Can you imagine bird calls alerting you to an owl hiding in a tree, even before you catch a glimpse of it? Can you imagine seeing the plants around you as friends, knowing which ones you can nibble on for their unique flavours, and which to harvest if you get cut or bruised? Can you imagine knowing what the animals around you are up to even without seeing them, but through the traces they leave. It doesn’t matter where you are, even in a city park or backyard, there is so much happening in the life around you. There is wild in the edges, birds nesting in gutters, weeds in the cracks, animal highways through the bushes. This program will bring to your awareness what is unfolding. 

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Our inter-relation and belonging: Weaving a web

Have you ever felt like something is missing? Our human nervous systems are wired for connection, with not just each other, but a whole ecosystem around us. This course will give you practices to build relationships with the living world around you. We will focus on bird language, animal tracking and plants. This includes naturalist, scientific, and objective knowledge, as well as intuitive, subjective, and imaginal forms of relating. Connection is created through the body, the senses, the mind, and the heart. As threads of connection are built with the trees that house us, the animals that feed us, the plants that heal us, the soil that transforms all into new life again and again, it becomes apparent that we are not alone. In this web of connection a true feeling of belonging can be found. 

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Bird Language: Song birds are in constant communication. They happen to be the favourite food of many and so they are always alerting each other to what is going on. Our ancestors all over the world used their knowledge of bird language to locate animals, and threats. Now bird language can be used to track down your favourite animals and expand your awareness far beyond what your eyes can see.

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Plants: These sunlight eating friends may be slow moving but there is a lot going on in their world. In this course you will learn tools for recognizing and working with different plant species.

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Tracking: Through most of our human existence, tracking was our survival system. We don’t have big bear claws, sharp cougar teeth, amazing eagle vision, or the quickness of a rabbit, but we do have the ability to empathize, imagine and make inferences from little signs, to find our food. Tracking is the original science. It is a time-proven method of following curiosity and finding knowledge.

 

Our unique and full expression: Awakening wild seeds

Our inner nature is reflected in nature. As our awareness expands with bird language, so does our awareness of our internal processes. As we learn to track animals, the original science, we learn to track the patterns in our lives. As we learn to recognize plants and their healing properties, we also learn to recognize our wounds and our way forward in healing. 

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