Oct 19, 2023
Spencer is a guide to inner and outer nature. As a naturalist and environmental educator, he leads youth programs in nature connection and ancestral arts. He provides rites of passage programs for adolescents transitioning into high school as well as high schoolers. He is passionate about long term mentoring and supporting cultural regeneration through building deep connections to people and place. Spencer works with various schools to offer such programs as well as through his own business, Elemental Nature.
With a formal background in ecology and environmental education, he has woven threads of ethnobotany, ancestral skills, and permaculture design into his offerings for all ages. He teaches Permaculture Design Courses to adults at Sivananda Yoga Farm and Natura Institute for Ecology and Medicine, weaving herbalism and nature connection into whole systems design for a regenerative future. Spencer is a long time practitioner and teacher of the energy arts of yoga and qigong bridging fields of health such as Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine. He is passionate about music and dance and the power of sound to heal the body and mind, especially in nature.