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Survival Is Not Adventure. It Is Capability.

The Wild Survival Academy is India’s premier experiential survival training academy, helping individuals, leaders, and teams build real-world resilience through immersive wilderness experiences.
• Veteran-led • Decades of Field Experience • Jungle & Wilderness Environments

EXPERIENTIAL SURVIVAL TRAINING FOR MODERN LIFE

Modern life is comfortable, predictable, and increasingly disconnected from challenge. The Wild Survival Academy is here to reintroduce individuals and teams to environments where awareness, responsibility, and capability matter.

This is not entertainment or recreation. It is structured survival training conducted in real terrain, under controlled conditions, designed to build practical skills and mental resilience.

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WHY SURVIVAL TRAINING MATTERS
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Survival training is not about extreme situations alone. It is about learning to function when routine is removed, decisions carry weight, and comfort cannot be assumed. Through experiential training in natural environments, participants develop: Awareness and adaptability, Decision-making under uncertainty, Confidence grounded in capability, not by assumption. These are skills relevant far beyond the outdoors.

Who Trains With US​

Modern life offers comfort and predictability.

The people who train with us choose to step beyond it — not for thrill, but for experience that tests judgment, resilience, and responsibility.

Our participants include:
  • Urban professionals seeking meaningful challenge beyond routine

  • Founders and leaders operating under uncertainty

  • Corporate teams who want to experience leadership, not discuss it

  • Adventurers, solo travelers, and trekkers seeking self-reliance in unfamiliar terrain

  • Individuals who want to understand how they respond under pressure​​


It is a mindset built through challenge, uncertainty, and responsibility.

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What are Survival Skills and Why should I learn them ?
​​​​Survival skills are techniques that a person may use in order to sustain life in any type of natural environment or built environment. These techniques are meant to provide basic necessities for human life which include water, food, and shelter. The skills also support proper knowledge and interactions with animals and plants to promote the sustaining of life over a period of time. Survival skills are often associated with the need to survive in a disaster situation. Survival skills are often basic ideas and abilities that the ancients invented and used themselves for thousands of years. Outdoor activities such as hiking, backpacking, horseback riding, fishing, and hunting all require basic wilderness survival skills, especially in handling emergency situations. Bushcraft and primitive living are most often self-implemented, but require many of the same skills.
Survival Courses Overview

OUR TRAINING PATH

Our programs are designed as standalone experiences as well as a progressive training path.
Participants may enter at different points depending on interest and experience.

ESSENTIAL SURVIVAL SKILLS - CORE PROFICIENCY
(Recommended for every adult at least once) 24–36 Hours

​​A complete introduction to essential survival capability. This program introduces fundamental survival skills and mindset in a controlled wilderness environment. It is designed for anyone who wants to step away from routine, learn practical field skills, and reconnect with basic human capability. ​​Highly relevant for first-time participants as well as adventurers, travelers, and trekkers seeking greater awareness and self-reliance outdoors.

Focus areas include:

  • Fire, shelter, navigation, and survival essentials

  • Mental adaptability and decision-making

  • Self-reliance in unfamiliar environments

FIELD SURVIVAL PROFICIENCY
Applied survival capability under sustained field conditions.(48–72h)

This program is designed for participants who have completed Essential Survival Skills or already possess prior outdoor experience. The emphasis is on applying survival skills over time, managing fatigue, uncertainty, and responsibility in real terrain.
 

Focus areas include:

  • Sustained shelter, fire, and navigation

  • Resource management and teamwork

  • Decision-making under physical and mental stress

FIELD SURVIVAL INTENSIVE
( Multi-Day Immersion in remote terrains )
Where endurance, leadership, and capability are tested.

An extended survival experience focused on deeper immersion, increased responsibility, and limited external support. Participants operate in demanding environments that require judgment, adaptability, and resilience.

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ADVANCED WILDERNESS SURVIVAL
Remote Terrain | Application Only
Leadership and survival in remote environments.

Designed for highly motivated participants, this program places individuals in remote terrain with minimal support. Entry is selective and based on experience and readiness.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS

Limited-seat programs conducted across wilderness environments throughout the year.

SURVIVAL TRAINING FOR LEADERS & TEAMS (CORPORATES)
SURVIVAL & WILDERNESS PROGRAMS FOR STUDENTS
Beyond outdoor trips. Real experiential learning.

​​Not team-building. Real leadership. We do not conduct activities designed to simulate collaboration. We create controlled field environments where leadership, trust, accountability, and decision-making emerge naturally under pressure. Comfort is removed. Hierarchies soften. Real behaviour surfaces.

Our corporate survival programs are designed for organisations that want teams to experience:

  • Leadership without titles

  • Decision-making under uncertainty

  • Accountability, trust, and adaptability in real conditions
     

Corporate Programs
  • Survival Leadership Lab (1 Day)

  • Immersive Survival Retreat (2–3 Days)

  • Executive Survival Fellowship (Application Only)

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We do not conduct recreational camps or activity-based outings. We design structured wilderness environments where confidence, responsibility, teamwork, and problem-solving develop through real experience. Students step outside routine, engage with natural environments, and learn to function with awareness, adaptability, and resilience. Our student survival programs are designed for schools that want learning to extend beyond classrooms and support holistic development aligned with global and national education frameworks. Students experience: Confidence through real-world challenge Teamwork, leadership, and responsibility through shared field tasks Environmental awareness and self-reliance Reflection and personal growth through experiential learning Student Programs Include: Survival Day Programs (Age-appropriate experiential outdoor learning) Overnight Wilderness Camps 2–4 Day Survival Boot Camps Extended Field Expeditions (Dharamshala, Sikkim, Kodaikanal & other natural learning environments) These programs support and align with: IB Diploma & CAS experiential learning outcomes Cambridge life skills and outdoor education frameworks NEP focus on experiential, environmental, and competency-based learning

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A NOTE ON SAFETY & STRUCTURE
BEGIN YOUR JOURNEY

​All programs are conducted with structured briefings, experienced instructors, and carefully managed risk.

Training is designed to challenge participants without compromising safety.

Whether you are seeking essential life skills, Survival Consultancy, deeper personal challenge, or leadership development through experience, there is a place to begin.

WHY THE WILD SURVIVAL ACADEMY

​​The Wild Survival Academy is built on experience, not theory. Our programs are veteran-led and conducted in real wilderness environments. Every experience is carefully designed to balance challenge, safety, and transformation. Decades of survival training experience, Jungle and wilderness environments across India, Hundreds of individuals and teams trained.

“This experience revealed strengths I didn’t know I had — and taught me how to stay calm and decisive under pressure."

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THE TWSA TRIBE

Survival does not end when the program does. All participants become part of the TWSA Tribe — a growing community of individuals who continue to challenge themselves, train together, and grow beyond the experience. Alumni-only community Support and guidance to overcome real survival situations Advanced survival opportunities Early access to upcoming programs Survival becomes a way of thinking.

WHAT OUR PARTICIPANTS SAY

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801, Manjeera Majestic Commercial,

JNTU Road, KPHB Colony, Kukatpally,

Hyderabad- 500072

WhatsApp : +91- 8978877301

Mail: info@thewildsurvival.com

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