Guide Details
Overland Park, Kansas, 66085 USA
Kelly Daniels created a following as a professional nature and portrait photographer through her photographic artwork of indigenous people around the world as well as families, weddings and retreats at The Kelly Gallery Gardens, her private 10 acres of forest in the Blue River Valley of Overland Park, Kansas for over 25 years.
Executive director of the Blue River Nature Sanctuary, a non profit organization that facilitates experience-based connections to nature for people of all ages from around the world, bringing self-empowerment, better outcomes for physical and mental health, and connection with their inner humanity and the world.
Forest Therapy Guide with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides & Programs. She is certified in Wilderness First Aid. She facilitates circles, photography and art classes and nature programs for children and adults. She works with doctors and healing centers and reservations throughout the world doing Guided Forest Therapy walks.
Created the Celebration of Love for special needs people after being inspired by her sister Lori, who has downs syndrome. She works with people with special gifts such as autism and Down syndrome in her nature camps and programs.
Photographed Bushman in Botswana with Trackers International. Photographed Aniwa Gathering of world wide Indigenous leaders in Ibiza Spain. Created awareness with Photographs of Water Protectors in Standing Rock South Dakota, Potowatami and Ioway reservations. Photographed Indigenous people of Peru for the Lodges of Peru. Indigenous Mayans of Belize for Coyote Trails School of Nature. Participated in and recorded the 9 day journey of The Chief Big Foot memorial Ride to Wounded Knee.
Kelly apprenticed with a Native American Medicine woman for a year on native plant identification and Medicine making. Worked as an instructor at Coyote Trails School of Nature, a Wilderness School in Oregon teaching earth based living skills. She founded and runs Blue River Forest Experience in Kansas teaching about native plants, animals, and awareness skills and photography to children and adults.
