Anna Breytenbach

Well, hi everybody, this is Anna Breitenbach, and I'm delighted to be here to share a little bit today about the field of intuitive interspecies communication, which might sound like a mouthful, like most words do, perhaps more commonly known in the world as telepathic animal communication. Although it does actually literally apply to all species, not just the more than human animals.

Well, hi everybody, this is Anna Breitenbach, and I'm delighted to be here to share a little bit today about the field of intuitive interspecies communication, which might sound like a mouthful, like most words do, perhaps more commonly known in the world as telepathic animal communication. Although it does actually literally apply to all species, not just the more than human animals.

But we humans come to the party mostly by connecting with other animals and relearning and remembering these skills that are actually our intuition. It's actually part of the blueprint of our brain and how we are designed. And nonetheless, when I hacked upon this about 25 years ago, it was a complete surprise to my logical left brain.

But we humans come to the party mostly by connecting with other animals and relearning and remembering these skills that are actually our intuition. It's actually part of the blueprint of our brain and how we are designed. And nonetheless, when I hacked upon this about 25 years ago, it was a complete surprise to my logical left brain.

I was living and working in Silicon Valley at the time, fully into the mental IT world. And I was finding ways to satisfy my love for nature and animals through volunteering in conservation education programs. And that was all still quite worldly and orientated around nature. activism and education and volunteering at wildlife shelters and becoming a big cat handler and the like.

I was living and working in Silicon Valley at the time, fully into the mental IT world. And I was finding ways to satisfy my love for nature and animals through volunteering in conservation education programs. And that was all still quite worldly and orientated around nature. activism and education and volunteering at wildlife shelters and becoming a big cat handler and the like.

But when I started doing my tracking training with the Wilderness Awareness School, based out of Washington State, I started to have experiences I couldn't explain. Because I grew up in my native South Africa and I didn't have a clue what the North American animals were, much less what their feet or their footprints would look like.

But when I started doing my tracking training with the Wilderness Awareness School, based out of Washington State, I started to have experiences I couldn't explain. Because I grew up in my native South Africa and I didn't have a clue what the North American animals were, much less what their feet or their footprints would look like.

So the perfect track in dried mud was still completely mysterious to me. And luckily through the mentoring model that they employed they weren't there just to tell us how to learn to identify certain tracks but rather to help us see through native eyes or become deeply connected and to feel what was going on.

So the perfect track in dried mud was still completely mysterious to me. And luckily through the mentoring model that they employed they weren't there just to tell us how to learn to identify certain tracks but rather to help us see through native eyes or become deeply connected and to feel what was going on.

And I began getting spontaneous information that would later prove to be true in ways that my mind had no involvement with. It was not a rational or thoughtful process or anything at all. So I thought one of two things is happening. Either I'm just going completely crazy and hallucinating, or there's something to this I need to investigate. I did the latter.

And I began getting spontaneous information that would later prove to be true in ways that my mind had no involvement with. It was not a rational or thoughtful process or anything at all. So I thought one of two things is happening. Either I'm just going completely crazy and hallucinating, or there's something to this I need to investigate. I did the latter.

I came across the work of Rupert Sheldrake and the entire field of quantum physics and new physics. And in the US, there are hundreds of teachers of animal communication. I carefully chose to embark on studies through the Assisi International Animal Institute because of their three-pronged approach, which was...

I came across the work of Rupert Sheldrake and the entire field of quantum physics and new physics. And in the US, there are hundreds of teachers of animal communication. I carefully chose to embark on studies through the Assisi International Animal Institute because of their three-pronged approach, which was...

looking very deeply into the physics of it, but also engendering and living from that place of the more Buddhist principles of compassion and reverence for all life. And the third angle in our research was all around the original peoples and how natural this was for them and the ways they used to live and move with their more-than-human kin on the earth.

looking very deeply into the physics of it, but also engendering and living from that place of the more Buddhist principles of compassion and reverence for all life. And the third angle in our research was all around the original peoples and how natural this was for them and the ways they used to live and move with their more-than-human kin on the earth.

So over the next couple of years, in between my day job, I used my grand total of 10 vacation days a year to do various courses to advancing levels and did a whole bunch of case studies to get coaching around that and to pursue certification. In 2002, I moved back to South Africa and began offering workshops and consultations.

So over the next couple of years, in between my day job, I used my grand total of 10 vacation days a year to do various courses to advancing levels and did a whole bunch of case studies to get coaching around that and to pursue certification. In 2002, I moved back to South Africa and began offering workshops and consultations.

For the first 10 years or so, I did pet consultations, animals with behavioral issues or helping vets diagnose something that was difficult to find out, you know, emotional issues, assisting with training and things like this. For the last 10 years, I haven't done pet consultations at all, and I still do not.

For the first 10 years or so, I did pet consultations, animals with behavioral issues or helping vets diagnose something that was difficult to find out, you know, emotional issues, assisting with training and things like this. For the last 10 years, I haven't done pet consultations at all, and I still do not.