Voice of the Other – Scriptorium of Nature

With Jon Young, Anna Breytenbach and Sarah Fontaine

In this workshop we attune our animal ears, hearts and sensing bodies to hear communications directly from the natural world. Using different methods of subtle perception we will experience and remember ourselves once again able to hear the voices of the other, the river, tree, owl and shrew, the common wild tongue of the more-than-human that inhabit our places.

This is a very rare opportunity to work with two of the world’s leading animal communicators and trackers, Anna Breytenbach and Jon Young, this time joined by somatic embodiment practitioner Sarah Fontaine.

With them we will cast ourselves in the role of translators and transcribers of the voices we hear and consider how we might each craft these into words as gifts and in service of the human and more-than-human worlds.

“Stand still. The trees ahead and the bushes beside you
are not lost”
David Wagoner 1971

Jon Young

Jon Young is known around the world as a leader in deep nature connection having mentored and trained people for over 40 years on the nearly lost arts of bird and animal language and tracking. Mentored by Tom Brown Jr in the ancient and powerful skills of our hunter gatherer ancestors – he is the author of What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (2013) and Coyote’s Guide to Connecting To Nature (2007) and has appeared in numerous documentaries including The Animal Communicator (2012)

His current project is Living Connection 1st Village:
https://www.livingconnection1st.net/

Anna Breytenbach

Anna Breytenbach is a South African professional animal communicator who has received advanced training through the Assisi International Animal Institute in California, USA. She’s been practising for over 20 years in South Africa, Europe and the USA with both domestic and wild animals.

Born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa, she holds a degree in Psychology, Economics and Marketing from the University of Cape Town. During her international corporate career that took her to Australia and then Silicon Valley and Seattle in the USA, she lived out her passion for wildlife and conservation by volunteering at various rehabilitation and educational centres.

Amongst other things she has been a cheetah handler, served on committees for wolf, snow leopard, cheetah and mountain lion conservation, volunteered at wildlife and horse sanctuaries and participated in wild wolf tracking expeditions in the Rocky Mountains. Trained in tracking and mentoring at the Wilderness Awareness School (USA), she also mentors children and adults in nature awareness based on the ways of original humans who lived close to the earth.

Sarah Fontaine

Sarah is a wildlife tracker, interspecies communicator and nature connection facilitator. Greatly informed by over 20 years as a professional massage therapist and bodyworker, her practice includes Interpersonal Neurobiology, Polyvagal Theory, Somatic Trauma Integration, Emotional Clearing, Craniosacral Therapy, Chakra Work , Traditional Chinese Medicine and Five Elements Theory.

This is the third of six workshops included in the Nature Scriptorium Online Writers Circle but can also be taken as a stand-alone workshop. This event will be recorded and sent out to all participants.

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