Carleigh Fairchild is an internationally recognized teacher, storyteller and healer whose life’s work centers on rekindling the deep relationship between humans and the natural world. From early experiences on farms and wild places to solo backpacking 500 miles on the Pacific Crest Trail, she has devoted herself to learning how humans can live in respectful, collaborative relationships with the more‑than‑human world. Over the last 25 years, her love of homesteading, gardening, basket weaving, and fire-making has evolved into a path of teaching and healing that helps others remember that nature is not separate, but home.

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At 13, Carleigh began formal earth-skill studies at the Tracker School, founded by Tom Brown Jr., and later apprenticed in Washington State in survival skills, ethnobotany, basketry, and hunting. Her dedication led her to one of the most challenging survival experiences on the planet: The ALONE survival series where she lived for 86 days alone in the wilds of Patagonia. There, with no camera crew and only what she could source from the land, she relied on her skills, intuition, and connection with Earth to meet every basic need, deepening her understanding of resilience, belonging, and what it truly means to be in relationship with the natural world.

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Alongside her wilderness training, Carleigh has spent years studying NIASZIIH healing, a modality that weaves body, spirit, and earth into an intuitive approach to transformation. As a certified NIASZIIH bodywork healer and long-time student and teacher with wildernessFusion, she brings a healer’s perspective into everything she offers, seeing deep nature connection and nervous system regulation as inseparable threads in the same tapestry. Her work supports people in finding peace in a fast-paced world, tending their nervous systems, and building inner and outer resilience through direct connection with the land.

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Carleigh is the founder of Human Nature Connection LLC, where she offers retreats, mentorships, basketry workshops, and nature-based programs that blend earth skills, community, and healing. Living and teaching in Western North Carolina, she works with individuals, families, and groups both online and in person. Helping outdoorsy, heart-led people to deepen their relationship with themselves, each other, and the Earth so they can grow into the humans their hearts know are possible.