John Brossard has studied tracking intensively for six years with mentoring from Jon Young through the Institute of Nature Awareness, Integral Awareness Training Series, Shikari Mentoring Services, and RDI's Native Eyes /  RDNA Immersion program.  He has passed two CyberTracker International Track & Sign Evaluations in northern California. He is a co-founder of the Marin County Tracking Club.

John is also a graduate of RDI’s Ecology of Leadership program. He has been a leader and teacher in his work as Personnel Manager at Good Earth Natural Foods and as a one-on-one studio Pilates teacher.

John’s tracking journey has been largely in a community setting, which he feels is one of the most effective ways to learn tracking. John brings a deeply felt, lifelong relationship with Nature to tracking. He is inspired by a holistic view of our place in nature and the cosmos, as well as increasing our consciousness of who we truly are in a deeper sense. His approach and desire is to use tracking as a path to greater intimacy and connection with Nature, so we can become more in touch with the physical and numinous source that it is. He holds a vision of all of us growing into strongly connected, nature-based communities who are able to revere, regenerate and beautify our land and our world.