Kiowa Sage is a Primitive Skills and Wilderness Living Skills instructor from Prescott, Arizona. He lives what he teaches by living a lifestyle closer to the land in a traditional style Wikiup he built himself outside of Prescott. He teaches a natural brand of self-reliant skills to better prepare modern day backpackers, outdoor recreationists and folks who desire to get closer to their natural environment. Such skills include trapping and animal tracking, shelter building, fire making, indigenous hunting techniques, fiber arts and cordage weaving, flintknapping, traditional pottery making and cooking, wild edible and medicinal plants, as well as basic preparedness in wilderness terrain, among others. Kiowa teaches these skills to not only teach survival training, but using a philosophy he calls “authenticity in nature”, directly reflecting an authentic form of human experience that we’ve all forgotten within our 21st Century Technological world. Aside from teaching with his own school, The High-Desert Field School, he also teaches with PrimitiveLifeways, several museums throughout Arizona and a renowned Primitive Living Skills and Self-Reliance Rendezvous called Wintercount Rendezvous LLC.

Kody Sherwood is a survival instructor and woodsman teaching classes all over Southern California. Chad Keel and Kody Sherwood are step brothers, and became family at the age of 5 years old. Chad and Kody grew up on the south slope of Phelan, California. Learning to survive in the arid foothills of the High Desert became their hobby. Researching rocks, plants, animals, and thus how to use them to their advantage in the field. Kody moved to Hawaii at 18 years old. There he furthered his education in nature and survival. Kody has trained with a majority of the top survival experts on planet earth and is an accomplished bushcrafter.

When the Nature Reconnection Classes started Kody was living in Colorado and decided to relocate to Southern California to teach. In 2016 he was featured on the Oxygen TV Network teaching survival skills. He has been a head Instructor for naturereconnectionclass.com since 2015. He continues to train with various survival instructors across the globe, with the intention of bringing these skills back to students.

Chad Keel is a naturalist and primitive survival instructor with strong foundational knowledge in biology, ecology, chemistry, geometry and geology. His dad was a renowned woodsman and taught him and his brothers how to survive in the wilderness. At age 20 he moved to Hawaii to work for Hawaii's Eco Tourism Association. This re-sparked his connection with nature and soon after he began traveling to train with various primitive survival instructors to further develop his skills and knowledge. At the age of 25, he started organizing “Nature Reconnection Classes” in South Orange County, California. The classes focussed on teaching survival skills as an alternative to depression and anxiety medications.

The classes turned into a success prompting him to teach survival skills on major TV Networks. In 2016 alone he was featured teaching survival on the Oxygen Network, and filmed a survival show in August 2016 for Discovery Channels "Naked and Afraid". In 2017 he trained in the Costa Rican rain forest and was made an Honorary Instructor for the Amazonas Survival School in Costa Rica. In 2018 he filmed another major survival TV show yet to be disclosed, and taught a week long workshop in the Northern most areas of Pakistan. He is the first instructor to ever teach primitive skills in Pakistan. He was also called to teach at numerous schools, and give lectures to their Police Force. He continues to train with various survival instructors across the globe, with the intention of bringing these skills back to students.