How Understanding Wildlife Can Restore Our Humanity with Tamarack Song and Host Dr. Zoh Hieronimus

21st Century Radio® Host Dr. Zohara Hieronimus sits with writer, healer, and artist Tamarack Song to discuss his book Becoming Nature: Learning the Language of Wild Animals and Plants. Song is a co-founder of the Healing Nature Center, and he is the founder of the Brother Wolf Foundation, Teaching Drum Outdoor School, and Snow Wolf Publishing, where he is a writer-in-residence. He has served as a Childcare Trainee Supervisor for the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and his doctorate work is in recovery from childhood trauma and Nature-based healing. Yet he gives the most credit for his parenting insight to the indigenous approach he learned from Native Elders, and to what he experienced directly by living with a flock of Doves and a pack of Wolves.

About Becoming Nature
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“Animals and plants are in constant communication with the world around them. To join the conversation, we need only to connect with our primal mind and recognize that we, too, are Nature. Once in this state, we can communicate with animals as effortlessly as talking with friends. The songs of birds and the calls of animals start to make sense. We begin to see the reasons for their actions and discover that we can feel what they feel. We can sense the hidden animals around us, then get close enough to look into their eyes and touch them. Immersed in Nature, we are no longer intruders, but fellow beings moving in symphony with the Dance of Life.

In this guide to becoming one with Nature, Tamarack Song provides step-by-step instructions for reawakening the innate sensory and intuitive abilities that our hunter-gatherer ancestors relied upon­--abilities imprinted in our DNA yet long forgotten. Through exercises and experiential stories, the author guides us to immerse ourselves in Nature at the deepest levels of perception, which allows us to sense the surrounding world and the living beings in it as extensions of our own awareness. He details how to open our minds and hearts to listen and communicate in the wordless language of wild animals and plants. He explains how to hone our imagining skill so we can transform into the animal we are seeking, along with becoming invisible by entering the silence of Nature. He shows how to approach a wild animal on her own terms, which erases her fear and shyness.

Allowing us to feel the blind yearning of a vixen Fox in heat and the terror of a Squirrel fleeing a Pine Marten, the practices in this book strip away everything that separates us from the animals. They enable us to restore our kinship with the natural world, strengthen our spiritual relationships with the animals who share our planet, and discover the true essence of the wild within us.”

To learn more about Tamarack’s work, visit http://tamaracksong.org

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