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Articles—

Flower Essence Formulas:
Powerful Remedies for Times of Crisis

Father Joseph Dillion: empowering communities throughout Brazil

A Journey with Flower Essences and Painting—
Working to transform the lives of young women with disabilities

The Four Stages of Flower Essence Response:
A Transformational Approach to Healing

Flower Essence Therapy Stimulates Emotional Relief
for People with HIV/AIDS

Honoring the Soul's Connection with the Earth:
the 8th level of MetaFlora healing

Flower Essence Therapy Helps to Mitigate Challenging Conditions for Children

Social Service Program

Archetypal Character Study

Articles Posted in Other Languages

Membership information

We welcome case studies and reports for our research database!



April 2009

Dear Friends,

We are enjoying glorious spring energy here at Terra Flora, including an abundance of flowers and blooming fruit trees. We have been delighted by the birth of baby lambs and we're seeing other wildlife exhibit their spring-time behaviors; rabbits are darting about at dawn, hawks are calling loudly to each other, and we can see turtles sunning themselves on a rock in the pond, with wild ducks enjoying a swim on their way north.

We hope you enjoy the offerings by practitioners in this newsletter, which are the result of spring-like creative endeavors that continue to inspire and inform us in our work with flower essence therapy.

Wishing you the beauty of the season,

The FES Team
Don't miss the FES 2009 classes
at Terra Flora, Nevada City, California!
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Flower Essence Formulas:
Powerful Remedies for Times of Crisis
"Flower essences were first developed during an earlier time of traumatic economic and social upheaval, the Great Depression of the 1930s. In the face of today’s challenges, these potent plant remedies can be important allies as we seek the wisdom, inner strength, emotional equanimity and resolve needed to meet a new world crisis." We invite you to read this article written by Richard Katz that gives us a perspective on the use of flower essence formulas in times of crisis and also examines the context in which flower remedies were first developed by Dr. Edward Bach.
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Father Joseph Dillion: empowering communities throughout Brazil

Father Joseph Dillon, a native of Ireland, who lives and works in Brazil, has helped develop a unique way of bringing the work of Dr. Bach to people in outlying areas. Read about Father Joseph’s work as a missionary and a report from him on a series of workshops held in the region of Rondônia, Brazil. This should be inspiring to read for anyone who provides education on the Bach flower remedies or flower essence therapy in general.
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A Journey with Flower Essences and Painting— 
Working to transform the lives of young women with disabilities

In this article, read about the program developed by Judy Goldberg, Daniela Sirotti, and Nancy Xenakis, (Initiative for Women with Disabilities, New York) that has helped young women with disabilities transform themselves in remarkable ways utilizing the combination of flower essences and art therapy.
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The Four Stages of Flower Essence Response:
A Transformational Approach to Healing

Jane Ellen, FES-certified practitioner, (Santa Fe, NM) has a unique approach to working with her clients utilizing the 4 R’s. It is a potent process-oriented method of healing in which she guides her clients in a course of flower essence therapy that effectively tracks the progress and results.
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Flower Essence Therapy Stimulates Emotional Relief 
for People with HIV/AIDS

Utilizing electrol dermal screening, Dr. Julia Tsuei has determined several flower essence combinations that are helpful for the emotions experienced by people with HIV/AIDS conditions. Most notably, essence combinations were helpful for shock and trauma, lack of self-esteem, feelings of rejection by family and friends, resentment and forgiveness.

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Honoring the Soul's Connection with the Earth:
the 8th level of MetaFlora healing

Read a testament by Ricardo Antonio de Castro with comments by practitioner Rosana Souto, Brazil, in regard to working at the 8th MetaFlora level of healing: “His understanding and love renovated by his earthly journey, led him to register his change in the deepest levels of his soul – his ability to see the earth as a sacred part of creation (Patricia Kaminski).
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Children with Learning Challenges:
transforming core emotional trauma
Daena Ross currently works at the East Bay Waldorf School, serving as Educational Support Teacher, which includes work with children to complete their sensory motor development, memory and processing skills; support their academic development; and support their emotional health through the use of flower essences. The movement work that she does makes use of the Extra Lesson, exercises from Rudolf Steiner, Bothmer Gymnastics, Spatial Dynamics (she is a certified Movement Therapist through this discipline) circle activities, and other exercises that she has developed. She works closely with class teachers and parents.
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Social Service Program

 
In Providing Flower Essence Therapy to Disadvantaged Children in Brazil, Deborah Bergman reports on her social service work with a sampling of short case narratives of children she has worked with at the Santa Barbara Foundation in the Rio de Janeiro area of Brazil.
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Archetypal Character Study

A Life of Grounded Idealism, is an archetypal character study in which Jane Ellen creates a compelling portrait of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross illustrating the qualities of Vervain.
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Articles Posted in Other Languages

La Doctrina de Las Signaturas en La Obra de Edward Bach por Ricardo Mateos

Planeta Terra, minha casa—
Alcançando o nível meta-flora oito no processo terapêutico: Reconhecendo e honrando a conexão com a Terra por Ricardo Antônio de Castro, comentários de Rosana Souto
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“Thank you for such a marvelous experience and opening your home and hearts to us. It is so inspiring to be around fellow flower essence people after so many years of primarily working on my own. I enjoyed the symbolism, imagery and poetry that enhanced your presentations. I especially adored the time spent with each plant and the discussions of their essential qualities.”

— Amy Erez, Sugi Health and Fitness, Pleasant Hill, CA

“I feel so very blessed to have been touched by your beautiful energy and that of the Terra Flora gardens! The time spent there gave me a renewed love and dedication to expand the use of the flower essences in hospice care... THANK YOU for sharing your beautiful home and teachings at the FES training.””

— Dr. Kelly Warshel, Windber Hospice, Windber, PA
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