S2: E5 Flower Essences with Gina Kearney
Episode Summary
I was so excited about this episode. I’ve been studying flower essences all year, they’re really fascinating. Gina Kearney is a flower essence practitioner that I personally worked with who owns Herbs and Owls apothecary in Jupiter, FL. In this episode, you're going to learn all about flower essences and how they work. Flowers are not just for gifting, they are gentle yet powerful vibrational medicine and totally different from essential oils. Enjoy!
Guest Bio
Gina Kearney is a Clinical Herbalist & Flower Essence Practitioner who weaves in Shamanic Energy Healing to help clients use plant medicine, intention, and earth-based practices to restore and maintain health at a deep and lasting level. She is the owner of Herbs & Owls where she offers in-person and online consults and classes as well as a full organic Herb Shop with over 150 herbs located at 725 N. Highway A1A, Jupiter, FL.
Gina earned her Professional Herbalist Certification from the ArborVitae School of Traditional Herbalism in New York City and her Flower Essence Certifications from the Flower Essence Society and Traditions School of Herbal Studies. Her clinical training includes Traditional Chinese Medicine, Western Herbs and Energetics, Flower Essence Therapy & Shamanic Energy Healing. Gina is also an initiate of the School of Practical Philosophy where she studied meditation, self-realization, awareness, and contentment.
Quotes
“The first essence I ever worked with was Indian pipe. And it really had such a profound impact in my life and how I experienced that essence that I was hooked.”
“Flower essences are a form of vibrational healing.”
“Flower essences are more vibrational and energetic. They're working more with our energetic body and our chakras and our energetic system.”
“I love how subtle they are and how they make such have the capacity to make such impactful shifts in our lives pretty quickly, you know, and seeing it in a clinical setting with clients. I am humbled each and every day.”
“We are vibrational beings and they have this beautiful way of shifting that and helping our body come to rest.”
“The role of the skilled practitioner to really understand what's going on beneath the surface and then to select and pair the essences with the person, and we custom blend.”
“The practitioner is guidance, the support, the listening, the pairing, you know, finding the right essences because when we get the right remedy to the right person, it's magical, honestly.”
“Flower essences have this beautiful ability to resonate with trauma, certain traumas and move them to the system.”
“So over time, we can begin to see physical manifestations of disease in the physical body based upon where we're storing this low-level trauma. So in pairing together herbs to support the body, but energetics as well, but also working with flower essences to clear away these energies of this low-level energy that we're holding onto.”
“They're beautiful. They're stunning. They're intensely moving but in a really calm and supportive and nurturing. They are the creative expression of the plants, they really are. They're beautiful. That's, that's sort of the crowning jewel of the plants.”