So, PhyreDojo is getting ready for 2026's GreenBelt Workshops. DATE: (((SATURDAY))) JANUARY 01/17/2026 THE PATH TO (GB) GREEN BELT - MONTHLY TRAINING/THEME: WE ARE GOING TO VISIT AND PURCHASE OUR OWN RAW MATERIALS (RM1) AT https://www.woodboardsandbeams.com/hardwoods OF FAIRFIELD NJ, RETURN TO PHYREDOJO AND BEGIN PRIMARY MILLING. This is a call for those who are going to start participating in January to respond here so I have an idea of how many people to prepare for... RSVP at: https://www.skool.com/phyredojo

I've decided to close PhyreDojo and train under this guy instead. https://m.youtube.com/shorts/G6tbK4FZ01c?fbclid=IwVERDUAOCsjtleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR7y41SxmDPpaPzcd2CN2r0RfDTITHlf8A6QI9Ua1jw5WlBs194FJCnm4kINCA_aem_KV0hFJ-AlqNDnulcZ9lskQ

Final Workshop of 2025.

I started the PhyreDojo in the Fall of 2010. I was staring at the clear, starry night sky looking at the Big Dipper and other constellations at 4:30am after getting home from my usual 12 hour night shift in the ER from 4p-4a. I was thinking that I wanted to do something else with the skills that I have. At the time I was a newly Nationally Certified Asthma Educator, but I was also thinking I needed to take my skill of Friction FireMaking even farther. I felt I knew a good part of it, but something inside was telling me I really only had a glimpse of what the world of it really could be. At that moment, a shooting star brightly burnt out in the atmosphere above where I was looking coincidentally. I actually lost my night vision for a half minute. I became a Nationally Certified Asthma Educator because I wanted to know almost everything we know right now (in 2010) about my disease, asthma, so that I could gain control of it. Most of my life, I gave it control over me. My experience in healthcare demonstrated that people with asthma are very resistant to understanding their disease process, even when they are in the throes of an attack. This included my own childhood and young adult history. I used to be one of those people. Sometimes people don’t/won’t change until they hit rock bottom. I decided that I was going to move forward with learning all I can about Friction FireMaking and maybe pass on what I know. At this time I was five years past being a wilderness survival instructor and had been focusing entirely on ER Nursing and my new family. I already had an idea as to how it would be created and how it would run. I really had no idea how long it was going to take…. What does all this have to do with the origin of the Primitive Cooking Workshop? OK, here we go. – Back in May of 1996, I was hired by the Tracker School to become their latest Instructor. I had been attending Tracker since I had just turned 17 years old and on August 5th, 1985, I took my Standard Class in Hackettstown, NJ. I became one of the “class collectors” back then and had taken every class available up until then. At the time, Tom was with Debbie and they had just had River who was an infant and Coty was a toddler running around. Richard Cleveland was Head Instructor and the Instructors were Seth, Hilary, and Bryan. I was the newest and last guy on the totem pole. All of us equally shared the duties and logistics. It was my dream come true. I couldn’t believe it.

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