FEP58 Essence Making as a Spiritual Practice

In this episode, Kathleen and Rochana discuss what it's like on the business side of being a Flower Essence Practitioner. We share our stories and some of the common challenges when setting out on your own as a service entrepreneur (hello imposter syndrome, overwhelm, and undervaluing!), and offer some helpful essence ideas for working through them. We've found that participating in masterminds, group coaching/mentoring, and community forums are incredibly helpful to this process. The value of hearing from your peers, their struggles and questions, learning how they solve them, and the wisdom that evolves from the group mind, cannot be underestimated.   NEW! Announcing the Professional Practice Mentoring Group launching at the School for Flower Essence Studies. It's a unique online community space with live group coaching meetings, beginning May 1st. We're piloting it for 6 months, and we'd love for you to be part of it!   Full show notes and transcript on the Flower Essence Podcast website. 🌸 The Flower Essence Podcast is hosted by Rochana Felde and Kathleen Aspenns of The School for Flower Essence Studies, and additionally supported by our wonderful patrons and listeners like you. ✅ Join our PATREON community to help with expenses and get some perks too! ❤️ Like this episode? Let us know! Heart, follow and share on Instagram or Facebook. 🙏 Your positive reviews on iTunes, Spotify, and YouTube help other like-minded souls find us. This podcast is meant for educational and entertainment purposes only. Please consult with your own health care practitioner regarding any medical information discussed by the hosts and guests on the Flower Essence Podcast.

Sara Artemisia returns to the podcast in this illuminating episode about money consciousness. Sara is a Plant Spirit Wisdom Teacher, Flower Essence Practitioner, Financial Coach, and Host of the Plant Spirit Podcast. We talk about identifying the source of our beliefs concerning money, addressing our blocks in allowing abundance, and viewing money as an ally and energy to partner with. The plants and essences offer powerful support on this journey of embodiment and learning to accept nourishment from Nature. Full show notes and transcript on the Flower Essence Podcast website. 🌸 The Flower Essence Podcast is hosted by Rochana Felde and Kathleen Aspenns of The School for Flower Essence Studies, and additionally supported by our wonderful patrons and listeners like you. ✅ Join our PATREON community to help with expenses and get some perks too! ❤️ Like this episode? Let us know! Heart, follow, and share on Instagram or Facebook. 🙏 Your positive reviews on iTunes, Spotify, and YouTube help other like-minded souls find us. This podcast is meant for educational and entertainment purposes only. Please consult with your own healthcare practitioner regarding any medical information discussed by the hosts and guests on the Flower Essence Podcast.

Kathleen and Rochana address misconceptions about flower essences and how they work. Get answers to these common questions and concerns:  Will they take away my stress?  Are higher doses more powerful? How long will it take them to “work”? Why does an essence stop working?  Can they help me endure an intolerable situation?  Why can’t they fix all my problems at once?  Can I take an essence if I’m allergic to the plant?  If I feel resistance to an essence does that mean I should take it?    Have more questions you need answered? Let us know!   Full show notes and transcript on the Flower Essence Podcast website. 🌸 The Flower Essence Podcast is hosted by Rochana Felde and Kathleen Aspenns of The School for Flower Essence Studies, and additionally supported by our wonderful patrons and listeners like you. ✅ Join our PATREON community to help with expenses and get some perks too! ❤️ Like this episode? Let us know! Heart, follow, and share on Instagram or Facebook. 🙏 Your positive reviews on iTunes, Spotify, and YouTube help other like-minded souls find us. This podcast is meant for educational and entertainment purposes only. Please consult with your own healthcare practitioner regarding any medical information discussed by the hosts and guests on the Flower Essence Podcast.

Misinformation, Disinformation, Propaganda, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Fakes, Brainwashing, Phishing, Spam, Scammers, PsyOps, Cults, and sleazy Marketing, oh my! There’s a war at play for our attention, our thoughts, our beliefs, and of course our money – whether it's just an advertisement to buy a product or something more complex with higher stakes.  It’s crucial now more than ever to cultivate skills of discernment, to be able to listen to that voice inside that raises a flag on what we see and hear. Yet, the daily practice of this can breed skepticism and distrust that may block the flow of life energy.  How can flower essences help us with this practice in a healthy way, so we can navigate and survive these times? Full show notes and transcript on the Flower Essence Podcast website You can also watch us on YouTube   🎁 Bonus for listeners! We’ve been reflecting on how much we appreciate all you listeners out there, and we decided to create a bonus for you. This video is a recording on flower essences for stress and anxiety, and we hope you’ll benefit from it in these very anxious times. 🙏 👉 Go to floweressencestudies.com/podbonus to claim your listener bonus  

Meet Australian Flower Essence Practitioner Tracy O'Meara Smith!  Tracy combines Flower Essence Therapy with a gentle and holistic form of bodywork (Bowen Therapy), and through this integration guides clients through periods of profound inner transformation, crisis, and pain. She empowers individuals to trust their intuition, act on newfound insights, and discover effective ways to cope, live, and ultimately be. Well-versed in the Australian essences, Tracy was recently certified by the Flower Essence Essence Society through the online Practitioner Certification Training Program taught by Ruth Toledo Altschuler.   Our conversation spans her profoundly connective experience of participating in an Aboriginal flower pit ceremony, how the FES training up-leveled her understanding of flower essence therapy, and the deep integration that bodywork brings to the process.    Full show notes and transcript on the Flower Essence Podcast website   👉 Learn more about the Flower Essence Practitioner Certification Training Program at the School for Flower Essence Studies.   🎁 Bonus for listeners! Recently, we’ve been reflecting on how much we appreciate all you listeners out there, and we decided to create a bonus for you. This video is a recording on flower essences for stress and anxiety, and we hope you’ll benefit from it in these very anxious times. 🙏 👉 Go to floweressencestudies.com/podbonus to claim your listener bonus   🌸 The Flower Essence Podcast is hosted by Rochana Felde and Kathleen Aspenns of The School for Flower Essence Studies, and additionally supported by our wonderful patrons and listeners like you. ✅ Join our PATREON community to help with expenses and get some perks too! ❤️ Like this episode? Let us know! Heart, follow and share on Instagram or Facebook. 🙏 Your positive reviews on iTunes, Spotify, and YouTube help other like-minded souls find us.   This podcast is meant for educational and entertainment purposes only. Please consult with your own health care practitioner regarding any medical information discussed by the hosts and guests on the Flower Essence Podcast.

Ever wonder how we got from Dr. Bach’s research to where we are today? In the late 1970s and 80s there was a simultaneous explosion of new flower essences being discovered, researched, and produced around the world. Yet, this “second wave” of producers didn’t initially know about one another until the first international conference was held. Ruth Toledo Altschuler came on the scene just as these gatherings began to happen, and she became a major importer of essences into Brazil at that time. In this episode, we have the honor of hearing her stories and adventures — how she met the people and visited the places of the FES, Alaskan, Australian essences, and more, in these early days of the post-Bach flower essence renaissance.   Join us for this rare treat and glimpse into the modern history of flower essences. Full show notes and transcript on the Flower Essence Podcast website   👉 Learn more about the Flower Essence Practitioner Certification Training Program   🎁 Bonus for listeners! Recently, we’ve been reflecting on how much we appreciate all you listeners out there, and we decided to create a bonus for you. This video is a recording on flower essences for stress and anxiety, and we hope you’ll benefit from it in these very anxious times. 🙏 👉 Go to floweressencestudies.com/podbonus to claim your listener bonus   🌸 The Flower Essence Podcast is hosted by Rochana Felde and Kathleen Aspenns of The School for Flower Essence Studies, and additionally supported by our wonderful patrons and listeners like you. ✅ Join our PATREON community to help with expenses and get some perks too! ❤️ Like this episode? Let us know! Heart, follow and share on Instagram or Facebook. 🙏 Your positive reviews on iTunes, Spotify, and YouTube help other like-minded souls find us.   This podcast is meant for educational and entertainment purposes only. Please consult with your own health care practitioner regarding any medical information discussed by the hosts and guests on the Flower Essence Podcast.

  In this episode, we welcome Lindsay Fauntleroy back to the podcast! Lindsay is a medicine maker, educator, acupuncturist, and the author of In Our Element — a self-help guide that integrates acupuncture theory, flower essences, yoga and ancestral spirituality.   We talk about the naturally rising levels of stress and anxiety during this time of year and the corresponding elemental forces.   Exploring the way stress and anxiety manifest with different elements, we offer our favorite flower essences for each scenario. And wow do we cover a lot!   Join us on this whirlwind dive into the elements as a lens for Flower Essence Therapy. Full show notes and transcript on the Flower Essence Podcast website. 🎁 Thank you for listening! As a token of our appreciation, we have a bonus recording for you! Get it here. 🌸 The Flower Essence Podcast is hosted by Rochana Felde and Kathleen Aspenns of the School for Flower Essence Studies and additionally supported by our wonderful patrons. ❤️ Like this episode? Let us know! Heart, follow and share on Instagram and Facebook. ⭐ Your positive reviews on iTunes, Spotify, and YouTube really help us, and help other like-minded souls find us. Please take a moment to add a review whenever listening. 🙏 ✅ Join our PATREON community to help with expenses and get some perks too! This podcast is meant for educational and entertainment purposes only. Please consult with your own health care practitioner regarding any medical information discussed by the hosts and guests on the Flower Essence Podcast.

We went to the movies! And saw Barbie! This was a rare treat for us, as we live on opposite sides of the county. We laughed so hard, then had a great chat about it during lunch, and we knew right away we wanted to discuss some of the themes in our next podcast. We address some typical challenges experienced by those of us not at the top of the patriarchy: constant feelings of not being enough and having to work twice as hard to get less feeling obligated to do more for others than for ourselves and letting our self care suffer being too "nice" and putting on a happy mask to appease those with more power We talk about essences for these states and to boost a general feeling of empowerment. There's no spoilers except for a certain kick-ass monologue that we just had to repeat. But if you haven't seen the movie, go take some self-care time and do it!   Full show notes and transcript on the Flower Essence Podcast website. 🌸 The Flower Essence Podcast is hosted by Rochana Felde and Kathleen Aspenns of The School for Flower Essence Studies, and additionally supported by our wonderful patrons and listeners like you. ✅ Join our PATREON community to help with expenses and get some perks too! ❤️ Like this episode? Let us know! Heart, follow and share on Instagram or Facebook. 🙏 Your positive reviews on iTunes, Spotify, and YouTube help other like-minded souls find us. This podcast is meant for educational and entertainment purposes only. Please consult with your own health care practitioner regarding any medical information discussed by the hosts and guests on the Flower Essence Podcast.

Have you ever thought about the co-creative act of making a flower essence as a spiritual or self-development practice in and of itself? It requires surrendering to the moment, really listening to Nature, and going with the flow to accept all parts of the experience. The lessons the plants impart in the process may continue long after the essence is bottled, so an awareness must also be cultivated to notice, interpret, and work with what comes up. Kathleen and Rochana reflect on how years of essence making have enhanced their individual personal growth — in all its messy glory. Do you make flower essences? We'd love to hear your experiences and thoughts on this topic! If you haven't made them yourself, is this something that you'd like to try?  🌸🌼🌹🌻🌺💐🌷 Full show notes and transcript on the Flower Essence Podcast website. 🌸 The Flower Essence Podcast is hosted by Rochana Felde and Kathleen Aspenns of The School for Flower Essence Studies, and additionally supported by our wonderful patrons and listeners like you. ✅ Join our PATREON community to help with expenses and get some perks too! ❤️ Like this episode? Let us know! Heart, follow and share on Instagram or Facebook. 🙏 Your positive reviews on iTunes, Spotify, and YouTube help other like-minded souls find us. This podcast is meant for educational and entertainment purposes only. Please consult with your own health care practitioner regarding any medical information discussed by the hosts and guests on the Flower Essence Podcast.  

In this episode, Kathleen and Rochana explore the relevance of the classic Bach flower remedies in today’s increasingly complex and overwhelming world.   How do they compare to the more modern essences available? Are people different now than they were in the 1930s? Have our needs changed?   It’s interesting to reflect on the world events of Dr. Bach’s time and his personal evolution as a physician that led him to become the creator of these famous remedies.    We also share our thoughts about blending the Bach flower remedies with essences and elixirs from other systems, and why gem elixirs may be an important addition for those who’ve worked with flowers for some time.  Want to learn more about the Bach flower essences? Check out Julian Barnard’s Bach Flower Learning Program, recently released by the School for Flower Essence Studies. It's an amazing resource, and free!   Essences discussed: Olive (Olea europeaea) Elm (Ulmus procera) Vervain (Verbena officianalis)* Honeysuckle (Lonicera caprifolium) Wild Rose (Rosa canina) *the herb mentioned is Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata)    Full show notes and transcript on the Flower Essence Podcast website. 🌸 The Flower Essence Podcast is hosted by Rochana Felde and Kathleen Aspenns of The School for Flower Essence Studies, and additionally supported by our wonderful patrons and listeners like you. ✅ Join our PATREON community to help with expenses and get some perks too! ❤️ Like this episode? Let us know! Heart, follow and share on Instagram or Facebook. 🙏 Your positive reviews on iTunes, Spotify, and YouTube help other like-minded souls find us. This podcast is meant for educational and entertainment purposes only. Please consult with your own health care practitioner regarding any medical information discussed by the hosts and guests on the Flower Essence Podcast.