ABOUT NANCY

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nancy Jewel Poer was born and raised in California. As a child she loved horses and outdoor life and graduated from the University of Arizona with hopes of becoming a veterinarian. But her large family of six children, three sons and three daughters, became the creative center of her work, along with teaching in the International Waldorf schools.

Nancy is known across the United States, for her lively lectures on Waldorf education, parenting, child development, the spiritual feminine, mission of the spiritual America, and threshold work. She felt called to threshold work, first assisting with births, and then pioneering support for home deaths in the community, which she has done for over thirty years. She has helped in the founding of threshold

Nancy Jewel Poer

groups throughout the country, and written a book Living Into Dying, Spiritual and Practical Deathcare for Family and Community, which has empowered people throughout the country to care for their loved ones at death.She recently served as consumer advocate on the CARE committee for creating end of life policy for the state of California. She is in the PBS documentary A Family Undertaking and is producer of an award winning full length documentary on conscious dying, “The Most Excellent Dying of Theodore Jack Heckelman”. An artist as well as a writer, she has published A Child's First Book, Mia's Apple Tree, and in 2011 The Tear, A Children’s Story of Hope and Transformation When a Loved One Dies as well as art prints for children.

She is a co-founder of Rudolf Steiner College, a Waldorf teachers' college near Sacramento, and has taught there for over thirty years. Her courses include the Spiritual Mission of America. She was co-editor of special America edition for Lillipoh magazine and lectured in the national conference on The Inner America, 2009. She has taught children at all grade levels, K-12, and began three kindergartens, the last as the founding teacher for the Cedar Springs Waldorf School in Placerville, California.

She lives with her husband of many years in the Sierra foothills on White Feather ranch where they raise cattle, have a bio-dynamic garden, host school classes, and Nancy gives women's retreats and threshold conferences to help pass the work on to others.