Justin is the director of Nature's Heart Retreats, a Eugene-area meditation and mindfulness teacher, Permaculture educator, and the owner of Native Foods Nursery, a native plant nursery in Dexter, OR. From an early age, Justin's love for Nature synergized with horticultural and mindfulness practices, evolving into deep connection to and care for the ecologies and people of the Northwest.

Justin sees our sense of belonging and interconnection with nature as essential to our psychological health, societal health, and to the future of the places we love - and biosphere as a whole. He believes we can reclaim that belonging through the doorways of wild nature itself, in particular the plants, animals and elements that comprise a native landscape.

In this journey, he shares his love for and knowledge of plants with his love for meditative inquiry and deep listening. He holds space for the land, the wilderness camp, and the beings of nature with deep reverence and respect - guiding participants into themselves and into the teachings of the Earth.