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Daniel Vitalis

Welcome to the ReWild Yourself Podcast! I’m Daniel Vitalis, and I’ll be your guide through the world of human zoology and lifestyle design. We’ll explore the strategies that ancient apes need to thrive in a modern world, awakening our instincts, and freeing our bodies –– and minds –– from the degenerative effects of human domestication.

ReWild Yourself

In the first episode of the ReWild Yourself! Podcast, I'm honored to bring 
you Arthur Haines, a plant taxonomist who practices and shares a 
neoaboriginal life way to foster awareness, connection, health and 
self-reliance. We discuss a very important question: Are we really Homo 
sapiens? We get into the 4 criteria that define a domesticated species and 
find that it might make sense to begin classifying humans a little 
differently. Enter Homo sapiens domesticofragilis, or wise, fragile, 
domesticated man. Arthur gives us the key factors to transcending 
domestication and living the NeoAboriginal Lifeway.

The NeoAboriginal Revolution - Arthur Haines #1

In this episode of the ReWild Yourself! podcast, Erwan Le Corre, founder 
of MovNat, joins me to talk about natural movement. 

Episode breakdown:
 * What natural movement means to Erwan
 * "Movement" vs. "Exercise"
 * Do we need to re-learn to move naturally?
 * Connection between movement and survival skills
 * Erwan's top strategies to avoid injury during movement training
 * Specificity causes body alienation
 * The movement you can do this afternoon

Our Biological Call of Duty - Erwan Le Corre #5

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! Podcast, I talk with Scott Sonnon, 
world renowned fitness trainer, founder of TACFIT, public speaker and 
author.

Episode breakdown:
 * Diminished complexity of physical movement means diminished capacity
 for imagination
 * Importance of sweating for stress relief
 * Reprogramming movement at the brain stem level
 * Being more athletic does not make you more fit for daily life
 * Getting back to mobility basics for truly advanced fitness
 * When you "stand up straight," are you aligning or distorting your
 posture?
 * Experience high stress and maintain your fine motor skills
 * Literally shake off stress
 * Focus on the exhale
 * Scott's programs and innovative teaching techniques

Reprogramming Your Movement - Scott Sonnon #6

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! Podcast, Arthur Haines and I continue 
our conversation from earlier podcasts, this time focusing on the 
transition from semi-nomadism to sedentism.

Episode breakdown:
 * Daily and seasonal movement was a huge part of hunter-gatherer
 existence
 * Nomadic peoples were not just endless wanderers
 * Agriculture is a spectrum
 * What emerges when people stop moving? 
 * Hunter-gatherers were generalists
 * Walking was a significant part of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle
 * Fit for the gym vs. fit for the earth
 * Is working out wasted energy?
 * Dissociative gym workouts
 * The amazing strength of foraging mothers

The Transition from Semi-nomadism to Sedentism - Arthur Haines #7

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! podcast, I talk with Ido Portal, 
founder of Movement Culture and teacher of movement workshops around the 
world.

Episode breakdown:
 * Modeling brachiation after apes and children
 * Movement diet — digesting movement nutrition
 * Specialization vs. Generalization
 * "Movement" vs. "Training"
 * The problems with modern yoga
 * Moving out of alignment
 * The natural human resting position
 * Flexibility vs. Mobility
 * Spine longevity — look to the cat
 * Prioritize movement

The Movement Diet - Ido Portal #8

I am fascinated with entomophagy as of late, and so it was great fun to 
record this interview with Daniella Martin — author of Edible: An Adventure 
Into the World of Eating Insects and the Last Great Hope to Save the Planet
 and the host of Girl Meets Bug, the insect cooking/travel show!

In the interview, we discuss:

 * How Daniella became “the bug girl"
 * The great resources in Daniella’s book
 * Farming insects is not part of indigenous culture
 * Insect identification when foraging
 * How to avoid parasites when eating insects
 * Legs, intestines and exoskeletons — oh my!
 * Insect farming
 * Cultural taboos surrounding entomophagy
 * Tastes of different insects
 * Vegans, vegetarians and eating insects
 * Long chain fatty acids in insects
 * Where is the “insect trend” going?
 * The best starter insects
 * Freezing vs cooking

Why You Should Start Eating Insects - Daniella Martin #9

I will be sharing the occasional stream of consciousness rant on ReWild 
Yourself! podcast, and I've just recorded the first one!

Episode Breakdown:
 * Podcast song origins
 * Information on my only ReWilding immersion workshop this year
 * Will you ever see me on a TV show?
 * Dispatch 4 reflections and Gobekli Tepe

Dispatch 4 Reflections - Daniel Vitalis #10

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! podcast, I have a deep discussion with 
Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova, one of the pioneers of Conscious Evolution and 
founder of Birth Into Being, about how our traumatic birth experiences 
shape our psychology.

Episode Breakdown:
 * Our world experience begins before conception
 * Birth experience is related to emotional memory
 * We are raising a society programmed to have needs neglected
 * Thousands of years of slavery still live in our bones
 * Daniel’s birth and childhood experience
 * Most of our fears have deep ancestral roots
 * Myths of birth complications
 * The altered state of Ecstatic Birth
 * The #1 way to avoid complications during birth
 * Give birth in a place, in a way, that connects to your true nature
 * How to deal with outside pressure when making decisions about your
 pregnancy
 * What does today’s ReWilded child look like?
 * Dissociation is ingrained in us from birth
 * An amazing story of a child healing herself from birth trauma
 * Healing words of wisdom from Elena

ReWilding Our Birth Experience - Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova #11

Arthur Haines and I continue our discussion of the NeoAboriginal Lifeway. In this episode, Arthur shows us how the English language restricts our worldview, and why we should consider learning an indigenous language to cultivate the feral mindset. We discuss: * The wild experience vs. the civilized experience * The language of imperialism * How Arthur became interested in learning an indigenous language * Language shapes how we think * Loss of language diversity * The narrow aperture of the English language * English is a language of war * Indigenous languages integrate verbs into the landscape * Freedom of mind * Religion and language * Language of a fluid worldview * Experiencing life as verbs and not as nouns * "Spending time" * Future of the Passamaquoddy language * How Arthur integrates Passamaquoddy into his lifestyle * Exploring languages indigenous to your area * Indigenous language reveals water as medicine

How Speaking English Impacts Our Relationship With Nature - Arthur Haines #12

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! podcast, I talk with Stephen Harrod 
Buhner, an Earth poet and the award-winning author of twenty books on 
nature, indigenous cultures, the environment and herbal medicine.

He is probably best known for is extensive writing in the field of 
herbalism and plant intelligence, though I would offer that he is one of 
the most significant writers and thought leaders of the modern ReWilding 
movement.

Episode Breakdown:
 * Stephen’s early experiences with the metaphysical background of the
 world
 * The reality police
 * Fear of wildness
 * The education system shuts us down
 * Opening sensory gating channels
 * The 6th sensory channel: the feeling capacity
 * Using NeuroGnostics to open sensory gating channels
 * Reset your software program
 * Orient towards meaning rather than form
 * How to reclaim the feeling sense
 * How to operate from the feeling sense in this information-rich modern
 world
 * Sophisticated writing cultivates the feeling sense for the reader

Reclaiming Your Feeling Sense - Stephen Harrod Buhner #13

Arthur Haines joins us on the podcast to discuss the missing nutrient in 
our diets: entheogens! He talks about entheogen use in hunter-gatherer 
societies and tells us a little about his own personal experiences with 
these sacred plant medicines.

Episode Breakdown:
 * A bit about Arthur’s background
 * How Arthur was introduced to psychoactive plants
 * Being a credible witness
 * Entheogen use in hunter-gatherers
 * Spiritual realm vs the scientific realm
 * Arthur’s personal entheogenic experiences
 * Entheogens are endogenous compounds
 * Entheogens were called “teacher plants” by indigenous tribal leaders
 for a reason
 * The missing nutrient in our diet?
 * Using entheogens to deal with death trauma
 * Arthur describes his sacred experience with Saguaro Cactus
 * Discerning tips for working with a shaman

The Teacher Plants - Arthur Haines #24

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