Losing an animal friend can be a difficult journey, often preceded by pain, illness, and veterinary visits.
Our April 17, 2025 online class explores how to know when animals are ready to let go, whether they need assistance in dying, and how to navigate this sacred time. It also delves into the spiritual realm after death, including reincarnation and the possibility of animal return.
Gain insights into how animals experience death, and learn to let go of guilt and regret.
Penelope’s book, Animals in Spirit, provides additional preparation, while Animal Talkoffers guidance on telepathic communication with animals.
Discover your innate ability to communicate with animals and other species. Since the 1970s, I’ve been teaching thousands of people worldwide the keys to unlock the door to this precious ability already inside them. Over the years, I have seen how people light up. Their lives become enriched as they rediscover their ability to communicate telepathically with other species. Join me as I put my decades of work and research into action for an inspiring 7-week recorded video course adventure, Become an Animal Whisperer.
We’ll build a foundation for deep telepathic communication with animals while you develop your animal whisperer skills.
Misunderstanding, tension, fear, mental distraction, and self-doubt inhibit deep telepathic connection, easing their grip as we engage in various approaches in our course.
You’ll see how telepathic communication with animals works, how you have probably done it already, and how much fun it is to exercise this innate ability.
Open the gates to new worlds of enrichment in deep relation to trillions of beings that live with us on Earth. Expand your communion with Nature and access to spiritual realities and dimensions.
Animals change from outsiders you try to figure out but can’t fully comprehend to fellow journeyers on the path of life.
Walking in deep communion with our fellow beings of all species makes the whole planet a healthier, happier place for all.
Our interactions and relationships intensify in beauty and peace. We have access to the wisdom of countless beings who can help us live in harmony with ourselves, each other, and life.
I’m excited to help you unlock this vital connection and ability. Have a sublime adventure at our Become an Animal Whisperercourse! Find out more and how to register here.
Here's what graduates of the foundation Become An Animal Whisperer course are saying: I have been trying for two years now to learn to communicate with animals, with no luck. Thanks to Penelope and The Shift Network course, I am now communicating with animals! I will treasure this teacher and this course forever. I couldn’t have done it without Penelope or Shift!
I gained much more confidence and new skills in communicating with animals and other life forms as well. One of the most profound experiences included an experience of a beloved tree that has been with me for many years. I must say, just being with Penelope is enlivening and a joy!
I was so impressed with the way Penelope taught this class. She seamlessly guided us through experiential exercises that allowed us to build our skills and confidence each week. Each lesson was brilliant. I often marveled at how beautifully we were all led step by step into developing our abilities. Penelope exudes such a peaceful, calming, compassionate warmth and wisdom, and a beautiful sense of humor and laughter. She handled our doubts and fears with wonderful skill and genuine heart. I absolutely recommend this class to anyone who loves animals and nature. Your relationship with all of life will be forever enhanced.
Coming Soon - A New once-in-a-lifetime 6-month Animal Communication Certification Program by Penelope sponsored by The Shift Network. Check here for details summer 2025.
Commissioned by Spirit to help people to turn their cages inside out, Penelope is a liberating force for your true nature and your uniquely beautiful song to give to the world. Since the 1970s, Penelope has been founding pioneer for the field whose name she originated, interspecies telepathic communication. Author of Animal Talk, When Animals Speak, and Animals in Spirit,Species Link magazine founding editor, and founder of ACCAW - The Animal Communicators Coalition for Animal Welfare, Penelope holds the spiritual center of the growing worldwide community of animal communicators.
She has taught thousands of people worldwide, guiding the unfolding of generations of professional animal communicators. Her courses and publications have prompted millions to remember our innate interspecies connection. Full of playfulness and wisdom, called “animal mystic” and "Grandmother of interspecies communication," Penelope is riding the front of the giant wave of awakening that is coursing through life on Earth.
Watch the intro video with information that applies to all courses
Meeting you has opened a bright window of lovable knowledge. Listening to you has healed my heart. Learning from your humble and cheerful wisdom is a pleasure and an invitation to continue.
Thank you once again Penelope, for being the pioneer for us all. I believe we would each be struggling mightily to establish ourselves and this work were it not for your being our pathfinder. St. Francis is an important guide in spirit for my work, but you are the main being who brought this work possible for us all on the earth plane for this time. This is a powerful gift you have given the animals, their people, and all of us who now walk in your initial footsteps. Please know that I honor you and what you have created for so many. May you be given ten times all you have given us all.
Penelope currently teaches sponsored online courses instead of her previous in-person interspecies communication training program. Visit the animal communicator directory for teachers who give in-person or online classes, including those trained to teach courses developed by Penelope Smith To use Penelope's publications for your animal communication education, see this suggested program.
I am so glad that I live at a time and place on earth so that I have been able to have my life enriched by your writing and teachings.
I attended the Basic Course and experienced what I can only describe as the beginning of a powerful spiritual awakening and healing. As you talked about plants, animals, and minerals being of the same spirit I connected into that vision, and that's when the healing started.
In your Basic Course I gained a tremendous foundation of knowledge, of what interspecies telepathic communication is all about. I learned about how to expand my view of animals, their minds and emotions and spiritual awareness. The skills I gained have helped me start communicating with all species, both sending and receiving communication. It was very refreshing to realize how much this form of communication is basic to our well-being, on all levels.
I was searching for an extraordinary experience that would open my eyes, awaken my soul, and refresh my spirit. A retreat from everyday distractions, where I could reconnect with all creatures and nature, sounded wonderfully nourishing for this writer's essence. I was able to attend Penelope Smith's visionary workshop, accompanied by my best pal, lab mix Diamond Dreamer. I immediately become connected to a community of animal lovers—all of us striving to reestablish a link with creatures that had been severed after childhood. With Penelope's guidance, I was delighted to attain an intensity of awareness and a heightened consciousness as I conversed with Diamond and other animals. This glimpse into animals as "other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time," as Henry Beston so eloquently wrote, shall certainly inspire me as I write children's books that weave webs of compassion for all creation.
Communicating with a cow at a Basic Course photo by K.C. Remington
The Basic Course opens the door to the world of direct interspecies communication. Each additional course offers a giant leap in awareness, communication capacity, and kinship with all life. Prepare to face and release the blocks that inhibit your telepathic connection and understanding. Focus on your challenges, strengths, aspirations, and inspirations. Be encouraged by Penelope's multi-dimensional communion with other species and wisdom gleaned from years of work and lifetimes of experience with all forms of life.
Penelope has such a wonderful way of supporting everyone on their path and focusing on hope and possibilities. I felt safe to share my frustrations and difficulties. I feel more positive and hopeful of my ability to develop the skill of communication with animals.
The Advanced I course really built my confidence and opened me up to a new level of faith and spirituality. My last day in Point Reyes, I hiked down to the ocean and listened. Many facets and the whole of Nature "spoke" to me. I was encouraged to move forward with my energy healing, and so I am. Thank you for your encouragement, candor and openness.
In your Advanced I Course you asked the participants what they expected from the seminar. I remember very well what I said: "I see myself walking on a path that leads to the land of animals. I hope that the course will bring me further on this path - just a few steps. I do not expect too much." I could not foresee what would happen to me. I had asked for a piece of bread and I got a birthday cake!
Drum and dance with the Spirit Power Circle song from the Advanced I Course in the Animal Spirit Callaudio recording
I am grateful for so many things: first of all for your presence, your attention, your enthusiasm, your affection, your care. The composition and the organization of the course were perfect. Your house and your animals really made me feel at home. I am also very grateful for having met so many wonderful people. The experiences that we shared during our lessons were extraordinary, and I will never forget the intense and intelligent conversations.... And our laughter, our joy, our feeling of being connected since a long time!
I wanted to let you know how "changed" I felt, how transformed after I attended your two courses. I found myself saying to friends that it was the best thing I'd ever done, and I've done a lot of workshops, thereapies, seminars, courses, and healing modalities in the last twenty-five years.
Your classes open up a wonderful portal for me to jump through to see and live life in a more real, connected way.
I have changed so much by talking with animals, for I dream and pretend again. At one of your classes you made a comment to us "if you just aren't getting it, pretend you are." I know what you meant by this, it was to let yourself go and not stress on the answer. However, it made me realize how serious I had taken all the "crap" that had happened to me in my life. Also remembering how I was reprehended as a child to stop making up stories and dreaming and get serious! Well, now I dream dreams and make up stories for my seven-year-old son before he goes to bed at night. I tell him stories of flying silver dragons, castles, fairies and dolphins that give you rides through the sea and around the world. What I love most about telling these stories, is the imagination that I see shine through my son's eyes as I tell the stories. He goes to sleep with a smile on his face. Your thoughts on how we view our world was so "right on" for me and I thank you.
As I was driving home from the Mastery Course, and after I arrived, I was in a state of consciousness of timelessness. I was so in the "now" that I gave up trying to think about past our future.
Thank you does not begin to express how I feel about the Mastery Course. I feel that my goals and intentions were accomplished and then some. I would recommend the class to anyone and would take it again.
How does one thank someone who has helped to break their heart open to love? I have attended satsang with Gangaji and now to hear you speak the same truths, only with an even greater connection and appreciation to ALL THAT IS has filled my heart with love and appreciation. Whomever we meet, human or otherwise, is just an opportunity for further investigation of the self and another chance for opening to ALL THAT IS.
From the retreat, I learned to live in the big "O" leting g"O" and living and building on that kn"O"wing ability. When I got back to the vet clinic where I work after our retreat, no only had I let go, but I felt that new place of being. People who had been challenging for me changed positively in their behavior toward me. The letting "go" and living in that "O" and that wonderful feeling of honoring all had an effect on everyone around me. It was not a temporary state. I began to live it. Thank you being SUCH a huge impact on/in my life.
Thank you for the profound experiences with you and the other beings, human and non-human. I have had a few teachers over the years that have made a profound difference to my life and you are one of these. All of my beliefs have been shaken up and turned upside down. It is now my task to decide which ones are worth keeping and which ones to shed. I have been dropping down into that soft, quiet space, and I hope to live there once the road is clearer. I truly appreciate having the privilege to learn from you.
The proverbial life altering experience....It was like taking the most difficult, yet most rewarding graduate class of my life. We worked on OURSELVES to peel back the layers of issues that just living life paints over us. The theme was BEING PRESENT. In order to actually BE PRESENT I learned that one needs to clear out the accumulation of debris one carries around for who knows how many lifetimes. When one is actually PRESENT, I found that telepathic communication is possible with literally ANYTHING!
We felt the presence of the Divine as we chanted, drummed, danced as our power animal companions, called in the Spirits from the four winds and connected firmly to Mother Earth. We meditated, discussed our dreams and shared our lives....I have gained a wider, deeper appreciation of myself and all whom I encounter. So what now? THE WORK CONTINUES. THE JOY IS ENDLESS. LIFE IS GOOD!
I'm about to teach my first animal communication workshop in my new house. While I was going through my notes and getting the sequence I'm going to do the exercises in I felt flooded with love and respect and gratitude to you for all you have given me, and the world. I continue to be delighted and gratefully astounded at the profound shifts in my awareness, desire, commitment, and presence since apprenticing with you.
Since the 1970s, I've had a mission to bring forth a hidden ability found in everyone. The secret language that unlocks the door to understanding all species. I created the title interspecies telepathic communication to show the wider application of communicating with animals, plants, mountains, rivers…all life, in and beyond physical form. Echolng indigenous wisdom: Everything is alive. Everything communicates.
My vision: People recovering their ability to communicate with other species—realizing it is within them and can be remembered, recognized, practiced, and developed. Exchanging thoughts and feelings telepathically with other species bringing rich realizations and positive change. People living more fulfilling lives as they walk on Earth with other species and all life in mutual understanding and compassion. All beings and Mother Earth enjoying this deep connection.
