Animal Tracking and Awareness
Class date / time: Friday, October 8, 2021 - 8:30am to 3:30pm
Instructor: Richard Vacha
Fee: $80
Non-Member Fee: $90
Wander in a state of awareness, closely observing and interpreting animal tracks and signs!
About this event
In this all day field workshop, we will go for a group wandering journey in one of our prime wildlife locations, carefully observing every track and sign we can find from the ongoing patterns of local animal activity.
We will work on learning how to read animal tracks in various substrates for what they can tell us about ongoing animal life as well as all the signs that animals leave of their presence and activity. We will learn how to make the all-important shift out of our busy mental states into a calm and open sensory state--the true meditation of nature awareness, and learn how to let the animals lead us into a profoundly joyful and peaceful state of mind, a state of heightened sensory perception.
Together we will learn how to add up and interpret the smallest and most subtle signs of animal life, and how they relate to the overall landscape ecology to build a holistic picture of the mostly invisible world of animal activity all around us.
Richard Vacha has been studying animal tracking for 30 years and has been teaching tracking and nature awareness for the last 20 years through the Marin Tracking Club and the Pt.Reyes Tracking School. Check out our website for more details about the philosophy of tracking and the programs we are currently offering: PointReyesTrackingSchool.com