Wild Women on the Water

Wilderness Living and Ancestral Skills Course with Callie Russell

August 3rd- 9th 2025

Kalispell, MT

Limited to 15 students

Tuition $2,222

Join Callie, Mandy, Suzie and Chloe for a week full of wilderness living skills, adventure, connection, and rejuvenation. We will make camp on the beautiful Flathead River in Northwestern Montana and explore a variety of essential wilderness living skills and ancestral skills such as:

• how to select a good camp 

• many methods of fire making

• tending and cooking on fire

• purifying water

• cordage making and knots

• shelter building

• fishing

• edible and medicinal plants

• tracking and trapping

• archery

• all things goat, milking, cheese making, and walking with goats

• Paddle boarding, canoeing, and kayaking

• and more!

We will have plenty of hands-on time to practice skills, and we will also have time for self care, soaking up the experience, and practicing personal growth skills too:

• movement practices

• journaling

• silent time on the land for meditation and reflection

• exercises to tap into your own intuition and creativity

• swimming

• playing games

• and more

After learning, laughing, and practicing skills with our newfound sisters, we will leave our base camp and head out for a river adventure. We’ll pack up some gear and get in our kayaks and canoes and float down the river. We will make a wild camp, and spend one night away from our base camp. We will have a chance to test our skills with minimal gear in a new location. In this course we will adapt to the weather and what learning opportunities nature presents, versus rigidly sticking to an exact list of skills we plan to cover.

After this class you will: 

• feel empowered and inspired!

• have skills to live more comfortably outside and in the wilderness

• feel nourished by your connection with nature and new women friends

• be more in touch with yourself and your own intuition and creativity

• will likely have new life long friends