FEP56 Coming Home to Earth: How plants, animals, and elemental forces help us re-bond with earth and restore embodiment
Release Date: 04/03/2023
FEP77 Finding Peace and Clarity in Chaotic Times
The Flower Essence Podcast
With all that's going on in the world, many are struggling to stay grounded, find perspective and feel a sense of stability. It's a crucial time to maintain centeredness and peace so no matter what we're doing and what we choose to do, our best selves can show up. Kathleen and Rochana bring in ancient and powerful plant allies that have a long history of helping humans on this planet. These flower essences and gem elixirs help us cultivate resilience, perspective, and heart connections with the earth and each other to increase our light and promote peace in our every step. Full show...
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FEP76 Psychic Self-Defense with Gemstones & Essences | Nicholas Pearson
The Flower Essence Podcast
Nicholas Pearson returns to the podcast after the release of his latest book, Crystals for Psychic Self-Defense. Starting with a grounded understanding of the sources of psychic and energetic harm, we discuss the importance of good energy hygiene including grounding, centering, and cleansing. We explore a host of techniques for protecting and shielding ourselves and our spaces with the use of physical gemstones, gem elixirs/waters, and flower essences. Join us for this in-depth download from our favorite author and teacher at the intersection of gemstones and plants for vibrational healing and...
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FEP75 Tapping into Creativity for Vitality & Healing
The Flower Essence Podcast
Kathleen Aspenns and Rochana Felde are joined by Ruth Toledo Altschuler to embrace the energy of creativity as a lifeline that sustains us with aliveness during challenging times. We discuss: How flower essences and gem elixirs can be used to spark and nourish creativity whether or not we think we’re creative How the creative process itself can be liberating and an integral part of healing because it's connected to the vital life force within us How using art, writing, and creative acts as therapeutic tools in conjunction with Flower Essence Therapy can be synergistic for both...
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FEP74 Drowning in Overwhelm? Build resilience with flower essences and gem elixirs
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In this episode Kathleen and Rochana dive into the current energy of overwhelm that so many are feeling. We bring in our favorite tried and true flower essences and gem elixirs for not only managing the onslaught, but also strengthening our fields and building resilience. Whether the overwhelm comes from too much information, energy, emotions, sensory signals, environmental factors, or all of the above, Nature helps bring us back into balance. Full show notes and transcript on the . 🌸 The Flower Essence Podcast is hosted by Rochana Felde and Kathleen Aspenns of , and...
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FEP73 Expanding Your Understanding of Bach Flowers with Ruth Toledo Altschuler
The Flower Essence Podcast
In this episode, Kathleen and Rochana welcome back our partner in the School for Flower Essence Studies, Ruth Toledo Altschuler. During these times of progressive overwhelm, we believe that Nature is here for us, and we have the capacity to take in new information when we attune to the plants. In light of this, we’re excited to embark on a deep exploration of nine more Bach Flowers in our upcoming study group, which is more like an “experience group”. We discuss the value of having a solid foundation of lineage teachings to build on — in this case, Dr. Edward Bach’s original...
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FEP72 Shamanic Plant Teachers & Animal Spirit Medicine with Matthew Wood
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In this episode, we explore herbs, flower essences, and homeopathy through a shamanic lens with celebrated herbalist, author, and teacher Matthew Wood. He's been a practitioner of these modalities for forty-five years and teaches at the Matthew Wood Institute of Herbalism. Matt shares stories from his life's journey with the plants and from his most recent book, A Shamanic Herbal - Plant Teachers and Animal Medicine. In this wide-ranging conversation, we touch on fascinating connections between wild animal archetypes and plants, including some of the flower essence plants that we know and...
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FEP71 Connecting to the Unseen World with Help from Flower Essences
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Recorded during the liminal time of year when the veil between the worlds is thin (Halloween, Samhain, Day of the Dead), Rochana and Kathleen discuss how we connect to the unseen — plant devas, our dearly departed, ancestors, angels, and spirit guides. Animism, a belief that spirit is alive in everything, is a basic principle of making flower essences as we view it as a co-creative activity between ourselves and the spirit of the plant. We don't need to turn to psychedelic plant medicines to connect with spirit beings. Flower essences can help us open to spiritual...
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FEP70 Getting Triggered! Strategies for Coping and Increasing Resilience
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In this episode, Katheen and Rochana navigate the nervous system responses when triggered or emotionally activated. How do we recognize when it’s happening and what are some things we can do immediately to cope? How can we work with these deeply embedded reactions that at minimum feel uncomfortable but often are painful and uncontrollable? We discuss the importance of releasing emotion from the body and using flower essences to assist in creating a safe container for this work, as we strive to increase resilience and regain equilibrium in our lives. Full show notes and transcript on...
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FEP69 Finding Your Purpose with Support from Nature
The Flower Essence Podcast
In this episode we dive into the concept of life purpose, what that means, and how to uncover and pursue it with support from Nature and the flower essences. We talk about the Japanese concept of Ikigai to look at the different pieces that come together to inform an overall sense of purpose, how to center ourselves, listen to our inner wisdom, and embody the guidance coming in from higher realms. We bring in essences to help with that, to give us the strength to forge ahead and permission to spark our creativity in this process. Essences discussed: Hornbeam Rosemary Sapphire Ruby Blue...
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FEP68 Calming & Soothing the Nervous System
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This episode is an excerpt from an upcoming course we’re working on, Foundations in Flower Essence Therapy, which will be available from the School for Flower Essence Studies in early fall 2024. We talk about the importance of using calming and centering essences when beginning to use essences for ourselves and others. It’s a really good first step, and sometimes all that’s needed. There are times we may want to skip over this and go right to essences that work with deeper challenges, but we’ve seen time and again the value of starting with calming and centering approaches...
info_outlineWe welcome Ruth Toledo Altschuler back to the podcast as we record a session for our upcoming Flower Essence Alchemy event!
The three of us share our early life experiences in trying to access emotional sanity by connecting to the plants, animals, and the elements of Nature.
Using the analogy of “reforesting ourselves” after processes of internal deforestation have happened, we explore the concept of re-bonding with the earth so that we can become more fully whole and embodied beings. And we share the flower, tree, and gem essences that are key for this grounding re-connection.
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Flower Essence Alchemy begins April 17th!
This Earth Week, explore the elemental forces of flower essences and vibrational remedies and their regenerative influence on essence creation, formulation, and potent self-care.
Flower Essence Alchemy is an illuminating online event with flower essence experts sharing deep wisdom on the relationship between the elements, the essences, and ourselves.
📅 Starts April 17 | LIVE Panels on April 22, 2023
Register before April 17 for 30% off!
Check out the website for all the details and to register.
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