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Luke McLaughlin is a naturalist, teacher, ReWilding mentor, survivalist, and founder of Holistic Survival School (HoSS).

HoSS teaches ancestral earth skills in order to help people live a life more rooted in the Earth. Luke McLaughlin is a naturalist, teacher, ReWilding mentor, survivalist, and founder of Holistic Survival School. Luke has committed his life to mastering and teaching ancestral and indigenous living skills in order to help people find their balance and connection to the Natural World. Luke has mentor

ed hundreds of people in the wilderness and has witnessed first hand how nature connection helps bring about growth, health, and vitality to everyone’s life. Luke believes that it is every human’s birthright to have a deep physical, emotional, and spiritual connection to our Earth. Luke demonstrated his primitive skills and survival abilities on the Discovery Channel’s shows, “Naked and Afraid” and “Naked and Afraid XL”. Holistic Survival Schools teaches classes outside of Asheville, North Carolina.

08/31/2026

Animistic beliefs allow us to listen to every being and honor their medicine. Everything has something to teach us if we listen

08/29/2026

Our sweet landmate had her 2nd birthday yesterday so I made her a little tiny bow for her birthday. I was inspired to make her one after I saw her try and shoot my bow after she saw me and her mom and dad shoot some arrows. It’s my mission to make sure kids in my community have bows!
Bow workshop this November 12-15.

08/28/2026

Happy Friday friends!! I hope you find something to do this weekend that makes you laugh, cry, and be grateful to be alive!!

08/27/2026

Anyone got any ways to work with Kousa Dogwood fruits? Remember kids: anything wild and undomesticated will have much more nutrition than anything in the garden.

08/17/2026

If life keeps sending you the same lesson over and over you are probably more complicit in that cycle than you would like to admit. Our unconscious, survival mind loves to hide our role, so we can protect hurt parts of ourselves. It’s difficult to face and accept that but once you do, man is it powerful and freeing.

08/13/2026

Rewilding is can mean a lot of different things to different folks but I think the biggest bubble I try to pop for people is that rewilding is an individual thing. That couldn’t be farther from the truth. Rewilding can be individual but ultimately it doesn’t hold much weight until we create deeper layers of support from the human and non human world.
What parts of rewilding didn’t make the dog walk list?

08/02/2026

Sunday funday. Went out to gather tinder and smudge for some upcoming ceremonies. Had to slash my way through the Appalachian jungle of thimble berries, goldenrod, grapevine and brambles. Found a danger noodle too! Gratitude for these rains and mountains!

07/30/2026

It feels so good to be landed back home in southern Appalachia. I am grateful to be in the damp wet summer time. Grateful for my wife and our love. Grateful for the luxury of life (food, showers and couches). Grateful for all the plants and animals I know in my landscape. I feel happy.
While I can’t tell you all the details of my adventure yet… I will share all the fun stories when I can. Until then, I hope to see you in the woods or around the fire soon!
Love to you all.

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Asheville, NC
28801-06, 28810, 28813-16

Website

http://www.HolisticSurvivalSchool.com/

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