CODY LUNDIN is an internationally recognized professional survival instructor with more than 34 years of hands-on teaching experience. Unbeknownst to him at the time, Cody’s love of all things self-reliant began as a child with the influence of his homesteading grandparents. Their rural South Dakota lifestyle of living close to the land and doing more with less was Cody’s first exposure to what the family still calls, “that good ol’ pioneer spirit.”

The only child of a military family, Cody moved frequently, including time spent in Europe. During these years of migration, with no formal base to call home, Nature became Cody’s constant companion, whether in the neighboring woods or the back yard. Cody’s life changed forever when he experienced a transformation in the red rock wilderness of Arizona. This profound experience with the natural world inspired him to change his life and share Nature with others. He then consciously entered a multi-year journey of hard choices, deprivation and self-correction.

In 1991, with an initial investment of less than $10, Cody founded the Aboriginal Living Skills School using the same passion, determination and psychological stamina he used to overcome personal challenges and heal his life. When not teaching for his own school, Cody is an adjunct faculty member at Yavapai College, Prescott College, and the Ecosa Institute where he teaches the survival and sustainability curriculums he created. He teaches with rare intensity gand humor to individuals, groups, schools, and various organizations throughout the United States and abroad. Cody lives in a self-designed, self-reliant, passive solar earth home in the high-desert wilderness of Northern Arizona in which he catches rain, composts wastes, and pays nothing for heating and cooling.