News
29 October, 2025
Courses & Offerings
The Five Remembrances: Accompanying our Earth and Animal Kin with Resilience, Compassion and Joy
2 October, 2025
Courses & Offerings
Being Sanctuary: Trauma-Informed Internship Intensive
The Being Sanctuary Internship revolves around The Ten Principles of Being Sanctuary. The Internship provides in-depth study and implementation of trauma-informed care for Animals and Plants. We refer to the internship as intensive because of subject matter but most importantly it reflects a deep commitment to serve our Earth and Animal kin.
A trauma-informed framework approaches Earth and Animal wellbeing and protection from solution space. As a relational framework, a trauma-informed perspective, this requires simultaneous transformation of human perceptions and ethics towards Nature. This is reflected in the internship structure which integrates objective (core concepts of (trans-species) traumatology) and subjective (reflexive, undergirding dimension of trauma-informed care including mindfulness and meditation practice). To understand someone, it is necessary to understand ourselves. Instructor: Gay Bradshaw.
For more information and to apply please email: contact@kerulos.org
15 August, 2025
Living One
Series Three: A Re-Enchanted World starts August 22
This third series of conversations, A Re-enchanted World, continues exploration into “unseen” worlds. The mercantile, capitalist, realist-Cartesian paradigm has supported scientific, technological, and industrial advances, but stripped our psyches and imaginations – even our very perceptions and understanding – of the richly entangled, convivially connected nature of life on our living planet. You are invited to join conversations with people who have shed their cultural blinkers and experience the wonder of existence. Our first speaker is Brooke Williams, author of Dragonfly…more
28 October, 2025
Living One
Living One: Face to Face with Elephants
Join us for a special Living One webinar series starting Friday, 7 November (10am PT), celebrating Elephants with six insightful speakers. This moving and exciting series plunges us into the twinned space of human and Elephant psyches and the transformative journeys they have experienced together when living and connecting beyond species bounds. With each speaker, we hear the psychological depths and dimensions they witnessed with a particular Elephant whom they have known.
26 October, 2025
Grace Village
The Tortoises
All the Desert Tortoises have now brumated and beginning their five to six month dreamtime after a nice, warm, and, we are happy to say, wildfire-free, spring and summer.
28 September, 2025
Books & Publications
Talking With Bears: Second Printing
Talking with Bears: Conversations with Charlie Russell is now in its second printing. The e-book is available now, with hard-bound and paperback versions coming in February 2026. The new e-book can be purchased through various retail outlets linked to the publisher, Open Road Media.
Filled with stunning photography, Gay chronicles her decade-long work with Russell, exploring his philosophy of Nature and remarkable insights and relationship with Bears. Charlie’s experiences and insights are interwoven with scientific understanding from neuroscience and quantum physics to reveal how we all can learn to thrive in intimate, respectful coexistence with Nature.
2 August, 2025
Vital Breath
Vital Breath for Earth
Vital Breath for Earth is a silent meditation that meets every Wednesday at 12 pm PT.
Vital Breath seeks to deepen our living connection and commitment to support and heal our Mother Earth. Please join us.
27 October, 2025
Courses & Offerings
Walking with the Tortoises Course
Walking Meditation with the Tortoises is a short course guided and taught by the Grace Village Desert Tortoises. Walking meditation is a practice that helps bring your mind and body into harmony and health by synchronizing movement and mindfulness. Walking Meditation with the Tortoises provides illustrative videos of the Desert Tortoises at Grace Village plus a twenty-minute narrated introductory guide to follow the Tortoise ways, step by step. Join and support the Tortoises as you deepen connection with the natural world.
25 October, 2025
Books & Publications
The Terran badger: Telling the right story
We are thrilled to share a recent publication by our very own Issy Clarke! Issy’s article, “The Terran badger: Telling the right story” was published on October 25th in The Ecological Citizen: Confronting human supremacy. You can read the full article here.
27 September, 2025
Elephants in South Africa
New Trauma-Informed Elephant Report
This summer, Kerulos’ Gay Bradshaw and Michele Franko completed a 65-page Social Reintegration and Psychological Assessment of South African Elephants trauma-informed study for Duma and other Elephants living in the security and beauty of the Shambala Reserve. Duma is a 43-year-old African Elephant who was rescued by the EMS Foundation and 4PAWS team through the Toward Freedom Program which rescues and reinstates exploited Elephants to their natural lands. Orphaned at two years of age when his family was slaughtered, Duma spent the next twenty years in a circus followed by another twenty years in the zoo. There, he sustained not only severe deprivation but witnessed successive deaths of family and friends which left him alone for five years. Today, he is thriving in mind and body, celebrating his first year of freedom. Bravo for Elephant liberation!
10 May
Elephants in South Africa
A Wonderful Success for Elephants
Michele Franko, Kerulos Stewardship Council, will be traveling this month to meet and work with the EMSF on the assessment of Duma, a 43 year old male Elephant, who was rescued by EMS and Shambala, with a team of veterinarians from Four Paws International, from the National zoo to live at the Shambala Private Reserve, South Africa. A wonderful success for Elephants.
