FEP62 Deep Flower Essence Integration with Tracy O’Meara Smith
Show Notes:
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 flower essences, Tracy was recently certified by the Flower Essence Essence Society through the online FES Practitioner Certification Training course 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.
👉 Learn more about the Flower Essence Practitioner Certification Training Program at the School for Flower Essence Studies.
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Flower Essences discussed during the show:
- Arnica – FES
- Buttercup – FES
- Echinacea – FES
- Lady’s Mantle – FES
- Baby Blue Eyes – FES
- Mariposa Lily – FES
- Purple Flag – Living
Resources:
You can find Tracy @ Silverdale Holistic Therapy: www.silverdale.com.au
Mailing List: – https://www.subscribepage.com/wildflowermusings
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Learn more about Tracy’s Free Yourself Program
Show Transcript
Rochana Felde: [00:00:10] Welcome, friends, to The Flower Essence Podcast. Today we have another special guest with us, Tracy O’Meara Smith from Australia, and we are really excited to hear how she as a practitioner uses flower essences and uses them with her bodywork practice and how she has incorporated not just the Australian flower essences, but the Bach and FES flower essences with her bodywork practice. And so I’m going to read you a short bio for her. Tracy O’Meara Smith is a holistic healing practitioner whose garden clinic, Silverdale Holistic Therapy, is nestled in the serene Perth Hills of Western Australia. Her unique and comprehensive approach to healing combines flower essence therapy with techniques of Bowen Therapy which is a gentle and holistic form of bodywork. Through the integration of Bowen Therapy and Flower Essence Therapy, Tracy guides individuals through periods of profound inner transformation, crisis, and pain. She empowers individuals to trust their intuition, to act on newfound insights, and to discover effective ways to cope, live, and ultimately be. Additionally, Tracy provides flower affinity readings that serve as a remarkably accurate catalyst for newfound perspectives, inner healing, and empowerment enabling her clients to navigate life with a deeper understanding of themselves. Welcome to the podcast, Tracy.
Tracy O’Meara Smith: [00:02:28] Thank you so much, Ro.
Kathleen Aspenns: [00:02:30] We’re so glad to have you here.
Tracy O’Meara Smith: [00:02:32] Thank you, Kathleen. Before we get started, I would love to do a acknowledgement to country. Here in Australia, we have one of the oldest cultures in the world, and I would just love to play acknowledgement to the Whadjuk people of the Noongyar nation and elders past, present and emerging. And I’d love to honor the first peoples of the country that you and Kathleen would live and love on. It’s very important for us to acknowledge our indigenous folks, and also to understand with the weaving of that connection that it has in my practice and for us all.
Rochana Felde: [00:03:17] I’m so glad that you brought that up, Tracy. And honestly, it’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while, but we haven’t quite incorporated it into our podcast, so I really value you bringing that to the forefront and beginning of our conversation. I live and work on the unceded lands of the Kashaya Pomo on the west coast of California in Sonoma County.
Tracy O’Meara Smith: [00:03:44] Beautiful.
Kathleen Aspenns: [00:03:46] Hey, Tracy and I also, even though we are quite a good distance apart, I am also living and working on Pomo land. And it’s really an honor to have you here to share that new opportunity for us to appreciate our elders, our ancestors and those who’ve come before us on this beautiful land.
We would love to hear how you got involved in essences. We’re talking to you on the other side of the world. It’s really quite exciting what we can do with that now. And your origin story is very different from ours because your ecosystem is so very different from ours. I’d love to hear how you got involved in essences to begin with.
Tracy O’Meara Smith: [00:04:33] I first started– got involved with flower essences, my youngest has hip dysplasia, and she went through a process where we had to have her in a brace and she wasn’t sleeping, and I just felt like I needed to do something for me. And I felt quite helpless in the situation. So I needed to find something that was just for me. And so I started looking for certain things that could really nourish and feed my soul and also support me with my daughter. And so I found Flower Essence Therapy and I found teachers, Vasu and Kadambii who live north of me here in Perth who run the Living Essence academy. And that’s how I started. And the process was life-changing because it opened my mind and my heart to certain things that I wasn’t aware of and the emotions that I had been carrying, this underlying sadness and sense of helplessness that I just couldn’t put my finger on and didn’t know where it had come from. And lo and behold, I started to understand what generational healing and intergenerational trauma was, and the process and the understanding deepened. Through my training, I was exposed and blessed with the knowledge of the Aboriginal indigenous people of the lands here through a process called a Flower Pit Healing. And this is plant medicine and deep, deep connection to the earth in a process where tribe comes together and they dig pits in the earth and fill the pits with coals and flowers, and they cover that with bark. And then you lie in the pit, and then they’re covered with kangaroo skin. And then the tribe will chant.
The process itself really helped me understand the intricate relationship between man and the earth and the symbiotic relationship with earth and the tribe, and how intricately your process and the trial process were one and everyone could feel what you were going through, and everyone was incredibly present for each other. So speaking directly to that, from my experience, it blew my mind in terms of the depth of healing in relationship to the earth and also the relationship to the flowers and the relationship to family, and there’s an energetic connection where I sense indigenous culture, understand that transformative healing process of when we are born that we take on that psychic imprint of our mother and our father. And so there’s this understanding of healing generational when we come through onto the earth plane that we can clear that through using Earth medicine. And this was one way to do that.
Speaking directly to it, there is an elder, Nundjan, who oversaw this process and very generously shared this information. And there’s a video on my website where he speaks to this directly, and it’s very, very powerful. But the the process really helped me understand that what I was carrying was not mine, that it had come through generations, and now it was my responsibility to be able to look on that and heal that for my daughters. So there’s this powerful understanding that even though we take our individual process to heal ourselves, we’re actually influencing the collective. So it’s not just about us, it’s about us taking control and responsibility for things that we know aren’t right and we need to somehow come into our own consciousness so we can clear it not just for ourselves but also for the collective. And so with that, it has always stayed with me. So I’ve used the West Australian and the East Australian flower essences with that strong indigenous connection and with the greatest respect and understanding that the earth we can’t– you cannot disconnect from that earthly connection. And that’s why I think flower essences and flowers are so powerful because they open us up on that natural level that are non-threatening, and it’s our love and connection to them that make the therapy and also the essences so easily integrated when we just open ourselves up to that healing. So that was that was my introduction and I’m incredibly grateful for it.
Rochana Felde: [00:10:11] That does sound like an incredible experience to have. I’ve had some of my own shamanic initiations with plant spirit medicine, but what you’re describing with the Pit sounds really amazing. And I’m wondering, were there specific flowers that were used, that they used for that kind of process?
Tracy O’Meara Smith: [00:10:37] Mostly seasonal. So that was in spring or even just a lot of orchid Geraldton Wax from memory. And the power of having that heat with the flowers, so the essence you could really feel the movement. But what was mostly also very powerful is the interconnection between everyone. And this is amazing energy with the connection to the earth. And this was a cultural experience from my perspective. So I don’t want to take away from the power of the voice from the indigenous. Nundjan explains it more on my website in terms of that deeper connection on a cultural experience. But there was a myriad of flowers in there that just opened us all up to an incredible sense of connection, community, love, and this really sense of tribe that you’re not alone. And I think isolation and loneliness is the biggest thing in terms of healing is that we feel so isolated in the depth of our experience and really there is, when we open up to the flowers, when we open up to the natural earthy connection, and if I’m going to give an example, like the Redwoods who are incredibly connective and also here in Australia with oh gosh, so many flowers, I couldn’t even name one, so it’s just that natural, earthy connection that brings us together and knits us back together. So what we’re carrying comes into consciousness, and then we can release it.
Rochana Felde: [00:12:44] Yeah. So after this incredible experience that you had, you decided to learn about the flower essences and begin training with that. And you started with the Living Essences of Australia which is my understanding that’s a fairly large producer in Australia along with the Australian Bush Essences. Is that correct?
Tracy O’Meara Smith: [00:13:08] Yes. So for, I think it’s probably the last 10 years, I’ve just been using the Living Essences and Ian White’s Australian Bush Flowers. And then I met Ruth Toledo who we’ve all been working with through another business contact. And my world just completely and utterly opened up. Flowers are a universal language. And then I started the FES course and I have been just blown away in terms of applying flower essences in a completely different way.
Kathleen Aspenns: [00:13:55] And it is so cool that Ruth is able to teach the FES Practitioner Foundation training online, and you and Australia can attend without having to fly around the world to be with these plants in person. And can you speak to that experience of doing a training that is essentially a virtual training and how you can still get that depth of experience of knowing these plants without actually having to fly?
Tracy O’Meara Smith: [00:14:25] Or actually see them, which I think it’s because the depth of the connection of the flowers is that you’re just intuitive. For me, it’s just such a deep, intuitive connection. And I think once you start working with one or two, they start to speak to you, and then you start to work with them and build a relationship with them, and then your intuitive knowing of what you’re looking for, you look for the repertory of course with keywords and stuff, but then when you start to work with them, they come to you naturally and you go, oh, I might use this flower, or I might use that flower. I mean, for me, through the case studies, I used a blend of Arnica, Buttercup, and Echinacea in terms of really supporting trauma and then adding in Mariposa Lily and Lady’s Mantle and even Baby Blue Eyes if and when there was that disconnect from the parents. So the Mariposa Lily and the Lady’s Mantle really helping to nourish for that mother– that missing, nourishing, a nurturing mother element and then bringing in the Baby Blue Eyes for that masculine protection. And I found those five flowers in particular really supported the women that I supported to release deep trauma and being able to step outside their comfort zone and reclaim the things that they needed to act and shift.
And I’d love to talk about one of the case studies in particularly because it was incredibly powerful. So I had a lady come in. She had recently lost her father probably 18 months prior, and as a consequence, her marriage fell apart. And she was working in a business that was originally her father’s. So the connection to her job was the connection to her dad who had recently passed. And she was being utterly undermined and bullied in that situation and in her position. And as a process, she had learnt through survival to mask where she was at. And so when she came here there’s something that happens when people walk through the door. They just start to cry. There’s something– they just naturally know that they can release. And so you could imagine the grief, loss, and sadness and the intense, grand sense of responsibility because you had a family to support. So using these flowers in order to bring back a sense of normalcy, to able to put the anxiety aside and able to clear through the clutter of all the grief and the sense of hopelessness in her situation being bullied in her work environment, and also then having to deal with her son who was acting out and noticing this pattern of the masculine line within her situation. So she had the grief of her father, the loss of her marriage, being bullied by the men in her workplace, and her son acting out. So the Baby Blue Eyes was a consistent through her case study. I think we were at the fifth month. And this case study she was incredibly intuitive. So there was a certain time when her son was acting out which triggered she didn’t even know was there. And this is the beauty of the flowers is that they present you with things that come out of the psyche and the subconscious where her son’s behavior actually was triggering a guilt from relationship and situations around the loss of her brother who had taken his life years prior. Now, this is deep trauma that has been sitting latent, and the flowers open up the psyche and the mind for things to come to consciousness so we can clear them, which is again on the masculine line. And so with that understanding, a few weeks later, she chose to engage legal advice and then was released from this job, was able to be financially rewarded, and then given six months grace to be able to spend time with her family, deeply heal, and then be offered a position in a managerial position and now is running one of the top practices in Perth and now changing the culture within that to be more human and not being so rigid and corporate. I mean, the transformation from where she was to where she is now is absolutely incredible. And to be able to witness that and be guiding the facilitation of her healing, that it just showed me the power of it when we take on our own individual responsibility. She’s now changing a culture within that same industry but doing things completely different. So it’s affecting hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people. I just think that’s in itself is so– that’s what we’re here for. That’s what we’re here for.
Rochana Felde: [00:20:52] Being that witness is truly to me the most gratifying part of being a flower essence practitioner. I’m so grateful for that opportunity to work with someone over a period of time and to see those kind of changes. And that case study is incredible. I’m wondering if you also used bodywork with this case study, or was it strictly flower essence custom blends from the FES flowers?
Tracy O’Meara Smith: [00:21:25] I absolutely did weave the Bowen Therapy now. Bowen Therapy is a type of bodywork that works particularly and specifically on the fascia of the body. And the fascia is a connective tissue that runs– it’s like the webbing that encases the organs, ligaments, muscles, that it runs from the top of the head to the base of the feet. So we’re manipulating the CT and within the connective tissue, this is where all the cellular processes of the body take place. So when we do a manipulative move over certain parts of the body calcifications are released into the bloodstream and then new fresh minerals are put back through the connective tissue. So we’re actually influencing the body in a cellular manner. And it puts the body into a slight detox. Because trauma can be very much held within ourselves, when we can break that cycle of the head or the mind being in complete racing or in a complete negative loop, when certain moves are put into the body, it tells the brain, “Oh, I’m feeling a sense of safety,” and I say that in inverted commas because that is different for everyone. And when you’re going through deep trauma, it’s not necessarily about it’s not the safety aspect. It’s just learning to be able to connect to know yourself again. And so the Bowen really helps the mind and the body sink. And when that happens, you’re able to let go and able to really discern what is worth holding onto and what I need to release. And when we blend that with the flowers, the innate wisdom rises and your actual natural intuition rises. And when you’re able to access that, that’s when the true pathways find themselves. And I think that’s really what happened in that case study is that she was really able to discern what her next steps were. And when she just like she took a massive leap of faith and took on support that was able to direct her, and as soon as she took that leap, everything changed for her. And that’s the power of the bodywork in terms of really being able to connect and know yourself again and better. And then once you get to know yourself better, you learn to trust yourself more. And when you learn to trust yourself more, the innate wisdom and the intuition really rises to the fore. Because it’s very easy to say, just connect, but I think there’s a deeper process that needs to happen. Especially when you’ve gone through deep trauma, you really need to– especially grief is a very important lesson on knowing yourself through that process. Because when we experience loss or deep change or the carpet’s taken under our feet, our identity needs to shift. So the flowers and the bodywork act as a bridge in order to know ourselves without feeling totally overwhelmed. It gives us that bridge to be able to cope, to be able to find a new way, a new pathway.
Rochana Felde: [00:25:12] I just wanted to follow up on that. Wondering if you use the flower essences topically with that bodywork, if you did with this use case, or you’ve tried it with other clients or if you strictly create the blends for internal use or do a combination?
Tracy O’Meara Smith: [00:25:33] Probably combination. I didn’t use the flower essences topically this time, but I have done. There are flower essences such as Dampiera and Purple Flag that I will use topically if muscles were rigid. I do get clients to hold the flower essences, so the transference of the flower, especially Purple Flag is very, very good when people have gone through or are carrying pain. So the body naturally will sit in a defensive, rigid state when we’re in pain because we’re protecting that area. Purple Flag brings in an essence and a feeling that it is safe for me to let go. I can let go and be open to this healing, so that rigidity and release. And I think sometimes the body is in pain because of that rigidity. So Purple Flag in particular is very, very good in breaking that cycle of being in defense. When I’m in pain, it says, I need to open in order to release. So that’s very good for that.
Kathleen Aspenns: [00:26:52] It’s a real talent to be able to bring together such a deep form of bodywork and to bring in essences as well. I know certainly bodywork and even movement, even if we just call it movement, skilled hands on your body as you recover from complex trauma is really important and incredibly valuable, and also encouraging people to move and integrate themselves because we get so split. We think that our problems are all in our heads or wherever we might locate them. And yet being able to move the energy in your body and being able to move the fluids in your tissues really just exponentially develops the healing potential that you can sort of start with the essences. You sort of trigger it a little bit with the essences, and you can get the client to work through and really release even more than they might have if they were taking the essences alone.
Tracy O’Meara Smith: [00:27:57] Definitely. And I think because– healing needs to be holistic. It has to look at mind, body, soul, and emotions and the heart because we are a multi-dimensional system that’s the human system. So the bodywork, you can have an amazing psychological, emotional, spiritual shift, but if it’s not integrated in the body then it’s not fully integrated in life. And I think that’s why sometimes people go from one healing aspect to another or healing modality to another because it’s not being fully integrated. And it’s simple. The bodywork connection is a simple way to connect and a simple way to release and a simple way to let go. Healing itself when we bring able to let go of fear and really face ourselves in a grounded way within the body is incredibly powerful. And the more that you integrate and relax into the body, the more the beauty of the ordinary life becomes sustaining and nourishing. It doesn’t take very much to be happy if you’re able to be in your body and witness the bird in the bird bath or the sun streaming on a lake or the sunset. And that’s the richness in life and the simple things that can sustain us, I think, and I think having that connection to the earth and connection to ourselves is what really nourishes. On a really deep soul level, we understand we actually don’t need very much.
Rochana Felde: [00:29:46] And how have you found the combination of the Bach and FES essences with the Australian Essences? And I know the more I learn about the Australian Essences, how powerful and interesting they are and how they really fill in– I love working with many different lines, and as Kathleen does, and we always talk about how it’s so good to have essences from different parts of the world, different ecologies, different climates, different botanical families to choose from to be able to tailor this blend for a client and every client is completely and totally unique in every situation is unique. So you never really know what that’s going to call for, what that session is going to call for. So now that you’ve also been trained and are incorporating the FES and Bach essences with what you know about the Australians, I’m wondering how that is for you and what your thoughts are on doing that.
Tracy O’Meara Smith: [00:31:03] I think incorporating FES and Bach and Alaskan actually, I’ve also used the Alaskan essences which are amazing, I think the training itself, I have to go back to the case studies because the way I was working with the flowers before and with the flower affinity, so we use the flower cards because the subconscious, it’s what attracts the healing. That’s why the essences in that way with the flower essence affinity is so powerful and so accurate because it’s self-diagnosing and it comes from subconscious. And I think including the FES training has up-leveled, if I can say that or expanded my work. It’s really helped me give a structure of understanding the four ways or the four levels of healing, and also the MetaFlora levels in terms of soul development. So we’ve gone, it’s okay to heal trauma and supportive on a pain and emotional level now have a structure in terms of guiding and facilitating soul healing and soul development. So that’s in itself incorporating FES and the Bach remedies and also now the Australian ones on a lot deeper level and having a guide in– and understanding especially with the botanical families of where when a person or a soul comes into the clinic, where they sit in their healing journey. And when you understand that, there’s a whole heap of remedies now that I can pull from because I know exactly where they sit in their journey. And if I don’t, the flowers tell you. They say, this is where they’re at and this is what they need. And sometimes, especially in my last case study, because I live so far away, I couldn’t get access to a lot of the flower essences, so I had to use what I had. The whole session was tailored around I thought was one thing, it turned out to be a completely other. So the flowers tell you. And I think sometimes it can be really overwhelming because there’s so many on offer. And now I’ve opened up from Australia into FES and other remedies is that when developing the relationship even through photographs, they just naturally come. Like for me, they just naturally come. So for intergenerational trauma, Joshua Tree. I mean, that flower essence in itself, even the signature of learning to understanding the plant and its signature that when it grows and then it flowers, it moves in a different direction. And that signature is very strong and healing in terms of when we blossom, then we can move in a new direction. And I just think that connection, it comes naturally and innately when you understand this is what the case– I hope I’m answering the question correctly. When you create that relationship, it doesn’t matter where the flowers come from. The language is universal, and flowers, like music, is universal. And that’s one thing that came out of the course is understanding soul healing, soul development, the flowers are in another realm of their own. Abd it’s my love for them that brings that healing through the relationship. The relationship is so strong. And when you develop that relationship, they speak back to you. And I think weaving the FES essences and the others have really helped me establish that relationship and I’m so grateful I jumped on board. Just so grateful. And Ruth is an amazing facilitator. And being able to have that connection with a pioneer in this healing modality has really just so incredibly grateful. I think the last podcast it mentioned, Ruth had the opportunity to go and spend $8,000 at a flower essence fair. And I’ve gone, oh my God, how amazing would that be to have that opportunity, I mean, and opened up Steve Johnson’s whole business? How blessed? So incredible. So I’ve just found I have such an incredibly strong foundation in which to work from now and so many resources to draw from, it’s just really revolutionized my clinic, and I’m really grateful.
Kathleen Aspenns: [00:36:19] I’m really happy to hear you talk about that aspect of the foundation because there is really something about how a lot of us learn essences, one at a time, a little bit here, a little bit there, and it is a real strength of the FES curriculum that there is that structure of the Metaflora framework that helps you to establish that therapeutic healing relationship with your client in a much less of a, this for this, this for that. You’re actually able to help them blossom, help them grow, expand, and evolve their souls in the context of the flower essences that you offer. And having that framework that helps you build your practice, helps you serve your clients so much better, it really is an exponential where you go from healing at this level, and then you can all of a sudden support them in the way that you’re talking about with these cases that you’ve done where they’ve just leapfrogged ahead of what you might have expected without having that structure to it.
Tracy O’Meara Smith: [00:37:34] Yeah. And also when they move through a particular process or lesson and then they feel like they’re going backwards. And that’s part of the healing process is that we feel like, oh, God, I thought I’ve gone through this, I’m sick of this, I’ve gone through this so many times, why am I back here again, that’s part of the healing process. And so understanding that sometimes things or dynamics in relationships or lessons will come back in different ways so we can look at it from a different angle and bring in new energy and a different perspective, so it might feel like we keep going backwards, but actually I’m part of that spiral where we have to integrate on a different level. And the work is deep. I mean, it’s not– we’re very privileged to be able to do this inner work. And having the access to the flowers and those real nudges in support that life is very much about the journey and not the destination, and that’s what the flowers have really taught me, to be able to be present in the present– be present and to understand that there’s a depth in the moment and that we don’t want to edge forward into another moment without owning this one. That’s the biggest– I think that’s one, and that’s what the training really helped me understand is being present in the moment and having that framework and there’s no necessarily any failure. It’s a process. That’s the best way I can explain it.
Rochana Felde: [00:39:24] Yeah, absolutely. There’s one other piece I wanted to ask you about. You mentioned flower affinity readings a couple times, and I was just curious about what exactly that is.
Tracy O’Meara Smith: [00:39:35] So a flower affinity reading is that, and I use this mostly with the Australian flowers, I have started bringing the FES flowers. So there’s pictures of the essences of the flowers. And so a client will come in with let’s say a certain thought form that continuously is moving through the mind or a particular emotional feeling that they just can’t shake. So we bring that thought form or that feeling into the session, and before we do that, we get very clear on the intention for the session where they establish where they’re at and where they want to go. And in that sense, there is this emotional feeling or thought form we bring into the moment, and then we’ll start throwing the cards out. So the cards are thrown out quite quickly, so the mind doesn’t think, it’s an instant reaction. So they will either have a positive or negative reaction to the flowers that’s presented before them. And there are reasons why there’s a positive reaction. The consciousness knows that this is a positive part in my subconscious. The negative connotation towards the flower means it’s unconscious to them. So let’s say, so the flower is thrown out, there’s a negative, “Ooh, I don’t like that,” there’s a lack of– no, I can’t say that– there’s an awareness of something that they’re not looking at. So the negative connotations to flowers are just as powerful because then we start bringing in an element of truth into the psyche so they can see where they’re participating or not participating in a situation that they want to change or clear or need to take responsibility for. And so from that reading, we’ll throw the cards out until we get to a level of 10. And from that, we analyze the flowers or the cards so we can put them into color groups, we can put them into genus, we can put them into families, and then we analyze the flowers. So let’s say we throw out the flowers and there’s too much yellow, too many yellow flowers, which means there’s an unstructured or a sense of scatteredness in their thinking, a lot of vitality, not a lot of grounding, not a lot of peace, not enough fire. So then we utilize other resources in order to bring that in and add flowers in order to balance out that situation. So that’s self-diagnosing that comes from the client. It can take things to another level in terms of using those flowers, the 10 flowers. And there’s another treatment that I do called a Bai Hui session where we’ll take those flowers and then the client will lie on the table and we place the flower essences at the top of the head which is at the Bai Hui point of the body and the energy of the flowers will move through the system. That session is not for the faint-hearted because what we’re actually doing is we’re lifting the vibration of the system and the mind will start to see, sense, and know, maybe past experience or past traumas or ideas or people or whatever the system needs to come into consciousness in order to change what’s happening in their life. It’s an incredibly powerful, powerful session because we’re using the vibrational essence of the flowers in order to change and integrate into life. And so once the session ends, once the thought form or the feeling is no longer prevalent, and that’s when we’ve created our essence. So the flower affinity is one part.
And if we can go deeper within a client session, we utilize the Bai Hui session in order to really showcase what needs to be moved and what the flowers will bring up within the mind, body, and heart. And then usually for me, I always do a follow-up session because sometimes people can hold that vibration, but sometimes the energy will drop. And because we’ve been in an elevated state, it can trigger other things. So I really like to use the Bowen as a way to integrate the new ideas, concepts, or awarenesses that have happened through that process.
Kathleen Aspenns: [00:44:48] I love hearing about how you’re integrating the Flower Essence Therapy with these other therapies because it is so– essences are wonderful in that they play so well with others. They’re so beautiful to integrate in with bodywork and other types of modalities. So, really cool to hear how you’re making this practice totally your own with your skills and talents. Where do people find out more about you and your offerings? Where’s your online home?
Tracy O’Meara Smith: [00:45:20] So my online home is Silverdale, so it’s www.silverdale.com.au. I have a free offering where I send out a newsletter so you can sign up for my newsletter there. I also have a free resource page. You don’t have to sign up for it. You can just simply download it. It’s a book of healing, and I think I’ve got a migraine strategy and some information about menopause, and so you can just download that. But if you want to get more consistent offerings, you can jump in on my newsletter. As a result of working with the case studies, I’ve now created a three-month program. It’s a free program where we work together for three months utilizing the flowers. I also bring in other resources that are specifically tailored to what comes up. So I have a lot of resources that I can draw on, EFT, even astrology, we can look at the astrology chart, anything that gives us an indication, and we can map the flowers in order to support the process or whatever process. And sometimes it’s not necessarily about anything we need to heal. It’s something that we want to integrate or even something that we want to manifest, flowers are amazing for that. And the case studies that I did through the certification showed me that you can manifest really quickly and you don’t even know where it’s coming from. It just naturally evolves and becomes organic. And that’s what I love about the flowers so much and working with the flowers and what I loved about the certification process is it really helps you to own your own process and to own and step forward in your own facilitation for healing and own the work. And it’s so important to be a practitioner is that we’re able to own it as our own. So we are so grateful for the pioneers that have come before us, so we’re able to really establish, to take on their wisdom and map it out and create it as our own. And that happens organically as well. And there’s no agenda, there’s no dogma, there’s no rules. It’s very much what you bring to the table and what you want to offer. And that evolves and changes through time. It has to. But for me, it’s just been able to really take ownership of my place in terms of facilitation and allowing the flowers to speak for themselves. And that’s the beauty of nature because flowers just do their thing. It’s so beautiful.
Rochana Felde: [00:48:21] They do, and we are also blessed to be having discovered them and discovered each other through this virtual community. And it’s really gratifying to be talking to you halfway around the world and having really we’re on that same plane that flower, plant, nature, flower essence field that I know we love to be a part of and we love to hear from our listeners that they feel the same way. The listeners of the podcast, we’ve heard some really wonderful feedback lately about how it’s brought people into this fold here together in this community. And I’m really just so grateful and really happy that we connected with you, Tracy.
[/ppp_patron_only]Tracy O’Meara Smith: [00:49:11] Oh, me too, Ro. Me too. I mean, the depth of the love of flowers, you can’t articulate that. You can’t. But when you bring people together who read and understand that the healing process and what the flowers offer, they all speak to us in different ways. And the most beautiful thing that I’ve come to understand is everybody’s perspective is valued and adds to the legacy of what we’re building here. And that is a collective healing unto itself because there’s so many modalities or processes that are so rigid and have to be a certain way. And I’ve just so loved to being able to add in my little input and feel very valued in that, and also being able to leave a legacy for the history of flower essence therapy and flower essences. It’s been an amazing journey and I know it will continue forever. I don’t plan to stop any time soon, that’s for sure.
Kathleen Aspenns: [00:50:21] Thank you for joining us and sharing your experiences and sharing your practice and your insights with us. And dear listeners, all of you and you, I’m talking to you, if this has piqued your interest, I hope that you will check out the FES Practitioner Training. We have a new cohort forming getting started in January, and if this is interesting to you, just check it out and see if this is the moment for you to jump in. And we hope that it is. If not, I’m hoping that you are part of this community, you are part of this community, you’re listening right now. We are so happy that you’re here and helping us spread the love and the word of the flowers and the healing of the flowers in any way that fits into your life and your practice. Thanks for being with us, Tracy.
Tracy O’Meara Smith: [00:51:15] Thank you so much for having me, Kathleen, Ro. Really appreciate. Thank you.
Rochana Felde: [00:51:22] Thank you. Bye-bye now.
Kathleen Aspenns: [00:51:25] This podcast is meant for educational and entertainment purposes only. We are not physicians and do not diagnose, prescribe, or treat medical conditions. Please consult with your own physician or healthcare practitioner regarding the suggestions and recommendations made by the hosts and guests of The Flower Essence Podcast.
