Joyful Resilience embodied

through transformative multi-day wilderness retreats

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Beyond Team Building

Corporate Resilience + Wellness

Experience a once-in-a-lifetime retreat that empowers you on a primal level through primitive skills, while incorporating profoundly simple peace-making, community-building, and creative problem-solving techniques. With the expertise and 30+ years of Mike Douglass (Maine Primitive Skills School, Tom Brown Tracker School) as your survival guide, and Sara as your holistic wellness guide, your team will leave equipped to face modern challenges with unshakable confidence, camaraderie, and clarity.

Thriving in Modern Life Starts Here

  • "Sara was a fantastic leader in guiding us through survival skills! We foraged, we made fire, we connected with each other and nature. As a mental health therapist, I thoroughly enjoyed Sara’s mindfulness practice interweaving nature and skill building into holistic healing. I would absolutely attend again and I recommend anyone interested in nature, healing, and/or Naked and Afraid badasses to attend as well.

    Vanessa Well, LMHC

  • "Sara cultivates a fun, welcoming environment for anyone to strap on their outdoor-appropriate footwear and brave the backyard. Her knowledge of the outdoors is vast, but so is her capacity for warmth and compassion, which shows throughout the retreat."

    Ben Keefe, Copywriter, Puma

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Joyful Warrior: Tobago

Spend a week embodying Joyful Resilience in Tobago’s top-rated Villa through a blend of mindfulness, world-class eco-adventure, and primitive survival skills. You’ll get to relive Sara’s first Naked and Afraid challenge (filmed near the retreat location) with her and leave empowered, centered, and ready to rock.

Joyful Warrior: Berkshires

Join Sara + Heartwood Expeditions for a soul-satisfying wilderness retreat that blends mindfulness, nature, and personal growth. In collaboration with therapist and wilderness guide Mat Apaseche, this weekend getaway will reconnect you to yourself and nature while reminding you of your core nature and expression.

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