Creating flower essences from your garden

One Day Workshop - saturday                      10am - 6pm

My introduction to flower essences was by way of Bach Flower Remedies many years ago. I was fascinated to learn that the energy of a flower could affect my emotions and mental states and I eagerly took up using them for myself and my cats. From there I wandered into various other "brands" of flower essences, all with varying degrees of effectiveness.

In my first foray into making flower essences for myself, I was instructed to use ONLY organic flowers of fruits and vegetables growing in soil that has not been treated with any chemicals for at least two years. Over the years I've taught several flower essence classes working exactly this way and when you have control of your materials and make your own, the results are powerful and highly effective.

Flower essences can help strengthen, repair, heal, balance and create harmony in our personal electrical system.  They have the ability to smooth out the rough spots during emotional, spiritual, physical and mental stress enabling you to move through the uncomfortable energy and learn the lessons you need to learn from the situation. When properly used, flower essences are some of the safest, most effective, and least intrusive remedies in the natural pharmacopoeia.

Flower essences belong to the growing field of "energy medicine" represented by the Homeopathic, Ayurvedic and Oriental health systems. Like other potentized remedies they carry and impart the vibrational patterns of the life forces they were made from, not the physical or chemical constituents of physical remedies like herbs.
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In this workshop, you'll learn:

Why do flower essences work?
The human being is more than a physical body. We incorporate a "body" of life energy, a "body" of sensitivity and feelings, and a spiritual essence or Self. Flower essences are energetic imprints of the life force of plants which interact with these subtle bodies of the human being, and resonate with specific qualities and emotions within us.

Identifying Which Plants to Use
Working with the forces of Nature requires us to connect with their energies. You'll learn how to connect with your inner knowing when looking for the most potent blossoms that will be most effective for your use. You'll learn to choose by seeing, listening and sensing - relying on our own intuition and guidance.

 
Preparation of Flower Essences
We'll discuss collecting and preparing your accoutrements for successful essence making, how to prepare the flowers for releasing their energies and the best way to bottle your flower essence, what types of bottles to use, cleanliness is next to godliness, potentizing, blending and preserving.

Connecting to The Overlighting Deva of Flower Essences
It really is essential to understand how to listen to the guidance of the Overlighting Deva of Flowers Essences when you are designing your own. You'll get great information about which flowers to choose for your purposes, blends that are mutually synergistic and very often, some humor. By communicating with the Deva, you might be guided to mix in some gem elixirs, too.

Connecting to the Devas of Individual Flowers ~ Getting the Definitions of Your Flower Essences
You'll learn how to make contact, allow the flow of information and how to listen and interpret.There is so much wisdom and insight to learn from the flower devas and they will tell you exactly what the flower is best at healing and how to use it.

 
When and How to Use Flower Essences  for Pets and Humans
What can a flower essence be used for and when is the appropriate time to use it? Can you use the same flower essence for yourself and your pets? Discover the underlying issues in your pet that respond best to flower essences. How much to use? How often? Questions, questions. There are no wrong ways to use flower essences, but some ways are more effective than others, depending on the issue you are addressing.

Plants and their devas carry gifts, wisdom and healing energies that can penetrate deeply into those sticky, wet, hot, dry, hidden, dense or stubborn areas of our being and bring healing and balance. This improved health and balance allows us to more effortlessly become our highest self and then enjoy its delightful expression and reflection manifesting in the world.

Upon registration you will receive a list of materials to bring to class for making and storing your flower essences. Enrollment limited to ten students. Class meets from 10am to 6pm near Winston-Salem, NC with field study in the surrounding area which will require transportation and physical ability for light hiking.

There is a materials fee of $15 (payable by check or cash at the class meeting) for essence preservative (organic vodka) and labeling materials.

Please call if you would like to host this event at your space.