Other Voices and Resources

This is partly where Ecofluency is growing into an organisation, network and platform, to support and promote other (human) voices in the field of Nature communication.

This includes researchers, teachers and practitioners in the field of Nature communication, as well as websites, podcasts, hubs, books and educational videos by other voices on this topic further down.

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OTHER PRACTITIONERS AND RESEARCHERS

I recommend following any or all these people, each of whose work is aligned with the vision, mission and core values of Ecofluency. Almost all of them have been a teacher, colleague and/or co-facilitator of mine.

The list is in no particular order, is not exhaustive, and is regularly updated:

• Dr Julia Wright, Author, researcher and presenter in Subtle Agroecology

• Henk Kieft, author, researcher and consultant in Subtle Agroecology

• Emma Farrell MSc, plant spirit healer, shamanic teacher and author. Founder of The School of Natural Esoterics

• Eleni Gkikakis, Interspecies Peace facilitator & teacher, animal healer

• Kate Muller, animal communication teacher, consultant and healer

• Dr Monica Gagliano, researcher in plant behaviour and cognition

• Dr Patrick MacManaway, geomancy, land whispering, land healing, author of various books on these topics and on dowsing

• Josh Lane, founder and facilitator of Conscious Nature, and author of the Art and Neuroscience of Meditating in Nature

• Thomas Schorr-kon, author, facilitator and teacher in Nature connection and awareness, bushcraft, survival skills and shamanism

• Cathrine Nyquist, co-founder of Panthera Africa Big Cat Sanctuary, and co-creator of online courses with big cats at Cathrine Lionheart

• Katharina Wauters, animal communication consultant and healer

• Dr Eline Kieft, dancer, author, researcher and facilitator of shamanic dance practices, story facilitation and Qi Gong, founder of Way of the Wild Soul

• Dr Louise Livingstone, founder of Heart Sense and of the Centre for Myth, Cosmology and the Sacred

• Dr Chara Armon, researcher and founder of the School for Humans and Earth, and a podcast series by the same name

• Christine Noble Seller, author and animal communication consultant, podcast host of ‘Conversations for Charity’

• Kendra Ward, traditional Chinese medicine practitioner and herbalist co-creating with Nature, host of ‘Woman Who Rubs the Mountain’ podcast

• Lila Lieberman, presenter, practitioner and educator in traditional plant healing, founder of the Five Pillars of Medicine

• Tigrilla Gardenia, researcher, educator and presenter in plant intelligence and Music of the Plants

• Prof M.J. Barrett, intuitive interspecies communication researcher

• Dr Vanessa Wijngaarden, intuitive interspecies communication researcher

• Dr Jeff Feinman, holistic vet, founder of Holistic Actions, and host of the Sacred Paws Summit

• Katrina Wolff, biodynamic gardener and compost maker and teacher, co-creating her work with Nature

• Anna Breytenbach, animal communication (wild animals only), founder of Animal Spirit

• Wynter Worsthorne, animal communication practitioner and teacher, founder of Animal Talk Africa

• Melissa Roussopoulos, Nature constellations facilitator and author in the field of Nature consciousness

• Leah Black, eco-mentoring and Nature coaching, founder of Ecoinnersense

• Dr Matthew Zylstra, researcher and facilitator in deep Nature connection and co-founder of the Organisation for Noetic Ecology

• Ben Rayner, Simultaneous Awareness teacher and facilitator, Nature connection and awareness, healer

• Machaelle Small-Wright, founder of Perelandra Centre for Nature Research

• Penelope Smith, animal communicator and author, founder of AnimalTalk

• Dr Daniel Foor, founder of Ancestral Medicine, for animism, ritual, ancestral healing and Earth reverence

• Dr Siv Watkins, founder, educator and facilitator of Microanimism

• Psychic Emma, medium, psychic, speaker & media personality

• Veronica Stanwell, founder and director of Rooted Healing

• Tanja Meyburgh, African constellations, co-founder of REAL Academy (Resources for Ancestral and Embodied Learning)

• Zayaan Kahn, food activist, artist and local cultural practitioner

• Roushanna Gray, founder of Veld & Sea, foraging teacher and wild food artist

• Kavi Karnapura-Dasa, Vedic astrology consultant and teacher

• Chris Park, natural beekeeper, Nature awareness teacher, storyteller, founder of Living Beeing podcast

• Richard Gantlett, intuitive farmer and researcher

• Jan-Dirk van de Voort, intuitive dairy farmer and educator

• William Parsons, author and singer, focusing on practicing and reviving itinerant traditions in the British landscape (e.g. pilgrimage and wayfaring)

VIDEOS

• “The most important conversation in agriculture: the conversation with the spirit of place”, by Dr Patrick MacManaway at Coventry University, UK, 2016.

• ‘The Animal Communicator’ documentary. 2013. Documentary available to watch on YouTube. DVD available to purchase: https://johnhomewood.net/product/animal-communicator-dvd-with-anna-breytenbach/

  NB: Anna Breytenbach, about whom the film is made, has no involvement with sales, distribution or royalties, so for more information about her work, please visit her website, https://animalspirit.org/.

• ‘The Great Dance: A Hunter’s Story’ documentary about the intuitive tracking and communication abilities of hunter-gatherers in the Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa, by the Foster Brothers, available from http://www.senseafrica.com and on Amazon Prime.

• ‘Dancing with Horned Ladies’, documentary, about Remeker farm’s journey after they stopped using antibiotics and vaccines, and started communicating with their cows. ‘Dansen met Gehoornde Dames’ in Dutch, with English subtitles), 2013. Amsterdam: Onno Gerritse.

Websites, hubs and PODCASTS

There is also a very long list of resources in this category, and will be updated soon.

• A New and Ancient Story: podcast of Charles Eisenstein, for which he recently interviewed Anna Breytenbach on Interspecies Communication

• Humans and Earth podcast, hosted by Dr Chara Armon

• Somatics Toolkit, originally designed as a toolkit for ethnographic researchers, and can be adapted to any field of personal and professional practice (please do ask for permission if you’re using this for your own teaching). Also, I recommend this blogpost on the site: Yielding as an ecologically sensitive and somatic practice.

• Council of All Beings and the Work That Reconnects, by Joanna Macy and colleagues

• Organization for Nature Evolutionaries

• Organisation for Noetic Ecology

• eyes4earth.org

• The Sacred Network, founded by geobiologist Rory Duff

• Inner Temple Traditions / Inner Convocations, by R.J Stewart

• Perelandra Centre for Nature Research

• The Global White Lion Protection Trust, founded by Linda Tucker

BOOKS

This is a very long list, and so only a few are named here in alphabetical order of authors. Please get in touch for the full list, including resources in languages other than English.

• Alli, Antero. 1987. All Rites Reversed?! Ritual Technology for Self-Initiation. Vigilantero Press, USA.

• Andeweg, Hans. 2001. In Resonance with Nature. Kosmos-Z&K Uitgevers, Netherlands.

• Beth, Rae. 2017. The Way into Faerie. Robert Hale, UK.

• Buhner, Stephen Harrod, 2006. The Secret Teachings of Plants. The intelligence of the Heart in the direct perception of nature. Bear & Company, USA.

• Conroy, Jim and Alexander, Basia. 2014. Live and Let Live: How Multidimensional Collaboration Heals Ecosystems. Plant Kingdom Communications.

• Cunningham, Scott. 1983. Earth Power: Techniques of Natural Magic. Llewellyn Publications, USA.

• Farrell, Emma. 2021. Journeys with Plant Spirits: Plant Consciousness Healing and Natural Magic Practices. Simon & Schuster.

• Foor, Daniel. 2017. Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing. Bear & Co., U.S.A.

• Gagliano, Monica. 2018. Thus Spoke the Plant. North Atlantic Books, U.S.A.

• Gurney, Carol. 2001. The Language of Animals: 7 Steps to Communicating with Animals. Bantam-Dell Publishing / Random House.

• Kieft, Henk. 2019. Quantum Leaps in Agriculture: Exploring Quantum Principles in Farming, Gardening and Nature. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing.

• Lane, Josh. 2019. Conscious Nature: The Art and Neuroscience of Meditating in Nature. Conscious Nature LLC.

• Lovel, Hugh. 2014. Quantum Agriculture: Biodynamics and Beyond. Quantum Agriculture Publishers, Blairsville, Georgia, USA.

• MacManaway, Patrick. 2013. A Practical Guide to Dowsing: How to Harness the Earth’s Energies for Health and Healing. Lorenz Books, UK.

• Patterson, Gareth. 2020. Beyond the Secret Elephants: On mystery, elephants and discovery. Tracey McDonald Publishers.

• Pogačnik, Marko. 1997. Nature Spirits and Elemental Beings: Working with the Intelligence in Nature. Findhorn Press, UK.

• Pogačnik, Marko. 2008. Sacred Geography, Geomancy: Co-creating the Earth Cosmos. Lindisfarne, U.S.A.

• Radin, Dean. 2019. Real Magic. Random House.

• Raven, Susan. 2012. Nature Spirits - The Remembrance: A Guide to the Elemental Kingdom. Clairview Books.

• Roads, Michael. 2003. Talking with Nature and Journey into Nature. HJ Kramer/New World Library.

• Schorr-kon, Thomas. 2018. True Nature: Connecting with Nature Spirit and Heart to Move Beyond the Illusion of Separation. Independently published.

• Sheldrake, Rupert. 2018. Science and Spiritual Practices: Reconnecting through direct experience. Coronet publisher.

• Smith, Penelope. 1978. Animal Talk: Interspecies Telepathic Communication. Pegasus Publications, USA.

• Steiner, Rudolf. 1923. Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment (or Knowledge of the Higher Worlds: How is it Achieved?). Osmond, D.S. and Davy, C. (Translated). Anthroposophic Press.

• Steiner, Rudolf. 1995. Intuitive Thinking As a Spiritual Path: A Philosophy of Freedom (Classics in Anthroposophy). Michael Lipson (Translator). Anthroposophic Press.

• Thompson, Mary Reynolds. 2014. Reclaiming the Wild Soul: How Earth’s Landscapes Restore Us to Wholeness. White Cloud Press, U.S.A.

• Williams, Marta. 2005. Beyond Words – Talking with Animals and Nature. New World Library.

• Wright, Julia (editor). 2021. Subtle Agroecologies: Farming With the Hidden Half of Nature. Taylor & Francis.

• Young, Jon. 2013. What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World. Mariner Books, USA.

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