Anthonio Akkermans first started learning these skills when he met the man who was to become his mentor, Ofer Israeli. In 2001, he moved to Northern Ireland, where he started a school called Wild-Live. Through Wild-Live, he now teaches hundreds of people a year how to live naturally and in harmony with nature and how to connect on a very basic level to the wilderness surrounding them. He also works for Queens University and various museums on a regular basis, instructing in experimental archeology and replicating existing artifacts.