Tracking Connections Podcast

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    1. Ep. 33 ~ Foxwalking & Owl Eyes —Core Routines

    2. Ep. 32 ~ Eavesdropping on Animals —George Bumann

    3. Ep. 31 ~ Bird Language & Mentoring —Dan Gardoqui

    4. Ep. 30 ~ The 10 Foundation Stones of Connective Culture

    1. Ep. 25 ~ Connecting Legacy of Mentoring the Natural Mind

    2. Ep. 13 ~ Reflecting on Tracking Connections —Jon, Sarah, and Aidan

    3. Ep. 1 ~ Origins of Tracking Connections with Jon Young, Sarah Fontaine & Aidan Young

    1. Ep. 29 ~ Fast-Tracking Connection to Place & People

    2. Ep. 28 ~ The Magic of Emergence & Allowance —Susu Marley, Martha Meacham & Patrick Monroney

    3. Ep. 27 ~ Self-Care Through the Cycles of Nature —Kris August

    4. Ep. 26 ~ The Power of Immersion in Connection —Jean-Claude Catry & Ingrid Bauer

    5. Ep. 24 ~ Designing School for Connection —Paul Astin & Jenny Griffiths

    6. Ep. 23 ~ Resources for Mentoring Connection —Victoria Mew

    7. Ep. 22 ~ Pioneering Connection — Julia Talk

    8. Ep. 17 ~ Rekindling Connection —Shore Charnoe

    9. Ep. 12 ~ Tracking Club Stories & Design —Brian Knittel

    10. Ep. 11 ~ Culture Repair & Suburban Village Building—Joël Dubois

    11. Ep. 10 ~ Adaptation of the Coyote & Finding Unity—Rick Berry

    12. Ep. 9 ~ Stories of our Nervous System—Kathleen Lockyer

    13. Ep. 8 ~ A Way of Living & Forest Schools in Ireland—Ciara Hincksman

    14. Ep. 7 ~ Bringing it Home with 8 Shields Principles—Peter Cow & Sky Maria Buitenhuis

    15. Ep. 6 ~ Embodied Awareness—Nate Summers

    16. Ep. 5 ~ Regenerating Connection Culture & Deep Nature Connection—Arnaud Gagné

    17. Ep. 4 ~ Village Building & Designing Community Events with Natural Cycles—Deborah Benham & Root Cuthbertson

    18. Ep. 3 ~ Harmonizing with Natural Cycles & Nervous System Wellbeing—Sarah Fontaine

    19. Ep. 2 ~ Designing Musical Training & Performances with Natural Cycles—Aidan Young

    1. Ep. 21 ~ Gravity in Motion —Dr. Bill Sutherland

    2. Ep. 16 ~ Conscious Nature —Josh Lane

    3. Ep. 15 ~ Finding the Wild —Craig Foster

    4. Ep. 14 ~ Advanced Awareness —Nate Summers with Jon & Sarah

    5. Ep. 12 ~ Tracking Club Stories & Design —Brian Knittel

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    1. Ep. 20 ~ Animal Forms —Core Routines for Connection

    2. Ep. 18 ~ Sit Spot —Core Routines for Connection

Hosts

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 Energywork Practitioner, Wildlife Tracker, and Interspecies Communicator. For over 25 years, Sarah has been practicing various healing modalities including Chakra-work, Craniosacral Therapy, Traditional Chinese Medicine Meridians and Five Elements, Emotional Clearing, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Somatic Trauma Therapy, and Polyvagal Theory. She has studied wildlife tracking through Shikari Tracker Mentoring with Jon Young and Josh Lane, Tom Brown Jr’s Tracker School, and Cybertracker Conservation. She is a graduate of the Kamana Naturalist Training Program, and studied Interspecies Communication with Anna Breytenbach and Wynter Worsthorne. She currently offers Earth-based energywork sessions and Wildlife Tracking courses, and lives near the Pacific Ocean in the sandhill mountains North of Santa Cruz, CA with her partner Jon.

Aidan Young

Aidan is a musician, naturalist, and mentor. Over the past 20+ years, he has mentored hundreds of musicians, including over a dozen that went on to top music schools, performed on stage over a thousand times, mentored youth and adults in nature connection, including Kamana services, and guided people on their creative paths as a personal mentor. He is a graduate of the Kamana Program and experienced in the Shikari Tracker Training Program, has served on several Art of Mentoring acorns, helped produce The 512 Project, plays guitar, bass, piano, and mandolin, sings, and writes songs. He currently offers music lessons and personal mentoring and lives in Los Altos, CA with his wife Mystical and their three children.