How to work with Flower Essences
Flower Essences… where do I even begin with these magical concoctions?
I could wax-poetic about for ages about how Flower Essences were my “gateway drug” into the realms of herbalism and plant magic, but I’ll spare you… for now 😉
So let’s jump to it — what are Flower Essences? How do Flower Essences work exactly?
I describe them first and foremost as an energetic healing modality. A gentle way of working with the wisdom of plants without ingesting any actual plant material.
You know that feeling you get when you walk into an incredibly vibrant garden? Or pause in the middle of a woodland walk? That sense that the plants around you are somehow… vibrating?
Well, they are.
Plants all carry their own energetic signatures. The wisdom that they have cultivated as beings over millennia of learning to adapt and change with their environments is encoded in their structure and their vibrational essence.
This is what they share with us when transmuted through Flower Essences.
Flower Essences are subtle. They ask you to get quiet. They require you to slow down and get deeply acquainted with your own physical experience in order to really feel their effects.
How to Use Flower Essences
When you work with Flower Essences, you are working with the energetic signature of the plant, so “more is better” doesn’t really apply here. Only 2 – 3 drops of Essences are needed at a time.
There are many ways of using and interacting with the Flower Essences. Here are just a few:
👅 Drop them right on your tongue!
☕️ Add the Flower Essence to your Garden of the Moon teas
🥤 Drop the Essences into your water bottle for the day
🧴 Incorporate the drops into your body or facial lotion and gently massage them into your skin
🌸 Add them to an essential oil diffuser or fragrance mist bottle to spray around your room, workspace or home to infuse the energy into your surroundings.
I really encourage folks to allow for a few moments of quiet and connection with the Flower Essences when they first experience them. Whether that means sitting in meditation, a peaceful moment with your cup of tea, or whatever your own mindfulness practice looks like — just give yourself a few moments to envision the Flower you are working with as you interact with the Essence.
To sum it up, here’s the nitty gritty, [TLDR]:
- Flower Essences are a vibrational healing modality. There are no physical plant parts in the Essences.
- Garden of the Moon Flower Essences are stabilized in glycerine and alcohol.
- Essences should be consumed within 12 months of purchase.
- 2 – 3 drops of Essences daily — dropped directly on your tongue, drank in tea or water, mixed into body lotion or facial oils, added to scented oil diffusers or room sprays
Flower Essences are an intuitive practice, so I hope you can see that this is less about hard-and-fast rules and much more about listening to the plants, experimenting, and seeing what unique ways of interacting with them arises for you.
Like I said, I could go on for ages about the magic of Flower Essences — it’s truly thanks to the Essences that I found my way (back) to the world of plants. So much of my own healing has been through the portal of Flower Essences.
And it’s my hope that this experience with Flower Essences supports you deeply in your Cyclical journey as you learn to understand your phases more deeply and come to love each of your inner seasons.
If you have any questions about the Flower Essences, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me via Instagram or shoot me an email: hello [@] gardenofthemoon.co
Big Love & so many blessings to you!
