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Empowering, Connecting and Inspiring with Ancestral and
Land-based Living Skills
The mission of Buckskin Revolution is to help people feel connected to their wildest, freest selves, to their human community, and to the living world around them. We teach the timeless skills the human body evolved to do- those that help us understand and feel part of wild places; to hunt, gather and grow food; to create the things we need from the natural resources we find around us. Whether one lives in a wilderness shelter, an off-grid cabin, or a high rise, this knowledge can help everyone feel more empowered, strong, capable, grounded, and healed. A more connected, beautiful, and just world is the greater mission. We work to achieve this through online courses, in-person classes, videos, books and other writing, and more.
Viva la revolution!
Viva la revolution!
Registration open now for
The 2025 Buckskin Revolution Online Gathering,
Extended Timeline Option (BROG ETO)
May- October 2025
The regular five week event extended over 6 months
Transform your life with the 2025 Buckskin Revolution Online Gathering!
Inspire and empower your journey toward wilder, freer, more intentional and sustainable living. From mastering survival techniques and reconnecting with the natural world and your own wilder nature, to knowing how to grow, gather, and preserve your own food, the course and the community environment will support you in forging deeper connections with the earth and your own creativity.
The extended timeline option was created to fit into even the busiest of schedules and spreads the content from the original BROG over six-months instead of four weeks.
Choose from four comprehensive learning tracks (or get ambitious and take them all):
Join me in choosing a more revolutionary way of being and crafting a more beautiful life!
Course discount for BR Patreon members (see information below
Inspire and empower your journey toward wilder, freer, more intentional and sustainable living. From mastering survival techniques and reconnecting with the natural world and your own wilder nature, to knowing how to grow, gather, and preserve your own food, the course and the community environment will support you in forging deeper connections with the earth and your own creativity.
The extended timeline option was created to fit into even the busiest of schedules and spreads the content from the original BROG over six-months instead of four weeks.
Choose from four comprehensive learning tracks (or get ambitious and take them all):
- -Wilderness and Survival Skills,
- -Rewilding Your Life,
- -Off-Grid and Homestead Living,
- -Ancestral Skills: Fiber Arts
- Each track offers a unique path to a wilder, more empowered and capable future.
Join me in choosing a more revolutionary way of being and crafting a more beautiful life!
Course discount for BR Patreon members (see information below
What past students are saying:
"It’s hard to beat a live ancestral skills gathering but Woniya’s virtual gathering is a way of taking in new information slowly and implementing things right away in real life. Endless veins of expansion in all her tracks, accessible to anyone in any lifestyle, all that’s required is care for our natural world. Woniya is wildly knowledgeable, passionate, and inspiring…and just perfectly wild." Jennifer Medley
"It is such an incredible wealth of information. Woniya's level of knowledge and skill in so many subjects are incredible. She is also an awesome teacher, really engaging with her students, motivating, and super kind. The class structure is set up so well that it gives you a good understanding on a subject, you go out and try it yourself, and then you're also provided with resources to help you dive deeper if you want. Super effective, and I feel kind of amazed and proud at all of the things I know how to do now, and I've just scratched the surface! I also love that she has created an online community to connect with and share with other like-minded people all over the world, even after the gathering is over. 10/10 recommend, totally loving it!" Andrea McFarland
"I've never been a huge fan of learning online, let alone learning ancestral skills over the internet; however, Woniya's Buskin Revolution Online Gathering (BROG) has changed that. Given that I live at the bottom of the planet, getting to participate in training like this can be expensive, not to mention the flights! I found Woniya to be incredibly responsive and generous with her time in answering my questions, and the course material was clear and concise and highlighted things I need to develop my knowledge and abilities in." Toby Yorke, NZ
"It’s hard to beat a live ancestral skills gathering but Woniya’s virtual gathering is a way of taking in new information slowly and implementing things right away in real life. Endless veins of expansion in all her tracks, accessible to anyone in any lifestyle, all that’s required is care for our natural world. Woniya is wildly knowledgeable, passionate, and inspiring…and just perfectly wild." Jennifer Medley
"It is such an incredible wealth of information. Woniya's level of knowledge and skill in so many subjects are incredible. She is also an awesome teacher, really engaging with her students, motivating, and super kind. The class structure is set up so well that it gives you a good understanding on a subject, you go out and try it yourself, and then you're also provided with resources to help you dive deeper if you want. Super effective, and I feel kind of amazed and proud at all of the things I know how to do now, and I've just scratched the surface! I also love that she has created an online community to connect with and share with other like-minded people all over the world, even after the gathering is over. 10/10 recommend, totally loving it!" Andrea McFarland
"I've never been a huge fan of learning online, let alone learning ancestral skills over the internet; however, Woniya's Buskin Revolution Online Gathering (BROG) has changed that. Given that I live at the bottom of the planet, getting to participate in training like this can be expensive, not to mention the flights! I found Woniya to be incredibly responsive and generous with her time in answering my questions, and the course material was clear and concise and highlighted things I need to develop my knowledge and abilities in." Toby Yorke, NZ
Connect with Woniya on Patreon
Inspired by what I do? Want to be a bigger part of it? Join me on Patreon!
My Patreon members are a huge part of helping me do all I do, and in return get greater access to me and my work. I make regular exclusive posts, sharing a lot personally more than I do on more public mediums, plus regular skills and nature related posts. Members fees support the BR Circle, the skills and nature oriented community platform I created and they are invited to join it. We also have regular live Zoom calls. Members weigh in on creative projects- for example, they helped with the layout of my book, Never Alone, weighed in on my 2025 class schedule, and much more. They also get discounts on my online courses and early registration opportunities for all my courses. It is truly a win-win situation and over the years we have created a beautiful family feel of support and care within our little Patreon community.
If you love what I do, there is no better way to be part of it than by becoming part of my Patreon family. Membership starts at $5/month.
Further details and membership links here
My Patreon members are a huge part of helping me do all I do, and in return get greater access to me and my work. I make regular exclusive posts, sharing a lot personally more than I do on more public mediums, plus regular skills and nature related posts. Members fees support the BR Circle, the skills and nature oriented community platform I created and they are invited to join it. We also have regular live Zoom calls. Members weigh in on creative projects- for example, they helped with the layout of my book, Never Alone, weighed in on my 2025 class schedule, and much more. They also get discounts on my online courses and early registration opportunities for all my courses. It is truly a win-win situation and over the years we have created a beautiful family feel of support and care within our little Patreon community.
If you love what I do, there is no better way to be part of it than by becoming part of my Patreon family. Membership starts at $5/month.
Further details and membership links here
About Me
My name is Woniya Thibeault, and I am the woman behind Buckskin Revolution.
I have been practicing and teaching ancestral, wilderness and related land-based skills and for over 20 years. They have been not just a hobby, but a life way. I have spent much of my adult life living off grid, growing, gathering and crafting the things I need with my own hands from the land around me. With this extensive hands on knowledge of traditional skills and a Masters degree in Environmental Science, I bring a well rounded approach to my teaching and to have all I share tie in to the bigger picture of how it relates to the world around us and ourselves.
These days most people know me through my appearance on Alone, a self-filmed wilderness survival challenge and television show. I was the runner up on Season 6, living off the land for 73 days just south of the arctic circle in the Northwest Territories. I was later invited on the show's "all-star" challenge, Alone: Frozen, where I became the first woman to win Alone and set a new record for cumulative days solo in the wilderness on the show, 123 total days. The experiences were life changing and helped me share with the world not just how strong women are, but also how approaching the wilderness from a place of connection and relationship, rather than trying to conquer it or fight it, is a better approach. I made a lot of my own clothing and gear for both adventures, showing that handmade gear of traditional materials, can be just as good as fancy high-tech modern equipment. A win for me, a win for women, and a win for nature connection and traditional skills! Hooray!
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Woniya's book, Never Alone, A Solo Arctic Survival Journey gets 5 star reviews and became an Amazon best seller within a week of being released
In hardcover, paperback, and ebook, and on Audible, narrated by Woniya!
Dropped into the Arctic wilderness—solo—as winter descended, Woniya intended not only to survive, but to thrive. Out of ten participants in a rugged competition, she hoped to be the last to return home. With only a few tools and meager resources, she would need her survival skills, quick wits, and whole heart to make it through. Never Alone is the story of Woniya’s Arctic journey.
The skids scraped against the hard granite as the helicopter settled onto the barren peninsula. My fingers were shaking so badly from the adrenaline, it was hard to unbuckle my chest straps. Then, with one step down the ladder, I left the modern world and the rest of humanity behind.
I expected the land to be harsh and unforgiving, but I didn’t expect that it would be so breathtaking.
Nor that I would fall instantly in love with it.
The Arctic kicked my butt repeatedly throughout the next three months, but each time it picked me back up, staggered me with its beauty, and showed me again how truly resilient I am.
My arctic adventure could easily have been a grueling struggle, but through putting my trust in myself and the land, it instead became a beautiful journey to a deeper sense of belonging.
“Well written, sometimes hair-raising, and always moving. She tells us what it is like to live in that primordial way, with unflinching honesty and vivid insight. Truly a memorable book."
-Kim Stanley Robinson, award winning author of Shaman, Ministry for the Future, The Mars Trilogy, and more.
The skids scraped against the hard granite as the helicopter settled onto the barren peninsula. My fingers were shaking so badly from the adrenaline, it was hard to unbuckle my chest straps. Then, with one step down the ladder, I left the modern world and the rest of humanity behind.
I expected the land to be harsh and unforgiving, but I didn’t expect that it would be so breathtaking.
Nor that I would fall instantly in love with it.
The Arctic kicked my butt repeatedly throughout the next three months, but each time it picked me back up, staggered me with its beauty, and showed me again how truly resilient I am.
My arctic adventure could easily have been a grueling struggle, but through putting my trust in myself and the land, it instead became a beautiful journey to a deeper sense of belonging.
“Well written, sometimes hair-raising, and always moving. She tells us what it is like to live in that primordial way, with unflinching honesty and vivid insight. Truly a memorable book."
-Kim Stanley Robinson, award winning author of Shaman, Ministry for the Future, The Mars Trilogy, and more.
So many ways to learn!
Online Courses: The Corona virus pandemic woke a lot of people up to why it is so important to know how to grow, gather and make more for ourselves, just at the same time that it made it a lot harder to get out and do that! My response was to start teaching online courses. I had thought this would be a one time thing, but the connections made through these courses and the ways I saw them change peoples lives for the better changed my mind and the Buckskin Revolution Academy was born!
Buckskin Revolution Online Gatherings (BROGs) now happen once a year, and I have shorter courses, such as Connection is a Survival Skill and Buckskin Sewing 101 available year round. More courses are in the works!
Click the links here to learn more and to sign up!
Buckskin Revolution Online Gatherings (BROGs) now happen once a year, and I have shorter courses, such as Connection is a Survival Skill and Buckskin Sewing 101 available year round. More courses are in the works!
Click the links here to learn more and to sign up!
Learn more about Woniya'teaching philosophy and her student's experience of her online offerings through this article The Guardian
I consider myself someone who teaches "wilderness living" as opposed to "survival" skills. The beauty of this is that the more empowered and connected we feel, and the broader our skill set; the better suited we are for survival and "surthrival" anywhere, be it in the wilderness, in the backyard, or in a city apartment! Focusing on being comfortable and in tune with the world around you and maintaining a good mind set is one of the most vital and undervalued survival skills out there!
The course referenced in the article was my Fall Online Gathering, which covered wilderness skills and also Ancestral and Land-Based Living Skills, Awareness, and Connection which took place December 2020.
I consider myself someone who teaches "wilderness living" as opposed to "survival" skills. The beauty of this is that the more empowered and connected we feel, and the broader our skill set; the better suited we are for survival and "surthrival" anywhere, be it in the wilderness, in the backyard, or in a city apartment! Focusing on being comfortable and in tune with the world around you and maintaining a good mind set is one of the most vital and undervalued survival skills out there!
The course referenced in the article was my Fall Online Gathering, which covered wilderness skills and also Ancestral and Land-Based Living Skills, Awareness, and Connection which took place December 2020.
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