Project: ARAWN is a 4 day training/re-connection camp based on the south wales coast. While we will live in the forest, swim in the sea and re-connect on a human level, we will also go to battle (train) everyday on the accompanying sand dunes. Taking inspiration from the silures Celtic warrior tribe that lived on the very lands thousands of years ago.
This camp is all about re-establsihing what its like live together, eat together and train together.  Sharing an experience where we re-connect with ourselves, with each other and with the nature that surrounds us.
 
In welsh Celtic mythology, ARAWN was the god of the otherworld, knows as ANNWN. This world was was not a place of death and punishment but a world of paradise. Its residents who were eternally young and healthy, enjoyed good food and spent their time enjoying peace rather than toil.
With technology and work taking over our lives, this camp was created to show us our “otherworld” where we physically, mentally and spiritually rediscover the beauty of being human. Stepping away from technology, social media and the rigours of modern life we will re-engage as humans living off the land, sharing the struggle through training and living as one with the nature around us.
 
As much as we will achieve peace and human connection over the 4 days, we know that nature tends to balance everything out, for life there is death, for weakness there is strength and so on. Understanding this, we also know we must find a balance to the peace we experience.
As the great Chinese proverb say’s,
it’s better to be warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war…
This is why each battle on the dunes will play a key part to the weekend, providing the chaos to our peace. We will look to the inhabitants of old, to capture their Celtic warrior spirit, taking that fearless attitude into all challenges the weekend brings. We know sharing the struggle creates strong bonds between us, we know growth lies on the other side of fear and we know that challenge brings out the best in us. We must never get too comfortable in one way, let us live in peace but always be prepared for war…