Adult Programs
 
May 19-20 2012
The class will cover the basics of tracking such as clear print identification, gait studies and interpretation, sign tracking, cluster tracking and much more. We will spend time looking at compression tracks, learning to track in different substrates. As well as tracking we will discuss the importance of awareness and learn ancient techniques of how to open our senses to the world around us and observe a greater depth in the world around us.
June 9-10 2012
In this course Roots staff and Ben Goodrich of New England Ninjutsu are teaming up to bring you the first in a series of self defense and awareness courses. Over the course of the weekend we will look at sensory awareness skills for both urban and natural environments, profiling and sensing intention. We will also train in basic break falling techniques, learn escapes from common attacks, basic defensive movement, and basic weapon use.
June 21-24
 
Felling a tree, shaping a bow, digging out a canoe, and building long term shelter were all common practices to stone age people. Before metal axes and saws, primtive people had highly developed and effective stone celts, chisels, adzes, and axes. Through the process of chipping, pecking, and grinding, functional and beatiful tools were created by people throughout the world and throughout time. This process is work intensive, and requires patience and focus, yet the result is a tool fully primitvely crafted, and ready to be put to work. Students in this course will have the choice to create one tool, but through that process learn how to create whatever size and type of pecked and ground stone tool they need.
 
Cost: $400
Deposit: $100
 
 July 2-6 2012

The ANCIENT ARTS INTENSIVE is an immersion into creativity, the natural world and the wide variety of natural materials (mediums) that are available to the artisit.  This course will emphasize drawing; from real life as well as from the mind's eye.  Ages 18 and up.More.
July 15-21 2012
n this week long course students will gain hands on experience and time tested information about survival shelters, primitive water filtration and gathering, and friction fire skills such as bow drill and hand drill. As we move into food gathering students will spend time harvesting and processing wild edibles, practice hunting skills with ancient weapons, and learning how to skin, clean, and cook their catch. Tracking and awareness will support all of these skills as we learn the skills necessary to becoming a member of our ecosystem, not an alien struggling to survive.
August 5-11
The scouts held the role of protectors by being the eyes and ears of the tribe. The skills of high speed invisible survival, stealth, natural camouflage, martial arts, traps, tracking, team movement, and advanced awareness were all brought to their highest levels by the ancient scouts who protected our ancestors. This course will be an introduction to this vast world.
August 12-18
In this course we take what you have learned in Ancient Scout and expand and deepen your knowledge and expirience through a series fast paced exercises and lessons.  In this course we will continue Ninjustsu training with Ben Goodrich of New England Ninjutsu. For those who have taken Ancient Scout, you know there is only much we can say about this course. We are excited to share new information and to have the time to push training elements to a new level with a solid group of Scout Class graduates.
 
This course can be taken back to back with Ancient Scout. Please know however you will need to be ready for an intense two weeks of training.
 
 
 
                                                                                                                                                 
Kids and Teenagers
 
June 25-29 or  July 9-13 2012. 
A week long primitive skills and tracking day camp with a sleep out at the end of the week. The perfect way to introduce children to the survival skills and connections to the natural world that are central to human origins. Ages 8-13.
July 30-August 3
Many native tribes world wide relied on their scouts to be the eyes and ears of the tribe. They depended on the scouts for safety and sustenance, both in times of war and in peace. A scout’s training began young, as they learned the lessons of high speed invisible survival, deep levels of tracking and counter tracking, stealth and camouflage, self defense, and of course, awesome levels of awareness. The ultimate goal of the scout was to make those around them safer because of their high levels of training. This course will begin a student’s journey into learning these potent skills. Action packed and high speed, this course will provide intense lessons into the way of the scout.