Kerry Brady, MA , SEP, mentors others in awakening to their essential nature and to following its natural movement and inherent wisdom. She has over 20 years of experience in transformational modalities including psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, Jin Shin Jyutsu, bodywork, authentic movement, nature based practices and vision quests. Her deepest informant, however, is the wisdom gleaned through the unfolding of her own spiritual path. Through gentle yet fierce attunement, she facilitates others in shedding limiting stories, identities, and patterns and opening to what naturally wants to bloom.
Kerry has served as faculty at Animas Valley Institute and the California Institute of Integral Studies where she and Brian Swimme co-teach Nature and Eros – an exploration into what it is to live in participatory engagement within a living universe and in more authentic alignment with the cultural and ecological shift of our time. Her nature based retreats invite a more intimate engagement with all of life, seamlessly weaving the personal, ecological and cosmological aspects of our being into one fluid whole. Her long-standing love affair with the Earth and other cultures has led her to year-long travels in Africa, India and Nepal and, most recently, to obtaining a certificate in permaculture design
Brian Swimme received his Ph.D. (1978) from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oregon for work in gravitational dynamics. In his books and courses he explores a meaningful interpretation of the human within an evolutionary universe. He was a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington from 1978-1981 and at Holy Names University in Oakland, California from 1983-1990. He is a graduate faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.
His publications include The Universe Is a Green Dragon (1984), The Universe Story (1992), a collaboration with cultural historian Thomas Berry, and The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos (1996). Brian produced a twelve-part video series, Canticle to the Cosmos (1990), participated in the BBC television series, Soul of the Universe, the PBS series, The Sacred Balance, and most recently, produced the DVD series The Powers of the Universe (2005). Dr. Swimme lectures worldwide and has presented at conferences sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, The World Bank, UNESCO, The United Nations Millenium Peace Summit adn the American Natureal History Museum. Currently he is completing work on a two hour PBS documentary film project. www.brianswimme.org
Jeffrey Allen, M.A.C.P., a Vermont psychologist in private practice since 1984, supports people in making deeper connections with soul, spirit, and community. He is a father, husband, naturalist, drummer and he guides vision quests and wilderness journeys. Jeffrey has led dream workshops throughout the United States for the past five years. He has also led wilderness rites-of passage programs in Vermont, California, Colorado, Utah, North Carolina and New York. He co-founded the Burlington Taiko Group, a troupe nationally performing Taiko drumming (a Japanese musical and martial art), and has recently devoted himself to trance drumming. In 1987, he co-founded Men Alive, an organization that creates transformative experiences for men. As a healer, guide and mentor, he delights in evoking the mystery of our deepest truths. He brings a playful spirit and a keen intuition to his work.
Cathryn Couch, M.B.A., is a professional chef, evolutionary astrologer and activist who is passionate about changing our relationship with food as a vehicle for discovering a deeper relationship both with onexxxs Self and with the larger universe. She has worked in the corporate and not-for-profit worlds, including four years as Director of Communications for The Hunger Project-U.S., an educational organization focused on changing our understanding of the causes of and solutions to hunger in the world.
In 2006, Cathryn founded The Ceres Community Project to bring together teens in Sonoma County to prepare meals for families dealing with health challenges. She is also writing a book about food, Cooking is a Radical Act. Her work with individuals focuses on empowering people to step into the fullness of who they are by connecting them more deeply to their own wisdom and by supporting them in discovering the unique meaning and purpose of their lives. She can be reached via her website at www.kitchencosmology.com
Michael Brant DeMaria, Ph.D., is a Grammy nominee, award winning composer, Native American Music Award winner and #1 Chart topping recording artist. Michael Brant DeMaria is a multi-instrumentalist whose albums and live performances touch his audience and listeners with his sincere and heartfelt music. Michael's music has both a magical quality of simplicity as well as an ancient sense of timelessness and eternity. After hitting #1 and remaining in the top 20 for 6 months, his last album Siyotanka went on to win the Native American Music Award in the Native Heart Category in October of 2009. It is now in the running for a Grammy for Best Native American Music Album of 2009. Michael has also been the featured musician for world renowned poets Robert Bly and David White.
As a soul guide, Dr. Michael Brant DeMaria is also a psychologist with over 25 years of experience in helping guide others on their life journeys. He has published and presented numerous papers on the role creativity and spirituality play in the healing process nationally and internationally. Michael weaves his love of music, nature and spirituality into effective healing experiences for others in his many workshops, speaking engagements and retreats.
