About
Aloha
My name is Kelly Walsh and I serve as guide and ally on The Walk With Mystery. It is a great honor to serve in this role and bear witness to your embodied expansion.
I am a dreamer. Before the world had fully domesticated this brown-eyed wonder I knew myself most keenly in the spaces between. Drawing, poetry, and music became my bridge between worlds. Among the clusters of tiny white and pink springbeauty flowers I’d sit and listen to the Earth’s stories. There the daydream fed me visions and assured me of my home.
Through over twenty years of training and experience there is a vast body of ancient and modern knowledge coursing through this vessel. Each opportunity to share the knowledge and wisdom from within is a reverential ritual to the ancestors, teachers, and more-than-human ones I received this life from, and a devotional act to the one who has called on me as their ally.
Each day I am deprogramming, re-wilding, and re-membering so that I can be of service and honor the truth innately held in my heart.
Please visit the section below for the recognition and gratitude for my teachers and the knowledge shared through them.
Brittany Smith
Brittany Smith is a Texas girl, based out of Boulder, Colorado. She is a 500-hour registered yoga teacher (E-RYT 500), and holds several supplementary yoga certificates. Brittany is also a certified Personal Trainer, and Reiki practitioner.
“I found myself in child’s pose after a serious injury that severely limited my mobility. By some miracle shortly after my injury, I happened upon a yoga studio. For several months the only posture I was able to do was child’s pose. I would stay in the same corner, day after day, class after class, with my forehead to my mat, and I would envision myself doing the postures as the teacher called them; some days I didn’t listen and cried instead. Over time, I tried more poses, and as my body grew stronger, my inner resolve and sense of radical self love blossomed. The space yoga created for me to heal my physical body, my thought patterns, and connection with myself is something I remember every time I teach and practice yoga. I cherish the wisdom a yoga practice offers, and it is an honor for me to facilitate my yoga students through their personal processes.”
Brittany loves all things mystical, magical, and mysterious. She is a habitual dreamer, and a ravenous student of metaphysics. Through her knowledge of esoteric teachings, and studies of integrated physiology, Brittany offers one-of-a-kind yoga classes. Through her journey teaching in the Boulder Area, Brittany discovered her love for innovation and entrepreneurship which inspired her to create a purposeful yoga retreat company, Awakened Travel, where she brings private groups to some of the most amazing places on the planet and AwakenLIVE, a virtual teaching platform designed to inspire teachers of all sorts to share their skillset with their students online.
Outside of teaching, Brittany works with Threshold Project which supports the thresholds of life through apex events such as Death Summit and Birth Summit. She also volunteers with the Colorado Pet Pantry which helps families stay together by providing supplementary food for cats and dogs.
The Team
Healing takes place in relationship with human and other than human beings. We are our own healer and through our healing we grow, expand, and become more on a Soul level. By calling on all support, seen and unseen, we choose empowerment and offer consent for healing to take place. During our work together we call on our Spirit Teams for their power, protection, and support. We learn, heal, and grow together.
In gratitude
My deep gratitude goes to: Wanda Barboza, Nancy Dail, Lucy Goulet, Dave Tomlinson, Alice Riccardi, Charles Terhune, Mariann Sisco, Mary Taylor, Richard Freeman, David Crow, Eric Moya, Tim Hutton, Carolyn Eberle, Shar Lee, Stan Gerome, John Douillard, Marsha Austin Rodwin, Dick Larson, Avadhan Larson, Hank Wesselman, River Ledgerwood, Daniel Foor, and all those who have served as teachers by offering a mirror for this humble student.
education
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.” ~Henry David Thoreau
CranioSacral Therapy
Upledger Institute training and teaching assistant 2006-present
CranioSacral Therapy I, II
SomatoEmotional Release I, II
The Brain Speaks I, II
Visionseeker
with Hank Wesselman + River Ledgerwood 2015-2021
Visionseeker Level 1: Shamanism and the Modern Mystical Movement
Visionseeker Level 2: Spirit Medicine
Visionseeker Level 3: Shamanic Cosmology
Visionseeker Level 4: The Mythic Nature of the Self
Visionerseeker Level 5: Advanced Shamanic Explorations of the Nature of the Self and the Nature of Reality
Shaman Visionary Circle
Mind Energy Body Transformation
training and teaching assistant 2009-2014
This holistic approach works with the energy of consciousness in the mind and body to gain self-awareness and self-mastery using challenging life experiences and emotions as fuel to return to wholeness.
Reiki and Massage therapy
1999, licensed 2000
Reiki initiation opened the door to training and licensure in massage therapy at the Downeast School of Massage. Areas of focus included: Shiatsu, reflexology, and myofascial release. Aromatherapy, 2002. Lymph drainage, 2007.
Yoga and Ayurveda
2000-2018
Ashtanga Intensive, Richard Freeman. Baptiste Power Vinyasa. The Still Point of Yoga, co-founder.
Panchakarma therapy, John Douillard’s LifeSpa, 2011-2014
Panchakarma is an ancient healing system of Ayurvedic rejuvenation therapies performed to facilitate the removal of deep-rooted impurities, toxins, and stresses in the mind-body.
Medicinal Plants and Spiritual Evolution
with David Crow 2015
This field of study is about developing a multidimensional relationship with the natural world that embraces our biological unity with the plant kingdom.
Tibetan Healing
2010-2013
An intensive apprenticeship leads to becoming a lineage holder of this 3,000 year old healing tradition from Tibet that has been passed down through generations of deeply devout Buddhist monks. Meditation, mantra, and pulse diagnosis are used to restore harmony along the energetic pathways of the body.
Animist psychology
with Daniel Foor and Ancestral Medicine, 2020
“Animist Psychology seeks to identify and build on common ground between ritual, psychology, and culture healing.”
Experiential Spiritual training
Plant Spirit Medicine, Soul Retrieval, Spirit Medicine
