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The Ultimate Human Experience

    Savannah Wishart and Griffin Coombs climbing around in Tangier, Morocco.
    The Ultimate Human Experience

    January 1st: Just Another Sunday

    by Savannah Wishart January 24, 2023
    written by Savannah Wishart

    If you’re living life on the fringes, January 1st was just another Sunday. Those of us living life outside the constructs of mainstream …

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  • Forging FluidityThe Ultimate Human Experience

    Forging Fluidity: on navigating primal purpose | New Podcast

    by Savannah Wishart July 29, 2022
    by Savannah Wishart July 29, 2022

    Introducing Forging Fluidity: on navigating primal purpose, co-hosted with my dear friend and fellow coach, Griffin Coombs. Join us in consciously leaning into …

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  • The Ultimate Human ExperienceTravel

    Using Playfulness as an Intuitive Compass: Learning to Surf in the Algarve

    by Savannah Wishart July 1, 2022
    by Savannah Wishart July 1, 2022

    The ocean, like any woman: to understand her is to feel her. As I paused to breathe deeply into my belly, I tried …

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  • The Ultimate Human Experience

    Nella Valle Della Luna | Live Your Life Outloud

    by Savannah Wishart April 18, 2022
    by Savannah Wishart April 18, 2022

    Nestled in a small valley in the Chianti region sits an abandoned shoe heel factory, neglected and crumbling to the ground. Nella Valle …

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  • SweatThe Ultimate Human Experience

    Stockholm Mayhem CrossFit Competition | Winter 2021

    by Savannah Wishart November 16, 2021
    by Savannah Wishart November 16, 2021

    Stockholm Mayhem CrossFit competition at CrossFit Södertörn, 13-14 November, 2021

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  • MILRUCKThe Ultimate Human ExperienceUnbeatable Mind

    Doing Hard Things in the Face of Adversity: How I Found My “Why”

    by Savannah Wishart March 6, 2020
    by Savannah Wishart March 6, 2020

    How do you drive yourself forward with intention & direction toward the life of your dreams, each & every day… without running low …

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  • MILRUCKThe Ultimate Human Experience

    Protected: Milruck Tough Hallow’s Eve

    by Savannah Wishart November 5, 2019
    by Savannah Wishart November 5, 2019

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  • EthosThe Ultimate Human Experience

    Love is the Root from Which All Life Grows | Ethos

    by Savannah Wishart April 18, 2019
    by Savannah Wishart April 18, 2019

    ethos /ˈiːθɒs/ the characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its attitudes & aspirations. Behind every idea, there should …

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Meet Savannah

Meet Savannah

Hi, I'm Savannah!

Based in Bellingham, Washington;
with roots in Stockholm, Sweden.

I came up with "The Primal Revolution" in 2013, & have since been fine-tuning what that actually means to me. 

The definition is always evolving, but at the core, I am unravelling the layers of the ultimate human experience. 

What makes us human, why does it matter, & how do we get there? 

See you on the road,
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To be naked for no one but yourself is an otherwor To be naked for no one but yourself is an otherworldly experience.

Last week, a PT client asked me - “why would someone want naked pictures of themselves?” 

Internally, I laughed at my own ignorance of the simple fact that my intense devotion to being naked is not aligned with what most people consider “normal”. It’s such a natural way of being that I forget to return to the beginner’s mindset.

Because I’ve been fortunate along my journey to A) not care what people think, & B) have amazing friends who also like to be naked. Thereby making it normal.

It’s no secret that my art is about normalising nakedness, which in part means de-se🥨ualising the human body.

Because, for many, two of the most prominent things that come to mind when thinking of naked photos are p*rn & boudoir.

The Beast Goddess Method is neither.

It is pure, innocent, & internally driven. A non-judgmental space to express your authentic Self, peeling back layers that dim your radiance.

It is a celebration of you & your relationship to your body - the home that you sculpt every day with sweat & iron, discipline & nutrition, devotion & self-respect.

To capture photos of your beautiful body is the first process of creating art to proudly adorn your walls.

But beyond that final product, it’s about the experience.

Unfiltered freedom wraps around your skin when you shed the fabric from your shoulders & surrender to the natural world around you. 

Feedback from clients echoes that there is a healing power in being witnessed by the gaze of a non-lover: naked in the natural environment & playing with the elements of the landscape.

So often we traverse the planet with layers of separation between us: shoes, socks, yoga mat, gloves, umbrellas, vehicles. 

But how often do we curl our toes into her earth, hug a tree with the bark digging into our chests, feel the roughness of rock under our shins, raindrops on the small of our back?

To be playful invites us back to the innocence of childhood, a time of neutrally heightened intuition. Through movement in nature, we reconnect with our gut feeling and with our core Self.

📸 shot on film by @bmschrad 
@kodak #trix400 
🎞️ @ballardfilmshop
Introducing my new “Look Better Naked” 3 month Introducing my new “Look Better Naked” 3 month (remote) coaching program. 🌷🥳

Though I have always been an athlete of some kind, the start of my fitness journey began when I walked by a gym on my way to class during my first months at university.

The sign said “Look Better Naked” and the training method was something called CrossFit.

At the time, I had a 24/7 gym membership I never used. (Sound familiar?) I had no idea how to transfer my athletic history in team sports to train myself in effective and functional ways.

I didn’t know exactly what I was getting into - only that my ego desperately wanted to look good naked, and that the insanely high price of membership would force me to show up to every single class.

@traverboehm, @emalzone, and @baker_built_13 introduced me to the world of Olympic weightlifting and Paleo - amongst other things. 

It’s been 14 years since I walked through those doors, and the foundation of training and nutrition I learned then has proven to be effective and sustainable.

And that’s why I’m opening up a one-on-one 3 month training program for anyone who has been frustrated with trendy fad diets, plateaus, and programs that simply aren’t sustainable.

We work together to get clear on your goals across all the areas of your life, and I put together a custom training program that fits those goals - both physical training you can do at home or at your gym, as well as nutrition featuring delicious recipes. We track other habits in your life, like sleep and stress management - and for anywhere you’re getting stuck, I bring in my life coaching tools to break through those walls with you. 

Yes, we start with the ego, but everything we do builds self discipline, intrinsic goals, and habits that support the whole of your life. Looking better naked started me down this path, and it can be the first step of yours. 

Besides - our bodies are pieces of art. ☺️

If you’re ready, send me a message & we’ll schedule a consult. 🤩

Everything is on zoom! I miss my international clients. 🌍

Glitter jute ropes by @lahtnor 
📸 self portrait & self tie!

#coachingprogram #holisticlifecoach #selflovecoach #sonyalphafemale
I’ve never considered myself a landscape photogr I’ve never considered myself a landscape photographer, but some places reflect light differently. ☀️ 

As a photographer, breathtaking scenery invited deeper inquiry about an image. Is it a beautiful photo or a picture of a pretty thing? 

Often the latter, when the ability to freeze time in a snapshot is literally at the tip of everyone’s fingers. 

Composition, lighting, out. That, and of course, storytelling. 
worth a thousand words, but is that true when the average attention span is less than that of a goldfish? 

I’m not sure, but I believe that the value of eloquent storytelling is on the rise, in spite of the increasing over-saturation of the digital world. 

It’s the narrative of the oversaturation that has been on repeat in my mind, paralysing my own expression of art. Here, behind the scenes, and on my website and newsletter, I’ve been working to rewrite that narrative.

This week, we’ve been in prep mode to climb #Heliotrope: a big bike-hike-camp adventure, courtesy of a road washout since 2021.

This, after a couple weeks ago when I hiked Yellow Aster Butte (pictured). Needing a mental health break, I climbed 2,200 feet over 6 miles and scrambled back down again.

Adventures like these refresh my perspective of the gratitude I feel for the foundation I’ve built for my body: at the ready to spontaneously say yes to a physical challenge at a moment’s notice.

Whispers of intimidation sometimes pop up: am I ready? But I learned from my first @milruck event that if you aren’t ready a week before, any last days of training won’t make a positive difference. 

The solution? Train every day like your life depends on it (it does!), and the next great adventure will always be in the scope of possibility. 

#rucklife #pnwadventures #mountbaker #sonyalphafemale #optoutside #getouttheregorgeous
Autumn kisses my skin. Her soft breath carried on Autumn kisses my skin. Her soft breath carried on the breeze, igniting goosebumps that ripples like waves. 

Time doesn’t exist in the cradle of the mountains. 

The river rolls, an endless soundtrack beneath the towering peaks - for now, hidden behind low-hanging puffs of moisture, heavy with future rain. 

Layers upon layers stretch across the landscape: rocky peaks, tree stacked upon tree, stories of clouds reaching high high high into the blue sky. 

An occasional pair of crows dance like acrobats in love, black angels over airwaves. 

Nestled in the milky pale water, I paint sticky clay over my skin. 

There is nothing that soothes me more than saturating myself with wild elements. Falling asleep with the view of the stars, waking with sprinkles of rain falling through the mesh. The pitter patter of the rain adds a steady staccato to the endless rumble of the river.

I could stay forever here. Cleansing my palate by curling my toes curling into ancient moss. Sinking my body in the frigid waters of snowmelt. 

Here, and only here, everything is understood and timeless. 

See the full photo at beastgoddess.com/nature 🌱 (had a creative idea to crop sections of n4de photos so they can show up here, and have the full photo linked on my site - works quite well, I think!)

Creative direction & courage by me. 😌
📸 by @bmschrad 
🎨🐾 tattoo by @happygoth.tattoos 

#pawtattoo #dogtattoo #icebathing #visitcanada #outsidersbynature #sonyalphafemale
Struggling to connect with a juicy, flaming libido Struggling to connect with a juicy, flaming libido has been one of the biggest lessons in shining a spotlight on the importance of bringing balance into my life, energy, & health. 

There are some things that you just can’t supplement yourself through. 

I’ve managed my mental health naturally for almost 15 years. Because of that, I’ve always been a big supporter of supplements like fish oil (hello, joints & brain!), adaptogens, & immune boosters. 

Rhodiola was notorious in supporting heavy periods of depression. Fish oil has supported heavy lifting days. And, I could go on & on, down a list of supplements I have tried & loved.

There have been times when I’ve become desperate to fix something & taken adaptogen after adaptogen. Maybe this time, this one will ease my stress?! 

The thing is that when we depend on natural herbs & don’t do the work around it (such as stress management practices), they aren’t that much better than pharmaceutical medicine. 

Any dependence is a limitation. 

It took until my libido became distant & hard to reach, to realize that supplements will only take me so far. 

Perhaps because intimacy is somewhat measurable. Perhaps because when someone else is involved, it impacts them, so it encourages you to take higher personal responsibility to address it. 

I caught myself again - trying to supplement with libido boosting herbs. Each time I popped one in my mouth, I could feel the truth whisper through my body: that the solution is elsewhere -

To re-create space in my life for stillness and softness and silence, and to give myself the permission to sink into myself. 

It’s hard, because I want to be one of the guys. I want to go, go, go, and push myself to physical exhaustion every day. They can do it, so why can’t I? 

My masculine is easy to outweigh my feminine.

I watch them hammer their bodies and I try to keep up, but every time I hit a wall, I know that this isn’t sustainable. As much as I want to be one of them, I have to face the fact that women are made differently - and, with some sadness, I have to admit, that that includes me.

👙 @negativeunderwear 
📸 @bmschrad 

#bhamgram #getnegative #flowerpowered #sonyalphafemale
As a coach, we have responsibilities that extend b As a coach, we have responsibilities that extend beyond movement - that is, if we are aiming to be the absolute best to meet the goal to support our clients in transforming their lives.

👉🏻I posted this a while ago on my backup account, & it continues to be relevant.

If we show up as the best coaches we can be, we build trust with our clients. As a result, our clients will feel motivated to meet the high expectations we set with them - with enthusiasm.

From the get-go, it’s our responsibility to create a Buy-In set at an elite standard.

When your clients sign up, there must be a clearly defined ethos in what their participation requires of them.

If the culture you’re working in has created a standard below what you believe to be possible, it’s your responsibility to create containers in which you outline the standards expected from clients from the moment they commit.

“If you’re choosing to be here, this is how you will show up.”

If our clients aren’t meeting their goals, first we need to point the finger back at ourselves to see where we’re falling short in our delivery method.

And if our clients don’t have goals? We’ve failed them from the beginning. It’s our responsibility to assess where our clients are & determine - with powerful questions - where they want to be. Then we fill the space between A & Z with checkpoints, connecting the dots to support that growth.

And when goals are met, we fine tune & move to the next layer of the map.

When you set a high standard, there is always a risk that you might lose people. Those standards push people past their limits,& with growth, there is a cycle of death that is incredibly uncomfortable. Transformation is not for the feint of heart.

But the reward is that those who continue to show up are the ones who are dedicated to self mastery.

Are you willing to risk upsetting the norm to create a space for the dedicated to strive for greatness? You make the choice between quality over quantity.

Because if you are doing things differently & delivering results in a way that the average coach can’t, that is invaluable,& you will attract those who are ready & willing to invest in themselves.

🐒 @benitaisabell
Inhale mountain air - exhale relief. The feeling Inhale mountain air - 
exhale relief.

The feeling of being held in the belly of the peaks, breaking through in every direction - jagged lines that raise the horizon as far as the eye can see.

Balanced on decaying trunks, I stretch up to the sky, building a bridge between death and new life. The circle of life carries on. 

🗻

Rewind to January. 

It’s our first hike together, after several weeks of impromptu conversations at yoga. In the midst of a heavy depressive period, I decided to give up on Washington and leave the state. 

“It’s now or never if you want to go on a photo hike together,” I tell him. He, who despite the darkness, must have been the happiest person in all of Bellingham. 

We make plans, driving past Concrete, hiking ourselves down a trail that ends up being a 10+ mile roundtrip. 

With my pending departure, I had no idea that this would only be the first of a million adventures together - and with each one, we would find ways to push our limits and muscles and minds to the max. Often ending with empty stomachs and wondering where we would find food to refuel our tired bodies.

At this point, it was over a decade that I had told myself that I would someday get back into film photography. 

Someday, someday, someday. That land of so many forgotten promises.

True to the nature of all the things that caught me by surprise these last months, this hike was that first step back in time. 

As Brandon pulled out his 35mm, I asked him if he wanted clothes on or off for the photos. 

Off they went, as I was unsure what kind of art was worth making with clothes covering the body. 

This is, after all, when I feel most comfortable - a comfort that ironically builds when bare skin is met with frigid winds, organically imperfect surfaces, and freezing ice water. 

Crawling over trunks and twisting my body into shapes, I felt myself begin to bloom back to life. 

Remembering the comfort I feel in my skin when I feel into my primal nature, playful and so naturally human. 

📸 @bmschrad 

#35mm #trix400 #kodakfilm
I get what I want when I’m honest with myself. W I get what I want when I’m honest with myself. When I declared with confidence what I wanted to thrive, I had a solution presented to me in 72 minutes. 

Unquestionable clarity leads to ease and efficiency.

This week, I’m moving into my 8th place in the last 7 months.

1 week. 3 days. 6 weeks. 6 more weeks. 1 week. Another week. 3 months. 

Before that, I was in another state 6 weeks. Morocco for 10 days. Various places across Portugal for 3.5 months. Sweden for 5 months. The US for 2 months. Sweden for I don’t know how long, with the back and forth stateside, and the frequent moves across different parts of Stockholm. 

Anyway, I have painted the picture: despite a consistent narrative that I’ve been searching for home for the last couple of years, there has been more emphasis on the “searching,” and less on the rootedness of home.

Even with the familiarity of the nomadic life I’ve lived over the last decade, the 8 moves in Washington across 7 months has stretched me.

When the last place became unliveable, one of the housemates said that it seemed that I never wanted to live with anyone. I stubbornly declared that was not true, but over a couple of days the thought incubated in my mind, and I realised: 

I *wanted to want* to live with people, but at my core, I didn’t actually want it. 

I wanted to live alone, but the housing market in Bellingham combined with meeting super successful people who chose to have housemates, made me feel like there was no other choice. And that if it was good enough for those other successful people, it had to be good enough for me. 

I “should”ed myself into living situations that didn’t support my work, lifestyle, or energetic needs.

When I was finally honest with myself, I sent out a few text messages that I was looking for a new home, and 72 minutes later, a woman I had come to know on walks with Puddle invited me to look at her apartment. 

Most mornings we would climb a hill into a neighbourhood I loved, believing that the more time I spent in a place I wanted to live, the more likely I’d find a way to live there.

And here I am, mostly moved into my own space. The lesson? 

👇🏻 cont’d in comments.
On Tuesday night, we returned from our trip and We On Tuesday night, we returned from our trip and Wednesday was the first night fully alone since beginning of December. 

Puddle has been by my side for over 6 months as I leapt into the unknown, making a home in Washington. 

The “thump thump” of his tail against the wall has been replaced with silence. His way of saying goodnight and waking with ecstatic joy to another new day. ☀️ 

A week ago, my brother came to pick him up, after I landed on a big decision to ask for help from my family while I get grounded over the next few months. 

Summer in the PNW continues to accelerate with outdoor adventures near and far, and a feeling of neglect was consuming me prior to his send off. On top of that, I’ll soon be moving for the 8th time in the past 7 months. 

Puddle has been living his best adventure dog life, but he needs consistency and groundedness to be truly happy. In the last days of updates from my brother, he’s been acting more like himself - and I know it was the right decision.

Though Puddle hasn’t had much choice in joining adventures, I’ve been so proud of him for naturally stepping into the adventure dog life.

He has braved all the elements and pounced fully into the unknown.

Paddleboarding in lakes. Sprinting down mountain bike trails, leaping over jumps and sprinting across birms. Climbing mountains covered in cascade concrete. Playing fetch across driftwood-strewn beaches. 

Life without the thump-thump of his tail feels different, and though I miss him, I’m able to lean into a different level of freedom right now - giving me the space to build a stable foundation to invite him back into in a few months, as the seasons shift into a slower pace. 

📸 @bmschrad 

#pnwlifestyle #adventuredoggo #whorescuedwho #bellinghamphotographer #mountbaker #traildogs
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