Where we are
A large share of humanity now wakes each day in sustained alarm — the nervous system held on with no danger in sight. And it doesn't stop with one person: a frightened generation raises the next in a frightened house, and a body learns fear long before it learns words. Add global fires, breadbaskets under stress, and governments buckling, and you have a world running from something it can no longer name.
This isn't solved in a quarter. It's intergenerational — and it heals the way it was made: over generations, on purpose.
Over every door, one question: will this make the great-grandchildren whole?
The pattern is the same
You can win every prize and still wake at 3 a.m. running from something you can't name. A community can sit on its own resources and still watch the wealth drain away. A person in alarm; a people in extraction. It's the same wound at two scales — and it heals the same way: by returning to what your ancestors already knew.
"We didn't lose these teachings because they stopped working. We lost them because systems were built specifically to take them from us."
Three doors, one source
High-performance, wellness, and success coaching — grounded in the far messenger principles — for CEOs, founders, athletes, and anyone carrying more than they were built to carry alone.
Explore coaching & principles →Strategy, capital, and governance that design new, nurturing forms of economy — for communities and institutions ready to transition from extraction to ownership.
Explore the consulting →Retreats, leadership sanctuaries, and ancestral-wisdom academies — the containers where the practices come alive and the next generation of carriers is raised.
Explore gatherings & academies →The books · The Ancestral Watch
The Ancestral Watch is Tony's novel series — “ancient human operating systems, for a world that forgot it had them.” Not self-help. Wisdom-tellings that read like fiction and work like practices: the same tools he brings to leaders and nations, in a form you can fall into on a Sunday afternoon. Two are out now; two more are on the way.
Available now · Book I
A Navajo-Lithuanian man carries his grandfather's songs back to his ancestral homeland — and into a love that asks everything of him. A story about roots, wholeness, and a success that doesn't cost your soul. It's where the free Stone Breath practice was born.
Read it on AncestralWatch →
Available now · Book III
When modern systems reach their breaking point, a circle of knowledge keepers gathers around the fire to remember what actually lasts. A novel about the end of one world — and the quiet architecture of the next.
Read it on AncestralWatch →A boy raised on the mountain, taught to live by five ancestral voices — how the old wisdom shapes a whole life.
Two keepers carry ancient human knowledge across a transformed world — the largest challenges, met with the oldest tools.
Human performance
The old carriers crossed deserts by regulating one thing first: their own nervous system. Everything else — endurance, clarity, the decision made well under pressure — followed. That is trainable, and it is the heart of how Tony works with the people who lead.
1:1 for executives, founders, and athletes — clarity, resilience, and decisions measured by their echo generations out.
The nervous system, ancestral diet, movement, and the calm mind — the oldest performance-and-longevity protocol there is.
For stages and boardrooms — and immersive gatherings that bring the practices off the page and into the body, including The Canyon Within at 1440 Multiversity.
At the center of it all: the far messenger principles — the discipline every people on earth once used to carry what mattered across hard ground, now taught for the modern world.
Wisdom you can measure. Ancestral diet, daily movement, and a disciplined, calm mind aren't folklore — they're the oldest longevity protocol on earth. Tony's own great-grandfather was a lifelong shepherd who lived past a hundred. The science is finally catching up to the sheep camp.
National & international expertise · Just transition
As the ground shifts — climate instability, cleaner energy, fragile food systems — communities and institutions need more than a patch. Tony designs and builds the new ones: healthcare and wellness villages that integrate culture and healing, multi-year development master plans, regenerative economies, and global programming for universities — institutions built to nurture rather than extract, and to last a hundred years.
From extraction to ownership — stop the leakage; keep the wealth circling home.
Clean-energy sovereignty — own the sun and the wind, don't rent them out.
Food systems & regenerative agriculture — feed a people from their own ground.
New governance & organizational design — structures built to last generations.
Just transition — carrying post-extraction communities into what comes next.
It's the world Tony's novels imagine — The Council Fire and The Far Messengers — made practical: a nurturing economy for times of instability.
Major work completed
This is high-level, culturally cognizant development, at every level: whole economic and tourism strategies for nations, communities, and villages — always guided by the community's own values and vision, and deeply culturally respectful; new, culturally-rooted forms of self-government — Tony created the baseline history, oversaw a major public policy process, and developed the transfer of leasing and taxing authority (secured through Congress), so communities and villages can become certified to govern, create, and keep their own revenue; hospital and wellness design — from facility to program to system; hospitality and destination projects; culture-and-wellness healthcare villages, ancestral-wisdom academies, and a PhD-level global leadership sanctuary; and major multi-year master plans, capital strategy, and global university programming — all guided by the Restorative Economic Development framework: from extraction to ownership, keeping wealth home.
How the work is done
Institutions don't buy a slide deck. They buy a process they can trust to carry them from a vision all the way to something built — and owned.
Selected work
An integrated, mixed-use health & wellness village — indigenous grocery, a business incubator, a wellness café, a mind & movement studio, childcare, and a healing garden of traditional medicine — carried from community vision and feasibility, through secured architects, to a $40M+ capital stack (tax credits, senior & subordinate financing, loan guarantees, and federal & private grants), with master project management to delivery.
A multi-year growth strategy across four properties of a major hospitality & gaming enterprise — steered through the COVID crisis with careful facilitation and deep research, revenue designed to circle home.
Moving a coal-dependent regional economy off extraction — local food systems, cooperatives, and community-owned clean energy, ending the leakage of wealth.
Client details held in confidence — described by capability, never by name.
For nations, health systems, colleges, and institutions building something meant to last a hundred years.
Three decades of nation-building
Trustee & PhD candidate, a private college · MBA and Business Hall of Fame, Northern Arizona University · faculty, 1440 Multiversity · author of The Ancestral Watch.
For community & the next generation
The practices were never meant to be done alone. Tony builds the containers where they come alive — and where the next generation of carriers is raised.
Immersive weekends that bring the practices off the page and into the body — including The Canyon Within at 1440 Multiversity.
A leadership commons anchored at a private college where practitioners from communities worldwide heal, learn, and carry each other forward.
Designing schools rooted in ancestral wisdom — including an academy taking shape with an international private school based on the land.
The books
The Ancestral Watch — wisdom-tellings that work like practices. Start with the two that are out now.
Start free
The daily practice at the root of all of it. Free. It begins with a stone in your hand — join the circle and I'll send it to you.
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Listen
An invitation to the work — and a song for the carriers.
Tony's Motivational Introduction — an invitation to the work (about 9 minutes)
“Warrior's Code” — with Hezron & Yaiva · disciplined strength in service of what is fragile
Warrior’s Code lives on Hezron’s album M.O.A.M. — hear the full song & get it →
An anthem we love — “we are a tribe awakened” · shared with respect to the artist
Tony's own voice, and a song he co-created — shared to uplift the planet.
Watch & meditate
A hand-picked circle of songs, chants, and meditations from around the world — to breathe with, work to, or simply rest in.
Three fires, one flame
Where to begin
Wherever you are today, pick a door — read, learn the science, get a weekly wisdom-telling, or come sit in the circle. (A store is coming soon, too.)
Wisdom-tellings that read like fiction and work like practices — start with Stone Breath.
Get the series → The evidenceThe research behind the practices — why these old human tools measurably work.
Explore the research → Free · weeklyA new wisdom-telling in your inbox each week. One email. Unsubscribe anytime.
Subscribe free → In personSit in the circle. Tony's immersive retreat at 1440 Multiversity — a few days that reset a life.
See the retreat →Work with Tony
Tell me where you're carrying the weight — a life, a team, or a nation — and I'll be in touch.
Or email wisdom@tribeawaken.com directly.
