Course Highlights:

• Experience the spiritual side of tracking.
• Discover why Wolf tracking is in a class by itself.
• Learn tracking techniques the traditional way: through stories.
• Practice “letting go” techniques, so that you can become the Wolf and track intuitively.
• Explore our ancestral Wolf-Human relationship.
• Learn about the healing power of Wolves

What You Learn

You learn to track Wolves the way I did: the “old Indian way.” Gudrun Pflueger, the eminent Wolf tracker/researcher from Austria, describes it this way: “All professional trackers work according to strict moral principles. We refer to following tracks as “back tracking,” because as soon as we come across tracks, we follow them not toward the animal, but in the opposite direction. Our motto is: The best research occurs when the objects of study never know they’re being observed. Only then will they behave naturally, not influenced by us. [With backtracking] you just have to think the other way around. Where I find fresh, dark scat, for example, I know that I’ll soon come across a fresh kill: when I find a kill, I expect a hunting scene next.”

Along with Gudrun and the Indians and the Wolves who taught me, this Training draws on the experience and expertise of indigenous and professional Wolf trackers from Austria, Germany, Holland, Canada, and the US.

You gain a feel for what it is to be a Wolf. The deliberate tracks of Wolves tell you about their resilience in their search for prey that is usually far too distant to see, and for success that lies beyond the horizon. You learn that it is impossible to definitively distinguish between a Wolf and a Dog on the basis of a single paw print. But if you follow the trail, the linear pattern of the individual tracks soon tells you that it’s the sustained trot of a Wolf, who moves efficiently through the terrain in a very un-doglike way, by hardly letting herself get distracted.

What Does It Take from You?

• First of all, humility. When it comes to Wolves, we have to admit that we have so much to learn, and they have so much to teach us. In the end, it is they who are training us.
• Next, respect. To show respect for the animals and how their tracks fit into the landscape, we create our paths next to theirs rather than over. We Humans do better when we don’t insist on making the last brushstroke.
• Then, self-knowing. When we move at the pace our senses are best adapted to, we can be most fully present and experience Nature most intensely.
• And finally, letting go. As one tracker put it, “Many a time I’ve had the depressing sensation of being something like a spy, an invader who is actually disruptive because I’m carrying around too much intellect, which usually drowns out inner knowledge. Outside is a world that is designed and proceeds according to an inner wisdom that resides in everyone and everything…It’s best to just allow it to be.”

After this Training, improving your field skills comes easy. You know Wolf—you know her moods and passions, you know why she does what she does. And above all, you know who you are in relation to Wolf, and that is your key to a world of unfolding mysteries and depth of relationship that before you could only have dreamed of entering.