No Turning Back with Avani Vitalis — WildFed Podcast #133

In this episode:

Avani Vitalis

Podcast discussion:

  • It's tick season in Maine!

  • The transition from non-hunter to hunter: Avani's background, getting comfortable with weapons handling, and what led to her decision to hunt

  • The decoy hunt

  • Avani's first turkey hunt

  • Celebrating the hunt and the turkey meal

  • Will Avani hunt again?

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Sacred Hunting

Hunting is as ancient as humanity itself, and through most of our history it wasn’t just a physical pursuit, it was a spiritual one too. One of the ways human beings came to understand ourselves and our place in the wild world that sustained us.

Hunting is still an incredible tool for personal transformation today. Helping you discover more about yourself, your environment, the animals you share the world with, and even helping you develop a deeper understanding of life and death itself. Hunting can help you find your place in the community of life.

But you could hunt all your life and never find that kind of transformation. It takes deliberate practice, awareness, and sometimes… even initiation.

That’s why our friend Mansal Denton created Sacred Hunting.

Sacred Hunting brings new or even experienced hunters out onto the landscape to stalk, harvest, and field dress animals in a retreat-type setting — in conjunction with sweat lodges, entheogenic plant medicine ceremonies, and strong intention-setting that prepares hunters for a lifelong spiritual relationship with themselves, the land and the animals they hunt.

If you want to hunt as a tool for transformation, check out SacredHunting.com.

Mansal and his team will guide you through beginner hunts, and more experienced hunters will find unique opportunities available across the country and globe.

There are only a few spots available per hunt, so go to SacredHunting.com and complete their 2-minute application. Discounts are available when you let them know you heard about them on the WildFed Podcast. Learn more about Mansal and Sacred Hunting on Episode 59 of the WildFed Podcast.

 

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Meet Avani Vitalis

 
 

Avani Vitalis was born in Quebec, Canada, and was a school teacher for 21 years in Montreal, specializing in literacy and numeracy. A lifelong athlete, she competed as a synchronized swimmer and later as a whitewater kayaker. Now as a resident of the United States, she teaches privately, is Daniel’s wife, teammate and best friend, and she’s a regular guest on the WildFed TV show.

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