Floral Alchemy - from soil to soul

Shakespeare famously used the analogy that ‘Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners’.

We are a living landscape that contains a whole array of garden potential, when we are born we have pristine and perfect soil to create life, yet as we develop we inherit systems and programmes from our parents, friends and society that don’t always fit and align with the core of us. Weeds start to root and take up too much space preventing our true garden and flowers to flourish.

In Floral Alchemy we act as both the garden and the gardener and with infinite care we start to nurture, cultivate and restore the original inner garden.  Gardens have cycles of planting, growth, harvest, and dormancy, just as we have our seasons of high energy and productivity, followed by a need for rest and regeneration.  Our seeds do not grow instantly, we trust the process and allow time for change. 

Floral Alchemy asks that we tend to our inner life as a daily practice, visioning in what to grow, weed, prune and cultivate.  Tending a garden is not a one-time event, it requires consistent work to prevent the garden from becoming overgrown.  So we ask what inner, neglected or hidden parts of ourselves need to be rediscovered and nurtured?

The aim of Floral alchemy is to cultivate the garden within, flowers help bring us into alignment with our original blueprint, giving us the reminder to land in the presence of our true nature. This version of self becomes our guiding light rather than being contained by a programmed field of thought.

We aim to minimise the dis-tractions whilst re-membering the embodying of our essence just as a flower opens its fragrance to the world…. We ask ourselves what has come out of alignment with our pure original creative design. What are our souls saying to us? How may we authentically listen to these finer aspects of self?

We aim to become as sensitive as the deer as we begin to track our field whilst building our energy, charge and life-force on the way!  We return to the realm of feeling, rather than thinking! Feeling nature within the body, feeling our breath, our movement and our life-force currents….

This is a journey where we will travel though the cycle of the year, following the passage of nature around us and within us, as each session will be over lite by a tree or flower. With this said during the summer, we will have our sessions outside connecting to the Earth.

Breathwork, sound, music and movement are the vehicles for which we move into the realms of our soul light, of all that we are….