Workshops

Yoga/Hike Retreat Weekend

$250 per person Special First Time Rate - $200 Please Call or e-mail to schedule HeadNorth presents The First Annual Yoga/Hike Retreat Weekend July 24 - July 27, 2009 Plymouth, Vermont Join the HeadNorth Team for a weekend full of Health, Fun and Tranquility surrounded by Vermont’s beautiful Green Mountains... Your Action Filled Weekend Friday, July 24              (Arrive late afternoon)               7:30PM – Welcome Dinner Saturday, July 25 7:30 to 9:00 am                            Sunrise Yoga 9:00 to 10:30 am                            Breakfast 11:00am to 1:00pm                            Hike 1:00 to 2:00 pm                                 Lunch 2:00 to 7:00 pm                          Free – Quiet Time 7:00 to 8:00 pm                            Sunset Yoga 8:30 pm                                          Dinner                          (Fun Activities) Sunday, July 26 7:30 am                                          Breakfast 9:00 am to 1:00 pm                  Endurance Hike 1:30 pm                                            Lunch                        (Lake – Free Time after Lunch)              6:00 to 7:30pm                    Restorative Sunset Yoga 8:00pm                                          Dinner Monday, July 27 8:00 am                                          Farewell Breakfast – Depart at leisure              Activities and Food              $250   Special First Time Rate - $200 (Accomodations not included) Includes 3 Basic Meals a Day - (Feel Free To Bring Your Own Snacks and Spirits) Massage Services Offered at an additional Fee (Call ahead to secure an appointment) **Yoga Mats Not Included*** Accommodations 1 Master Bedroom (Queen Bed) - Private Bath            - $85 per person / per night             (Double occupancy) 2 Private Bedrooms – Shared Bath                                - $60 per person / per night              (Double occupancy) Dorm/Loft – Shared Bath                                                 - $40 per person per night Campsites Available                                                        - $25 per person per night                                                                                               (Outdoor Facilities – Shower) At the End of Your Experience: Your Body Is Toned Your Mind Is Cleansed Your Spirit is Soaring You Feel Better You Embarked on New Relationships Your Life Is Balanced For Directions and Pictures of HeadNorth Go To: headnorthllc.com

Scout Weekend

$250 per person Please call or e-mail to schedule This weekend course introduces the concepts and lifestyles of the Apache Scout.  The Scout was a master of invisible survival, able to travel, operate, and keep his or her people safe without detection.  The skills covered will include smokeless fires, cover and concealment, silent movement, night operation, tracking, and anti-tracking. Contact Niki@headnorthllc.com for additional information or custom programming and dates available for private groups.

Winter Scout Week

$500 per person Please call or e-mail to schedule  An expansion to the Scout Weekend course, this class will broaden a student's skill base and introduce new techniques and exercises to maintain a life with Nature and remain invisible on the landscape.  This class will cover and improve upon the skills offered in the Scout Weekend course and will add such skills as trapping, shelter building, caching, and land navigation. Contact Niki@headnorthllc.com for additional information or custom programming and dates available for private groups.

Scout Weekend

$250 per person Please call or e-mail to schedule The focus of this course is to introduce the basics of winter survival.  Learn the skills necessary to thrive and operate throughout winter's coldness and snow.  This class offers much of the same skills at the Scout courses, adapted for use during the colder months when temperature and snow can place new spins on sheltering, anti-tracking, and food resources. Contact Niki@headnorthllc.com for additional information or custom programming and dates available for private groups.

Winter Scout Weekend

$500 per person Please call or e-mail to schedule This expansion to the Winter Scout course offers students the opportunity to gain valuable experience and greater understanding of the skills necessary to survive the colder months of the year.  Students will build and spend nights in their own snow shelter and learn to adapt their survival skills to the weather's challenges.  Contact Niki@headnorthllc.com for additional information or custom programming and dates available for private groups.

Animal Tracking Weekend

$250 per person Please call or e-mail to schedule In this course students will learn the basics of animal tracking.  Students will learn various drills and techniques to help master this challenging skill.  Students will gain hands on experience and practice as they track coyotes, deer, moose, and each other through Vermont 's forests.   Contact Niki@headnorthllc.com for additional information or custom programming and dates available for private groups.

Tactical Paintball Weekend

$250 per person Please call or e-mail to schedule Learn the skills of silent movement, camouflage, awareness, and team coordination and apply them to paintball warfare.  Teams will take turns running nighttime missions, alternating between protecting their camp and assaulting the opposing camp.  Days will be filled with instruction involving the assault skills of Scout movement, concealment, and team organization, and the defense skills of booby trapping, sentry posting, and hide construction.    Contact Niki@headnorthllc.com for additional information or custom programming and dates available for private groups.

Nature Awareness Weekend

$250 per person Please call or e-mail to schedule Spend time reconnecting with the Natural World.  Learn skills and techniques to practice wide-angle vision, animal tracking, recognizing animal sign, plant identification, and bird language.  Enjoy cleansing meditation and experience the power of the Sweat Lodge and let yourself tap into the Natural World around you.    Contact Niki@headnorthllc.com for additional information or custom programming and dates available for private groups.

Boy Scout Merit Badge Week

$250 per person Please call or e-mail to schedule Choose any 5 Merit Badges from the following list:  Wilderness Survival, Pioneering, First Aid, Backpacking, Hiking, Nature, Orienteering, Cooking, Forestry, and Mammal Study.  By the week's end, all badge work for selected Merit Badges will be completed.              *Also available to teach all skills necessary for advancement from Tenderfoot to Eagle. Contact Niki@headnorthllc.com for additional information or custom programming and dates available for private groups.

Venture Skills Weekend

$150 per person Please call or e-mail to schedule We offer instruction in all skills necessary for the completion of the Ranger Award.  We are prepared to teach all outdoor skills from basic survival needs to advanced Scout techniques.   Contact Niki@headnorthllc.com for additional information or custom programming and dates available for private groups.

Wilderness Survival Weekend

$250 per person Please call or e-mail to schedule This course introduces the basic skills needed to survive in an outdoor environment.  Learn to find food, purify water, build shelters and make tools to live with the Natural World, not against it.      Contact Niki@headnorthllc.com for additional information or custom programming and dates available for private groups.

Wilderness Survival Week

$500 per person Please call or e-mail to schedule The weeklong Wilderness Survival course teaches an invaluable skill set in order make the student at home in Nature.  Students will practice advanced fire building and tool making skills and will become experienced in primitive trapping.  Build a solid skill base for prolonged survival situations and be ready to face the unexpected in today's unstable world.  Contact Niki@headnorthllc.com for additional information or custom programming and dates available for private groups.

Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Skills Package

$100 per person full day $50 per person half day  Please call or e-mail to schedule Have complete control over your time at Head North.  Choose the length of your stay and pick which skills YOU would like to focus on.  Select activities from our lists of half-day and full-day classes.  Feel free to double up on skills you truly wish to master!    Fire Building                 Shelter Building                 Stalking  Animal Tracking  Camouflage  Day Hike  Cordage  Survival Fire Building (Bow drill, Scout Fires, etc.)  Knotwork  Land Navigation  Awareness  Bow Making  Bowl Making  Flint Knapping / Arrow Making  Campfire Cooking  Advanced Camouflage            Half Day                                                Full Day Contact Niki@headnorthllc.com for additional information or custom programming and dates available for private groups.

Tactical Tracking Workshop

$250 per person Weekend (Friday - Sunday) $300 per person Extended Weekend (Thursday - Sunday) $500 per person   Please call or e-mail to schedule Tracking for Law Enforcement class is designed to teach students how to track in a tactical situation. Students will learn how to see, identify, interpret, and follow tracks. They will learn how to move as a tactical team and a host of additional skills. The Tactical Tracking for Law Enforcement class is designed to teach students how to track in a tactical situation. When pursuing criminals, one must always assume that the quarry is armed and dangerous. Tracking an armed suspect requires an entirely different set of skills than tracking a lost person. Students will learn how to see, identify, interpret, and follow tracks. They will learn how to move as a tactical team, providing security as they track. They will learn how to reduce the distance between themselves and their quarry. They will learn how to communicate as a team, and how to control the team. Students will learn awareness skills that will give them a strong tactical advantage. They will learn how to read and understand the language of concentric rings, how to utilize that language to predict the movement of their quarry. Students will learn how to make an assault on their quarry once they have closed the distance. They will learn movement and camouflage techniques that will allow them to approach their quarry in silent invisibility. They will learn anti tracking techniques likely to be employed by their quarry and learn how to overcome those tactics. They will learn how to detect anti-tracking devices such as booby traps and ambushes using the awareness skills. They will learn how to do a pursuit and recovery by participating in realistic simulations that will include pursuing an armed person that may utilize ambushes and booby traps against them, ending with the trackers subduing and capturing their quarry. Contact Niki@headnorthllc.com for additional information or custom programming and dates available for private groups.

Wood Craft Workshop

$500 per parent/child pair – Full stay. Arrive Thursday at noon, depart Monday at noon $250 per parent/child pair – Saturday & Sunday only $125 for each additional child   In the mid-1700’s when the town of historic Plymouth was settled, home sites were chosen and cultivated by settlers to suite their clan’s specific needs. Through the course of this workshop you will explore the age old skills that were used during that time to; harvest standing timber, and learn how to work and assemble that timber to create unique and long lasting structures. Some projects and activities may include; driving workhorses the way loggers have in years past, framing a cabin and creating a hand hewn beam.  Enjoy the outdoors, have fun and create memories with your clan of settlers in the heart of the green mountains of historical Plymouth Vermont . Come year after year to see how our home site continues to grow, and flourish.  Contact Niki@headnorthllc.com for additional information or custom programming and dates available for private groups.

Body Cleansing Workshop

$250 per person Weekend (Friday - Sunday) $300 per person Extended Weekend (Thursday - Sunday) $500 per person   Please call or e-mail to schedule Come relax and enjoy the peaceful surroundings of beautiful southern Vermont while learning simple techniques and life skills to gently and naturally detoxify your mind, body & soul. Learn and begin the cleansing process with natural organic herbal products.  Other topics for discussion will be plant identification, including utilitarian and medicinal uses, fitness, diet and meditation. Learn to give yourself and/or a loved one; a facial, and a foot and hand treatment with herbal products that you will create yourself.  Have fun making moisturizer, hand cream, bath salts, shampoo and rinse. Contact Niki@headnorthllc.com for additional information or custom programming and dates available for private groups.

Upcoming Courses

Weekend Guided Hikes   Weekend Primitive Tool Making Horseback Riding Weekend Herbalism WeekendYoga  Weekend Self Defense All Courses Are Available As One-Day Workshops   ($100/person)  Contact Niki@headnorthllc.com for additional information or custom programming and dates available for private groups.

What To Bring

Weather appropriate clothing high quality base layers water repellant type pants and jackets hats and gloves Hygiene products -personal hand sanitizer Slippers Waterproof boots Tent Sleeping bag and pad, tarp Pocket knife/ fixed blade knife Chair/ground cloth Notebook/pen/pencil/sharpies Any medication or first aid items you may possibly require. Snacks and natural foods, meals for cooking outdoors while hiking (rice, beans, nuts, stir fry, dried meats, oatmeal, …) Optional helpful tools and packable items: shovel pruning shears/saw hatchet/axe/tomahawk antique tools zip-lock bags large contractor bag 4 in 1 hand file/rasp jute/parachute cord camouflage Camera  hiking gear and pack snowshoes wool blanket