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Woniya's newest online offering:
FIRES: Foundations In Resilience & Earth-based Skills
An online course, a learning community, a coming home
Course happening now, registration still open for Sparks and Embers options
Learn more and register HERE
Somewhere deep within you, you already know these things: the crackle of a fire you've created without a match; the feel of your rugged bare feet on the cool, damp earth; the taste of a succulent green picked in the wild; the gentle brush of hand-tanned leather against your skin.
FIRES is your path back home, to the origins of who you are. It is designed to breathe life into the coals of who you are. The skills your ancestors knew without thinking. The things that make you human.
Four tracks, three participation options, infinite learning.
You choose how deep you'll go, from spark , to ember, to coal.
Woniya Thibeault, 30 year practicioner of ancestral and earth-based skills and the first woman to win the survival challenge of the Alone show, will be your guide on this learning journey.
Choose your path. Start wherever you are at. Find your way to the practices your bones know you are capable of.
Course happening now, registration still open for Sparks and Embers options
Learn more and register HERE
Somewhere deep within you, you already know these things: the crackle of a fire you've created without a match; the feel of your rugged bare feet on the cool, damp earth; the taste of a succulent green picked in the wild; the gentle brush of hand-tanned leather against your skin.
FIRES is your path back home, to the origins of who you are. It is designed to breathe life into the coals of who you are. The skills your ancestors knew without thinking. The things that make you human.
Four tracks, three participation options, infinite learning.
You choose how deep you'll go, from spark , to ember, to coal.
Woniya Thibeault, 30 year practicioner of ancestral and earth-based skills and the first woman to win the survival challenge of the Alone show, will be your guide on this learning journey.
Choose your path. Start wherever you are at. Find your way to the practices your bones know you are capable of.
Woniya's offerings have a new name! TIMELESS WAYS!
I am still passionate about buckskin, hide tanning, and leatherwork, but I found that a lot of people assumed it was all I do. Timeless Ways feels much more representative and descriptive.
We are transitioning from this website and as of May 2026, Timeless Ways and my buckskin courses and book (still going by Buckskin Revolution) will both be listed under the www.woniyathibeault.com. Thanks for your patience with a less organized and up to date appearance during this transition
We are transitioning from this website and as of May 2026, Timeless Ways and my buckskin courses and book (still going by Buckskin Revolution) will both be listed under the www.woniyathibeault.com. Thanks for your patience with a less organized and up to date appearance during this transition
Timeless Ways is devoted to helping 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. These lifeways help us to 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, whole, and beautiful world begins with you!
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, whole, and beautiful world begins with you!
So many ways to learn!
Join me for In-person Courses on our beautiful land in northeastern California, or elsewhere around the world, Online Courses through Buckskin Revolution Academy or book me for private trainings, speaking events, or consultations.
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 Timeless Ways (formerly 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.
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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