A Scouts Path – personal security and survival course

Lady Scout!

In native cultures, scouts were selected based on their inclinations for tracking and hunting, awareness, physical fitness and selflessness. The Scouts Path is created and designed to take the student beyond the basic techniques of survival, tracking, and awareness, and into the unique skill set of the scout. The following is a description of the fundamental skills of scout training practiced, and applied during this course.

Program ♦ The Scouts Path to throw off the handicap of physical fear and embrace the unknown

Nature is the unknown.  Our innate sense of precaution will cause us to fear what is unknown and perceive it to be strange and unfamiliar.  The mind will paralyze and inhibit action until our surroundings become familiar. Therefore, clear your mind of all dread and fear and replace it with trust and confidence in nature and yourself. The laws of the wilderness are by necessity right and just.

  • Wilderness Law
  • develop instinct and an alert mind
  • breath and body control
  • balance and movement
  • strength and agility

the shadow scout's

You have often heard, “actions speak louder than words.”  It is a fact that both voluntary and involuntary actions of the body betray the mind’s purpose, animal and human.

  • Awareness
  • situation awareness – reading body language
  • camouflage and invisibility
  • conflict management – escape and evasion
  • endurance
  • tracking awareness and counter tracking measures

“To be in harmony with nature, one must be true in thought, free in action, and clean in body, mind, and spirit.  This is the solid granite foundation of character.”  ~ Indian Scout Talks

  • Self defense
  • open hand
  • rubber knife
  • short stick
  • staff

A Scouts Path – learn the skill set of the shadow wolves. Personal security, survival, tracking, and physical fitness. All in one exciting 6 day adventure! This is a Lifesong adventure course you will want to return to year after year.

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Take advantage of the 5% discount by registering 90 days in advance for 2012!  (Registration now available by installment plan, please contact us.)

A Scouts Path 2012 Dates – California
June 24 – 29

A Scouts Path

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More ♦ Camp Info

  • Eligible Students:Adults minimum age 18 – enrollment maximum 16  (Perfect for moms, dads, students, teachers, and professionals singularly or in groups.)
  • Requirements: medical practitioner’s release.
  • no prior martial arts training is required or camping skills, it is beneficial to be in good physical condition
  • Duration: 6 days – 5 nights
  • Schedule: begins on Sunday at 4:00 pm – ends on Friday at 12:00 pm (noon)
  • Location: 4 hours north of San Francisco Bay area, in the northern California mountains over 6000 feet
  • Accommodations: on site tenting
  • Meals: included
  • Equipment: registration packet will be supplied after enrollment; tent and sleeping pad rentals are available for $45
  • Transport:  Shuttle service from Medford, Oregon airport $80; Dunsmuir, CA train station $55; and, Weed, CA Greyhound bus station free.
  • Instructors and Staff: Mark Wienert Jr. owner – founder and head instructor; Staff – Lifesong volunteer students and guest instructor Steve Tripp.

Steve Tripp, guest instructor, demonstrating Scout self-defense techniques at Lifesong’s A Scouts Path, Yosemite training camp California.