“Beyond Domestication is for anybody looking to get addicted to wellness through rewilding.”
– Dr Ed Caddye
“This book beautifully guides people through the principles of rewilding, tapping into our inner nature as humans, and shares how to apply them to how we live our lives to foster greater personal health, mindfulness and wellbeing.”
– Sam Jayasuriya, Author of The Change Flywheel
About Beyond Domestication
Rewilding as an ecological conservation concept is about restoring natural processes and wilderness areas with an emphasis on recreating an area’s natural uncultivated state. Beyond Domestication takes it further by looking at how people live and to use rewilding tenets to provide beneficial effects on their lives.
The main aim for the book is to help people to connect more closely with nature and themselves. To this end, the book introduces the Seven Practices of Well-Being as a guide to their rewilding journey and looking into how each plays a role in our personal health and well-being as well as our planet’s:
-Food – How important food and food production are to well-being; discussion on diets and the major kingdoms of food (plant, animal, fungi and bacteria).
-Water – A prerequisite for life, this resource influences everything; discussion on drinking water, swimming, and our relationship with bodies of water in nature.
-Air – With discussions on airbathing, active breathing as well as how climate and weather affects our mental health.
-Sunlight – Explores humanity’s origins and dependence on sunlight; discussions on vitamin D, photosynthesis, and living by the movements of sun.
-Movement – Looks into our relationship with our body, how we move/walk, what and how we experience the outside world, sensory overload.
-Mindfulness – Looks into our relationship with distractions/technology all around us, our ability to self-care and reset; discussion on mindset, productivity, visualization and gratitude.
-Sleep – Reiterates the importance of “true rest” and being in touch with our natural circadian rhythm; explores our relationship with light/moonlight.
Beyond Domestication seeks to demonstrate the importance of rewilding for the future of well-being, humanity and the sustainability of the planet.
Paperback | £16.99
Published by Hatherleigh Press
Distributed by Penguin Random House
ISBN 9781578269884
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Lauren –
Wow, what a book! I have read so many books from Dr Chris to Tim specter and a lot in between and I have to say that was absolutely brilliant!
So easy to read, it was like all the books I have read wrapped into one. I will be donating my copy after it has been passed onto to a few friends that I have told about it to the library at school.
The bit about the autonomic nervous system was also really interesting as that is what my condition is to do with so I will definitely be taking on board those techniques and reading that book.
Honestly though I was so impressed with how easy it was to read and take on board the suggestions, some books I’ve read are very much it’s my way or the highway mentality so it was refreshing to read one that made several suggestions and asked you to rely on your own instincts. I say this after purchasing god knows what mushroom in a mixed box from the local farm shop and enjoying a nice bit of local beef and a hot bath!
Dan (verified owner) –
Thoroughly enjoyable to read and easy to engage with. This book offers many options for a healthier way of connecting with the world in which we live. Absolutely recommend.