When it comes to the knowledge and skills of an Old ways Training instructor, there are a few things that make us stand out from the rest. Most instructors stop at the first of these three things, physical skills. Sure, we are going to show you the physical skills of how to carve on a stick or do boil water, or any of the various other techniques that most other instructors start with.

We also include a set of mental skills that help us mentally and emotionally get through the experience of wilderness or urban survival.

The third side is what I like to call life improvement skills. So how do you apply that? How do you apply water purification in your life? Am I talking about getting water from your faucet and boiling it because of the sewer backup in your local neighborhood? Maybe, but really, am I talking about more than that. What I'm talking about is the removal of what many people call generational curses. Modes of thinking that were useful and beneficial in the moment, but no longer are required in the life that you are living now. Similar to coming across a river and having to ford the river, so you sit down and make a canoe, you ford the river. It was so useful to you in the moment, so you pick it up and carry it with you, right?

Well, what if you are not in an area anymore, but one that doesn’t have many rivers. Let's say you're in a desert or a mesa and there aren't any rivers for you to ford but you're going to still carry that canoe that you made because it was so useful back then.

Well, if it's not useful anymore and you already know how to make a canoe. You might need to put that canoe down and keep going, it's a lighter life.

So, to recap Old ways Training instructors build a curriculum for your physical body, techniques to help us live life more easily, and techniques to develop a deeper, closer bond to the world around us.

We have techniques that help us let go of the things that are holding us back as well as techniques to build our own wings so that we can soar with the eagles.

That is the Body, Heart, and Soul of an Old ways Training instructor.