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Nature Awareness Workshops
Exploring
the natural world as a venue for discovering a fuller physical and
spiritual relationship with yourself, others and the earth
- Wilderness skills
- Nature awareness exercises
- Outdoor meditation
- Active and experiential learning
 Workshops
for children, teens, adults or families are available upon request.
In these, I am interested in sharing my deep love of the
outdoors, using nature to learn to live from a true balance of mind,
body and spirit. Most of the time will be spent outdoors on a
myriad of activities, some performed alone and many in groups. All
nature awareness activities are conducted in Kitchener Waterloo,
Ontario, easily accessible from the Cambridge and Guelph
areas. If
you are interested, please contact
me directly.
Activities will include:
- Wilderness survival skills
- Quiet time alone in nature, learning to
listen without words
- Heightening awareness around you
- Working with healing energies
- Learning to develop “wilderness mind”
- Making fire without matches
- Tracking animals and their lives
- Making wilderness shelter
- Walking noiselessly in the woods
- Meditations to connect with the spiritual
side of the natural world
- Expressing inner experience though
drawing, journaling and group sharing
- Developing awareness with senses other
than sight through blindfold exercises
These activities are designed to:
- deepen one's connection with the earth
- learn many wilderness survival skills
- develop awareness and sensitivity to the
outer world
- learn to listen to the language of the
heart, the earth, and spirit
About the Teachings
The
teachings are inspired by the work of Tom Brown Jr. in New Jersey, as
well as my own path in life. Tom was taught by a Native elder,
an
Apache who he called “Grandfather”, throughout his childhood and teens.
He was taught in the traditional style through daily life activities,
those concerning physical survival in the natural world. These
teachings are profound, universal and fascinating, working on both
physical and spiritual levels, blending the wisdom of ancient
traditions and lifestyles, living in harmony with oneself, the human
community and the natural world. They appeal to people of all ages and
backgrounds with varying interests. Children respond quickly to
re-discovering their mystical connection to
the earth that sustains us.
To find out more about the teachings of Tom
Brown Jr., read his first book The Tracker or any
of his numerous subsequent ones, or visit his school's website at www.trackerschool.com
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