Bear Dancing Dialogues

January 31, 2010

Hi, Animal Lover,

Thank you for visiting this web site.  From February 3rd until August 1st, 2010, I will not be working as an animal communicator.  I am entering a retreat program for six months and my focus will be on my work at the retreat center.  You can connect with other communicators during this time by going to animaltalk.net, the web site of Penelope Smith.  There you will find a list of communicators who can help you.

While I love working as an animal communicator, I look forward to this sabbatical as a time to reconnect to a deep spiritual practice and to reassess where this work is taking me. It has been an honor for the past nine years to work with so many wonderful animals and humans.  The magic of this work is inspiring and humbling.  I am excited to see how this time off changes my work in the future.

Dec. 16, 2009

I just returned from a trip to Guatemala to visit a friend who is living on beautiful Lake Atitlan for a year.  I had the opportunity to offer a two-hour presentation to the international expatriot community there.  Twelve joined in the lively discussion about animal communication.  From skeptics to believers, we all agreed that the important piece is to keep an open mind and a respect for the animals.  Donations for the event went to Ayuda, an organization that spays, neuters and feeds the many hungry dogs in the area.  Read about their good work at http://ayudagt.wordpress.com/.

My travels in the RV van this winter are shaping up quite differently from all the teaching I was able to do last year.  At the moment I am in Texas with family.  February first,  I begin a six-month work/study program at a Buddhist retreat center in California.  I will be working in the offices of Dharma Publishing, living in the community, and taking classes.  By necessity, my work with the animals will be put on sabbatical from February through July.  I trust that this time away from the telepathic work spent deepening my meditation practice will lead to new avenues.  Of course, I have no idea what those avenues might be.   I’ll keep you posted.

In the mean time, Sneakers, the stray Schnauzer I befriended last year, found a new and perfect home.  She is living with an energetic and loving extended family in Flagstaff, AZ.  Instead of having just me to play with, she now has a 9-year-old boy, a 20-something newly married young couple who love her, a mom who jogs, a dad who has a great lap to sit on, an aunt who has three dogs to play with, and a gramma who loves Schnauzers and can’t wait to dogsit.  This wonderful family took care of Sneakers while I was in the Grand Canyon last year.  They fell in love with her, and she with  them.   The family knew I was looking for a more active home for this fun and playful pup.  Seeing her play with my friends dogs in San Diego last winter, I knew I could find her a home that would suit her active personality better than my quiet life.  While they dogsat for me, the family voted unanimously to adopt her.  After my float trip I went to find out whether she wanted to stay with them or continue her travels with me.   I could see how secure she felt in their home, and I could see how much they all loved her.  The family and I decided that she really would have a much more fun life with them.  As I put my hand on the door knob to leave, I looked at her as she watched me.  I said, “This is it, Buddy.  It’s your turn to vote, Sneakers.  Do you want to come with me or do you want to stay here.”  Without taking her eyes off of me she sat down, casting her vote for an active and fun household.  I knelt down and gave her a hug.  “I think you made the right choice, my little friend.  Have a wonderful life.”

I stopped in to see her last month as I drove south.  But, she was out on a seven-mile hike with the aunt and three other dogs.  Life is good!

As many of my Animal Communication classes canceled for late spring, I headed back west  toward home.  Outside of Pagosa Springs, CO, Sneakers and I were camped on Forest Service land  enjoying the solitude and being back in the Rockies.    We took a long walk in the woods that evening.  In the morning I was sitting in the sun editing a manuscript.  Sneakers was amusing herself about 30 feet away.  I looked up when she gave a little bark.  She was trotting back to me, ears back, with a beautiful coyote following her about 6 feet behind.  A calm and collected animal communicator, I screamed my lungs out.  The coyote ran, as did a second one closing in from the right.  When Sneakers  realized they had turned, she began barking at them and giving chase for a few yards.  I called her back, still screaming in panic mode.  She was pretty oblivious, although my heart was pounding!  We spend the rest of the morning working in the van with the doors closed.

Doesn’t it seem that coyotes are everywhere and getting more and more bold?  Since this happened, I’ve heard numerous stories of coyotes taking small dogs in the back country as well as in back yards.  Makes me more vigilant.

I will be out of computer range until June 22 as I get to fulfill a longtime dream of floating the Grand Canyon.   Sneakers is getting her own vacation with a wonderful family, friends of a friend, who are going to dog sit for me.

If you are having an animal emergency you’ll find a list of communicators at www.penelopesmith.com.

Happy Solstice,

Keek

Oh, my goodness, it is very clear to me that I am not driving this bus.  My well-laid-out plans for this trip are shifting like the dunes in Death Valley National Park.   Classes are canceling as folks feel the very real pinch of this economic correction.   And, at the same time, other opportunities are arising daily.  I’m enjoying the ride.

I spoke in Dallas, TX, last night to a metaphysical Meetup group.  We had a fun evening together of talking about the nuts and bolts, as well as the wonders, of animal communication and psychism.  Just that morning I found out that my teaching gigs in Florida and in Vermont have been canceled.   Numerous folks approached me after last night’s talk offering names and places in the Dallas area with which to network.  And by this afternoon, it looks like I will return here in the fall to teach.

This trip has been an experiment to see if I can manifest my dream of living on the road teaching as I go.  I feel that I almost have it right;  I’m getting close.  Just a bit more experience needed in marketing myself.  That, coupled with the tenacity to hang on during these wild ups and downs, will see me through.

My two weeks in San Diego with the Riggin family were so much fun. We spent four days in the desert camping together before we rolled on to their home in San Diego.  Pam and Stan, along with their adult kids Jennifer and James and daughter-in-law Candice, were wonderful to me.  Great food, wonderful sightseeing, fun family times.  I feel part of their close family.  And their dogs…my Sneakers loved joining their pack of 5 for two weeks of romping in the desert, in the house, in the back yard, at the beach.   From the shephard-sized mix to the chihuahua, they all played well with us.  Such fun.  And we found during the San Diego class and after that there does seem to be a good bit of psychic ability running through the family genes.  Heart-felt thanks, Stan and Pam, for all you did for me.  Sneakers really misses the pack.

Once I finish networking in Dallas in early May, I will roll back to the St. George-Zion-Kanab area of Southern Utah.  The red rocks and the Grand Canyon are calling.  Back in my 20s and 30s when my back issues prevented me from walking much, my greatest sadness was that I never would make it through the Grand Canyon.  Well, I am inspired.  This is the summer.  Already I have experienced deep insights and a bit of magic in Zion Canyon.  Can’t wait to see what magic I experience on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon later this summer.

3/22/09

Such an amazing winter it was.  Am looking forward to the opportunities of Spring.  Friends and I are waiting out a dust storm in the desert east of San Diego today before we head into San Diego where I’ll give a public lecture Friday and a class in Animal Communication Saturday and Sunday.

Had a wonderful week in Kanab, Utah, before coming here. Twenty five attended the public lecture and 7 wonderful and intuitively talented women were in the weekend class.  And I had one of the amazing experiences that keeps me working to find lost animals.

A woman called Saturday  saying her cat escaped from the house sitter 7 days ago.  At 8:45 that night I talked to the young cat who seemed parallyzed with fright.  I encouraged him to gather all his courage and come home during the night’s bright moonlight.  I felt that he was southwest of the woman’s home.  By the Mapquest map, there was not much town southwest of her home, only a block.  But I called the woman and told her what I got.

An hour later my phone rang.  The woman shouted, “I found him!”  She had gotten off work at 9, driven right to the block where I thought the cat was, a place she had looked numerous times, of course.  As she got out of her truck she heard a husky, strange meowing.  Her cat was walking toward her before she even called him.  This is a communicator’s dream and surely a touch of the indescribable power of our usually untapped intuitive ability.  How can it work?  I did nothing but talk to the cat in my head from my hotel room.  I continue to be humbled and amazed and happy.

Thank you to all the wonderful folks I met in Kanab.  Your friendship and encouragement nurture my soul.  I hope to return soon.  Thanks also to the two men in Death Valley who shared with me their own intuitive experiences and encouraged my work.  Traveling gives us opportunities to meet guides on the path when we need them most.  Onward to San Diego, then to Dallas in mid-April.  Lots of desert to explore and friends to see in between.

Barks and Wags,

Keek

March 6, 2009

March in the desert is delightful.  The warm, even hot, days are so easy compared to ice/snow/grey days up north.   Sneakers and I spent last night on the Colorado River when everyone starts their float trip through the Grand Canyon.  It was wonderful to get out of Phoenix and be at home in the outback again.

Tonight I look forward to a public lecture in Kanab, UT.  An area full of animal lovers, it should be a fun evening.  Over the weekend I’ll teach another class on how to become an animal communicator for your own animals and for others.

From here I have a few weeks to find solitude in the desert “with a million stars all around.”  Then it is on to San Diego for another class.  Working on the road is quite different from just vacationing on the road in an RV.  But it is going well.  Meeting more wonderful folks along the way–but that’s for the next book…

February 7, 2009

Bear Dancing is about to hit the road.  I am busy packing my RV for a teaching tour that will take me from coast to coast in the next 5 months.  last week Sneakers and I were given a special afternoon  of training instruction from Jewel Willis of Hamilton, MT. (fia@montana.com) Animal communication is not a substitute for good training.  Not having trained a puppy for 30 years, I had no idea how to train Sneakers with the new gentle, positive reinforcement methods.  We had a ball!  Jewel taught us a lot and Sneakers loved being asked to use her intelligence to understand what we wanted.  It was truly a win-win situation.  I am looking forward to continuing to work with my new little buddy to  have a traveling companion who is safe in all situations, dependable,  and well behaved.  Thanks, Jewel.

Just finished today part one of a two-part class in Deer Lodge, MT.  16 students from 8 years old to well-beyond-that participated with some very good results.  Quote of the weekend was from Sarah who answered the question, “Do you have any intuitive abilities that you are aware of?”  “I don’t know,” she replied,  “but I think of chocolate, and then I’m eating it.”

Eight-year-old Bailey made all us older folks smile when she very confidently gave lots of correct verifiable answers about the animal she worked with.  Her mom also did well.  Always wonderful to see parents who support, rather than suppress, a child’s intuitive abilities.  10-year-old  Shea also is doing well and  showing us that there is no age limit to doing this work.  Thanks to Powell County Adult Ed for hosting this class and to Kayo Fraser for organizing it all.

On to packing.  A dream come true for me.  Have wanted to live on the road in an old hippy van since I was 20.  Now I have a very comfortable van that is a delight to live in.  I hope that Sneakers likes life on the road until we return home to Missoula in July.

January 26, 2009

Curious about animal communication? What one question would you like to ask me about animal communication? Check back for the answer.

I love this work and am passionate about helping others to learn to use their own telepathic abilities.  I think it would be great fun to dialogue here in a question and answer format about the possibilities of animal communication, techniques, how it works, etc.   So, type your questions in the comment box below (start by clicking the no comments or # comments link), and I’ll do my best to answer them.

Barks and Wags,

Keek

January 24, 2009

Good day, animal lovers,

If I ever doubted the effectiveness of publicity, I’m a believer now!  The past two weeks have been incredible following the two articles about animal communication in the two Missoula papers.  I was a bit reluctant to have the articles written because I feared they would attempt to discredit the work and me.  However, both reporters were gentle.  The response has been truly amazing to me.

About 130 people came to hear my two talks at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center and at Fact and Fiction Bookstore.  I’ve had about 60 calls and emails inquiring about my services.  The Missoulian article was picked up by the AP wire service and was reprinted around the state and as far away as NY and OR.

The weekend of the 16th I taught 7 marvelous new students to communicate with animals.  It was an exceptional group, I think.  Each of them was getting accurate, verifiable information by the second exercise.  By Sunday afternoon, the results they were getting were as accurate as psychic work gets.  Nearly 100 percent in most cases.

Isn’t it exciting for those of us who use our intuition that so many people are interested and are willing to talk about it openly?  It would seem that a shift toward honoring our subjective consciousness is indeed taking place.

I am thrilled to be in the limelight for a while in order to bring the message forward.  That still, small voice within is important, it is useful, it is within each of us.  Imagine if all of us could learn to be still, to hear it, and to implement its message in order to make this a better world.  Imagine!

Keep Listening!

Keek

January 14, 2009

Welcome to Bear Dancing Dialogues.  Thanks for stopping by.

If you are interested in using my animal communication services, please go to the About page of this web site to learn more about the work and how to start the process.

I have loads of news.  My new book was just printed and is available.  This book tells how I got into this work and recounts touching stories of animals I have worked with.  See more at Read the Stories.

January 8 and 9  my work was featured in both Missoula newspapers.  Read these two wonderful articles at Press Page. The publicity has brought many new clients who seek help for their pets.

More than 70 folks and one dog showed up to hear  about animal communication at a talk I presented January 9.  Thanks to the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center for hosting that event.  See what other events are scheduled at Upcoming Events.

I’ll teach this month in Missoula and in Deer Lodge in February.  Nine other organizers are working on hosting classes around the country in the next few months.  See the dates and locations at Upcoming Events.
My new puppy Sneakers will accompany me on this cross-country teaching trip in my RV van.  A stray who showed up in the neighborhood in late October, Sneakers is rapidly learning her new job as my teaching and marketing assistant.  They don’t get much cuter and sweeter than she is!

Photo by PJ Johnson

Barks and Wags,

Keek