The Flower Essence Podcast

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.

We 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. 🌎🌬️🔥💦✨🌸 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. 🌎🌬️🔥💦✨🌸 Full show notes and transcript of this episode 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 speak to expert Locational Astrologer, Moses Siregar, who combines western and Vedic astrology in the unique field of astrocartography. With a love for and background in flower essences and vibrational remedies, Moses continues to use these in conjunction with his astrology practice. We chat about the big astrological transits of March 2023 (Saturn moving into Pisces and Pluto into Aquarius) and flower essences that can support us during this time. 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.

Trauma therapist Maureen Clancy joins us on the podcast to chat about supporting mental health with flower essences. Discover Maureen’s favorite essences for anxious states vs. depressed states, and how she incorporates them in her practice in conjunction with other therapeutic modalities such as EMDR. We also talk about how to know when flower essences aren’t enough on their own and further mental health services are indicated. Join us for this illuminating look into flower and tree essences from a psychotherapist’s perspective: Full show notes and transcript on our website: https://thefloweressencepodcast.com/fep54-flower-essences-for-mental-health-with-maureen-clancy 🌸 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 to our PATREON community to help with expenses and get some perks too! https://www.patreon.com/thefloweressencepodcast ❤️ 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.

Rather than setting New Year's resolutions and diving headfirst to start smashing goals on January 1st, Kathleen and Rochana talk about a more Nature-based approach of first letting go, going within, and going with the flow during the dark days of winter here in the Northern Hemisphere. True to form, Nature reinforced that lesson for us with the California storms (hello water element) that brought flooding and extended outages, testing our ability to literally go with the flow as this recording had to be rescheduled multiple times. Learn about some of the essences we use to cultivate receptivity and calm flexibility for a more natural approach to planning and goal setting. We discuss: Join us in welcoming in the year of the Yin Water Rabbit, which further speaks to the energies of this time. 💧🐇 Full show notes and transcript here: https://thefloweressencepodcast.com/fep53-going-with-the-flow The Flower Essence Podcast is available on: YouTube iTunes SpotifyOur Websiteor your podplayer of choice Find us on Social Media: InstagramFacebook 💚 Like this episode? SHARE with a friend! ✅ Join to our PATREON community to help with expenses and get some perks too! https://www.patreon.com/thefloweressencepodcast Your podcast hosts are: Kathleen Aspenns:Flora of AsiaRochana Felde:Wiseflower Wellness

Join us in an enchanting exploration of the Artemisia plants—Mugworts, Wormwoods, and Sagebrushes—as we share stories and experiences of working with the flower essences, herbal preparations, and strong energies of this unique subset of the Aster family. 🌙🌿🧙‍♀️💚🧚✨ Full show notes and transcript here: https://thefloweressencepodcast.com/ The Flower Essence Podcast is available on: YouTube iTunes SpotifyOur Website Find us on Social Media: InstagramFacebook 💚 Like this episode? SHARE with a friend! ✅ Join to our PATREON community to help with expenses and get some perks too! https://www.patreon.com/thefloweressencepodcast

Are you feeling weighed down by the energy of others, the constant bombardment of information, or the emotional drama and violence that pervades our media in these times? Mental stress and anxiousness are especially common during this time of year as the energy of the fall season is one of pulling in. Kathleen and Rochana talk about helpful flower essences to clear the mental and emotional clutter that has accumulated in and around us — to discern what’s not ours, to release what’s not serving us, and to strengthen our energy field. Full show notes and transcript here: https://thefloweressencepodcast.com/fep51-energetic--emotional-detox-with-flower-essences The Flower Essence Podcast is available on: YouTube iTunes SpotifySubstackOur Websiteor your podplayer of choice Find us on Social Media: InstagramFacebook 💚 Like this episode? SHARE with a friend! ✅ Join to our PATREON community to help with expenses and get some perks too! https://www.patreon.com/thefloweressencepodcast Your podcast hosts are: Kathleen Aspenns:Flora of AsiaRochana Felde:Wiseflower Wellness

Ruth Toledo Altschuler joins us for our 50th show! As a returning guest of the podcast and partner in the Flower Essence Conference, you'll most likely be familiar with the incredible depth of insight Ruth has in Flower Essence Therapy. She has been a practitioner and educator for over three decades, and has a unique combination of experience unparalleled in the field. In this episode, we talk about understanding flower essences in the context of their botanical families. When we are able to group essence plants this way, patterns emerge that can help us to find the right essence faster for a given concern. And when we apply the observation of the plant signature, we can better see the distinctions of their healing qualities within their family. This plant-centric system of learning about flower essences is something the three of us resonate deeply with.💚 Full show notes and transcript here: https://thefloweressencepodcast.com/fep50-botanical-families-as-a-guide-to-flower-essences-with-ruth-toledo-altschuler The Flower Essence Podcast is available on: YouTube iTunes SpotifyOur Websiteor your podplayer of choice Find us on Social Media: InstagramFacebook 💚 Like this episode? SHARE with a friend! ✅ Join to our PATREON community to help with expenses and get some perks too! https://www.patreon.com/thefloweressencepodcast Your podcast hosts are: Kathleen Aspenns:Flora of AsiaRochana Felde:Wiseflower Wellness Your podcast guest is: Ruth Toledo Altschuler: Essence Mentoring

We are absolutely thrilled to have Lindsay Fauntleroy as our guest this month! Lindsay is an educator, acupuncturist, director of The Spirit Seed, and maker of Elementals Essences. Our conversation centered around the five element system as a process for understanding our own cycles, as well as where we are collectively in this moment and what beautiful flower essence is coming forward. We talk about Lindsay's new book, "In Our Element: Using the Five Elements as Soul Medicine to Unleash Your Personal Power", and the inspirational way she combines flower essences, yoga poses and music playlists as medicine for the body, mind and soul. We love how she joyfully weaves together Eastern medicine, western psychology, and African ancestral principles of spirituality in a modern way that is easy to understand, actionable and accessible. Full show notes and transcript here: https://thefloweressencepodcast.com/fep49-the-five-elements-as-soul-medicine-with-lindsay-fauntleroy The Flower Essence Podcast is available on: YouTube iTunes SpotifySubstackOur Websiteor your podplayer of choice Find us on Social Media: InstagramFacebook 💚 Like this episode? SHARE with a friend! ✅ Join to our PATREON community to help with expenses and get some perks too! https://www.patreon.com/thefloweressencepodcast Your podcast hosts are: Kathleen Aspenns:Flora of AsiaRochana Felde:Wiseflower Wellness Visit our guest: Lindsay Fauntleroy: The Spirit Seed and In Our Element

This month we are joined by Sara Artemisia — a Flower Essence Practitioner, Plant Spirit Wisdom Teacher, and host of the Plant Spirit Podcast and the Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit. Our discussion is a rich exploration of soul purpose and the re-emergence of the divine feminine, with deep wisdom and powerful activation by the Wild Roses and Queen Anne's Lace. Honoring the wisdom embedded in traditional fairy tales, we delve into the symbolism of Sleeping Beauty/Briar Rose and how it relates to the modern day awakening of divine feminine consciousness. We talk about the journey of finding our purpose as not being a single act but rather a series of intuitive steps on our life path, and learning to trust the guidance all around us with help from the plants and flower essences. Full show notes and transcript here: https://thefloweressencepodcast.com/fep48-soul-purpose-and-the-divine-feminine-with-sara-artemisia The Flower Essence Podcast is available on: YouTube iTunes SpotifySubstackOur Websiteor your podplayer of choice Find us on Social Media: InstagramFacebook 💚 Like this episode? SHARE with a friend! ✅ Join to our PATREON community to help with expenses and get some perks too! https://www.patreon.com/thefloweressencepodcast Your podcast hosts are: Kathleen Aspenns:Flora of AsiaRochana Felde:Wiseflower Wellness

Join us for a deep dive into the plant signatures and flower essence energetics of our two favorite trees: Redwood and Magnolia. These ancient beings have been on the planet since dinosaurs roamed the earth, and we think they have much wisdom for us. Redwoods are the tallest tree, one of the longest living, and grow in groups that are connected by their root system. They help us see the big picture, be resilient, and foster community — while connecting us to the earth and our own ancient sacredness. Magnolias are one of the first flowering plants on the planet, and they imbue us with hope and enthusiasm for this earthly experience. They aid us in fully inhabiting our bodies so we can access our unique gifts and pursue our life’s work. Full show notes and transcript here: https://thefloweressencepodcast.com/fep47-listening-to-the-ancients The Flower Essence Podcast is available on: YouTube iTunes SpotifySubstackOur Websiteor your podplayer of choice Find us on Social Media: InstagramFacebook 💚 Like this episode? SHARE with a friend! ✅ Join to our PATREON community to help with expenses and get some perks too! https://www.patreon.com/thefloweressencepodcast Your podcast hosts are: Kathleen Aspenns:Flora of AsiaRochana Felde:Wiseflower Wellness