Ben Sanford Tribal Edge Founder, Director, and Head Instructor
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Services offered:
Personal Training: CrossFit, Martial Arts, Nature Awareness
Massage Therapy: Deep tissue, Treatment, Jin shin do Bodymind Acupressure
Life/ Performance Coaching: Personal, sport/ art, training, education, vocational
Mentoring*: Individuals & small groups
Consulting: Program development, Curriculum design, Experiential Education,
Team and Leadership building, Nature Awareness, Survival and
Preparedness, Caretaking for Habitat restoration, and Tree care.
Rates: $60 per hour; *Mentoring $100 per day plus expenses (one week minimum).
Package deals, family, or small group discounts are available.
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Ben Sanford
Born and raised on the Olympic Peninsula, Ben has been deeply interested in nature, science, health, and fitness since a young age and has spent most of his time outside pushing his limits by playing, training, and working hard in the natural world. In his early teens, he began formal training in the martial arts, fitness, and nutrition and discovered the Tarzan books along with The Tracker by Tom Brown Jr. which deeply influenced his perception of human potential in nature. It was at this transitional stage of life that he participated in a wilderness youth quest in Canada where he was exposed to the fundamentals of outdoor skills, adventures, and group dynamics. After high school, while perusing extreme sports and traveling adventures throughout the world, Ben began to work towards his training center concept with a new sense of purpose and clarity. At 23, he started Tarzan's Tree Service which became his financial vehicle while he began formal training with Tom Brown Jr. at the Tracker School. He went on to receive his Shodan in Tae Kwon Do, a Wilderness First Responder certification, and became a certified arborist, as well as a licensed massage therapist in 1999.
Ben has attended numerous life-changing classes with Tom Brown jr. studying the ancient skills and philosophy of living with the earth, and volunteered for many more. He has attended Wilderness Awareness school's coyote mentoring, art of mentoring series, and other programs which are focused on traditional teaching methods used by indigenous people around the planet. He feels that these experiences have greatly enhanced his ability to learn as well as to facilitate the learning experiences of others. Through Earth-Heart, he became a vision quest protector so that he could facilitate this powerful transformational process for others. Ben is a perpetual student and is committed to training for life. In pursuit of greater personal awareness, he completed the curriculum for living offered by Landmark Education, including the Self Expression and Leadership Series. He is a level 1 CrossFit instructor, and is an Associate instructor in the martial arts of Sikal (Silat/ Kali). He also holds ranks in Bujinkan budo taijutsu (Ninjutsu), and studies the healing arts of Neuro-Languistic Programming, and Jin shin do bodymind acupressure. The rest of his time is spent exploring nature, human potential/ consciousness, community dynamics, physics, primitive skills, tracking, and mentoring others in the wonders of life.
In 2002, Ben founded the Tribal Edge primal arts training center located in Blyn on five acres between the JamestownS'klallam Tribal land and the Buckhorn wilderness. He is frequently invited into local schools and other organizations for various demonstrations and workshops, and offers classes throughout the year at the Tribal Edge.
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Coming soon: A thank you to my teachers and life influences.
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