This class was not held on the usual scheduled date Dec 3rd – Off the Grid was actually off the grid without connectivity! Rescheduled to the following week.

It is so tempting to frame this course as ‘preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse’. The practical reality sounds less interesting but is a lot more likely. Sometimes modern conventional resources and help are unavailable. A camping, mountain biking, hiking or vehicle accident can bring the unexpected.  When we visit or live in a remote area, wisdom invites us to be resourceful off the grid. This could happen at any time, but we live in “interesting times”.

Between environmental and climate change, social unrest and widespread microbial activity, it is reasonable to think we may be on our own to make the best health and care choices we can, at some point, for some amount of time.  We are seeing these ‘off the grid’ events every month. Natural disasters can limit availability for basic survival requirements, medical care, communication and transportation. Things can go from normal to sideways very quickly.  We can collapse or we can take proactive charge of the situations in which we find ourselves, our friends and family.

Join Karen Allen and guest instructors for a homeopath’s roadmap through disaster preparedness and functional off grid self care. Learn to use what you have in your mind, on hand and in your first aid kit for your urgent needs so that you can sustain yourself and those around you until you can get reconnected to a resource grid.

Self care in extreme circumstances. Off the Grid mindset for survival. Strategies for injury and trauma. Bites and stings, fright, near drowning, food poisoning, altitude sickness. Foraging for resources. Creating your own medicines. Social activism impacts of riots, toxic inhalation of smoke grenades, injuries from beanbags, rubber bullets, water cannons. Wounds, infection and sepsis prevention. Water, flooding, boil water orders, on demand filtration, and waterborne illnesses. Sun, heat related illness and hydration, principles of cooling and repair, for people, animals and plants. Chill, effects of hypothermia, repairing cold exposure. Wildfire smoke exposure (a little or a LOT). Staying safe: recognizing what is beyond self care + Ethics of Self Care