Our Story

In a world shaped by convenience, speed, and screens, (**)

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Self Preservation began with a simple idea:
that the skills of living — making, cooking, growing, crafting — are worth holding onto.

In a fast-paced, convenience-driven digital world, these practices remind us who we are. They bring us back to the body, to the land, to each other.

(**) Self Preservation offers a quiet but powerful act of self-care:
To slow down. To return to your hands.
To feed yourself. To make what you need.
To sustain connection through conscious consumption.

We offer workshops that reclaim essential life skills, rooted in the belief that self-reliance is a form of care — and that ancestral knowledge still holds transformative relevance for our health, our communities, and the planet.

Each workshop is a thread in a growing movement of re-skilling, reconnecting, and resisting the quiet erasure of self-sufficiency in the digital age. These practices ground us. They keep us human.

"The best way to preserve something is to participate in it.”

“The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.”
— Bill Mollison

We’re not here to romanticize the past, but to carry forward the parts of it that still serve — with curiosity, creativity, and a shared sense of purpose.

Self Preservation is personal and political — a commitment to resilience, conscious living, and mindful resistance.

Let’s protect what sustains us.
Let’s preserve ourselves.