Tracking our Roots in Nature

Audio Series

Tracking our Roots in Nature was recorded with a live online audience in the Fall of 2023... we are happy to have this refined, downloadable audio version available to share with you!

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    1. Welcome to Tracking our Roots in Nature

    2. Opening Credits & Dedication (1 min)

    3. Origins of Tracking our Roots in Nature (54 min)

    4. Petal 1 — Sunrise — Hazards, Common Sense & Core Routines for Nature Connection (69 min)

    5. Petal 2 — Midmorning — Motivation, Imitation & Catching Stories (40 min)

    6. Petal 3 — Mid-day — Holistic Tracking, Focus & the Power of Questions (61 min)

    7. Petal 4 — Mid-afternoon — Low-growing Plants, Timeless Wandering & Moving Gently On the Earth (50 min)

    8. Petal 5 — Sunset — Indicator Species, Community & Tracking the Landscape (43 min)

    9. Petal 6 — Twilight — Tending the Land, Purpose Beyond Self, and the Future Generations (58 min)

    10. Petal 7 — Midnight — Trees, Ancestral Skills & Regenerative Wisdom (56 min)

    11. Petal 8 — Pre-dawn — Bird language, Awareness & the Quiet Mind (70 min)

    12. Closing Credits & Acknowledgments (6 min)

    13. Download Tracking Our Roots In Nature Here

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8 Part Audio Series

Jon Young speaks to our innate longing for deep connection and provides a map for us each to return to this profound and natural way of being... with Nature as our Guide and Mentor.

Each chapter of this 8 part series encompasses an Archetype of Natural Connection that correlates with... 

Time of Day and Seasonal Cycles, and the energetic quality of that time

Groups of Species and Elements in Nature, how to engage with them, and what they have to teach us

Nature Connection Activities to experience and come to embody true connection

Indicators of Awareness that help us know where we are on the connection journey

Attributes of Connection that emerge as we move into fulfilling our birthright of connection including greater peace, aliveness, empathy, and well-being


Following this map, we can attune to the full essence of each Archetype, connect with natural rhythms, our own inner wisdom, and experience the felt sense of connection.

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.