Kerry Brady, Founder, Director and Guide
Kerry Brady, MA, SEP (she/her) is a guide, mentor, facilitator, somatic practitioner and lover of birds and all things wild who works at the interface of personal, intergenerational and collective healing towards embodying our deepest belonging—to ourselves, each other, the Earth and the deeper Mystery. She is the founder and director of Ecology of Awakening and has more than 30 years of experience in transformational modalities—including transpersonal psychology, nature based and rites of passage work, Somatic Experiencing, deep ecology, ritual, dreamwork and non-dual wisdom traditions.
Kerry received her master’s degree in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), where she also served as adjunct faculty and co-taught with evolutionary philosopher Brian Swimme for 20 consecutive years. She received her Somatic Experiencing practitioner certification through Somatic Experiencing International where she assists ongoing trainings. Kerry created Living Resiliency workshops at Occidental Arts and Ecology Center and elsewhere that weave together biologically based trauma work with permaculture principles and practices in order to increase our adaptive capacity as we navigate this extraordinary time of cultural and ecological transformation. She trained in rites of passage work with the School of Lost Borders and Animas Valley Institute, where she previously served as a guide.
Kerry’s lineage is Northern European—primarily Irish, British, French and German. She lives in unceded/occupied Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo territory, in West Sonoma County, California, with her husband Brock.
“Being around Kerry, you understand why the ancient world regarded some people as wizards. It is as if she has this rare organ of perception that enables her to find those wild places where the beings not only speak to us, they guide us by using their hidden knowledge of our own personal destiny…. ”
Testimonials from Participants
“A retreat with Kerry is an opportunity to discover what your body already knows the way an acorn knows its potential destiny. It is no spiritual shortcut, but an authentic path of self discovery, which if truly followed, will lead you, ultimately, to confront what you most fear. It is not a new age pseudo-religion or a Native American appropriation. It is like un-school, a way to being to unlearn those deeply ingrained patterns which we practice to silence or drown out the voice of the cosmos within, the voice that calls us away from the TV and the computer, and into the living world.”
“Kerry is basically a shape-shifter, always surprising and delighting, often simply helping one to see where the doorways are, sometimes helping to open the heaviest of them, yet never getting in the way, never doing the actual work, always trusting no matter what the outcome, honest, authentic, human.”
“I am in awe of Kerry’s skills that so delicately foster an unraveling of the rigidly patterned threads of daily life, leaving each of us in the group open to the possibility of…possibility.
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“Kerry embodies the qualities my favorite teachers have had: humility, transparency, deep wisdom in her area of specialty, sensitivity to the group’s needs, a mastery of language to share her ideas, and an obvious passion and love for the work she does.”
“It is rare I give over fully to the guidance of another, but Kerry’s invitation and warmth is so compelling that I couldn’t resist. I so needed this – to give up control and just allow myself to be held by the nourishing and sustaining womb that she creates. Here, I was able to give over to the subtle, deepening of my relationship to the universe.”