Thank you for your interest in training as a practitioner of Spirit of Woman Australian Wild Flower Essences. This is a detailed description of the path through the training program.

We recognise that people come to our products and programs from many different paths. Some are healers with many years of experience who are simply adding the essences as another way to help their clients. Some have trained in other essence systems. Some have had some exposure to the essences and have a passionate desire to find out more.

Our workshops are designed to cater for all these levels of experience.

However, not everyone will be following through to the advanced levels. Many of the people who do complete the course are also never intending to practice as a flower essence therapist for anyone other than themselves and their families, so please be aware that every person entering the program has their own aspirations; you don’t have to want to be a practitioner to complete these levels.

Flower essences are powerful vibrational healing essences. By the end of Level 6 you will have gained a new, or deeper, understanding of the BodyMind as a whole, functioning, physical and energetic entity and how flower essences support and heal on every level of being.

We suggest everyone does all the workshops starting at Level 1 because the information is designed to build through the Levels. However, if you feel you would like to begin your training with us at a later workshop, please contact us and we will call you to discuss it.

Each training is not simply a training about the essences. Each Level has been designed as a step along the pathway of a powerful personal growth journey, so that even if you have studied essences before, you will be learning more than just the properties of our essences.We believe that what you will learn in these workshops will add a new depth to your life – and to your practice.

The workshop cycle happens over a number of months. The modular nature of the workshops means you can do each level when it suits you, although ideally you will follow them through in sequence as each workshop builds on the understandings gained in the previous ones. But read on, and see how this all resonates with you.

Level 1 – Calm and Clear with Flower Essences

In Level One we explore our essence blends Body Love, Crisis Calm, Vital Energy, and Woman Worth.  We also however, explore some principles of the chakra system, the background of flower essence therapy, healthy body image, maintaining your cool in a crisis, looking after your own energy, and boosting your self esteem. So it’s not only about the essences, it’s also a journey of self-discovery. We cover in detail 8 individual essences and the four blends mentioned above, and explore the new emerging awareness of the Divine Feminine and how it expresses itself through you. It invites you to  begin to recognise that as soon as you accept your innate feminine intelligence you become more confident within yourself, your body, your relationships and out in the world. This generates an inner calm and clarity that radiates from you to all those in your life, smoothing the pathway to a more empowered existence.

Level 2 – Creating the Life You Want

In this exciting workshop, we explore the New Spirituality emerging on a global level to assist each and every one of us to enjoy all that life has to offer. This New Reality focuses on our ability to contain and experience joy in our lives and no longer on how much we can accrue in terms of material wealth. Living life this way requires a very different mind-set.

This workshop has a high experiential component so that you will come away feeling different – capable, strong in your beliefs, confident that you are in control of your world and willing to choose joy as a way of life .

Creative Muse helps us reprogram our old beliefs, align our energetic matrix to the changing energies around us, and follow our bliss so that we live our life in the ways that most align with our soul’s purpose.

Gift of Time helps us develop a new relationship with time, and with time passing, so that we are no longer feeling time stressed and we begin to live in the now.

Mythology left us clues about this time on the planet and in human development and about the new possibilities for humanity. Quiet Mind helps us access those possibilities through meditation.

Finally, we explore the energies of Abun-Dance, and learn to recognise the limitations of our beliefs and dance with the energies. Each student also prepares a Wish Mandala, a whole-mind way of setting your direction for the next 12 months.

Level 3 – The Essence of Relationships

In this level, we explore more of the individual essences, plus the eight Relationship blends in the context of understanding the dynamics of our vital interactions with others and with ourself.

These blends are designed to support the most important aspects of relationship in your life. Firstly, Daddy’s Girl, because the relationship with your father impacts both the relationships you have with other men, and how you are out in the world. No matter how healthy or fractured that relationship, it’s a vital one to balance.

As of course is your relationship with your mother, for which we blended Mother Love. This relationship impacts on your self-worth and your ability to self-nurture.

Speak Easy is next, a beautiful blend that supports you being able to recognise, articulate, and speak your needs. Effective communication is critical to a working relationship. It also supports people who are stressed around public speaking, granting confidence and easy expression.

Next, relationships with others in Together, which begins exploring biological gender differences and how they can influence relationships. It assists us in understanding the different ways that women and men view relationships and what they want want from them.

Intimate Zone follows, exploring some of the issues that show up in relationships around physical intimacy, often a source of major conflict in relationships.

But of course, not every relationship will or even should survive, and separations happen. Breakup blend supports you as you go through this painful process. We explore aspects of the breakup that will help you gain new understanding of why it’s important to heal the unresolved relationships in your past, so that you can give and take the best within your current one or, if appropriate, open up to new possibilities. This blend helps us to learn from our past relationships to enhance future connections.

Next we move to Clear Skin, so-named because the relationship between yourself and the rest f the world yourself shows up in your skin, your body’s largest organ which is the physical interface between you and all that is outside of yourself.

And finally, Wise Woman helps you access the inner strength of the mature adult woman so that you fully enjoy the new strengths that come with freedom from the ebb and flow of hormonal tides in the body.

Level 4 – Parenting for Life

One thing we all have in common is that we were parented by parents who didn’t meet our needs; just as our parents were. As one wise teacher says, which parenting university did your parents go to? All our parents were left to do their best, and we all do the best we can with the results!

For many thousands of couples in the 21st century though, infertility is a huge challenge, and that’s where we begin our exploration of this hugely powerful set of life experiences.

We begin this workshop where many parents do, in the Pre-Conception phase. We look at the energetics of males and females, the impacts of chemical contraception and how the essences support the building of fertility energies.

Next is the Conception phase, where we explore further how hormones drive males and females (more of those biological gender differences), natural and assisted fertility methods, and of course, the essences that can help to underpin the conception energies.

Pregnancy Support follows, taking a brief  tour through the brain and body changes of the mother through the months of healthy pregnancy, and yes, the essences that support her emotionally and energetically.

Blessed Birth follows pregnancy. We explore the miracle and look at different birth methods and how well they support mother-child bonding. We also look at the biological triggers for mother, father, and baby through the birthing process, including the heart-brain connection and bonding. Again, we connect each process to the essences in this lovely blend, and examine why they were selected.

Not all births are natural of course, and when a Caesarean birth is necessary there is a different recovery process where some energetic triggers are missed. Here we look at those triggers and how we can consciously re-initiate them. This blend also assists those who have had a traumatic miscarriage or termination. We look at some of the essences which assist in each of  these circumstances.

The Baby Years follow, with their major transitions, milestones and challenges for mother, father, and baby. We take a tour of the crucial birth – age two years here, and supporting essences.

Childhood rolls on inevitably with many transitions for both parents and child as they move through the many phases of growth. We look at these developmental phases: the physical, brain, energetic changes and the development of emotional intelligence. This blend supports both parents and child through these sometimes difficult phases to achieve the best outcomes all around.

And finally, the chicks fly the nest leaving the parents in an Empty Nest. Their relationship undergoes more transitions while menopause is often in the wings (or on centre stage). This is the beginning of a powerful new phase in a woman’s life.

So that’s Level 4, an intense and heart-opening day!

On to…

Level 5 – The BodyMind Connection

This is an exciting workshop. We end with a practical experience of dowsing, using a pendulum to access the field of consciousness, as a tool to assist with essence selection. But we begin by exploring the ancient energetic meridian system (validated towards the end of the last century by modern science) and the health and emotional connections of each major body meridian. For example, an imbalance in the Lung meridian can cause worry and grief, swellings, lethargy, and so on. Liver meridian energy imbalance can lead to anger, headaches, high blood pressure, and potentially strokes. We explore every major meridian for these MindBody understandings.

It’s here that the knowledge from the previous workshops really begins to gel, where the concepts really start to build into an overall picture of the BodyMind. We only briefly mention the essences that support the issues we are exploring, because by now, you would be familiar with the major properties of each essence.

That’s a brief summary of a very full day! On to…

Level 6 – The BodyMind Connection Advanced

Though previous workshops have briefly explored the Chakra system, here we go in depth into not just the seven most well-known Chakras, but the five extra Chakras that have come through in recent times.

It’s powerful, energising stuff (no pun intended).

And in the second half of the workshop we bring it all together: the essences, the chakras, the energetic understandings, the tools for accessing the field – into an afternoon of case studies with all the complex aspects of the BodyMind. Much discussion and examination and ah-hah moments are guaranteed!

Becoming a Practitioner

After the workshop series we will be asking you to complete and submit a number of case studies, using the principles we’ve outlined in workshop 6. You can do these in your own time, and we will assist you however we can. Once these are completely, you will be entitled to call yourself a practitioner of Spirit of Woman Australian Wild Flower Essences.

Again, as I said before, if you have a background that you think will support you in skipping any of the steps laid out above, please contact us to discuss it.

How we support our practitioners

As I write this, we are just at the end of our first round of training practitioners, so we are still developing our practitioner support program, We have a very clear intention around how we expect this will unfold.

Firstly, practitioners will be listed on our website, with a photo, bio, and contact information.

Secondly, we are developing a forum where practitioners can support one another, and where we will also answer questions when possible. We do know that the people who have trained with us so far have a depth and breadth of knowledge and experience that together, is unsurpassed; and they understand that one of our guiding priciples is that “in a rising tide, every boat floats” – meaning we’re not about beating or dominating anyone, only about everyone achieving what they want to achieve within the Spirit of Woman very flexible framework.

Thirdly, we plan to have regular teleconferences in the near future that practitioners can access, which explores a huge range of topics and even regular question and answer sessions.

So that’s it. Please feel free to contact us with any questions, or simply click here to see what others have had to say about the workshops, or click here to book in now.

See you soon

~Annie