About Brenton

“You do not consist of the elements: earth, water, fire, air, or even akasha. To be liberated, know yourself as consisting of consciousness, the witness of these.” -Ashtavakra Gita

I am a renaissance man with a deep love and curiosity for the natural world. Along my journey, I’ve been a bartender, janitor, radio dream interpreter, research project manager, spiritual teacher, business owner, author, minister, and throughout them all, a student of consciousness. I began my inner journey during my last year at Texas A&M University in 2007, and earned my Doctorate of Divinity from the College of Metaphysics (COM) in 2016. Since then, I've been on a self-directed journey to understand myself and the secrets of the universe, primarily through the vehicles of meditation, and deep contemplation and practice with the elements Earth, Fire, Water, Air, and Space. It's my hope and life's work to now bring these practices to you.

At heart, I’m a spiritual teacher, and the most fulfilling work I do involves helping others remember their wholeness. My influences include ancient texts and philosophies ranging from the Upanishads to the Tao, elemental practices rooted in buddhism and hermeticism, mystery schools including COM and the Golden Dawn, and embodied awareness from teachers like Philip Shepherd and Richard Rudd (and the Gene Keys system). I truly believe that each of us has a core-centered place of awareness and intuition, beyond the head-dominant perspective of most of our society, today. I also believe that we are dynamic, spiritual beings who are deeply interconnected with each other and with the natural world. Much of our collective work now involves slowing down, listening, and remembering that we grow like trees. 

"The most valuable act of learning in our lives is to unlearn what is untrue." -Antisthenes

I found Creative Spirit Collaborative when I lived in Oregon (2022-2025) and I'm grateful to remain connected and offer my services virtually in Texas. I now work with clients in Gene Keys coaching (virtually), because it's the most comprehensive system I've encountered for cultivating profound awareness and harmony within my own energy and the way I move in the world. You can also find a ton of my recorded content on our Virtual Resources platform on Patreon, including guided meditations, breathwork, ecotherapy, expressive arts practices, rituals, courses, blog series, and more! When I'm not collaborating with CSC, I serve as faculty for 200-hr and 300-hr advanced YTT programs through The Alchemy Yoga in Texas, and frequently host classes and workshops in the North Texas area. I also host a YouTube channel called Elemental Mindfulness, and work with people in 1-on-1 sessions for deep, elemental purification and nervous system reset practices, as well as esoteric ritual and ceremony integration work. 

Sessions with me are like a combination of soul-coaching, yoga training, & shamanic apprenticeship. In our journey together, it's ultimately my intention to help you remember your wholeness & your power. This physical world is challenging to navigate, and the more we awaken to the realities of consciousness behind the veil, the more we come to understand how to relax into our authentic selves despite the chaos around us. Secret knowledge and power lie dormant everywhere, both within us and in the world around us; it's up to us to discover it. To remember it. And whether that "it" for you looks like enlightenment or bliss or clarity or even just a little more happiness, I'm ready to join you for this part of your journey.

Until you join me for retreats in Oregon or we connect virtually while I'm in Texas, may you be happy, healthy, and at peace!

Some passages are too significant to simply survive. This five-session journey is for people standing at a genuine threshold — graduation, completion, union, separation, birth, death, and the long territories between. Drawing on the ancient architecture of rites of passage (severance, threshold, and incorporation), this work guides you through designing and performing a personal ceremony that meets your life with the dignity it deserves. Particularly suited for therapists, healers, and practitioners who have spent years holding space for others through passage and now find themselves at their own threshold without a container. Also for anyone who senses that what they are moving through deserves more than endurance.

Important Note: When ritual work centers on death and dying, Brenton works exclusively in partnership with McKenzie Bellis, whose background as a death doula and registered nurse brings a balance of clinical grounding and whole-person wellness to that threshold; and Rachelle Cornelius, whose training as a therapist and depth in ecotherapy, healing ceremony, and energy medicine brings both clinical presence and the language of soul, earth, and ritual to what medicine alone cannot hold.

If you're interested in ritual death work specifically, please let us know during your free consult call.