Tag: grandfather Stalking Wolf

• Tracker School Scout Class

  After listening to one of the trackerschool broadcasts this morning, I let the videos continue playing and saw this trailer from the scout class.  This is new in that I had never seen a trailer for scout class before so I thought I would share the link for anyone interested in one of the most…

  micheleballantyne

  April 27, 2018

  Survival Skills

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• “Tales of Power” a book by Carlos Castenada

  When I was a teenager my father and I read the Carlos Castaneda books. Well, he read them all but I read the first few and got turned off by the selfishness of their goals. After going to Tracker school for a couple years I decided to re-read them from a new perspective. I understood…

  micheleballantyne

  September 17, 2017

  Book Reviews, Emotional Health

  book review, Carlos Castenada, coyote teachers, Don Juan, grandfather Stalking Wolf, overcoming offense, self importance, tales of power, Tom Brown Junior

• "Tales of Power" a book by Carlos Castenada

  When I was a teenager my father and I read the Carlos Castaneda books. Well, he read them all but I read the first few and got turned off by the selfishness of their goals. After going to Tracker school for a couple years I decided to re-read them from a new perspective. I understood…

  September 17, 2017

  Book Reviews, Emotional Health

  book review, Carlos Castenada, coyote teachers, Don Juan, grandfather Stalking Wolf, overcoming offense, self importance, tales of power, Tom Brown Junior

• Alone in the Woods : Part 2

  Little Girl followed a ways behind Coyote, following his trail of trodden grass and scattered seeds.  The trail led her on a wander, turning this way and that, criss crossing other trails and roads, without time or destination, until the trail ended at a border of tall pine trees.  Little Girl cautiously approached, not sure…

  micheleballantyne

  July 31, 2016

  “Little Girl” stories

  alone in the woods, Coyote, education, emotions, Grandfather Coyote, grandfather Stalking Wolf, Health and Healing, life lessons, Little Girl, trackerschool

• Alone in the Woods : A Story About Relationships by Michele Ballantyne

  One day Little Girl was sitting at her window, feeling hopeless and helpless, gazing outside across the dry, brown grass in her yard, to the sunny fields, ripe with seeds, when she saw Grandfather Coyote trot by on the edge of the golden grass.  Little Girl watched him, his tongue lolling out of his mouth, eyes…

  micheleballantyne

  July 30, 2016

  “Little Girl” stories

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• Camouflage Capture The Flag In the Dark Game

  When I had a bunch of homeschool families over to play capture the flag in the dark, trackerschool style, I had fun demonstrating to the kids and adults how to use mud and oily charcoal to camouflage yourself for the game we were about to play.  ONE of the most fun parts of the night,…

  micheleballantyne

  May 25, 2016

  Homeschool Fun, Survival Skills

  camouflage, camouflage games, capture the flag, education, grandfather Stalking Wolf, joy, kids games, Life Academy of Salem, night games, salem, teaching children, Things to do with kids, Thomas Jefferson Education, trackerschool

• Kids and Bows and Arrows!

  In 2010 the kids and I attended Rick Berry’s 4 Element Earth Education class in Northern  California, and had a great time.  Rick is one of the original people in charge of Coyote Tracks, an appendage of Tom Brown Jr.’s Trackerschool, in New Jersey.   One of the activities the kids liked best was hunting…

  micheleballantyne

  May 4, 2016

  Homeschool Fun, Survival Skills

  education, grandfather Stalking Wolf, quickie bows, teaching children, Things to do with kids, trackerschool

• Wilderness Survival Workshop going well.

  This past January I joined a homeschool group.  The administrators have allowed me to teach a group of 10 kids ages 8 to 12, and in class I have been sharing some of the most fun things I learned in survival school.  We have played some stalking and awareness games, made clay bowls that we…

  micheleballantyne

  May 2, 2016

  Homeschool Fun, Survival Skills

  education, friction fire, grandfather Stalking Wolf, kids classes, kids survival skills, making fire, teaching children, trackerschool

• Back to Nature . . . Sleeping Outside!

  Hey everybody!  Welcome to my blog!  Again! It’s been awhile since I’ve written anything here!  But now I’m gearing up for a new adventure: SURVIVAL QUESTING THIS SUMMER!  I have a lot of work to do in preparation for this!  How many of you could walk into the woods and survive lavishly?  I know I…

  micheleballantyne

  April 4, 2013

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