden Life of Trees – Peter Wohlleben The Salt Path – Raynor WinnWintering – Katherine MaySapiens – A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah HarariWild Signs and Star Paths – 52 keys that will open your eyes, ears and mind to the world around you - Tristan GooleyThe Wild Remedy – How Nature Mends Us – A diary by Emma Mitchell. Podcasts -As the Season TurnsBelongingQueen Bees YouTubeEarthing - https://youtu.be/44ddtR0XDVURewilding - https://youtu.be/diyoGovawLIThe Great Forgetting/Rewilding - https://youtu.be/wRJPb_N_q60Sign up via Patreon - The Witches Institute - The Witches Institute | creating Podcast episodes, Online Workshops, Grimoire Sheets | PatreonMy Patreon is packed full of content, each month I release either a folklore tale, ghost story or give you the story of a historical haunted or witchy location.I release four Hedge Witch Studies per month with grimoire sheets for you to add to your book of shadows covering a power animal, crystal, plant and tree.Each month I post an exclusive Patreon podcast episode along with grimoire sheets. You will receive grimoire sheets for The White Witch Podcast also.We also have The Literary Witch's Coven, this is optional but within this we read a book together each month and have a meeting to discuss and share our reviews on it. We also have our amazing witchy community to interact with, our Patreon has been running for over a year so if you join now you will have access to a ton of witchy content in our back catalogue. Its just £6 per month please check out our link to find out more and sign up!Find me here -Etsy - TheWhiteWitchCompany - Etsy UKThe White Witch's Book of Healing: The White Witch's Book of Healing: Weaving Magickal Rituals throughout your Craft for Sacred Healing and Reclamation of the Wild Witch Within: Amazon.co.uk: Rose, Carly: 9781914447266: BooksFind me on Instagram - The White Witch Podcast (@thewhitewitchpodcast) • Instagram photos and videosFind me on Facebook - The White Witch Podcast (facebook.com)You can email me at carly@thewhitewitchcompany.co.ukLots of witchy loveCarly xxSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-white-witch-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the digital world looms, this discussion is an exploration of built and natural worlds and how they impact us as a species. Daniel Vitalis, host of WildFed on the Outdoor Channel and formerly host of the podcasts Rewild Yourself and Wild Fed, joins Kate in a conversation that finds humanity at different points in time and with different viewpoints of time itself. It's an exploration of the environments that shaped our species, from our hunter-gatherer roots, to agriculture, and into our dreams of launching ourselves into space. At this precipice that we find ourselves on, it's more important than ever to consider how modern thinking has been shaped by our environments - the natural world, the built world, the socio-political world, and beyond. Nested in the conversation is an exploration of death's role in connecting us to reality and to our food. Towards the end, there is a question around what skills we want future generations to know that we must keep alive today, as it's not just multiple species that are on the brink of extinction. We also talk about:Living in captivity and the degeneration of humansHow our thoughts and viewpoints might impact something like how we run or swimCyclical time Find Daniel:Instagram: @wild.fed @danielvitalis @surthrival Website: WildFed, Surthrival Podcasts: WildFed, Rewild Yourself Timestamps:00:00:00: Kate introduces Daniel in her intro00:09:16: Built vs Natural world 00:22:48: A Space Race00:32:50: Are we zoo animals?00:43:22: Feeding hunter-gatherers00:50:49: Cataclysmic events change humans01:00:31: How we think influences how we do anything01:07:50: Getting back to cycles: men, women, time, days of the week01:24:20: Death is part of the cycle01:39:52: Saving skills for the next generationOther Great Interviews with Daniel: on the Align PodcastOn Luke Storey(A Few) Favorite Episodes of Wild Fed:Doug Bock ClarkPhilippe Grenade-WillisDan FloresBooks Mentioned:Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

What plants have had the greatest impact on humanity? Not only do we eat plants, but across history we have used plants to store knowledge, to kill, to fuel wars, to change our state of consciousness, and to indicate our status. Simon Barnes is the author of many books including the bestselling Bad Birdwatcher trilogy, Rewild Yourself, On The Marsh and The History of the World in 100 Animals. His latest work is the History of the World in 100 Plants. From the mighty oak to algae, cotton to coca, flax to the Baobab - plants that have shaped the world.

Our interview today is with Philippe Grenade-Willis, someone Daniel's been working with for a few years now on various art projects for both WildFed and Surthrival. Philippe is an incredible illustrator with a passion for the outdoors and the creatures that live there. In a nod to Daniel's former podcast, ReWild Yourself, today's episode is a bit more esoteric than most of the content we curate here, but it's also a LOT of fun. Daniel and Philippe talk about art, dreams and archetypes. About the metaverse, transhumanism, and how quickly we are headed into artificial worlds at the expense of the natural one. And they discuss the journey that those of us who didn't grow up as hunters must embark on to embrace our new roles as ecological predators. It's a fascinating conversation that we didn't want to end. Philippe is currently working on the art for the packaging on a new and very exciting Surthrival product and just finished up a t-shirt design that we are launching today — our Antidote to the Metaverse shirt. We highly recommend you check out his art on his instagram page — @OurNuminousNature. It'll give you some insight into the things we talk about in this episode. As we discuss here today, our world is changing fast. Soon, it just might be unrecognizable from the one you were born into. But nature is a compass that is true, one you can trust to keep you grounded in reality. It's something more complex and beautiful than anything humans can create themselves, and as captured as we may be by the glitz and bright lights of our technology, it doesn't take much more than a walk in the woods to prove it. We suspect you already know and believe that, and that's why you listen to a show like this one. Nature truly is an antidote to the metaverse. One, we suspect, we're all going to desperately need in the years ahead. View full show notes, including links to resources from this episode here: https://www.wild-fed.com/podcast/153

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What's your favourite beach in the UK and what makes it special? We are inviting Today listeners to nominate their favourite beaches in the UK. Today's Simon Jack spoke to Simon Barnes, author of Rewild Yourself, about his favourite spot on the coast of Suffolk and Anita Sethi, author of I Belong Here, takes us on a walk along Chesil Beach. (Image, Chesil Beach, Credit, Getty Images)

We begin our beautiful, brand new morning in stillness with Mother Earth, our breath, and our body receiving these morning words. “Rewild Yourself” by Caroline Mellor

Thanks for listening, friends! Today's topic is rewilding, a topic near and dear to my heart. If you've been listening along, you'll recall my BOSS course experience had a profound impact upon my worldview, outlook and life direction. Rewilding connects the dots between various experiences of my life, so I wanted to to share some of the ways one can get into the movement and reconnect with ancestral and primitive skills, technologies, methodologies and ways of being. I mention a few of my favorite podcasts, authors and books throughout the course of the podcast. Daniel Vitalis had an amazing podcast called ReWild Yourself; his current venture is Wild Fed. It's been highly impactful for me to listen and learn as I go; I first heard of him on the Life Stylist podcast. RewildU is a great resource for rewilding topics, as is rewild.com, especially their detailed analyses of the misrepresentations of hunter gatherers in common culture, and the huge implications those sometimes-purposeful misrepresentations have on our perception of the role of hunter gatherers, tribalism, peacefulness, land use, and their lives of meaning. It's definitely worth checking out, and checking your media-conditioned presumptions before you read the articles. Christopher McDougall wrote Born to Run, a bestselling book that spurred the interest in ultramarathons, barefoot shoes, zero drop and the colorful characters in the ultramarathon world including Jenn Shelton, Scott Jurek and Barefoot Ted who promotes natural movement. Local plant books are a great way to reconnect to the wildness and beauty around you; Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Rockies is what I'm currently reading. Enjoy the episode, folks! As always, connect with me at wisdomofthewilderness@protonmail.com with questions, comments and guest requests. Cheers! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wisdomofthewilderness/message

Ruth Theuerman-Bernhardt // "Die Gesellschaft will und glauben lassen, wir sind linear, aber wir sind zyklische Wesen", sagt Ruth Theuermann-Bernhardt in diesem Podcast, und genau diesen Glauben kenne nicht nur ich, sondern vermutlich wir alle in dieser Generation sehr gut: Scheitern ist unangenehm, Wachstum darf nie abnehmen, um jeden Preis muss es weitergehen, oft solange, bis man an einem Punkt landet, wo man sich selbst verliert, der Körper stopp sagt. "AUFWECKER" nennt es Ruth, und auch in meinem Buch heißt das erst Kapitel nicht umsonst "RUF DER NATUR" genannt, also jenem Moment, in dem uns das Leben aus der Balance wirft, und zwar nicht um zu Scheitern, sondern ganz im Gegenteil: sie wiederherzustellen. Denn genau so funktioniert der Rhythmus der Natur, den wir nicht nur im Außen sehen können, sondern auch in uns selbst tragen. IN DIESER NEUEN PODCASTFOLGE VON "REWILD YOURSELF" ERFÄHRST DU: Wie du in dieser leistungsorientierten Welt wieder deinen eigenen Rhythmus finden kannst! Warum uns heute vor allem die weibliche Natur verlorenen gegangen ist, und was das heißt! Warum wir keine linearen Wesen sind und jegliche Form von Wachstum ohne Scheitern ein Mythos ist! Warum der Körper immer weiß, was zu tun ist, und wie du dich wieder mit dieser Intuition verbinden kannst! Wie die Mondphasen und Zyklen der Natur dein Leben, deinen Körper beeinflussen! Wie und warum Krisen - sogenannte "Wachrüttler" - uns auf den richtigen Weg bringen wollen! Ruth Theuermann-Bernhard ist Kinesiologin und Mentaltrainerin und in dieser Folge von "Rewild Yourself" und in dieser Folge dreht sich alles darum, wie wir wieder zu unserem eigenen Rhyhtmus zurückfinden und daraus wachsen können. Gerade jetzt eine besonders wertvolle Folge, wie ich finde, denn wenn's darum geht Balance - egal auf welcher Ebene - herzustellen, dann geht's in erster Linie immer darum, die Inbalance zu akzeptiere, den Mythos zu entlarven und von dort aus zu einem natürlichen Wachstum zurückzufinden. *** LINKS ZUR FOLGE Alle Infos zu Ruth Theuermann-Bernhardt und ihrer Arbeit findest du unter: https://r-source.at/ *** Alle Infos zu mir uns meiner Arbeit findest du unter: https://annazemann.com/ Dort findest du alles rund um die Natur, meine Bücher, meine Natur-Fotografie für dein Zuhause, und auch alle weiten "Rewild Yourself" Meditationen und Rituale, die du gerne mit mir persönlich machen kannst. *** Wenn du bereit bist, dich auf die Reise zur Verbindung mit deiner eigenen Natur zu machen, dann kannst du dir auch direkt mein aktuelles Buch "You Are Nature" hier bestellen: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.de/Paperback/You-Are-Nature/Anna-Zemann/Kailash/e585083.rhd SHARE THE NATURE LOVE: Und wenn dir diese Folge gefallen hat, freue ich mich, wenn du sie auch mit anderen teilst. Let's make Nature great again!

Daniel Vitalis is the host of WILDFED. For ten years he lectured around North America and abroad, offering workshops that helped others lead healthier, more nature-integrated lives. A successful entrepreneur, he founded the nutrition company SURTHRIVAL.COM in 2008. Most recently, he hosted the popular podcast REWILD YOURSELF. He's a Registered Maine Guide, writer, public speaker, interviewer, and lifestyle pioneer who's especially interested in helping people reconnect with wildness, both inside and outside of themselves. After learning to hunt, fish, and forage as an adult, Daniel created WILDFED to inspire others to start a wild-food journey of their own.The Evolve Network is now live at evolvenetwork.tvDue to extreme censorship and shadow banning, we have created a platform challenging the mainstream paradigm,to create a space to share vision and views, to create long term sustainable health solutions.To express without censorship and restriction. To allow freedom of speech and interest in ideas that will allow humanity to Evolve…Become part of the solution.We hope you've enjoyed the first half of this podcast - if you'd like to listen to the rest, please visit the Evolve Network. Watch in full here https://evolvenetwork.tv/channel/eyla-cuencaI'd love to know your thoughts and experiences - join the conversation on my Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/theevolvenetworkpeteevansInstagram @evolvenetworktvhttps://www.instagram.com/theevolvenetworktv/Follow Pete Evans accounts here https://linktr.ee/peteevans

Alize Jireh // „We don‘t allow ourselfs to grow raw and real, right as we are“. In dieser Folge dreht sich alles um Kreativität und warum wir es uns oft nicht erlauben, sie zu leben. Denn die Furcht uns so zu zeigen, wie wir sind, ist die andere Seite der Kreativität. Die Schattenseite der wunderbaren Kraft, die von Natur aus in uns allen wohnt. Genau darüber spreche ich mit Supersoul Alizé Jireh; nämlich wie Scham, Körper, Selbstliebe und Kreativität zusammenhängen, und warum sie freizulassen, ein Heilungsprozess ist, der Schritt für Schritt passiert. In dieser Podcastfolge von „REWILD YOURSELF“ erfährst du nicht nur, wie du dich mit deiner Kreativität verbinden – oder wie ich es nenne – sie auswildern kannst, wie Alizé Jireh gelernt hat, sich selbst zu heilen, welche Kraft es hat, seine Ideen und sich selbst zum Ausdruck zu bringen sondern auch: Warum wir es uns oft selbst nicht erlauben, uns zu zeigen, wie wir sind. Wie du in den Flow kommen kannst. Welche Rolle die Natur für die Kreativität spielt. Warum die Verbindung mit der Kreativität ein Heilungsprozess ist . Welche Rolle Stille und mit dir selbst sein, darin spielt. Warum dir größere Kraft in deinem eigenen Mini-Universum steckt. Warum du immer genug bist! Alize Jireh ist Filmemacherin und Fotografin und einer meiner größten Inspirationen, wenn es um das Thema Kreativität und sich selbst zeigen geht - wer auf ihr Profil schaut, wird gleich sehen warum. „ART HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY MEDIZIN“ – sagt sie so schön – und genau diese Medizin teilt sie darin mit uns! *** LINKS ZUR FOLGE Alle Workshops von Alizé Jireh: https://alizejireh.com/home/ Das Instagram-Profil von Alizé Jireh: https://www.instagram.com/alizejireh/ Folge mir auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anna_zemann/ Link zu meiner Website mit allen Info zu meinen Büchern, dem Online-Nature-Shop und meinen Rewild-Yourself Coaching-Programmen: www.annazemann.com www.rewildyourself.net

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It is never too late to start your journey of becoming a hunter and return back to the call of the wild. On this episode I talk with Jess Caldwell about her journey to return to nature and the roots of humanity. This is a beautifully powerful story that you will not want to miss. … Continue reading Ep. 117 | Rewild Yourself with Jess Caldwell → The post Ep. 117 | Rewild Yourself with Jess Caldwell appeared first on Washington Backcountry.

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Part 2 to the epic first pregnancy preparation episode. If you haven't listened yet to Part 1, check it out here. This mammoth episode sees Mason and Tahnee diving deep into the practices, philosophy, diet and herbalism that went into creating the year in which Tahnee was childbearing little Aiya. This podcast was recorded during the first week of bubba's life, so the sharing experience of the birth is fresh; something Tahnee was wishing to be able to infuse into this intimate sharing of how she chose to approach nourishing her body during pregnancy. We have received such amazing feedback from these two episodes and with such amazing sharings, we had to revisit them! Here's what Mason and Tahnee dive into (with much more extensive notes shared below): Pregnancy and home birth plans How did Tahnee know? We found out at four weeks, basically I was very aware that something was different in my body!! We'd both felt the baby come in November, and exactly three months later we were pregnant, and I've heard that's common Pregnancy diet we don't follow a dietary plan, more intuitive generally vegetarian, though we do include meat in our diet, probably once or twice a week: fish, buffalo, occasionally organic chicken and beef, other wild meats (rabbit, goat, boar), broths/stocks more mindful of eating a variety of foods and definitely eat more quantity, smaller meals, regularly organic and local as much as possible - farmers market and Santos/Source keep us fed fridge/freezer is stocked wild foods, high mineral content fermented foods Best supplements during pregnancy I didn't take a lot of vitamins or anything like that, apart from lipsomal vitamin C lots of herbs, mostly tonics, plus raspberry leaf and nettle, slippery elm occasionally, yellow dock, dandelion, milk thistle, ginger lots of probiotics iodine until I saturated silica personally most concerned about losing minerals as bubbas drain mamas (for every baby a tooth, is an old saying!) so been keeping up the minerals megahydrate estroblock when we had it, just one cap per day of the pro clays and charcoal (you might've heard of pica - desire to eat clays - common in pregnant women) DHA, EFA: fish oil, also raw seafood, fish and oysters sea minerals The best tonic herbs and medicinal mushrooms during pregnancy best suggestion is reishi, but I took everything in the SuperFeast range at various stages, kidney jing herbs lately (postpartum) to heal and boost recovery Best herbs during pregnancy avoid steroidal herbs, emmenagogues check out Susun Weed's book and Aviva Romm Symptoms of pregnancy been lucky, apart from tiredness and needing to eat a lot more, I've had very little to complain about. Have felt body change, but that's been fine, I've enjoyed being pregnant. Heartburn when my uterus got really big (apparently babies with lots of hair give their mamas heartburn…), but that stopped when baby dropped, ‘growing pains' around my ribs (like when I was a kid), car sickness if I had an empty belly Pregnancy cravings / changes started eating meat again, pretty mindfully needed lots of simple carbs in the first trimester, regularly. Like, every two hours. Bilbo Baggins style - breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, lunch, afternoons I wasn't a hungry, but at least one snack and then dinner. And often needed to eat in the middle of the night. So I did

Daniel Vitalis is the host of WildFed. For ten years he lectured around North America and abroad, offering workshops that helped others lead healthier, more nature-integrated lives. A successful entrepreneur, he founded the nutrition company SurThrival.com in 2008. Most recently, he hosted the popular podcast ReWild Yourself. He's a Registered Maine Guide, writer, public speaker, interviewer, and lifestyle pioneer who's especially interested in helping people reconnect with wilderness, both inside and outside of themselves. After learning to hunt, fish, and forage as an adult, Daniel created WildFed to inspire others to start a wild-food journey of their own. Headquartered in the Lakes Region of Maine, he lives with his beautiful wife Avani and their Plott Hound Ellie.   Time Stamps: 0:11:09 Podcast begins 0:11:34 The story of how Daniel ate cicadas 0:15:39 Daniel's story and how he ended up where he is today 0:22:24 Why Daniel transitioned out of veganism 0:28:04 The plants that I include on my diet and why 0:33:34 It is impossible to live in the wild as a vegan 0:35:29 My podcast with Alyse and Tim about transitioning away from veganism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ97NWuv_Z8&t=4038s 0:36:04 My experiences with the Hadza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrHi6dFzl68 and: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4cPT-TTpog&t=624s 0:37:29 The dogma in the carnivore community 0:38:44 Can you be a compassionate hunter? 0:44:54 The truth about processed food; how it works for real hunter gatherers 0:48:09 We eat food that we have never actually met 0:50:34 The story of how Daniel hunted and ate an allegator 0:53:34 We commonly forget that one day we will die 0:58:09 Weapons and hunting usually have negative associations for people 1:04:19 The term "dry tinder" and self-managed health 1:09:49 Does Daniel consider plant toxicity and do any detoxification? 1:20:34 We need to think about plants on a spectrum 1:24:34 Different calorie dense foods that communities around the world rely upon 1:27:59 Plants as "drugs" and the human tendency to addiction 1:41:34 Does Daniel eat the organs when he hunts his game? 1:44:34 The story about Daniel's tattoos   Sponsors: Heart & Soil: www.heartandsoil.co Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/carnivoremd use code “CARNIVOREMD” The Cold Plunge: TheColdPlunge.com, use code CarnivoreMD for $111 off your cold plunge White Oak Pastures: www.Whiteoakpastures.com, use code: CarnivoreMD for 10% off your first order Lets Get Checked: 20% off your order at www.TRYLGC.com/carnivoremd   

Daniel Vitalis & Arthur Haines For ten years Daniel Vitalis has lectured around North America and abroad, offering workshops that helped others lead healthier, more nature-integrated lives. A successful entrepreneur, he founded the nutrition company SurThrival.com in 2008 — and as a passion project — FindASpring.com in 2009. Most recently he hosted the popular podcast ReWild Yourself. Patrick, Daniel, and Arthur discuss how we’re losing our connection to the natural world. Daniel and Arthur are wilderness enthusiasts who both live in Maine. They are advocates of humans returning to biological norms. Mankind will “goeth the way of the passenger pigeon if we’re not careful,” according to Daniel. We’re interdependent with all species, not angels above it. We are embedded in Nature, not controlling it from above. What about the forces that are doing the opposite of becoming aligned with all species? “It’s hard to make a lot of money out of people who are aware and self-reliant,” says Arthur. What does it mean to be a part of Nature?, Patrick asks, He reads the definition of “nature” from the “Dalai Lama of dictionaries,” the Oxford Dictionary — “the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans or human creations.” Isn’t atomic power “natural”? Daniel differentiates among art, artifacts, and Nature. “Many of the problems we’re having are late-stage domestication problems.” We’re at war against our own evolution. “In our hubris, we think we’re the smartest we’ve ever been.” What is the actuality? In millions of years we’ve gone from wild foodists to agriculturalists. Are we reshaping the environment, or are we in a collision course with our culture? Do Daniel and Arthur belong to the very last wild people on Earth? Is it time to build an ark like in the Biblical story of Noah? Daniel talks about his WildFed show on the Outdoor Channel. It’s about “hunting, fishing, foraging, and turning wild ingredients into delicious meals.” He financed it “on his own dime.” Patrick has been handling Daniel’s products for over ten years — Colostrum, Pine Pollen, Elk Antler, Chaga & Reishi Superfoods, Digestive Bitters, etc. Patrick asks about 5G. “It’s not about faster phones. It’s about communication between machines.” Why are we empowering machines and downplaying human cognition? The coronavirus “media event” is discussed. Have we switched our Savior from God to machine technology? We’re more like astronauts scurrying around on the top of the planet. “Some people are waking up. Some people are ‘woke’ up,” says Daniel. We don’t need jailers because the inmates won’t let us escape. Are we degenerating physically by not spending enough time outdoors? Are there any “isms” — Communism, Capitalism, Fascism, Authoritarianism — that will give power to the people? Is there a light at the end of the tunnel or are the lockdowns and social distancing a generational phenomenon? Have rolling blackouts become our new normal? Will risk be made illegal? Will a parent be prosecuted for letting a child climb a tree?

This is the follow up to Episode 13. Rewild Yourself with Environmental Entrepreneur Michelle Parry In this episode we find out how Michelle did with her challenge of eating seasonally and avoiding the big supermarkets. Did she manage to overcome the temptation of the Aldi mystery middle aisles? Will she keep it up now the challenge is over?Episode highlights:A cauliflower surpriseA feasting philosophyCooking creativity comes from constraintsHow to fill your cupCommunity spirit versus cold supermarket aislesThe TV show that opened up my mind about the carbon footprint of foodHow to connect with nature without even leaving your house Don't forget to follow Michelle on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/therewildingcommunity/ - for your daily dose of nature inspiration! And check out her site the-rewilding.com for event envy, wild blogs and the gorgeous gift and experience boxes she curatesAnd while you're at it, come on over and say hello to me! I'd love to hear from you. Have you been inspired to try eating more seasonally and locally? And tell me, what is your best cauliflower recipe! Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TSLUntetheredInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/alison.untethered/Twitter - https://twitter.com/AliUntethered**** Music on this episode: *****Show Me The Way by Vendredi https://soundcloud.com/vendrediduoCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/ZcAiMZtYrv8 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What is ‘rewilding'? What is the healthiest way to live? Are human beings truly part of the natural world ? Is civilization a mistake? What's the best way forward? Daniel Vitalis is the host of the brilliant TV show WildFed currently airing on the Outdoor Channel. For ten years he lectured around North America and abroad, offering workshops that helped others lead healthier, more nature-integrated lives. A successful entrepreneur, he founded the nutrition company SurThrival.com in 2008. Most recently, he hosted the popular podcast ReWild Yourself. He's a Registered Maine Guide, writer, public speaker, interviewer, and lifestyle pioneer who's especially interested in helping people reconnect with wildness, both inside and outside of themselves. After learning to hunt, fish, and forage as an adult, Daniel created WildFed to inspire others to start a wild-food journey of their own. Headquartered in the Lakes Region of Maine, he lives with his beautiful wife Avani and their Plott Hound Ellie. I really enjoyed this conversation and I think you're going to find this episode immensely interesting. More on Daniel: Http://wild-fed.com More on Brian: Http://thebigglow.com #rewilding #rewild #wildfed #podcast #danielvitalis #brianpiergrossi #maine #globalism #newworldorder #naturalman #primaldiet #huntergatherers #hunting #wildgame #primalliving #lockdowns #backtotheearth #covid19 #nonduality #zen #taoism #buddhism #indigenouswisdom #sustainableliving #liveofftheland #supportlocal #foraging #wildfoods #rawfoods #outdoorchannel #meditation #mindfulness #acceptance #gunownership #tantra #livefromyourheart #prepping #survivialguide #apocalypse

For the last show of 2020 I have compiled some of my guest’s answers to the question I ask at the end of each episode, “What is your wildest dream for the Earth?” A bit of a heavy question to drop on someone at the end of a conversation but this show embraces topics that […]

Want to take your real food journey a step further? Curious how you can level up and diversify your intake? Looking to reconnect with nature despite living in an industrialized society? Tune in to hear Ali and Becki interview Daniel Vitalis, host of the show WildFed, Registered Maine Guide, writer, public speaker and lifestyle pioneer who dedicates his work to helping others live healthier  and more nature-integrated lives. Hear about Daniel’s journey from working in the natural health space to leading a wild fed life and how he has returned to a hunter gatherer lifestyle.    If you’re already eating a whole food based diet and living a Naturally Nourished lifestyle, this episode will challenge you to expand beyond the grocery store and farmers market and truly reintegrate into nature. In this episode, Daniel Vitalis shares a wealth of information from how nature can truly provide when we allow it, to how we ended up with orange carrots, to the history of red delicious apples and so much more!    Also in This Episode:  Food as Medicine Ketosis Program  Daniel’s Story  How Humans Have Disconnected from Nature The Influence of Hormesis Diversifying Your Intake Antinutrients in PlantsNutrition and Physical Degeneration - Weston A. Price The Impact of Growing Conditions on our Nutrition Eating on the Wild Side - Jo Robinson How You Can Re-integrate with NatureThe Importance of Getting ParasympatheticThe Anti-Anxiety Diet  Daniel’s Favorite CompoundsBerberineBerberine Boost Where to Find Daniel’s Work:WildFed www.wild-fed.com Surthrival www.surthrival.com   More About Daniel Vitalis:   Daniel Vitalis is the host of WildFed.    For ten years he lectured around North America and abroad, offering workshops that helped others lead healthier, more nature-integrated lives. A successful entrepreneur, he founded the nutrition company SurThrival.com in 2008. Most recently, he hosted the popular podcast ReWild Yourself.    He’s a Registered Maine Guide, writer, public speaker, interviewer, and lifestyle pioneer who’s especially interested in helping people reconnect with wildness, both inside and outside of themselves.    After learning to hunt, fish, and forage as an adult, Daniel created WildFed to inspire others to start a wild-food journey of their own.   Headquartered in the Lakes Region of Maine, he lives with his beautiful wife Avani and their Plott Hound Ellie.   Connect with him at Wild-Fed.com, as well as on Instagram and Facebook.   Sponsors for this Episode:  This episode is sponsored by FOND Bone Broth Tonics, Your Sous Chef in a Jar. FOND is slow simmered and lovingly tended from simmer to seal. They partner with organic farms and hand-pick and pair ingredients to optimize absorption and taste. Use code ALIMILLERRD to save at fondbonebroth.com.

THT Guest Expert - Daniel Vitalis For over ten years he lectured around North America and abroad, offering workshops that helped others lead healthier, more nature-integrated lives. A successful entrepreneur, he founded the nutrition company SurThrival.com in 2008. Most recently, he hosted the popular podcast ReWild Yourself. He’s a Registered Maine Guide, writer, public speaker, interviewer, and lifestyle pioneer who’s especially interested in helping people reconnect with wildness, both inside and outside of themselves. After learning to hunt, fish, and forage as an adult, Daniel created WildFed to inspire others to start a wild-food journey of their own. Headquartered in the Lakes Region of Maine, he lives with his beautiful wife Avani and their Plott Hound Ellie.

This week the wild and wonderful Dr. Rich and myself dive into the topic of foraging. We discuss three plants abundant in our neck of the woods and many others in early spring; dandelion, garlic mustard, and wood nettle. I am grateful for Richards knowledge on medicinal and edible wild plants and for sharing some tasty and medicinal uses in this episode. We begin with a note on ethics in wild crafting which is an important and ongoing consideration for anyone harvesting wild edibles and medicinals. If you are looking to get into foraging this episode will offer inspiration through stories as well as practical tips on harvesting and preparation of these three plants. Enjoy the episode! Speak Player: Coming Soon Topics Discussed: Coming Soon  Show Resources: Coming Soon  Connect with Richard Vuksinic Website: villagenaturopaths.com Village ND Social Media: Facebook Connect with Shawn www.rewildmybio.com Instagram: @rewildmybio Facebook: @rewildmybio Twitter: @shawnslade LinkedIn: @shawnslade Sign up for the Rewild My Bio Newsletter by visiting the website here.

My guest today is the wild and wonderful Micah Mortali. Micah Mortali is the author of the book “Rewilding: Meditations, Practices and Skills for Awakening in Nature”, which is published by Sounds True. He holds a master’s degree from Goddard College and is the founder of the Kripalu School of Mindful Outdoor Leadership and the Director of the Kripalu Schools. Today’s episode is a great overview of many rewilding practices covered in Micah’s book and many practices that can help keep us stay centred right now and going forward. What I love most about this episode is the depth of conversation and the ideas generated around how rewilding holds many answers for humanity and Mother Earth right now. Stick around to the end for a great nature connection meditation you can do in your home. Enjoy the show! Speak Player: Working on this... Topics Discussed: Intro; Desire for nature connection during quarantine and fragility of modern society; Micah’s journey into Yoga nature connection work; Nature deficit disorder and yoga removed from nature; Meditation in nature and biophilia; Fascination attention and meditating in nature; Sit spot mediation and place blindness; Animal medicine, species loneliness, synchronicities, and dreams; Civilization and disconnection of nature; Economic and geographic rewilding; Communing with the fire element; Fire birthing through modern and ancestral skills; Micah’s rewilding practice that keeps him connected; Micah’s dream for the people of 2230 which is inspired by the Haudenosaunee concept of the seventh generation; How to find Micah’s book and Kripalu Center. Show Resources: The Coronation Essay by Charles Eisenstein, Waldorf school,  The Road Book by Cormac McCarthy, Last Child In The Woods Book By Richard Louv,  8 Shields Institute, Dharma Bums Book by Jack Kerouac, Kripalu School of Mindful Outdoor Leadership, Tom Brown Jr.’s Tracker School Connect with Micah Mortali Book Website: https://micahmortali.com/ Kripalu Center Website: https://kripalu.org/about/kripalu/faculty/micah-mortali Connect with Shawn www.rewildmybio.com Instagram: @rewildmybio Facebook: @rewildmybio Twitter: @shawnslade LinkedIn: @shawnslade Sign up for the Rewild My Bio Newsletter by visiting the website here.

My wild and wonderful guest this week is Stephen Collette. He is a building biologist who specializes in green building consulting and air quality testing. He is also the host of the Your Healthy House Podcast. Been spending a lot of time indoors lately? Who knows how long physical distancing will be a thing and if more people start working from home, I predict more people will be contacting someone like Stephen. And rightfully so, building biology is important stuff. Stephen stumbled across building biology when his families health became a concern from an old home they had lived in. In this episode we discuss everything from Junk EMF, air quality, biophilia so much more. You will also hear how Stephen's assessment will help you understand how your home might be impacting your biology and where you can make changes. If you have allergies to mould, food sensitivities, skin problems, asthma this episode is a great resource for you or anyone who is looking to make your home a healthy extension of your biology. Enjoy the episode! Show Resources: Safe Living Technologies, JRS Smart Router,  Connect with Stephen Collette Website: http://www.yourhealthyhouse.ca/index.php www.buildingbiologyinstitute.org Connect with Shawn www.rewildmybio.com Instagram: @rewildmybio Facebook: @rewildmybio Twitter: @shawnslade LinkedIn: @shawnslade Sign up for the Rewild My Bio Newsletter by visiting the website here. Have questions, comments, or want to request a guest? I would love to hear from you. Contact me through the website here. Please subscribe to the show and leave a 5 star rating if you have enjoyed this episode.

Today’s guest is the wild and wonderful Dr. Gillian Mandich. We discuss all things Happiness just in time for World Happiness Day Friday March 20th. We could all use a little happiness right about now and in this episode we share stories and science that will help you cultivate happiness. We spend a lot of time discussing how connecting with family, and friends is an important pre determinant for happiness and how reconnecting with community, nature, and ourself we can tap into reserves of primal happiness that humans enjoyed until modern day distractions and expectations we put on ourself and others. We also discuss how having a shared sense of camaraderie and struggle increases happiness. Gillian has a white paper coming out Friday March 20th on happiness in the workplace. Enjoy the show! Connect with Gillian http://www.gillianmandich.com/ Instagram: @gillianmandich Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gillianmandich Twitter: @gillianmandich Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwRMsEUqB8Ra1TT7dSP25XQ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gillianmandich/ Connect with Shawn www.rewildmybio.com Instagram: @rewildmybio Facebook: @rewildmybio Twitter: @shawnslade LinkedIn: @shawnslade Topics Discussed: Intro, dog, family and happiness; what Shawn knows about the coronavirus;  Gillian’s PhD adventure into the field of Happiness and Health; Community and happiness; happiness through adversity; Modern day distractions and getting quiet in nature and then knowing what makes us happy; Are people happy; Sustainable happiness; Show notes and resources available at https://rewildmybio.com/podcast-episodes/

Today my wild and wonderful co-host Dr. Richard Vuksinic and I discuss all things sauna. From sauna history, to how to get the most out of your sauna session, we have you covered in this complete guide to using a sauna. We go over some fascinating research that shows how 3-5 sauna sessions a week could help protect your cardiovascular system and much more. This is a great follow up to Episode 8 where we discuss mitochondria health and it is the second instalment in a series of episodes Richard and I will be doing on how we can reconnect with practices we evolved with to build resilience individually and collectively. Thanks for listening! Topics Discussed: Intro; Mindful fire starting and longevity; Lakota tradition and the gift of the sweat lodge; transcultural history of sweating; Shawn's experience in sweat lodge; What are health benefits of sauna?; What is detoxing? Can we detox?; Research shows cardiovascular benefits of regular sauna; Sauna for athletes, immunity, skin health, de-stressing and creating cellular resilience; Contraindications; Difference between low heat and high heat; how to use contrast bathing to up the benefits of sauna; Sauna frequency, intensity, and duration; EMF exposure and sauna's and building your own; how to rewild your sugary electrolyte beverage with a post sauna maple water elixir. Connect with Richard Vuksinic Website:  villagenaturopaths.com   Village ND Social Media: Facebook Connect with Shawn www.rewildmybio.com Instagram: @rewildmybio Facebook: @rewildmybio Twitter: @shawnslade LinkedIn: @shawnslade Resources: Book: Last Child In the Woods by Salvatore Gencarelle, Eight Shields Institute, Study: Association Sauna Bathing and Fatal Cardiovascular and All-Cause-Mortality Events, Study: Heat Exposure Elevates Plasma Immunoreactive Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone Levels in Men, Study: Endocrine Effects of Repeated Sauna Bathing,  Please subscribe to the show and leave a 5 star rating if you have enjoyed this episode.

Today my wild and wonderful co-host Dr. Richard Vuksinic and I dive deep into cellular metabolism as it pertains to our evolutionary biology and rewilding. Why is cellular metabolism important? How is it relevant to rewilding? The story of how we evolved from a single celled organism and became able to create energy from oxygen is where we begin. It is important because the story of these ancient bacteria we call mitochondria are why we are here in this form today. Plus understanding how these ancient bacterium evolved and working with that through rewilding practices can decrease cellular dysfunction and rewrite the current cultural biography the west has with aging. When we engage in activities that are commonly considered to be part of a rewilding lifestyle we are by default building resilient mitochondria. Healthy mitochondria function has its benefits, like aging well and enhanced longevity. However building stronger mitochondria that are more resilient is a byproduct of rewilding, not necessarily the main reason one seeks to reconnect with the land and their local environment. But it is a darn good one and worth exploring in detail!  And though it is true all living things will die, by engaging in some of the rewilding practices we speak about today we can age well and live optimally well into older age. Enjoy the Show. Topics Discussed: Intro; Story of evolution; Richard speaks about his clinical observations with mitochondrial degradation leading to illness and disfunction; Collaboration over competition throughout evolution; Death of Patriarchy and mitochondria's relationship to the divine feminine; Mitochondria defined and how they make energy; Endosymbiosis theory; A more holistic and functional medicine approach to mitochondrial function; How our mitochondria evolved to be resilient and how domestication could be weakening our mitochondria; biochemical individuality, geolocation and building resilience through technology and ancient nature connection practices and techniques; Detoxing and eliminating vs adding resilience through hormesis; nature connection can ameliorate mitochondrial disfunction; Cellular autophagy and the cell danger response; 'how a rewilding lifestyle and evolutionary medicine can create mitochondrial resilience; Shawn and Richard talk about their experience aging; The end. Please subscribe to the show and leave a 5 star rating if you have enjoyed this episode.

Today’s guest is the wild and wonderful me… with sort of a bonus episode recorded the day after Valentines Day. Putting myself and my thoughts and beliefs out there in the most vulnerable way I have done yet on this show. This episode is about my take on what love means inspired from a recent plant medicine journey facilitated by Soltara Healing Centre. I recorded this as my contribution to the “Thank You Plant Medicine Day” initiative that was held on February 20th. 2020. Years of professional interest on the topic of Love and of course life experience and painful teachings have developed my capacity to Love and my understanding of Love. Now, my Love for self, others, and the Earth is something I am more mindful of as a gauge of how aligned with the flow of Unconditional Love (LOVE) I am throughout my day/life. I believe that after having a strong sense of the source of our Love we can know where to shine our Love flashlight in this life. From my deep nature connection work and my recent work with Ayahuasca I have a knowing that LOVE is the fabric of the Universe. I can also see we can all cultivate this LOVE in a way that will add purpose, peace, and presence to our life. I find if I want to cultivate this love I need to keep up with my daily spiritual practices and spend time connecting with the land. That said, learning from pain through the 'egoic' realms of Love is one of the greatest teachers I have ever had, and I realize now that if we choose to acknowledge, sit with, learn and move our pain we can be more Loving of self and by doing so, we are more Loving towards each other and the natural world. Essentially our Love can heal ourselves and heal the world. Once we learn from the pain teacher and integrate that into our life we can more easily orientate ourselves to the omnipresence and flow of eternal LOVE and we free ourselves from suffering and over identifying with our pain. Enjoy the Show… Love you! Please subscribe to the show and leave a 5 star rating if you have enjoyed this episode. Topics Discussed: Shawn learning form hard lessons and years as a health coach; Shawn gives his experience of love in all things; Shawn’s story of his second Ayahuasca ceremony on The Thought Room Podcast; Shawn’s intention for his third ceremony, “Teach me about Love and Show me Unconditional Love (LOVE)”; Ayahuasca’s teaching for Shawn about LOVE, love is in all things, the web of LOVE, have to accept Love in order to give Love; What is the source of our Love?; LOVE doesn’t hurt unless Ego is involved; Hold space and have compassion to cultivate LOVE for self and others; Pain exists from Ego’s interaction with field of LOVE, LOVE is Eternal, Compassion is King, Pain is Teacher; Burn out and Shawn learning how to sustainable cultivate of LOVE; Rule of 50/50 in relationship and how connecting with nature can recharge the soul; Importance of knowing what we Love through our pain and doing shadow work; Love is increased and we have a greater capacity for Love by working through challenging times; Mother’s love for a child is deep; Spiritual permaculture; Realms of Love, Ego and LOVE realm, Love from the I, We, World/Community realms; Creation of Ego/Personality and controlling our flow of Love in the I, We, World/Community realms of Love; Western culture and inflated Ego and pain teaching us; Love, lust, capitalism and environmental degradation; World Love and rewilding; Manifesting LOVE in the world realm of Love;  Love and learn from where you are at; LOVE and personal boundaries; Tools for cultivating LOVE, Practicing Self-Love, Do what you Love without expectations on self or others; Identify with pain for too long and acting from fear is the path to the dark side; Gratitude journaling and adversity, tasting the bitter so we can know and the sweet and respect them both; Shawn’s wildest dream for the Earth. Sign up for the Rewild My Bio Newsletter by visiting the website. www.rewildmybio.com Instagram: @rewildmybio Facebook: @rewildmybio Twitter: @shawnslade LinkedIn: @shawnslade

Today my guest is the wild and wonderful Emma O’Connor or Spiritual Ninja as she is affectionately known from her work in the London Ontario Community. Emma is the founder of Spiritual Ninja Love a program that might seem ahead of it’s time but in actuality it is so needed in the here and now. It is no wonder why her public speaking and programming are so in demand. I see Emma’s educational message for our youth as a return to having Elders who are not abandoned and are leaders who are committed to making sure younger generations have the tools to be resilient, body, mind, and soul. Some of the tools we talk about are the 10 day silent Vipassana meditation Emma practices and the Vision Quest Emma and I participated in together. It is an amazing episode where Emma shares her lived experience and how that taught her to navigate the tough stuff. She wants us all to know, that even though our pain may shape and test us, it does not have to define us. Her greatest passion is working with youth who are often overwhelmed by emotional, social, and other life pressures. Through her alter ego - Spiritual Ninja, she is on a mission to awaken the true power inside of youth through mentorship and mindful movement programs. If you feel called to support Emma and her work with local school boards please contact her or the show. Emma is offering a discount on her programming to listeners of the show. Please contact Emma direct through her website. Emma and I thank you very much. Enjoy the show! Connect with Emma O’Connor https://www.spiritualninjalove.com/ Instagram: @spiritualninja.love Facebook: @spiritualninja.love Twitter: @NinjaSpiritual Topics Discussed: Intro, awkward puberty stages of podcast, Hunza people, upcoming projects and episodes; My personal thanks and congrats to Emma; Emma’s journey of spiritual awakening; Emma’s cage fighting medicine; What is Vipassana? How to practice and reclaim our power;  Equanimity is the place of spaciousness and balance; Responding with love and compassion rather than reacting; Bell Let’s Talk Day should be everyday; Emma’s offering to the world; Self Awareness and resilience; Reconnecting with self is reconnecting with LOVE; We are our on healer; What resilience is to Emma; the softer side of resilience; Emma’s and Shawn’s Vision Quest and Emma’s mini death experience; Shawn speaking in tongues reminded Emma we are not alone; Tame the mind, uncage the soul; Nature nourishes; Would you rather plant medicine, or nature medicine? Cold water therapy and impermanence; Disconnection and Emma’s work with youth; You are your own healer, hero, and leader; Cuts to education impacting mental health resources for youth and post secondary students and sponsoring Spiritual Ninja Love; Leadership and reclaiming power through presence. Resources: Organic Traditions - Dried Bitter Apricot Kernels, Ontario Vipassana Centre, Book - Why Zibra’s Don’t Get Ulcers - By Robert Sapolsky. Spiritual Ninja Love - Mindful Movement Program, Spiritual Ninja Love - 1:1 Youth Mentorship  If you would like to participate in a Vision Quest please contact Shawn directly. Connect with Shawn www.rewildmybio.com Instagram: @rewildmybio Facebook: @rewildmybio Twitter: @shawnslade LinkedIn: @shawnslade Please subscribe to the show and leave a 5 star rating if you have enjoyed this episode. Thanks for listening, stay wild!

Daniel Vitalis is the host of WildFed. For ten years he lectured around North America and abroad, offering workshops that helped others lead healthier, more nature-integrated lives. A successful entrepreneur, he founded the nutrition company SurThrival.com in 2008. Most recently, he hosted the popular podcast ReWild Yourself. He's a Registered Maine Guide, writer, public speaker, interviewer, and lifestyle pioneer who's especially interested in helping people reconnect with wildness, both inside and outside of themselves. After learning to hunt, fish, and forage as an adult, Daniel created WildFed to inspire others to start a wild-food journey of their own.Headquartered in the Lakes Region of Maine, he lives with his beautiful wife Avani and their Plott Hound Ellie.In this episode, Daniel will share with us:The origins of his search for answers to life in the natural world. The impact that the built environment and domestication is having on us.His awe for spending time in nature.To find out more about Daniel Vitalis, visit http://danielvitalis.com/I'd love to know your thoughts and experiences - join the conversation on my Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/paleochefpeteevans.      For more episodes of HEAL, find us on iTunes at https://apple.co/2NpsIba, Spotify at https://spoti.fi/2NpSiN0, Acast at https://play./s/pete-evans, click the link on https://peteevans.com, or just look up "HEAL" in your favourite podcast app.    I'd love to spread the knowledge in these podcasts far and wide. If you liked this episode, I'd love it if you could share it with your friends, and perhaps even leave a review on iTunes.    This podcast is proudly presented by The Institute For Integrative Nutrition, or IIN for short.I've completed this amazing health training course through IIN, and I would thoroughly recommend it for anyone wanting to start a career in the health coaching and wellness space.This course is conducted over a year long period and it's constructed in a way that if you're a full time worker or a busy parent or wherever you are in your life will still be able to complete all the required curriculum and modules. Please see the link included in this post on my Facebook or Instagram page or on iTunes, to access the free sample class and first module of the program, to get a great taste of the format and structure as well as utilise my special discount that I can offer you if you decide to sign up.Make sure you tell the admission team that you're part of the Pete Evans tuition savings to claim your very substantial discount visit https://www.integrativenutrition.com  Theme music by Mandharu. Audio production by https://AndyMaher.com.  See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We welcome Daniel Vitalis onto the pod today and might I just say stoke level is pretty high! Daniel is a forager, registered Maine Guide, writer, public speaker, interviewer, and lifestyle pioneer who is deeply passionate about helping others reconnect with wildness, both inside and outside of themselves. After learning to hunt, fish, and forage as an adult, Daniel created WildFed; a show, podcast, and lifestyle brand that integrates hunting, fishing, foraging, and ecology with nutrition, cooking, community, and outdoor adventure.    "WildFed on its face is about food, but beneath the surface of that, it's about a lot more. It's about how we are in relationship with wild species and wild places." -  Daniel Vitalis   Daniel and Mason discuss: Daniel's WildFed food philosophy. The importance of becoming enmeshed into your ecosystem and utilising your local food shed. The hunting, gathering, collecting and foraging of wild foods. Staying grounded and undogmatic in your approach to living consciously, sustainably and in harmony with the earth. Applying traditional hunter gather philosophy and practice to modern day life. The significance of developing a relationship to the earth and to the species that inhabit it, especially in our modern era of artificial intelligence and disconnect.   Who is Daniel Vitalis? Daniel Vitalis is the host of WildFed. WildFed is a show, podcast, and lifestyle brand that integrates hunting, fishing, foraging, and ecology with nutrition, cooking, community, and outdoor adventure. For ten years Daniel lectured around North America and abroad, offering workshops that helped others lead healthier, more nature-integrated lives. A successful entrepreneur, Daniel founded the nutrition company SurThrival.com in 2008. Most recently, Daniel has hosted the popular podcast ReWild Yourself.  Daniel is a Registered Maine Guide, writer, public speaker, interviewer, and lifestyle pioneer who’s especially interested in helping people reconnect with wildness, both inside and outside of themselves.  After learning to hunt, fish, and forage as an adult, Daniel created WildFed to inspire others to start a wild-food journey of their own. Headquartered in the Lakes Region of Maine, he lives with his beautiful wife Avani and their Plott Hound Ellie.   Resources: Daniel Vitalis Instagram Daniel Vitalis Facebook WildFed Website WildFed Podcast WildFed Interactive Program WildFed on Facebook   Q: How Can I Support The SuperFeast Podcast?   A: Tell all your friends and family and share online! We’d also love it if you could subscribe and review this podcast on iTunes. Or  check us out on Stitcher :)! Plus  we're on Spotify!   Check Out The Transcript Here:   Mason: (00:00) Daniel, thanks so much for coming on the pod, man.   Daniel: (00:04) Yeah, man, I'm really happy to be here. Thanks for sharing my voice with your platform here.   Mason: (00:09) I know that there's going to be a bunch of SuperFeasters that are like super stoked to see... Already I've hinted that you are coming on and they're all just like, "Yes." Then I'm really excited about like a bunch of people who maybe... A little bit early on their onset into the health scene. I'm really excited about introducing them to your work, and then this new project. Are you at home in Maine at the moment?   Daniel: (00:35) Yeah, I am. Yep right at my house. I don't get out too much anymore. I travel a little bit, but as I get older it's like I really want to be based out of my home. I spend a lot of the time, a lot of the last 10 years on the road, but now I've got so much, I'm so integrated into this place with what I'm doing now that it's like, you got to really talk me out.   Mason: (01:00) WildFed, which we'll jump right into. That seems to be like this pinnacle declaration for your public work as well. That that's what you're doing. You're throwing your roots down, and then through that I've realised that on the stealth you've become a guide to me anyway. You've become like a guide in Maine. That's an interesting mindset already that I think is entwined into what's now culminating in WildFed from being someone who's traveling all over the world, all over America, doing the LA conferences. All that stuff to now being, really living and breathing… That was a long-term like little deviation. What was in that process psychologically and emotionally to really throw down your roots?   Daniel:  (01:46) Yeah, well, I mean you look back on 10 years and it makes sense. The journey makes sense. But if I tell you about point A and then point B, they don't seem to almost like line up. But my journey has been that I started off speaking in those conferences. I have all these raw food vegan folks because I came out of that scene. They would let me speak at their conferences. I was not a vegan and I was not a raw foodist. I had been in the past, but I wasn't by the time I started my public journey. Those are early days of YouTube before podcasting. That was before social media man, it's so strange to think about that. Because it's so recently really. Now we're really talking like 12 years ago probably. I'd get up on these stages and my message would just be like starting to contradict the whole purpose of the event.   Daniel: (02:36) It'd be this thing to push veganism, to push raw foodism. I would have stuff that touched in with that, but I was into this idea of, well, what are like natural humans? What do they do on the landscape? What do they do without superfoods? What do they do without the health food stores and internet suppliers and stuff? What's natural for people? I always wanted to talk about that and explore that idea. I would get up and I'd give my talk. Because I was popular with audiences, I kept being invited back. My message grew further and further away from that idea. I started there, but I kept on the journey following the path. Even though a lot of people are like, "I don't like this direction, Daniel, you're starting to get away from our ideals."   Mason: (03:21) Well, what was interesting, and I really I'm aware. We don't want to go too far into this thing to the history. We're here to talk about WildFed. That's what I want to talk to you about. I was someone in that audience, really loving the fact that you were up there talking about like booze. There was this subconscious awareness in one pocket that we appreciate that we're going through a change, and we liked originally what the health scene was about. We were opposing what was deteriorating us. Then there was that split of people falling in love with that push back against society into whatever.   Mason: (04:00) It happens with anything. It happens with diet. You more than anyone have led the charge in terms of making that distinction around veganism. But of course it happens with the carnivore diet and TCM diets and everything. Everyone's just a fanatic. But I really liked that anarchist energy, and I think everyone secretly did as well. That's why you kept on getting invited back and it was such a-   Daniel: (04:25) I was amazed they would have me back year after year, but eventually obviously, we parted ways and I started my podcast ReWild Yourself, which I ran for three years as a fluke. I was really writing an online magazine and I wanted multimedia. I started doing interviews and pretty quick those interviews were just so much more… People liked my writing, a small group like 6,000, 7,000 people reading what I'm writing. 100,000 people are listening to the podcast and it's like, "Okay, this is really what people want. Less of me just writing these long articles. More of me interviewing." Before I knew it, there was this podcast. It was early days of podcasts, I hadn't set out to start one. That podcast ReWild Yourself was exploring like what's natural for human beings if they step outside of our industrial system?   Daniel: (05:11) What would we be like if we lived on the landscape, and what do we know about the health outcomes of people who live that naturally? Hunter-gatherer peoples. I just got fascinated by it. I was talking to so many different characters, psychologists and doctors and nutritionists and death experts and birth experts. Just it kept coming clear and clearer to me that being divorced from nature was the root cause of our problem. That led me deeper into foraging, eventually led me to hunting and fishing and this idea of like, how do I apply this stuff? Because I didn't want to end up like the Biohackers, walking around with big orange sunglasses on and a bunch of electrodes tuned to me, and breathing some weird modulated air. Just gets so outrageous that you're like this is the opposite of what I want.   Mason: (05:56) I remember you actually because I followed along what was really interesting is you shared your inner journey in terms of your away from a superfood packet towards maybe more of a subsistence on nature. That's what I've always read in everyone's comments for you. Because people come across your work and they're like, "Oh, cool. He's hunting and gathering. He's from Maine. That's what he does. He's a hunter." In WildFed you say, "I didn't grow up this way. I've had to learn this shit." That's what has been… The people along the way. I read your comments and everyone goes, "I appreciate so much you sharing this inner journey with everyone." I remember a pivotal episode when I think you had like a sleep expert, but like a Biohacking sleep expert on the podcast.   Mason: (06:41) In reflection after that podcast, I could hear you going, “You know what, I don't want to be taping up my curtain. I don't want to be putting tape all over little electrical things all over my house.” You want to leave the window open. That was a pivotal one for me as well because there's all these crossroads as we go along in this journey. It's something I've learned from you, is how to be aware of the upcoming crossroads. That last night when we were watching WildFed, Tahnee, my fiancé, she was saying, and she's been following you before we got together as well at, a long time. She's like, "I really love that, once again you're not presenting yourself as an expert. You're very confident in what you know, you're just very adamant about your ongoing journey once again."   Daniel: (07:32) Go ahead.   Mason: (07:33) I was just going to say that allows you to be aware of crossroads coming. Then you get to go deeper rather than getting over identified with a stage persona.   Daniel: (07:43) That's a huge danger, a pitfall. I talk about it a lot that I see happen where people get so pigeonholed into something they had been into in the past, and then they feel like they can't break free. The longer you go doing that, the harder it is once you… I remember just like I cut my hair at one point. I don't know if you remember back in the day I had long hair. It's just like even that was like, people have you so, they want you to be this one character. I feel bad for like when an actor has an iconic role, it's like you're Jason Bourne in a movie, and then you want to do something radically different. People are like, "No, you're Jason Bourne." It's like, "Oh, come on." We're dynamic people. Another thing though I'll say is that I've had many opportunities along the way to root in and become the expert on the thing that I've been spending time on. I always like to push forward.   Daniel: (08:36) The challenge with that is that I'm always the beginner in a scene. I'm always the new guy everywhere I go, because I'm constantly trying to learn new stuff. It can be you have to get comfortable with that, like the discomfort of that. You have to be able to relax into the discomfort of being the new guy everywhere if you're going to constantly learn new stuff, and you surround yourself [inaudible 00:08:59]. Back to it my podcasts led me to realizing that I would be a prisoner to all of these life hacks, and all of these diet hacks and eventually the encumbrance of it. When I started off, I remember before I started speaking, I was like 19 years old, walking around in Hawaii in nothing but a pair of shorts, barefoot on the beach. That's where I felt the most real and alive. Then before you know it, you're encumbered with just all of these things to be healthy.   Daniel: (09:27) You're like, wait a second, this is the opposite of where… I noticed that anything taken too far becomes the opposite of what it starts off as. That's usually what ends up happening. You can see this in a lot of people's career trajectory, which is why I don't want to get too stuck in any one thing. What happened with ReWild Yourself is I kept learning more about wild food and I kept resonating to that. Because food was really my first passion. I realised like of all this stuff that I've learned about, the one thing that I really I'm most drawn to doing, where I want to take it next is into the wild food arena. Rather than making the mistake I made in the past, which is like, "Can I be 100% this or can I do this all the way?" That's like that vegan thing or that carnivore thing where it's like, "Well no, I'm going to make a commitment for life to only do this one thing."   Daniel: (10:12) It was just like, "Man, can I keep pursuing this idea of wild food in a more moderate..." what I think of as moderate, most people think of as still pretty extreme. Can I hunt fish and forage for calories and can I make it a real thing? Can I bring it into my house? Just to tie it back to your show theme too, that started for me with medicinal herbs. That's how I got first excited about, it was foraging chaga, foraging, reishi. Because as somebody who was into superfoods, the cost of those things is high, and the connection to the thing is less than when you go get it yourself, and that was more exciting.   Daniel: (10:45) That was my first inroad, and then eventually it was like, "Wait, can I do this to fill my refrigerator and my freezer with food?" That led me to where I'm at today, which is making this show WildFed and doing the podcast WildFed and just exploring what a modern hunter-gatherer looks like, who lives in a super developed industrial society.   Mason: (11:06) I really appreciate you saying like someone looking in, they're going to be like, "This is full on man. He's foraging for like everything." But I know you can take it way further. The fact that you're taking your ingredients to a gastropub, and allowing him to have his little injection of his other ingredients. Some of it's like a sustainable agricultural crop or even him using his own chicken stock or something.   Daniel: (11:31) I'm sure it's like mayonnaise and mustard and ketchup. I don't care anymore. My thing of like food exclusivity, because once you start to get the very best food in the world, it starts to, for me, it started to make me relax about other foods a little bit more. You know what I'm saying? It's like when you have venison to eat, if somebody wants to put it on a piece toast, you're like, okay cool man. Because I know I got this thing so I don't care as much as I used to when I was like always fretting about what I had for food.   Daniel: (12:03) So it's created a relaxation in me, which has been really healing. The relaxation comes from several different components of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle that I've been promoting. But yeah, you got to see the show man. I'm curious how it landed for you and what you thought about it. Because here's the thing, I've been incubating this project for two years and I've gotten very little feedback because I've been really secretive about it.   Mason: (12:24) We know you're [inaudible 00:12:25]   Daniel: (12:25) You're one of like 20 people that's seen in it, man.   Mason: (12:28) I feel so special. I do.   Daniel: (12:30) Seriously, you're one of like 20 people that's seen it. I'm really curious how you felt about it.   Mason: (12:36) We loved it. I think especially coming from like Tahnee and myself watching it. This is off the bat. Watching the first episode. Okay, two things off the bat. I love that there's like three or four people involved in the production, and the quality is very high. I noticed that straight away because that's something that again, that is in alignment with the simplicity of this whole lifestyle. I appreciated that, and appreciated the fact that the production was really high as well because let's face it, it matters. Second of all, straight off the bat, I liked that I know you and I know that watching one episode is gonna be very good, and it was put together very well in one episode. It had a story in the beginning and middle and end. It almost has its own catalyst in there for like the emotional ride.   Mason: (13:27) However, I know that there is a plan over the entire series to take you on a journey, and you didn't shy away from that. That's what I would definitely, anyone listening, I would recommend staying in that little journey, in that path. Because off the bat, the first episode is the slowness. That was like where you got to you're like it's something about the how slow, the speed of food. There's something slow about this lifestyle. That was after you were going after, I think it was the fiddleheads and it was just like, "Fuck, we're too early. Fuck, we're too late." Then the turkey hunting. It wasn't just this, "We're going to give them a little insight into how frustrating it can be. We'll quickly go, missed it, the turkey's going away." We were there and you took us on the journey. That was something I think you were maybe consciously doing.   Mason: (14:24) It was like I want to make sure that I don't glorify this lifestyle, or just show peak experiences. I really want everyone to be involved, and then see the underlying principle, which what came out in that first episode anyway was, there's just something about the speed of food. The speedier it is, the more it tastes bland and I think you said like cardboard. That straight away there's principles. You don't deliver rules. That's what I've got out of the three episodes I've seen, there's principles that you keep slippery and non-dogmatic so that it can be integrated into wherever someone is at. That's genuinely where they're at because that's something that doesn't happen. It's like, "Wherever you're at, it's okay, you do this," but, wink, wink, you really do need to get to my point in order to like [crosstalk 00:15:15].   Mason: (15:16) There was a real, it is that softness, and that first principle anyway got me really thinking about how that pace of food even going to farmers markets, I don't feel anything is bad or wrong. It's just made me really think about the fact that it's like a king tide when you're out in the surf. The more and more you get that quick speedy food, the more you get sucked out really quick. It's hard to get back into really feeling the essence in that romance, in the slowness of food and really earning it in one sense. Then just obviously showing the respect in the currency of time that you're giving. That was my initial takeaway, man.   Daniel: (15:57) The pace of food thing is really important to me, because I like that there's tension sometimes. Even with plants as you saw, it's not just like, "Oh, they can't run away, so I'll just walk out and get them." You've got this very, as you saw with the fiddleheads, it's very delicate time window, where loading up the canoe and you and your partner going out and paddling out to the spot, it's not something you're going to do every single day. You've got to like, "Okay, when do I think they're going to be ready?" Then you paddle out and you're like, "Oh, no, we're too early, so now I've got to go back." Then you go back and it's like, "Oh man, are we too late?" Because even they can slip away from you because they got this little window where they're edible. Then as you see with hunting, I think hunting has one of the biggest PR problems.   Daniel: (16:41) People have such a mistaken idea about it because of what they see. You see people who've hunted their whole life, they got 40 years of experience. In hunter-gatherer societies, it's pretty understood that as a hunter you reach peak efficiency in your 40s. Because you've got all of those decades of experience that have built up. When you start and you're 40, I was 35 or so when I started, it's like maybe a little older than that. You don't know anything. It's like trying to get going. You make mistakes. I want to put all that in there. I mean everybody makes mistakes. I want to put that in there so people could see the pitfalls and the challenges. Another thing that happens is people will think, "Well yeah, it's real easy to hunt when you have a gun, oh it's cheating." Actually it's not really that simple. It's pretty complex.   Daniel: (17:31) You got to really understand animals, and in order to understand those animals, you've got to understand those animals' foods. You got to understand their natural life histories, and before you know it, you're becoming so enmeshed into your ecosystem, that this idea of you're an alien on earth who is like can't touch anything because humans just destroy everything they come in contact with. Instead of that you start to like reorient yourself to like, "Oh, I'm part of this ecosystem." It's not just ecological literacy, which a lot of people are lacking, but it's like integration into your landscape. You become this animal on your landscape. Sometimes predatory, sometimes herbivorous. That's one of the things that's neat about being a human is we're like a bear or a pig in that we eat both plants and animals.   Daniel: (18:14) Sometimes I'm out there foraging and I'm clearly not a predator on the landscape. Other times I'm out there as a predatory animal. We have these two different, and I want to, if you've noticed the way the show is put together I like to leapfrog scenes back and forth, where sometimes I'm a predator and sometimes I'm the forager. Sometimes I'm a squirrel and sometimes I'm a hawk. Both are legitimate ways we interact with our landscape. But what I really hope that show does, because obviously, where you live, you're seeing a different suite of plants and animals that are familiar to you. But I'm hoping that what it does is inspires people wherever they are to get involved in their food shed. Because wherever you live there's lots to hunt, gather, collect, forage, whatever it is.   Daniel: (18:58) I want people to go, "I might not have fiddleheads, but what do I have in the spring?" Then lastly, I just want to say to your point about a seasonal arc. One of the things I've noticed from this lifestyle that really excites me is, the very first thing I'm doing in the beginning of the year, a couple months from now, is I'm tapping my maple trees and I'm making maple syrup so I get all my sugar for the year. Then it goes into the, what you saw, the fiddleheads, leaks and turkeys. Then over the course of the season, I have these activities that I'm doing every year, and every year I get a little better and I learn a little bit more and it begins in the snow and then it ends in the snow. In the middle is that summer, like that beautiful peak summer growth that happens here in the temperate regions of the United States.   Daniel: (19:41) I wanted people to see a seasonal arc, because this world we're living in now is becoming so homogenous, especially with the way our tech climate control is, and the way our built environment is. Even though the weather is one way outside, inside's just always the same flat line thing. I wanted people to see these beautiful seasons. Each episode has a show arc to it and its own tensions and wins and losses and all of that. But then there's this arc of the season, and that's one of the most powerful things about this lifestyle for me is that every part of the year, I have something I'm excited about, like really excited about. It's snow on the ground right now. I can't get at the acorns, the hunting is all winding down, but I know ice fishing is coming. I'm so excited about that. When that ends, it's maple syrup time, it's just goes, goes and goes forever.   Mason: (20:34) That's the simplicity you were talking about like a calming effect on your body I think, of anything that's made in the West, it's that calming effect so that we can explore the nuances of our parasympathetic nervous system. Whenever I've had those longer periods in nature, there's a foraging friend that I haven't been out with him for a while. He's just North of Sydney though. He was always telling me he'd go out for weeks at a time, and he just watched his senses coming back online. He'd watch his hearing become acute, and he'd watch his eyes... I didn't even realise my eyesight was getting a little blurry at particular distances when he was out. It always reminded me that consistency of time in nature, that's going to be my ultimate health practice, no matter what.   Mason: (21:20) Then what you're talking about, just being on the terrain. Barefoot at times if appropriate. But even just watching the seasonality outside of a Gregorian calendar, that's something I've always really watched and considered. It's interesting because I had such a mental need, a high pace of learning the expertise of this healthy lifestyle. When you get into what you're talking about, that needs to be a slow journey. Understanding our own seasonal arc. Here, there's a beautiful Instagram here in Byron Bay in this region, koori country. It's a local mob sharing. All right. Now the winds of change, now we're getting the westerlies, now we're in this season. Right now you'll start seeing the pippies. You've got pippies over there, the little mollusc on the beach. You dig your feet in and you can go and like harvest your... It's beautiful. It's one of the easy accesses.   Daniel: (22:16) Collecting.   Mason: (22:18) Collecting, which brings me to my next point. The slowness I feel you'd probably coming from knowing the lifestyle that I come from having that raw food like 'raji baji'. For me there was a little bit of like the rules don't apply. I'm always ahead of the curve. Even if I enter into like this foraging landscape, it takes me a while sometimes to really slow down and up and think, "I will listen to this person who has that 30 years experience." Even though they don't share that baseline spring water, not bringing preservatives into their life. That's something I think I learned from you heavily as well.   Mason: (23:04) That ability to actually slow down and then what I think is important into your message you are actually willing to not just become a guide, but really understand this new terrain of foraging in terms of what are the regulations in order they are. We're new to this world. Remember these regulations are in there for a reason. There are quotas on what you can be harvesting. See for me, that would seem limiting coming from where I was coming from in the beginning.   Daniel: (23:38) Infinite consciousness, man.   Mason: (23:40) Infinite consciousness, yeah. I'm like the goose man. I can just cross borders. I don't need.. Yeah That kind of [inaudible 00:23:47]. That is something that was really like, it's really helping me go like, "Right this is community." It's already in existence and we can be bridges between those communities to an extent. This is the term that I hear in opposition to the foraging lifestyle. I just wanted that to be the context. Well, not everyone can do this. It's not sustainable. That's an interesting comment and it's like a cliché kind of thing and you go and then the cliché answer is like, "Well everyone doesn't have to do it. I'm doing it." But I feel like we can have more interesting conversations and I feel like you're important to that.   Daniel: (24:28) I'd like to explore that a little bit because it comes up so much.   Mason: (24:32) I'd love to hand it over to you, yeah please.   Daniel: (24:33) Well I just think that one's really interesting because it's like not everyone on the planet can play golf. That's not sustainable. But nobody's yelling that at people playing golf. Not everybody can do anything. There's like almost nothing that everyone can do sustainably. Why is it that I must defend against that? Also, why is the burden of planetary sustainability on my shoulders all of a sudden? I have to only do the things that everyone can do. Why? There are people more intelligent than me, and I'm not banging on their door like, "Why are you doing math problems I can't do? Not everyone can do that, so stop it." That doesn't make any sense. There's all this talk these days about privilege. It's like, I don't know, this is just what I'm doing. I'm not trying to exert a privilege. I'm not trying to say that everybody on the planet needs to do this.   Daniel: (25:23) Now I will say this, everybody on the planet used to do this. Everybody on the planet used to do this. You're only here, if you're on earth today, is because of the hunters and foragers of the past whose genetic lineage you are the current incarnation of. You do come from foragers. Now, I think of it like this, and this is an important aspect of why I created WildFed, because WildFed, I hope is a brand that goes on past me. I'm currently like a focal point in it, but that's not the long-term goal for me. I want to create a project that carries the torch of, I'll say foraging in a general sense. Because anthropologists will refer to foraging peoples as a shorthand for hunter-gatherers. I don't just mean plants here. I mean plants, animals, fungi, algae, everything. Some people need to carry the torch in this generation, especially in this generation more now than ever.   Daniel: (26:20) Although every generation for it to last, there needs to be people who carry it forward. We live in the era where the last hunting and gathering peoples are blinking out into extinction, extra patient or being assimilated into the modern lifestyle. They are probably not going to be able to carry that torch, the way that some of us are going to be able to. Secondary to that, is that they live in very remote pockets of the planet like Indonesia and parts of Africa and places in South America. But what about where we all live in the, you were saying the West earlier, in the developed parts of the world, and the industrialized parts of the world. Somebody needs to maintain that relationship. Here in the United States we have, like you there where you are, museums that are there, where there are people whose lives are dedicated to keeping aspects of the past alive.   Daniel: (27:11) Why is there nobody keeping our hunting and gathering tradition alive? Is that not more important to keep alive than memories of past wars or who invented light bulbs, or all of these things that we're keeping all that alive in museums. Or there's like museum martial arts, let's say. There's people who are practicing obscure martial arts from the past that have very little relevance to today, but they keep them alive as a museum art. You know what I'm talking about? So many things like that that we do, yet this fundamental thing that binds all humans together, which is how we got to be here, our fundamental relationship to the natural world, we need people keeping that alive, I think more fundamentally than anything. Partially what I'm doing with WildFed is just trying to pick up that torch and carry it forward. I'm most certainly not the only one.   Daniel: (28:02) I share this responsibility with a lot of my colleagues who are doing the same thing. Many of which are going to be featured in the video show, and many of which are featured on my podcast. People that I meet who are either doing it in a general, I'm doing it in a very generalist sense. Then there's people who are doing it in a much more specialized sense. My thing is a generalized hunting and gathering approach. But I really get excited when I meet somebody who's really specific on one thing, like they hunt bear, or they hunt only mushrooms or whatever it is because I throw a very wide but shallow net as a generalist. I get excited when somebody throws a very narrow but deep net, because I can learn so much from them. I'm trying to also create a platform that brings those people together.   Daniel: (28:47) Because you'll notice, I'm sure you've noticed this in the tonic herbalism thing, you'll get people who are all about foraging medicinal mushrooms. Tonic herbal mushrooms, but they don't hunt. Then the person who hunts would never even think about foraging those mushrooms. Then the person who is a dedicated plant forager might never hunt or fish. Or the fishermen might never... I'm trying to create a platform that will start to be a hub for all of those different people and those voices and those lifestyles to say, “Hey look, we're all sharing this one commonality here, which is wild foods.” It's so much more than nutrition. It's relationship to species. Because every plant, every mushroom, every animal, every algae is a living entity. It's about how we relate to that entity.   Daniel: (29:35) To me, there's a really deep thing going on here. Then how we relate to all of those identities together, those entities together is like how we relate to the ecosystem, and how we find relationship to it. It's just sad that we're at this point where we have to forge relationships with ecosystems as if we are from another planet. That really has bothered me over the years, this sense of alienness that we have to our own earth. Now where if you read headlines, you will see a lot more about people going to Mars than you will see about people making relationships with nature. You'll see stories about the Amazon burning, you'll see stories about the pollution of rivers and the extinction of species. Then you'll see stories about going to Mars. It's like, really, we're not going to stop first and fix this, we're just going to leave?   Daniel: (30:24) Isn't that like somebody in a relationship who has a bad relationship and so they split, and they get in another relationship, and the same thing happens, and they split. They never stop and face it, and face themselves and learn how to have a good relationship. It's like you just run away, run away, run away. Aren't we doing that right now? We trashed the planet and then we run to Mars and then what? Like trash Mars? Do we have a plan for Mars? What are we going to do with the garbage there? We're going to put in the ground like we did here. Where are we going with this? WildFed on its face is about food, but beneath the surface of that, it's about a lot more. It's about how we are in relationship with wild species and wild places.   Mason: (31:06) Yes, mike drop. I want to say that I definitely have got that sense over the years of creating that web weaving between all these specialised fields, and the sharing of knowledge, someone who's foraging for [inaudible 00:31:21] culinary mushrooms starting to open up into say like that medicinal mushroom world and vice versa. Creating this somewhat like beautiful fascial tensegrity between all these beautiful elements of the subsistence, on which I want to talk to you about. You were just talking about that seems like a very classic pattern of you get into a relationship, you screw it up, you bounce it, you get over to the next relationship and that's a pattern. Possibly developed genetically, who knows where it came from, maybe from parents patterns.   Daniel: (31:53) All kinds of things.   Mason: (31:57) Now what I see as you were talking about martial arts say Kendo in a dojo, what's the relevance of that? I see the relevance is that you get to do it in a very contained system that even though it's got this very certain element of making you mentally hone yourself. It's a very contained system where you can get into uncomfortable states in order to refine yourself. It's not this open ended, for lack of a better word, getting uncomfortable. Which is what I see is the difference between like a museum art and actually getting into the wild and foraging, and as you said, becoming a new beginner.   Mason: (32:35) That's uncomfortable in a beautiful, beautiful way. Now getting uncomfortable for me it seems like it's going to be the only access for us to, you know, getting out of our comfort zone to an extent, in order to deal with these patterns that we have as a species that is destroying where we came from. Can you talk about that connection through foraging, through the fishing, through the hunting? How does that actually help us in our inner world basically evolve and deal with this shit that's making us run away from the most important relationships of our lives?   Daniel: (33:14) There's a lot there, so lets unpack it. First I'll say you brought up Kendo like with full respect to practitioners of Kendo, you would be mistaken to think that that was a contemporary art that you were going to step into the octagon and fight an MMA specialist. You'd just get your ass handed to you right away. You'd be beat down. We know it because we created a forum to test people, and everybody brought their arts and pretty quick, everything went away except ground game grappling and standup game basically boxing type stuff. That survived and everything else was obliterated very quickly. Stylistic elements remain, but we see that those things are good. Kendo is good against Kendo in a controlled setting, but it doesn't work in the real world. I want to say that partially, with WildFed, one of the things I'm trying to do is show people real meals of food.   Daniel: (34:09) This isn't, "Oh, did you know dandelion is edible?" It's like, that's just some mental masturbation. Let's see you make a meal out of this stuff. Because that's where what's the saying? Like the rubber meets the road. It's like I wanted to show people the real thing because we're actually, this isn't just trail nibbling stuff where we're showing real meals coming out of these wild foods. That was important to me. Now to the meat of what you were asking about. I think that if you had lived your whole life in a small town and you knew everybody, everybody knew everybody. Maybe it's a little uncomfortable sometimes because everybody knows all your dirt, but also they all know who you are, and you have these interconnections and familial connections. You grew up with people. Everywhere you go you're just waving hi to everybody because everybody knows everybody.   Daniel: (34:59) Then I transplant you to a new place, big city let's say, and you don't know anybody. You would have a low level anxiety taking place because you would be alien to that place, and all of your connections that gave you stability and strength, they're gone. You're now in this fragile position because of the vulnerability of that. Now extrapolate that metaphor out and it's like here you are on planet earth, but you only know other humans. You don't know plants, you don't know fungi, you don't know animals. You don't know how to survive in your environment. You don't know how to source your own food, and you're totally reliant on these systems that provide you with your sustenance. Then you keep learning about, wow, not only are these systems really delicate and prone to failure and wow, that's kinda weird.   Daniel: (35:47) But also like, wait, they're also super toxic in the sense that we're poisoning this food and we're poisoning the landscape in which the food comes from and we're poisoning the watersheds. Wait a second, like this wheat was genetically modified with gamma radiation. Wait, what? This isn't just like healthy natural food? You start realizing, "Wow, I'm dependent on systems that are really fragile, super destructive to the earth and on top of it, are not good for me, and I don't even know how to solve that except through tons of money spent on really expensive products that start to encumber me." It starts to get a little bit, I think what happens is we have this low level anxiety. I think you see that anxiety projected out into the world in the form of apocalypse media, which is like a whole genre of media that most of us are kinda drawn a little bit to.   Daniel: (36:36) Whether it's Mad Max or it's The Walking Dead or it's like prepper stuff or it's whatever it is, or survival stuff. Shows about people living on the frontier of Alaska. Why are there so many dramatic reality shows where people are sent into nature naked and afraid, or they're sent into nature to survive on an island with each other and then they dramatically compete to see who's the survivor? We have so much of this media being pumped out because it speaks to the part of us that feels vulnerable on our own planet, because we don't actually know. It's not really about, "Can Joe survive the next episode?" It's not really about that. It's about can I survive and we're using him as a surrogate. We know that we can't survive and that freaks us out a little bit. The answer is not a whole bunch of cool Bear Grills survival skills where you have like some big bowie knife and you can pee in a snakeskin instead of a canteen.   Daniel: (37:32) It's not about those things. It's about for me, how many species am I familiar with that I know that are food for me? So that when I walk down my street or I drive down the road, I look out the window and go food, food, food, food, food. The difference for me of a maple tree to somebody who doesn't produce maple syrup, it's just night and day. When I look at a maple tree, I know that I can pull a gallon of sugar out of that tree next year. It's like one little step less afraid that I am internally and then it's like, the Oak trees. Like I can pull acorns off of those. That's food for me. Okay it's a little bit more confidence. Squirrels, that's food for me and I love that animal and that animal and I have a relationship. Then you start adding in all this stuff. I know where the clams are, I know where the Periwinkles are. Okay, I know how to catch fish out of that river.   Daniel: (38:26) Before you know it, you start having all these interconnections. It's like being back in that small town where you knew everybody. Earth starts to be this safe place for you because you're anti-fragile. You have this network that makes you robust. You're like, "You know what? It wouldn't matter to me if it did go Mad Max. I know where everything is. I don't care if there's a problem in the banking system. I don't care if there's a problem with the computer systems. I don't care if there's a three week shutdown because of a tsunami that takes out the grid." All those things that people talk about, it's like I'd just be good. I don't mean there'd be no hardship, but I'm saying like all those fears start to like go away and you have this sense of relaxation into your home, which is the earth.   Daniel: (39:12) I think people lack that so much and they fear that nature is so hostile. It's interesting with Australia to me because it's like this place from which all these shows come that we see here in the West about how dangerous the land, the 10 deadliest snakes. We got this whole croc hunter image of Australia of like this dangerous place. But then I'm sure people over there see shows about us about Alaska and it's like, "Oh my God, Grizzly Bears and Polar Bears," and all this stuff. It's like we just have this obsession with how dangerous nature is. It's like, man, it is, if you don't know how to coexist with it, but we know.   Mason: (39:48) That's interesting. Even just here in Byron, it's like even city slickers, I grew up in the city, always coming to the beach. Most times I'd be coming and visit here, which is now in my home. You're going to see a brown snake go across the path on your way to the beach in one way or another. You're going to find these red back spiders, and you're going to have huntsmen in your house. People go, "Holy shit, that's a huntsman" and even a city slicker, you're like, "Yeah, that's fine. They're okay as long as they're on the wall, his name's Pete, he's a friend." That's something I do appreciate about Australia. There's certain pockets through Maine and Connecticut that you can see especially seeing New Zealand, there's this ensconced connection to the natural world. As we know if you leave even the tiniest gap, nature's going to start creeping in, and then it's going to be easy to repopulate your in a world with those connections. That low level anxiety is insane.   Mason: (40:51) I mean just here, the amount of like distinction we need to make around people going like, "Right, I read that reishi is really good for anxiety, so I take reishi." It's like, well, let's take a couple of steps back. We're completely stepping out of this, "I've got a problem give me a pill," mentality, and we need to create this fabric of a personal culture and a family culture. That can, as you said, it's like, it might be this seemingly like rough, wild world, but when you do step into it, it's this inner cushioning, and this inner easing that you have because you've gained a genuine connection.   Mason: (41:30) When you were just talking about like, I assume is survivor just then, and having our experience of being able to survive through Bear Grills or through Tom surviving the next day. That's virtual reality. We're talking about the goggles coming on and us tapping out. It's on. It's a pivotal point not to get sensationalist about it, but most of us as we will be in most times of our lives, life is on and then we're at pivotal points most of the time. We do have really big choices and opportunities to take with our personal culture right now.   Daniel: (42:03) Bigger and bigger choices coming very soon. I'd like to talk about that a second. I want to add one more piece, which is in the raw food culture, which I think a lot of people don't understand how interwoven the raw food culture kinda got what psychedelic drugs too. Because those two things became very interwoven.   Mason: (42:22) Massively.   Daniel: (42:23) Massively. That culture started to get a little... those medicines are so powerful. Abused you can get pretty far out on a limb with them in your thinking. Things will feel extremely real to you that have basis and truth, but maybe aren't actually functional out in the world always. Pieces of truth. Sometimes things are true implicitly but not explicitly. It's true that we're all one internally, implicitly. Explicitly there are people who will kick your door down and hold you at gunpoint, and kill your family sometimes. Hate to say it, but that happens it's happening right now somewhere. Yet we're also all one.   Daniel: (43:08) What's happening in the explicit world and what's happening in the implicit world, they're not always the same. It's like that with the medicines you can get far out in your thinking like that the implicit reality you're experiencing that those medicines open you to is the explicit world, so you can get a little bit confused. I was thinking of just now as we were talking about a book series that some of the friends of mine in that culture were reading. I just know the name of the first book was Anastasia. Do you know these books?   Mason: (43:37) Absolutely. There's Anastasia and the other channeling texts.   Daniel: (43:44) These books people who aren't aware it's like they come out of Russia I believe, or at least they claim to and their stories about this culture in Russia where maybe in Siberia or something, where these people are living in like pure harmony with animals and with nature. All these really interesting stories. Well people I knew were taking those as anthropological reports. They were believing that those were true stories, and that this was anthropology. I would try to stop and say, “Hey listen, there are actual people scientists called anthropologists who study indigenous peoples on their landscape and this stuff is bullshit that you're reading. It's fairy tales. It's not real.” That's not real. People would be aggressively angry with me. They wanted that to be real. They wanted to know that squirrels were bringing Anastasia her nuts.   Daniel: (44:32) They wanted that stuff to be real. On one end, you have people who think nature is this ultra-dangerous place where around every corner something's about to gobble you up and you need to hide in your home. On the other side you have people who are like... I've been studying bear attacks lately because I'm around a lot of bears and I'm just curious like, what happens? Why does it happen? It's interesting that you sometimes have people who are so on the other end that they'll actually provoke an animal attack on themselves because they believe like, "No, me and this bear are friends." It's like, man you can get confused on that side too. It's like the brown snake is not your enemy, but he's also not necessarily your friend. You coexist on the planet. You have different agendas and you try not to meet in a negative way, but you also don't try to unnecessarily hug him either.   Daniel: (45:24) Now, some people get away with it, right for a while. Like who is your homeboy out of Australia, Steve Erwin. Got away with it for a while and then he gets a sting ray stinger through his heart. It's like you also learn a respect for nature too when you're part of the food chain. Because you start to understand every time you kill an animal, you take an animal's life and you open that animal up and you see its insides you are met face to face with mortality. You're met very quickly face to face with what your organs look like, and how you're a made of meat too. That there are things that'll be just as happy to consume you whether they're microbiotic or macrobiotic. You're like, both things are true. Nature is a lot safer than a lot of people think, and nature can be also a lot colder than a lot of people think. There's some Buddhist thing going on here. It's like some middle path   Mason: (46:22) Even like with TCM and that's what we talk a lot about these theories, these Taoists theories and it seems very poetic and romantic and clinical as well. It's a Yin transforms Yang. Yin Yang Wuxing, Yin Yang and the five phases of energy, it doesn't go beyond this that we're fucking talking about right now. It's very basic. We can get out of our head with it and experience it, but how far do we go down that rabbit hole of the magical thinking when it comes to far out.   Mason: (46:58) That definitely was a bit of a... I could have kept on going down that world and stayed functional in my personal egoic inner knowing. That I know the reality of what's going on in this world and despite the fact that I know that it's not appropriate for me to talk about it, these people just are not tapped in. One day they'll wake up and realise what I know internally. You can go really far with it. I didn't go so far down with the psychedelics. I definitely had a few dieter's, and will continue to when I can find I can have some grounding in terms of the appropriateness of-   Daniel: (47:28) Has its place like any medicine has its place.   Mason: (47:31) Absolutely, and the calling. I feel like we all, some of us dive into it and then step back and mature in our approach and appropriateness.   Daniel: (47:42) Or accept the healing of the medicine and don't just go to the medicine all the time. Because sometimes you just hit it and hit it, and it's like, "Hey man, how about you take 20 years and integrate some of that?"   Mason: (47:53) I love that you went two decades with that as well. That's it. Because that's an appropriate amount of time to integrate it. Well and what's giving you the medicine? Is it your chop wood, carry water, meek, mundane, day to day. That's what Buddhism is anyway. You can keep chopping wood, keep carrying water, get a little pop, get enlightened for a second. Let it go. Keep fucking going.   Daniel: (48:14) We have this happening on an experiential level too. I want to tie that in there. You were talking before like about how far out you can get with something. Sometimes we need a litmus test, like a reality test to check. Have I gotten too far out? For me what that became was like, well can I actually feed myself? Let me try to explain. I was at Burning Man, the big party right in Nevada. It's pretty far out. This is over a decade ago, maybe about a decade ago. I'm there and everybody's vibe is like, "Oh, this is the new model of humanity. This is how we can live in harmony together." I'm looking around like, "No, you're on a lunar plateau right now. There's no food here." Like you're going to live this way you brought all your food. Here's a test, are we really a tribe? Okay, let's feed ourselves, can you?   Daniel: (49:14) Or are you super reliant on these external systems that you say you're destroying, but you're actually still completely like nursing off of it? I find like this is really fake. The same thing happens in the medicine circles to a degree too. "No we can just live like this forever." It's like, "Yeah, you're going to get up tomorrow and you're going to go to the supermarket." You say you're stepping away from the system with this stuff, but you're only doing it up here. But who's chopping the wood and who's carrying the water? That's what it's really about. Your enlightenment, if you're not chopping wood and carrying water, your enlightenment isn't integrated. That I think is what I love about hunting and gathering. It's my chopping wood, carrying water. It's how I make sure that it keeps my feet on the ground.   Daniel: (50:00) Because I have one of those brains that wants to take me up into the clouds all the time. That real airy sense of exploring ideas is what I get most excited about. It's that earthy groundedness of, "Okay, I'm going to go out today and get food, and it's going to be challenging, and it's going to take time, and I'm going to have to utilise. I'm going to get into that discomfort you were talking about. I'm going to come face to face with what I don't know." Sometimes it's hard because I don't know what somebody who's done this their whole life would know. I am forced back to the ground.   Daniel: (50:33) That is I think really important for some people because it's like they've cut loose all the ballasts and they've rocketed up to 70,000 feet, and from up there, they're not really contributing very much. They think they are by just being, man like, "I'm contributing my vibe." It's like, "Yeah why don't you come down here and carry some of this wood with us?"   Mason: (50:54) My absolute favorite conversation. For people that don't know what we're talking about, I've been there going like reading the Pleiadian channeling texts getting to this. It gets confusing when you go and hang out with some of the local mob, the indigenous mob, and they will point to the Pleiades and say, where do you come from? That's where we're from. We're from the Pleiades. Then you get these modern interpretations of some of the rock art and you see the Biami, creator Biami standing on what is possibly a rocket ship until you go fuck.   Mason: (51:30) There's some like hieroglyphs here and you go, "Right, these hieroglyphs show DNA, did the Pleiadians come down and seed our DNA here?" Then there's like a little depiction and a modern interpretation of a spaceship coming down and falling into those waters between like Gosford and Sydney. This exists, and you start going into this inner world and going, "This storytelling's got something to it. I'm going to make that my exact reality on the outside world, and that completely skyrockets you."   Daniel: (52:03) The people who are telling you that will also chase like a giant porcupine down and pull it out of the ground and butcher it and share it in the tribe. It's like they will chop wood and carry water. I'm way more open to hearing that stuff from somebody who can demonstrate that they have integrated it. That's one of the things about indigenous peoples around the world, is that they have creation stories, creation myths, or sometimes what they say are their histories too, that are pretty far out to us, but they can demonstrate the viability of their worldview through their ability to live sustainably on the earth.   Daniel: (52:37) But when people who are trying to demonstrate the validity of their worldview but can't do that, it's like, "Well, I'm pretty suspect. Go back, integrate so that you can actually live here in some sustainable way, then I'm more open to your ideas." What like an Aboriginal person from Australia has to say has a lot more merit to me because they've got 60, 70,000 years of proving it. They've proved it probably longer than just about anybody who left Africa. I'm all ears. Show us how. But when somebody comes from Burning Man like that and they're telling me that stuff. I'm like, "Man, you don't even know how to like do your own laundry, your mom's still doing it."   Mason: (53:18) I think we're talking about the difference between someone that's just like, it's that same escapism. I'm going to get these beliefs and I feel superior and I'm going to become a missionary to these-   Daniel: (53:31) That's super dangerous man. That's super dangerous when you start thinking like… That was one of the things that I had to face when I started to hunt and fish. Foraging a little less so that world's a little different. But learning to hunt and fish man, I had to go speak to men who had fathers a lot of the times. Because I grew up without a father so I'm part of that culture, which is so common now in the developed world, especially as we see the breakdown of the family structure. Now, with such an emphasis on personal freedom, we'll see more and more of that probably, unfortunately, right. A lot of hunting and fishing least here in North America is passed on patrilineally. You learn it from your dad or your uncles or something. If you have a break in that like I did, you don't learn it at all. That's not to say that women don't hunt and fish, but they tend to not be the ones who pass that knowledge on at least in the past.   Daniel: (54:29) I would have to go in front of men who I did not understand and they didn't understand me. It's like I'm showing up with my man bun and my five toed shoes, and I want to do everything alternative to how they do it, because I know my ways are better. They're like, "Yeah, well, we actually get this done." Again, it's that same thing I was talking about before. They would have these political ideas, they would have religious ideas, they would have social ideas that were like, I thought I was superior to. And over time, I realised, that's like a really interesting type of armor that I was wearing. I was using health practices and ideas of consciousness as a shield, so as not to have to interface with some of the pricklier parts of reality that I didn't like. The parts of me that wanted the Anastasia reality. These guys were like, "Well get the fuck out of here acting like that."   Daniel: (55:18) Slowly, I had to learn how to humble myself to people I had thought I was superior to. Then realise like, these are the people who can teach me. This has really, really turned me around in a big way. I needed this bad. I was pretty far out there, because getting on stages and talking to thousands of people and having a podcast and all that stuff where you get this little bit of internet celebrity and you think you're sort of a big deal. Then you realise like, well in your small town nobody knows what a podcast is, and they don't care. If you want to hunt with them, this is the conditions and this is the way they're going to let it happen. You're like, have to be meek and humble.   Daniel: (55:55) I mean that was hard, and it was so good. My bullshit meter has I don't know has moved several steps back towards center because it was way out there. My bullshit meter was more like, "Well if you don't know about like green juice and you don't know about coffee enemas, and you don't know about six day meditation retreats in silence, then you don't know anything." It's like, dude, here I was way off the mark.   Mason: (56:23) You're not paranoid about parasites all the time.   Daniel: (56:25) You're not worried about what they're doing [inaudible 00:56:27]. Now it's cool though, as I feel it's that third eye idea. It's like I've got a left eye and a right eye, and they are connected to different hemispheres and those brain hemisphere see the world in kind of opposite ways. One sees the world pretty analytically, and one sees the world pretty artistically. There's a merging in the center where you take those two worldviews and you bring them together. Well, I was spending all my time with just those right-brained people, and I was avoiding all those left brain people like they were wrong. Now I got a lot of those people in my life and they've brought balance to the other side, so that I feel now like I can walk a middle path. If you lose that, you might think you're on a middle path not realising you're all the way to one side or the other because you've lost the contrast.   Daniel: (57:17) Now I've got these people who are some of my very best and closest allies and friends, who are not people I would have necessarily connected with before, but they have opened my world up to things that I didn't know what I was missing in my life. I haven't jettisoned all the other stuff I've just for every far out idea you need some earthy idea to balance it and counter oppose it. That's really important. What we're seeing right now, it's probably a very different political landscape in Australia than it is here in the States right now. But I'm sure from the outside you can see what's happening here, which is like this soft civil war, this cold civil war that's happening here with these oppositional ideas. I get frustrated because we call one left wing and call one right wing. I'm always like, "Man, every plane I see has like both wings."   Daniel: (58:02) That's how it flies. You cut one off, like, "No, we're just going to be the left wing plane." It's like we'll crash and vice versa we're just the right wing. It's like you need both. They're supposed to keep each other in balance. What's happening now is they're saying, no, only this or only this. So similarly, this is a holistic, and what's cool about that is just every mystery teaching ever is always this. Whatever place you look where there's a mystery teaching, it talks about these two oppositional forces that bring each other into, and finding that balance point in the center. I think when you have this hunting gathering component, it gives a platform for exploring consciousness in a way that you never get too far off balance.   Mason: (58:47) Dude, and that's why I love your work so much. I mean, when someone would go like, "Hey, so what does Vitalis do?" It's like, "Well, I'm going to tell you all the things." It's at some point it's experiential. What you're talking about is holding that consistent ground of integration and sharing, for lack of a better word, principles in and around these hardcore ideas that can be applied actually to your life. But that's why, if you are going to the supermarket, if you're going to farmer's markets, if you're doing a little bit of foraging, it doesn't really matter if you listen to the podcast. The WildFed podcast I've dug into a little bit, I'm really enjoying it so far. But the show's relevant wherever you're at, and you'll really get that. It's like, yes, it is absolutely about the hunting and foraging and the fishing.   Mason: (59:34) But no matter where you're at, it's not just this bullshit idea of like, "Yeah but it can work for anybody. "It is because underlying are principles that you can… Everything you've just talked about nailed it. For someone like myself that is fanatical and does shoot off into the heavens quite often as well, that's been a nice stable ground. It helps, kind of, me feel comfortable in the direction that I'm at. I always have people coming towards me who have cracked out in one particular identity and they're trying to integrate. It's interesting trying to explain what that is. I really, really appreciate that. I'm sure it gets sung a lot, but being there and sharing authentically to help us continue to integrate and not go into the excesses that can cause pathology when we are having these beautiful intention to become healthy, that's really appreciated.   Daniel: (01:00:31) We are in that time where people, like, pathology around every corner right now. We have to be really careful. There's never been a more confusing time in history. I feel like the fundamental thing that's going to be, I mentioned it earlier, I feel like big choices are coming. Because pretty soon the distinction between reality and augmented reality and virtual reality are going to get so gray, it's going to be so difficult to sort out, not for us, man, we grew up in reality. But the next generation of kids are going to grow up in augmented reality and the next generation of kids are going to grow up in a virtual world.   Daniel: (01:01:08

Daniel Vitalis is the host of WildFed. For ten years he lectured around North America and abroad, offering workshops that helped others lead healthier, more nature-integrated lives. A successful entrepreneur, he founded the nutrition company SurThrival.com in 2008. Most recently, he hosted the popular podcast ReWild Yourself. He’s a Registered Maine Guide, writer, public speaker, interviewer, and lifestyle pioneer who’s especially interested in helping people reconnect with wildness, both inside and outside of themselves. After learning to hunt, fish, and forage as an adult, Daniel created WildFed to inspire others to start a wild-food journey of their own.Headquartered in the Lakes Region of Maine, he lives with his beautiful wife Avani and their Plott Hound Ellie.In this episode, Daniel will share with us:The origins of his search for answers to life in the natural world. The impact that the built environment and domestication is having on us.His awe for spending time in nature.To find out more about Daniel Vitalis, visit http://danielvitalis.com/I’d love to know your thoughts and experiences - join the conversation on my Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/paleochefpeteevans. For more episodes of HEAL, find us on iTunes at https://apple.co/2NpsIba, Spotify at https://spoti.fi/2NpSiN0, Acast at https://play.acast.com/s/pete-evans, click the link on https://peteevans.com, or just look up "HEAL" in your favourite podcast app. I'd love to spread the knowledge in these podcasts far and wide. If you liked this episode, I'd love it if you could share it with your friends, and perhaps even leave a review on iTunes. This podcast is proudly presented by The Institute For Integrative Nutrition, or IIN for short.I've completed this amazing health training course through IIN, and I would thoroughly recommend it for anyone wanting to start a career in the health coaching and wellness space.This course is conducted over a year long period and it's constructed in a way that if you're a full time worker or a busy parent or wherever you are in your life will still be able to complete all the required curriculum and modules. Please see the link included in this post on my Facebook or Instagram page or on iTunes, to access the free sample class and first module of the program, to get a great taste of the format and structure as well as utilise my special discount that I can offer you if you decide to sign up.Make sure you tell the admission team that you're part of the Pete Evans tuition savings to claim your very substantial discount visit https://www.integrativenutrition.com Theme music by Mandharu. Audio production by https://AndyMaher.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this introductory episode, I talk about my story: who I am, where I came from, and what rewilding means to me. This episode sets the context in which the rest of this podcast will reside.Resources:Rewild or Die by Urban Scout (My moniker)Press Interviews over the last 13 yearsTom Brown Jr. Ishmael by Daniel QuinnCoyote TracksJon Young's 8 Sheild's MentoringWilderness Awareness SchoolGreen Anarchy Magazinerewild.comRewild PortlandSupport the show

Visit evanbrand.com for 1-on-1 functional medicine consultations. Daniel Vitalis is the host of WildFed.For ten years he lectured around North America and abroad, offering workshops that helped others lead healthier, more nature-integrated lives. A successful entrepreneur, he founded the nutrition company SurThrival.com in 2008. Most recently, he hosted the popular podcast ReWild Yourself.Hes a Registered Maine Guide, writer, public speaker, interviewer, and lifestyle pioneer whos especially interested in helping people reconnect with wildness, both inside and outside of themselves.After learning to hunt, fish, and forage as an adult, Daniel created WildFed to inspire others to start a wild-food journey of their own.

The next paradigm shift I had after food, movement and going barefoot was courtesy of the wonderful podcast Rewild Yourself. Then I talk about doing what is hard, but not that hard, to create a future me that is the one I want, not the one I end up with through inaction

In this episode Adrian explores the way the natural world has a curative effect on us. He looks at the way we interact with that world and that, after all we are animals ourselves and we are an integral part of the ecosystem we live in, especially if we are prepared to listen to it, rather than ignore it. We will then find our place in the family of things. There is a bonus song on this podcast, a Donavan composition for the Zeffirelli Film Brother Sun and Sister Moon. It is sung by Wilma Scott; Adrian's wife. The books mentioned are, Wild Signs and Star Paths: The keys to our lost sixth sense by Tristan , Becoming Animal by David Abrams, Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways to Make Nature More Visible by Simon Barnes, The Reluctant Saint by Donald Spoto. My third collection of poetry is called A Night Sea Journey and is available with my other works at www.adriangrscott.com. 

Did you know that some scientists say that oaks produce more nuts annually than every other nut tree—both wild and commercial—combined? Nuts, right? (Yeah, yeah—laugh it up. The pun was intended.) Acorns, or oak nuts, are nutritional powerhouses. Depending on the species, a single acorn can contain up to 18% fat, 6% protein, and 68% carbohydrate—with the rest just being water, minerals, and gut-healthy fiber.  Acorns are also great sources of both vitamins A and C, as well as having a long list of essential and nonessential aminos acids.  With those numbers, it’s easy to understand why the native people here in California never resorted to agriculture and why—interestingly—they never spoke of—or created traditions for—famine. To speak more about this abundant wild food, I'm excited to introduce to you someone I've mentioned many times on Ancestral Health Radio before: Daniel Vitalis. I waited for what seemed like a couple years for this interview... Which, by the way, is a solid two hours. So I decided to break it up into a two-part episode, so your ears can have something to munch on later. Daniel's helped me, as well as many of my friends, better understand ecology through ancestral lifeways. In today's episode, you'll learn... Why Daniel says he no longer has a morning routine, The wild food Daniel believes is going to revolutionize food production (hint: It's "not a grain"), Why Daniel's use of technology scares him (and why technology should scare you, too), and... Much, much more. Episode Breakdown Welcome Daniel onto the show The significance of being a symbol and the impact that idea has on Daniel Why Daniel separates the mundane intricacies of his personal life from his business life Daniel's opinion on actors and sports figures as political commentators Why Daniel says he's not the person to speak about productivity or systems related to entrepreneurship How Daniel is currently prioritizing in his personal life  Why Daniel no longer subscribes to the idea of morning routines Why Daniel and his partner don't live together Four of Daniel's daily practices The one skill Daniel's currently spending most of his time on Why processing food takes president over many facets of Daniel's lifestyle Daniel's favorite foraging season Daniel explains the anthroposcene era and its significance to modern hunting and gathering Why Daniel says you'd be hard pressed to find any true hunter-gatherers these day The wild food Daniel believes is going to revolutionize food production (hint: It's "not a grain") The role grains have played in the civilizing of the modern world What Daniel says is more exciting, and bigger work, than any one food The two-pronged idea behind Daniel's episode, "Is Wild Food A Privilege?" Daniel opens up and shares his traumatic background growing up in the United States Why building a loyal team of people who share your vision can be one of the hardest things you can ever do Daniel's thoughts on white privilege and America's self-correcting constitution Why Daniel won't touch the topic of evolutionary and biological psychology  Why we're currently fighting an information-based civil war Daniel's personal conservation efforts Why most of the people Daniel says he's inspired by are not people who specifically identify with the word rewilding The four guests that have most impacted Daniel over the span of 175+ episodes of the Rewild Yourself podcast (Stephen Jenkinson, Dan Flores, Gabor Maté, and Neil Strauss)  Why Daniel says he likes to find inspiration outside of the rewilding community rather than from within it

Tim Spector — a Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and microbiome researcher — spent three days eating like a hunter-gatherer with the Hadza in Tanzania and dramatically changed the diversity of his gut microbiome. He wrote about his experience in a recent article for CNN, and we brought him on ReWild Yourself Podcast to share his story and explain the importance of gut diversity for robust health. Tim is also the Founder and Director of the TwinsUK Registry at Kings College, London — the richest collection of genotypic and phenotypic information worldwide — and has recently been elected to the prestigious Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He has published over 800 research articles and is ranked as being in the top 1% of the world’s most cited scientists by Thomson-Reuters. He held a prestigious European Research Council senior investigator award in epigenetics and is a NIHR Senior Investigator. His current work focuses on omics and the microbiome, and he directs the crowdfunded British Gut microbiome project. He is a prolific writer with several popular science books and a regular blog, focusing on genetics, epigenetics and most recently, microbiome and diet.  In this interview, Tim brings us up to speed on our current scientific understanding of the microbiome, what his research has uncovered and how we can apply this knowledge to our own diet and lifestyle to achieve a healthy microbiome. Ultimately, Tim has found that the key to a diverse and healthy gut is to ReWild Yourself — eating a species-rich diet of foraged foods and interacting with the natural world (translation: exposure to plentiful and diverse microbes). Tune into our conversation for an in-depth outline of the trillions of bacteria that inhabit your human animal, and learn how you can cultivate a healthy, robust community of beneficial gut bacteria. EPISODE BREAKDOWN: Show Introduction: SurThrival NEW product teaser + upcoming Rather Hunt Gather clothing Hunt + Gather updates: Feral apples, wild cranberries, butternut, bear hunting, chicken of the woods mushroom and offshore fishing on the Bunny Clark Q&A: Barefoot boot recommendations Introducing Professor Tim Spector Defining omics Studying twins and epigenetics What led Tim to his study of diet Researching the healthiest diet The largest endocrine organ in the body: the microbiome Microbiome and metabolic individuality What is our current understanding of the microbiome? The effects of antibiotics on the microbiome Recounting Tim’s time spent living and eating with the Hadza Thoughts on the microbiome of the ReWilder General guidelines for a healthy microbiome Tim’s prognosis for the future of the human species

Hello again! Frank and I return with a follow up to our previous show about our familiarity with market foods vs the weeds outside. We're both new-ish to foraging - but I have a year's worth of paying attention AND a mentor to guide me... and Frank has a passion, an understanding of the nutrient riches out there, and a crazy frustration because he feels lost in the weeds - so to speak. In this show - we chat about some of those frustrations and get around to recommending resources and approaches to getting passed the road blocks to collecting and eating wild foods in your brain. I go off on a wild tangent about pollen in the rock record. I have a lot to learn about living pollen - having only experienced the fossilized remains (queue the massive googling). Some resources mentioned in the show: Arthur Haines Sam Thayer Steve Cooksey Daniel Vitalis We have also received our first carrier pigeon! Jen asks about ticks and what we do about them. Frank refers her to a great episode that Daniel Vitalis does for one of his Rewild Yourself episodes with Stephen Harrod Buhner.

ReWild yourself or else. It's my birthday today, 72, & I am in the process of ReWilding myself according to a post I wrote awhile back. So, I'm going to use that post this week as the podcast to give us all a quick reminder that while the saying “Change is good. You go first” is […] The post ReWild Yourself or Else. PODSNACKS-ArtoftheDiet079 appeared first on Art of the Diet.

Dan Flores is an American writer and historian who specializes in cultural and environmental studies of the American West. He held the A.B. Hammond Chair in Western History at the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana until he retired in May 2014. Dan Flores and I discuss his book Coyote America. Check out episode 33 of MeatEater, episode 93 of Rewild Yourself. Affiliates Save 10% and get free shipping! Save $100 off the Profitable Urban Farming Course by clicking Or do the payment plan Start your own podcast! Download.

The Gems are being their multitasking selves — they are doing their hair and sitting by the fire for this recording, so there are some interesting background noises. Ginger just listened to Oscar Perez's The Making of Men interview on KVMR (see link below), so the Gems discuss masculinity, the caricature of machismo, and that the idea of "men" and "women" is more about emotional maturity rather than the adolescent ideas of what men and women are. Our society has a lot of "advanced-age boys" and "advanced-age girls" as it is obsessed with staying in the light, although development and maturity are achieved by doing the deeper work and getting broken down in the darkness. Ginger is in a dark abyss right now, and she shares a bit about moving through it, embracing it, and enjoying the work. (Sneak peek: in upcoming episode 21 she shares more specifics). As it is the holidays, Kat and Ginger do talk about mistletoe, but the conversation quickly turns to masturbation. The ladies discuss stoking the fire in yourself and doing that with a lover. What are things we can do to be in a juicy space? How do you romance yourself? Only we can keep ourselves in a juicy, creative space.   In typical Gemini fashion, there are many references in this episode. Here are links to help connect the dots: The Making of Men, conversation between Oscar Perez and Elisa Parker of See Jane Do (scroll down to the link on Oscar's website front page) Witch Skewl with Birch Tarot and the Journey of the Hero book I Am Not Your Guru, Tony Robbins documentary ReWild Yourself podcast with Daniel Vitalis Episode #116 Erotic Blueprint, What's Your Type? with Miss Jaiya Kim Anami    

Arthur Haines — botanist, taxonomist, primitive skills practitioner and a regular guest on ReWild Yourself podcast — is back on the show, and we have some VERY exciting news to share with you. For the past year, Arthur has been pouring his heart into writing a book that is a foundational education in human ecology and the ReWilding lifestyle. From the diet of Homo sapiens to a look at civilizations past to expanding comfort zones through hormesis, Arthur takes us through the book chapter by chapter, hitting the highlights of each topic as we go. At the heart of the book, and Arthur’s message, is something many of us feel — the missing lynchpin: a need for sustainable and rejuvenate ReWilding community. In the past few shows, I’ve been hinting at an online program Arthur and I have put together for the upcoming winter season. This program will be a great way to stay connected with Arthur and I — and the ReWilding community — throughout the winter months. We’ll dive into study together and support one another in keeping ReWilding motivation high. In this episode, we share all the details on how you can get involved. I hope you’ll join us this winter! EPISODE BREAKDOWN: Daniel answers your questions on: Public speaking When to teach your child about hunting Building community Daniel shares about ReWild 101: A New Path Book Club Program details Early bird pricing on the program An exciting scholarship opportunity Daniel and Arthur catch up Arthur shares about his new book, A New Path A need for sustainable and rejuvenate ReWilding community A course book for the ReWilding lifestyle Distilling the diet of Homo sapiens Wild water and wild medicine A look at past civilizations and what we can learn from them Learning and unlearning Real, wild movement for real living Input from the ReWilding community Hormesis: expanding comfort zones The missing lynchpin: Community Green choices and primitive technologies Tying it all together The legacy of Arthur’s book What happened with Arthur’s publishing deal ReWild 101: A New Path Book Club Excerpt from A New Path

In this episode, the Gems get outraged about gender neutrality. Polarity and tension make the world go round! They add juice to our lives. Why is there a push to make things and people neutral? Why not push for acceptance instead? Allow people to be who they are rather than sculpting them into some sort of program, whether based on gender or the lack thereof. Not only does neutral not move forward but it also strips away sexuality and sensuality. Ginger experienced The Great Sterilization of Bellydance, and she certainly doesn't want to see that happen to society as a whole. Here are links to some of the resources we mention: Factual Feminist YouTube channel ReWild Yourself podcast Kim Anami

Nadine Artemis is a trailblazer in the new paradigm of women’s self care, and in this interview, she lays out her favorite practices to nurture the female body. Nadine is the founder of Living Libations — an exquisite line of lotions, potions, scents, creams and essential oils that I use personally — and a regular guest on ReWild Yourself podcast. In our past two interviews, Nadine has detailed her Stop, Seal and Seed method for dental care and skin care, and in this episode, she shares how women can apply this method to vaginal care. We learn what conventional female body care products and practices to avoid and Nadine’s favorite natural alternatives. We also discuss breast health and care, and Nadine reveals some fascinating information on breast cancer that is important for every woman to explore. Nadine’s nourishing self care practices are simple, low maintenance and accessible to all. Ladies (and the men who love them), I hope you enjoy this interview! EPISODE BREAKDOWN: Daniel shares: ReWild Yourself podcast updates A teaser about an upcoming program with Arthur Haines Daniel answers your questions on: Parasite cleansing and eating brains Optimizing your vehicle Mainstream messaging on women’s beauty and hygiene The “discovery” of the clitoris Internet pornography vs. natural sexuality What does the new paradigm of women’s self care look like? How to avoid mycotoxins Caring for your vagina with the stop, seal and seed method Alternatives to conventional menstrual products Yeast infections - re-listen Marketing chemically-induced menopause to young girls Relieving menstrual pain The many issues with KY Jelly Boosting the lubricant jouissance-ness of your life Best oils to care for your vagina Common natural lubricants The different types of estrogens and how they’re affecting women’s bodies The risk of breast cancer and the implications of a systemic myco-infection Exploring some startling breast cancer stats How bras inhibit the body and alternatives to the conventional bra Low maintenance breast and body care Nadine’s prognosis for the future of women

How much of your movement are you outsourcing? Biomechanist and best-selling author Katy Bowman is back on ReWild Yourself podcast to share how we can transition to a more movement-rich lifestyle by outsourcing less of our daily needs and operations. Katy is passionate about Nutritious Movement, "a whole-body movement program that utilizes Movement Micronutrients, Movement Macronutrients, and habitat (lifestyle) changes to nourish all trillion of your body’s parts.” In this interview, we cover some of the valuable material in Katy’s new book Movement Matters where she dissects our cultural sedentism and the issues with our convenience-fueled society. We discuss simple ways to enter the world of foraging, how to stack your life to make the most of your time and energy, the luxury of exercise, movement ecology and more. EPISODE BREAKDOWN: Daniel shares on: Upcoming SurThrival sale Hunting with hounds in North Carolina Squirrel hunting and processing Has the public spotlight made Daniel less likely to change his view on things? Daniel’s thoughts on intermittent fasting Daniel and Katy catch up Outsourcing movement Stacking your life How to transition to foraging Speciesism, disconnection from ecology and the luxury of exercise Evidence-based living Broadening your palette What is movement ecology? Katy’s prognosis for the future of the human species Where to find Katy’s work

What is the mind? How does the mind differ from the brain? These are some of the questions Dr. Daniel Siegel explores in his second appearance on the ReWild Yourself podcast. Dr. Siegel is a noted neuropsychiatrist and New York Times best-selling author, and he has just released a new book that delves into consciousness, subjective experience and the self-organizational properties of the mind. In this episode, we go deeper into some of the topics we covered in our first conversation. We discuss how Dr. Siegel navigates the worlds of science and spirituality in his work, how brain activity differs from the mind, our perception of time and his hopes for his work in mindsight and personal transformation. EPISODE BREAKDOWN: Daniel Vitalis shares and answers your questions on: Hunter safety courses Processing of meat after a hunt Waiting until after the first freeze to hunt squirrel Balancing the modern hunting & gathering lifestyle with a day job Dr. Siegel’s latest book Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human Between two worlds Self organization and integration Science vs spirituality “Mind” vs “brain activity" Entanglement The directionality of change & access to the infinite Who are we, really? Breaking down the Wheel of Awareness Bridging the islands Dr. Siegel’s hope for his work

What a treat it was to talk with primatologist and biological anthropologist Craig Stanford. If you’re a regular listener of ReWild Yourself podcast, you probably know how deeply fascinated I am with the great apes. I think they give us a window into understanding ourselves biologically, into understanding our wildness and even help us to glimpse into our origins. Craig — author of sixteen books and over one hundred scholarly and popular articles — has studied chimpanzees extensively, studying their hunting behavior in Tanzania in collaboration with Dr. Jane Goodall, studying chimps and mountain gorillas in Uganda and more. He takes us on a journey to the meeting place of primatology and anthropology. He breaks down the social behaviors of some of the great apes, focusing on chimps and bonobos, and shares some of his controversial findings on the popularized "peaceful bonobo" research. This interview provides context to many of the themes we discuss on this podcast and was my favorite of the season. if you’re interested in ReWilding, I think you’ll find our conversation fascinating. EPISODE BREAKDOWN: Daniel shares on: Vibram FiveFingers Fats, food fads and the ketogenic diet Thoughts on contraception & my personal contraception strategy An interesting interview experience: Christianity and ReWilding Craig’s journey in writing and primatology Our last common ancestor Should we be in the same genus as chimps and bonobos? The great apes as a window into our origins Multiple species of apes vs one Homo sapiens species What is a species? The politics of naming species Differences between chimps and bonobo Omnivorous diets and hunting strategies of apes Frodo’s story Meat as a commodity for manipulation The plight of the modern ape Craig’s prognosis for the future of the human species

Radiant sense-visionary Nadine Artemis — creator of Living Libations — is back on ReWIld Yourself podcast! In this interview, Nadine gives us a complete breakdown of how to properly care for our skin with the Stop, Seal and Seed approach. She shares what dietary and self-care practices are proven to produce healthy, glowing skin, as well as what hygiene products and foods are less-than-optimal. You’ll learn why bacteria is your skin’s best friend, the popular skin care product that you most want to avoid, Nadine’s core skin care recommendations and so much more. Consider this an owner’s manual for your largest organ! EPISODE BREAKDOWN: Daniel answers your questions on glyphosate detoxification, meditation, learning practices and his favorite podcasts An exciting announcement! Nadine’s skin care beginnings Strategy vs simplicity with skin care Bacteria is our beautician The damage of excessive exfoliation Stop, seal and seed approach Deciphering labels and so-called “natural” ingredient lists The primary organ of elimination Switching from conventional deodorants and shampoos How Cesarean births affect a baby’s micro biome  + a solution Sun is your best friend Flora friends with benefits Best practices for using oil on your skin Nadine’s core Living Libations products Nadine’s prognosis for the future of the human species

  "To deny that humans are predators is comparable to rejecting that humans are communal organisms." — Arthur Haines In a recent podcast episode (Why I'm Not a Vegan - Daniel Vitalis #94), I shared my personal experience with veganism and discussed the core reasons why I think we need to reexamine the Vegan approach. After this show aired, I received an outpouring of feedback from you — thank you to all who listened and took the time to write me! As promised, I invited Arthur Haines — botanist, taxonomist, primitive skill practitioner and regular guest on ReWild Yourself podcast — to join me to discuss some of the refutations I received in response to the Why I’m Not A Vegan episode. Arthur and I shed light on many popular meat-eating myths and get into some interesting conversation on sustainable eating, speciesism, omnivory, animal husbandry and looking at the big picture. We bring to the discussion our combined academic and experiential perspectives for a comprehensive look at an often polarizing topic.  EPISODE BREAKDOWN: Daniel answers questions on tent living and the fifth element A short passage from Arthur’s forthcoming book, A New Path Gratitude to vegans for taking a stand against factory farming A local and sustainable lifeway Agriculture and the plight of 7 billion people Anthropomorphizing animals and speciesism Attempting to transcend our DNA Are most vegetarians actually omnivores? Seeking longevity vs long-term robust health We’ve always been omnivores... The meat & cancer myth There are no multi-generational vegans Veganism and children Vitamins & minerals from plants vs. animals Is animal husbandry destroying the planet? Were there vegan tribes of hunter gatherers? Cooking our food Taboos of eating certain animals Using our evolutionary history to guide our lifestyles Concluding thoughts from Daniel and Arthur Seeing the big picture 

In today’s show I’m are talking to my friend Daniel Vitalis about human domestication. What happened when we started farming? What happened when we started living in unnatural homes cut off from the earth’s natural ecology, and from our true wild nature? We will discuss the truth about where we came from, where we are, and where we might be going.  We also take a brutally honest look into our current human diets, and compare that to the diets of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. We explore some very thought-provoking ideas on the ever-raging battle of vegan vs. paleo eating habits. How much damage and destruction is actually caused by growing an acre of kale? Why do we devalue the lives of plants and all of the small creatures that die in the process of modern agriculture? Spoiler alert for vegans: Keep an open mind, then follow your heart. Daniel Vitalis is a writer, podcaster, public speaker and lifestyle pioneer in the sphere of human health, personal development and strategic living. He’s the host of the podcast Rewild Yourself as well as the founder of Surthrival - a fresh, unique, high-end natural supplement boutique. Get ready to unplug from the matrix and say hello to your inner wild animal.  Long live the human ape! Luke Storey

My good friend and mentor Arthur Haines is back on the show to cover the topic of community. In our popular “How to Feed Your Human” series from last season of ReWild Yourself podcast, we briefly touched on the topic of community and so many of you reached out wanting us to go deeper. In this interview, Arthur joins me in-studio to delve into this fundamental and vital topic to the ReWilding lifestyle. EPISODE BREAKDOWN: What is community? War and peace The 9 traits of community: Place in common Hunter-gatherers were nomadic Small groups Low population density Political structure Equal wealth distribution Division of labor Sharing Cohesion Sharing fosters strong community Cultivating wisdom Establishing egalitarian communities The benefits of community The oak, the squirrel & the weavil Arthur’s vision for community Arthur’s prognosis for the human species

As I mentioned in Wednesday's show with Shawn Stevenson, this week we're bringing you a bonus episode of ReWild Yourself podcast! This interview, while a bit product-focused, is also rich in vital content; if you enjoyed Shawn’s interview, this is a great supplement. I've been hinting about my new bed for a while, and after 6 months of sleeping on it, I'm finally ready to detail my experience. Today I'm talking to Claus Pummer of Samina Sleep Systems. Claus is an expert on all things sleep, particularly setting up an ideal sleep environment. He’s here to share how we can optimize our sleep sanctuaries, give insights into sleep psychology and to take us on a tour of what I think is the healthiest bed on earth!  Two warnings about the show: 1: While this show is content-rich, if you're someone who is triggered by promotion, you might want to skip the second half of this interview where Claus details the Samina bed :) We support the ReWild Yourself podcast through sponsors and affiliates like SurThrival and Samina.  2: Claus has a heavy German accent and is extremely passionate about sleep (which means he can get talking fast). Please bear with us! We do our best to repeat things and slow down the pace of conversation, as necessary (: Enjoy, and may all your sleep be sound and sweet! EPISODE BREAKDOWN: Sleep landscape Setting up your ideal sleep environment What’s the problem with carpet? Insights on sleep psychology What are the best bedding materials? An in-depth overview of the Samina Bed System Importance of grounding while sleeping Longevity and maintenance of the Samina mattress What is the investment for a Samina Bed System? Claus's prognosis for the future of the human species

Shawn Stevenson — bestselling author and creator of The Model Health Show — is back on ReWild Yourself podcast to motivate us to make sleep a primary focus as he details his latest sleep research. Sleep has been a big focus for me as of late. I find I’m able to get more out of my day if I allocate a larger portion of it to getting quality sleep. In this interview, Shawn provides us with some powerful takeaways, including one important piece on the sleep—gut health connection that was completely new to me, and I think you’ll find particularly fascinating. I hope our conversation inspires you to create a nightly sleep practice that rejuvenates your mind and body. EPISODE BREAKDOWN: Shawn’s path to his sleep research How much sleep do you need? “A good night’s sleep starts the moment you wake up in the morning" Do we need to black out our windows? Take control of your evening ritual — "Getting ready for bed" Go device-less at night Powerful new research connecting sleep and gut health Nutrients that supplement good quality sleep Shawn's prognosis for the future of the human species

In the third and final installment of the How To Feed Your Human series, Arthur and I cover the fungal, bacterial, elemental and experiential food groups. This is one of my favorite conversations with Arthur to date! Topics range from adaptogenic mushrooms to lacto-fermented foods to the loss of firsthand experience and so much more. I hope this series has inspired you to reclaim your genome and begin to live a lifestyle with the Neo-Aboriginal of the future in mind! As you know, this is the last episode of the ReWild Yourself! podcast before we take a brief pause to reformat and revamp the show. What an incredible journey this podcast has been thus far, and I cannot wait to connect with you again in early 2016! Episode Breakdown: * Fungi are not plants * Immune-modulating components of fungi * Cultivated vs. wild mycelium * Pick your favorite fungi game * Civilization is an alcoholic * Eating scoby's * How to get probiotics in your diet * Favorite lacto-fermented foods * Getting dirty with soil microbes * Elemental food * Cold plunging and cryotherapy * The loss of firsthand experience * Importance of staying in motion * Vital experiential foods for the healthy human * Putting stress in perspective * Spending time in natural settings * Being eco-centric rather than ego-centric

Arthur Haines is back on the show! Arthur is both a mentor to me and a good friend, and he has been fundamental to many of the concepts presented on this podcast. As I mentioned last week, we’ll be taking a break from the podcast while we carry out a major revamp behind the scenes. Our very first podcast guest on ReWild Yourself! was Arthur Haines, and so I cannot think of a better way to close out this chapter than an interview series with Arthur. In this episode, we begin a discussion on how to feed your human, and Arthur presents the fundamental food groups for the ideal diet of the human animal. In part one, we focus on animal foods! Stay tuned for the next installments in this series where we will discuss plant, fungal, bacterial, elemental and experiential foods! Episode Breakdown: * Help! I’m lost! * Sleep podcast recap * Food group paradigm * How to achieve healthy genetic expression * The placebo effect * The new “food groups" * Food Group #1: Animal foods * Importance of consuming DHA * Fluid intelligence & Vitamin B12 * Eating pastured foods * Foods from the sea, and how to consume fish safely * Managing stress for better epigenetic health * Daniel’s & Arthur’s favorite animal foods * We’re not eating food; we’re eating life

Couples in the Paleolithic world would never have fantasized about running off by themselves to their own little retreats in the forest. No Stone Age lovers would have imagined in their wildest dreams that they could or should be “everything” to each other. That way lay death. ― Stephanie Coontz, Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy Stephanie Coontz is a marriage historian and author of seven books on marriage and family life. In this podcast, she takes us on a tour through the evolution of marriage and intimacy throughout human history. We discuss everything from egalitarianism to “the one” to polyamory vs. monogamy. This show is enlightening and adds another piece to the puzzle as we continue to dissect the mating styles of the human animal, here on the ReWild Yourself! podcast. Episode Breakdown: * The way we never were * Are we hardwired for egalitarianism? * The quest for in-laws * Marrying for love * The soulmate fantasy * Individual needs vs group needs * Sex and marriage throughout history * Monogamy vs non-monogamy * The story of divorce over the ages * Today’s marriage statistics  * The changing roles of men and women in a marriage 

Most of us are exposed to an abundance of artificial blue light on a daily basis, via our modern technology (lamps, cellphones, computers, TVs, etc). Our bodies physiologically respond to light from the blue portion of the spectrum with a state of wakefulness, via the suppression of melatonin production. This constant stream of artificial blue light is wreaking havoc on our circadian rhythms.   Today’s guest, a physicist, is one of the leading experts on this topic — Dr. Edward Carome. In this episode, you’ll learn how blue light interacts with our bodies by suppressing melatonin-production and some surprising, and not often discussed, effects this can have on us. Dr Carome relays some excellent strategies on how to minimize blue light exposure, particularly in the evening hours. Whether you are using these blue-light-producing modern devices on a daily basis or not, the information in this interview is extremely important! Enjoy, and please share your thoughts in the ReWild Yourself! Facebook group! I’d love to hear what strategies you are utilizing to safeguard your circadian rhythm!  Episode Breakdown: * Dr. Carome’s background in light * The effects of blue light on the pineal gland * Artificial light from our modern devices * Dr. Carome’s experience with melatonin * When to use blue-blockers to support your circadian rhythms * The powerful effects of melatonin * Amount of blue light in LEDs, Incandescents, Tungstens and other bulbs * Do short bursts of blue light at night cause melatonin production to cease? * The best blue-blocking products and how to use * Crisper focus outdoors wearing blue-blocking glasses * Concluding thoughts

In my final Dispatch conversation with Arthur Haines (not to worry...Arthur will continue to join us on ReWild Yourself! podcast!), we discuss the death of Homo sapiens domestico fragilis and traverse the vast spectrum of ReWilding. Episode Breakdown: * The extinction of indigenous humans * What is the ReWilding mindset? * The vast spectrum of ReWilding * Immersion in nature for better health * How to best spend 30 minutes in nature * Bringing wildness into your gut flora * Raising the next generation of ReWilders

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! podcast, I have a fascinating conversation with Stephen Cave — author of internationally acclaimed book "Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization" — about death and why we fear it. He elaborates on the "4 stories we tell ourselves about death" from his popular TED talk. Episode Breakdown: * First experiences with death * Other species’ relationship to death * Immortality projects * The “elixir” story * The “resurrection” story * The “soul” story * Science and the immortality quest * The “legacy” story * How to cope with death denial * Stephen’s thoughts on the “zombie apocalypse” heroism over death * What it’s like to work in the death field * Stephen’s new projects

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! podcast, Mark Harris — author of Grave Matters — gives us an introduction to the green burial movement. He explains the many ways in which green burial is a better alternative to traditional modern burial practices. Episode Breakdown: * History of green burial * The invasive process of embalming * Purpose of modern day embalming * Impact of having less interaction with the dead * The burial vault * Green cemeteries  * Mark’s personal burial plans * How green burial works * The green burial movement * Mark’s mission

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! podcast, I talk with Rory Miller — author of Mediations on Violence — about the human violence blueprint. We debunk some of the most common misconceptions about violence and self defense. Episode Breakdown: * The Violence Taboo * Why are humans so afraid of violence? * The Violence Threshold * Common misconceptions surrounding violence * Misconceptions about law enforcement * The unknowns vs. creating your own reality * Levels of security * Scenarios of violent situations * Rory’s top tips for human survivability * Awareness makes your life richer * Nature vs. nurture

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! podcast, I talk with David Morgan — widely recognized analyst in the precious metals industry — on how to get started investing in silver for financial survival. Episode Breakdown: * Health above wealth * What is money? * The decline of the US dollar * How David became interested in silver * The many uses of silver * Price disparity between gold and silver * How to get started investing in silver * Silver preparedness  * Unique storage ideas for the small silver investor

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! podcast, Tristan Gooley — author of The Natural Navigator — gives us some wonderful insights into using natural navigation in both natural and urban settings. Episode Breakdown: * Tristan’s adventures across the Atlantic Ocean * Using clues from nature to navigate * How to navigate when you’re in a foreign city * 3 ways to navigate using migratory birds * How to orient yourself under a forest canopy * What to do when you get lost * GPS technology: friend or foe? * About his book and courses

In this stream-of-consciousness rant, I reflect on Dispatch 6 of ReWild Yourself! magazine. EPISODE BREAKDOWN: * Influenza season * Who really uses psychoactive medicines * Using entheogens to awaken spirituality | Hallmark card spirituality * Realizing that plants and animals are not our “resources" * Death simulator * The blurry line of food and drugs * The shaman path * Getting into the right state and space when experiencing entheogens

I'm thrilled to have Nora Gedgaudas — author of the international best-selling book, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond the Paleo Diet for Total Health and a Longer Life — back on ReWild Yourself! podcast to talk entheogens. Episode Breakdown: * Traditional native entheogen use * Holotropic Breathwork * Recreational experience vs meaningful spiritual experience * We have an interconnected network of specific receptors that seem to illicit different types of consciousness * Entheogen help for PTSD * What does the future of shamanism look like? * Controlling drug use is controlling consciousness * Entheogen use can give you the state change that “stuff” cannot  * Legality of entheogens * Effects of marijuana use on the brain * Psychedelics help de-condition us from our cultural values * Let medicine be thy food

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! podcast, Dennis McKenna — an ethnopharmacologist who has studied plant hallucinogens for over forty years — explains what happens when psychedelics are in our systems and recounts some of his fascinating adventures with his brother Terence McKenna in South America hunting psilocybin mushrooms and DMT. Episode Breakdown: * What is ethnopharmacology? * Merging science and the spiritual * The spectrum of food and medicine in tribal cultures * What happens when psychedelics are in our system * Seretonin upgrades * Psychedelics bring the background to the foreground * Plant vs synthetic drugs * Adventures with his brother Terence McKenna in South America hunting mushrooms and DMT * A nutrient deficiency causing reductionist and materialistic world view

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! podcast, I talk with Dr. Ronald Goldman — author of Circumcision: The Hidden Trauma and the leading expert in the field — about the deep, oft-repressed psychological trauma stemming from circumcision.  Episode Breakdown: * How Dr. Goldman became involved with circumcision awareness * The difference between Jewish perspective and non-religious perspective * Mainstream media’s avoidance of balanced circumcision reporting * Psychological trauma of circumcision * The horrifying process of circumcision * Informed consent * One thing you can do to raise awareness of this issue * What is foreskin, and what does it do? * Repressed feelings of circumcised men 

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! Podcast, I talk with Sheri Winston, author of Women’s Anatomy of Arousal: Secret Maps to Buried Pleasure and leading sex expert. Episode Breakdown: * Sheri’s books * Taboo sexual language * Solo sex is our laboratory for pleasure experiments * Altered states of consciousness * Going into deep trance for mega-orgasmic experiences * The ecology of sex * Rediscovering the clitoris * Taking time with arousal for transcendent sex * The yin and yang of sexual energy * How to teach your children about sex * Sheri’s top sex tips for men and women

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! podcast, I talk with Stephen Harrod Buhner, an Earth poet and the award-winning author of twenty books on nature, indigenous cultures, the environment and herbal medicine. He is probably best known for is extensive writing in the field of herbalism and plant intelligence, though I would offer that he is one of the most significant writers and thought leaders of the modern ReWilding movement. Episode Breakdown: * Stephen’s early experiences with the metaphysical background of the world * The reality police * Fear of wildness * The education system shuts us down * Opening sensory gating channels * The 6th sensory channel: the feeling capacity * Using NeuroGnostics to open sensory gating channels * Reset your software program * Orient towards meaning rather than form * How to reclaim the feeling sense * How to operate from the feeling sense in this information-rich modern world * Sophisticated writing cultivates the feeling sense for the reader

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! podcast, I have a deep discussion with Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova, one of the pioneers of Conscious Evolution and founder of Birth Into Being, about how our traumatic birth experiences shape our psychology. Episode Breakdown: * Our world experience begins before conception * Birth experience is related to emotional memory * We are raising a society programmed to have needs neglected * Thousands of years of slavery still live in our bones * Daniel’s birth and childhood experience * Most of our fears have deep ancestral roots * Myths of birth complications * The altered state of Ecstatic Birth * The #1 way to avoid complications during birth * Give birth in a place, in a way, that connects to your true nature * How to deal with outside pressure when making decisions about your pregnancy * What does today’s ReWilded child look like? * Dissociation is ingrained in us from birth * An amazing story of a child healing herself from birth trauma * Healing words of wisdom from Elena

I will be sharing the occasional stream of consciousness rant on ReWild Yourself! podcast, and I've just recorded the first one! Episode Breakdown: * Podcast song origins * Information on my only ReWilding immersion workshop this year * Will you ever see me on a TV show? * Dispatch 4 reflections and Gobekli Tepe

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! podcast, I talk with Ido Portal, founder of Movement Culture and teacher of movement workshops around the world. Episode breakdown: * Modeling brachiation after apes and children * Movement diet — digesting movement nutrition * Specialization vs. Generalization * "Movement" vs. "Training" * The problems with modern yoga * Moving out of alignment * The natural human resting position * Flexibility vs. Mobility * Spine longevity — look to the cat * Prioritize movement

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! Podcast, Arthur Haines and I continue our conversation from earlier podcasts, this time focusing on the transition from semi-nomadism to sedentism. Episode breakdown: * Daily and seasonal movement was a huge part of hunter-gatherer existence * Nomadic peoples were not just endless wanderers * Agriculture is a spectrum * What emerges when people stop moving?  * Hunter-gatherers were generalists * Walking was a significant part of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle * Fit for the gym vs. fit for the earth * Is working out wasted energy? * Dissociative gym workouts * The amazing strength of foraging mothers

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! Podcast, I talk with Scott Sonnon, world renowned fitness trainer, founder of TACFIT, public speaker and author. Episode breakdown: * Diminished complexity of physical movement means diminished capacity for imagination * Importance of sweating for stress relief * Reprogramming movement at the brain stem level * Being more athletic does not make you more fit for daily life * Getting back to mobility basics for truly advanced fitness * When you "stand up straight," are you aligning or distorting your posture? * Experience high stress and maintain your fine motor skills * Literally shake off stress * Focus on the exhale * Scott's programs and innovative teaching techniques

In this episode of the ReWild Yourself! podcast, Erwan Le Corre, founder of MovNat, joins me to talk about natural movement.  Episode breakdown: * What natural movement means to Erwan * "Movement" vs. "Exercise" * Do we need to re-learn to move naturally? * Connection between movement and survival skills * Erwan's top strategies to avoid injury during movement training * Specificity causes body alienation * The movement you can do this afternoon

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! podcast, I talk with Nora Gedgaudas , author of the international best-selling book, Primal Body, Primal Mind  and widely recognized expert on the Paleo Diet.  Episode breakdown: * The Paleo diet * Milankovitch cycles explained * Gobekli Tepi  * The human zoo vs. the factory farm * Nora’s thoughts on gluten * Climate of complacency * The wild mind vs. the domesticated mind * Cultivate the feral mindset

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! podcast, I talk with Samuel Thayer, author of The Forager's Harvest and Nature's Garden. Episode breakdown: * Sam’s beginnings in foraging * How foraging effects your world view * How to get started foraging * How much wild food can you live on realistically * Is foraging sustainable for the future? * Sam’s favorite springtime wild foods

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! podcast, Arthur Haines and I continue our conversation; this time delving into the difference between Food Fads and the Homo sapiens Diet. Episode breakdown: * All diets are fad diets * What constitutes a fad diet * The issues with the loss of seasonal foods * The good side of grains * Wild rice benefits * Cultivated foods vs. wild foods * 4 guidelines for choosing domesticated foods * Bitter lettuce over iceburg lettuce * How to eat animal foods * ReWild your mind 

In the first episode of the ReWild Yourself! Podcast, I'm honored to bring you Arthur Haines, a plant taxonomist who practices and shares a neoaboriginal life way to foster awareness, connection, health and self-reliance. We discuss a very important question: Are we really Homo sapiens? We get into the 4 criteria that define a domesticated species and find that it might make sense to begin classifying humans a little differently. Enter Homo sapiens domesticofragilis, or wise, fragile, domesticated man. Arthur gives us the key factors to transcending domestication and living the NeoAboriginal Lifeway.