Embodying
Unity With Nature
9 – 13 January 2026
With Jon Young & Sarah Fontaine
Course Structure
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Location
Oxfordshire UK
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Fees
An Invitation
Deep Nature Connection
What happens when we bring the beauty, peace, stillness and flow of the natural world deeply into ourselves and onwards into our interactions and relationships with other people?
Throughout this intimate gathering, we work directly with Nature as our partner and role model, and with each other, toward embodying cultural elements of connection. We will weave ancient wisdom and modern neuroscience into practices to discover the peace of being in unity with the natural world, and how to bring this into unity with other people.
Connective culture starts with the individual. When we are at peace within ourselves, we bring that resonance into all of our interactions and relationships. Deep Nature Connection practices help us to build resilience, and to experience the felt sense of safety, peace, natural gratitude, and emergent awe.
As we spend more and more time in these high-vibrational states of being, they become embodied traits and part of our authentic expression. With dedicated practice, we can create a ‘nervous system bias’ toward calm centeredness rather than reactivity and stress, even in times of challenge.
From here, we can begin to bring an embodied experience of connection into our families, communities, and all of our relationships.
To further support connection in relationship with other people, we will explore simple and powerful practices that act as our guiding lights, called the 10 Foundation Stones of Connective Culture. The 10 Stones are a set of guidelines developed over 40 years by Jon Young in collaboration with numerous elders and community leaders.
Based on universal principles and cultural elements from connective cultures worldwide, the 10 Stones provide a flexible structure to facilitate connection. When practiced with intention and awareness, they create a powerful container for the emergence of unity.
Embodying Unity with Nature offers a safe and intentional container to experience unique Deep Nature Connection practices, the 10 Stones of Connective Culture, and to witness their interweavings. We will bring Nature directly into our conversations and interactions, and come to know what is meant by ‘unity’ through the emergent embodied experience of its magic.
Your Guides
The lead guides of this course are Jon Young & Sarah Fontaine
Jon Young
Jon Young is a deep nature-people-self connection researcher, mentor, naturalist, wildlife tracker, author, workshop leader, consultant and storyteller. Jon has been mentored in deep nature connection by his own grandmothers, Tom Brown, Jr. and a host of elders and experts.
As a leader in the field of nature-based community building over 40 years, Jon’s research into the impact and significance of nature on mentoring, human intelligence, spirituality, well-being and development has influenced tens of thousands of people worldwide.
Jon has authored and co-authored several seminal works on nature connection and connection mentoring, including What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (2013), and Coyote’s Guide to Connecting to Nature (2007).
Jon has appeared in numerous documentaries including The Animal Communicator (2012). In 2016, he received the Champion of Environmental Education Award for his innovative work, which has inspired positive developments in the field, and fostered the growth of the nature connection movement on a global level.
Sarah Fontaine
Sarah is a Wildlife Tracker, Interspecies Communicator, and Nature Connection Facilitator.
For over 25 years, Sarah has been practicing ways of deepening connection with self and nature through psychoeducation, neuroscience, somatics and energy awareness. Her work is informed by over 20 years as a professional Massage Therapist and Bodyworker, with studies and practice include Interpersonal Neurobiology, Polyvagal Theory, Somatic Trauma Integration, Emotional Clearing, Craniosacral Therapy, Chakra-work, Traditional Chinese Medicine Meridians and Five Elements theory.
She has studied wildlife tracking through Shikari Tracker Mentoring with Jon Young and Josh Lane, and Tom Brown Jr.’s Tracker School. She is a graduate of the Kamana Naturalist Training Program, and studied Interspecies Communication with Anna Breytenbach and Wynter Worsthorne.
Sarah currently offers Wildlife Tracking courses and pathways for applying neuroscience and energy awareness to nature connection practices.