Rise Healer Rise with Sara Estelle

Carrie Thomas and Aquilegias on Nature Connections

Carrie Thomas of Touchwood is a complementary therapist who works in various ways including as a clairvoyant medium. Carrie also is a keen gardener with a particular interest in cottage gardening, and we will hear about her very special love for Aquilegias (Granny’s Bonnets, Columbines). Here in the UK the charity Plant Heritage has its mission to conserve, grow, propagate, document and make available the amazing resource of cultivated plants that exists in the UK. National Plant Collections are forefront in this mission, they are like living libraries, where correctly named plants can be seen naturally growing in gardens. Carrie has both the National Plant Collections of Aquilegias here in the UK, and so you can visit Touchwood to see hundreds of different varieties of these popular cottage garden plants.Sara also discusses the messages of Spring flowers Crocus and Violet.

Sheila Hicks Balgobin - Flower Essences for Stress Management

In this week's Nature Connections show I interview Flower Essence Practitioner and Psychotherapist Sheila Hicks Balgobin about the use of flower essences for stress management. We also discuss her own range of flower essences called the Spirit of Makasutu.Sheila's PhilosophyAs a practitioner of various complementary therapies and as a psychotherapist , I have found that the healing which comes from nature and flowers – either as extremely dilute flower essences or concentrated essential oils – have helped my clients to recognise and manage the emotional issues underlying their mental or physical stress.Sheila's Specialist AreasI specialise in: addictions, bereavement, spirituality and multicultural issues. I also work in Portuguese, French and Spanish.To find out more about Sheila and her work, please visit http://www.the-healing-garden.me.ukHaving recently returned from the British Flower and Vibrational Medicine Annual Conference in Somerset, I also share highlights of the weekend and talk about the International Flower Essence Awareness week in June 2014. To find out more please visit http://bfvea.com

Rosana Souto Nature Connections Show Feb 20th 2014

Rosana Souto S. Vieira has trained widely in the field of healing arts, including astrology as well as flower essence therapy. In 1990, she left her original career as a chemical engineer to dedicate her life to helping others. In today’s Nature Connections, Rosana shares with us how she came to work with flower essences, how essences are being widely used in her native Brazil and how we can use flower essences to address the soul in ourselves and our clients.Through more than two decades of case research, the Flower Essence Society, USA, has identified eight major archetypal levels of soul healing for flower essence therapy. These eight Meta-Flora levels, as described by Patricia Kaminski´s Flowers that Heal are a map of the human soul – one long recognized in alchemy and various spiritual traditions. It reflects seven primary aspects of the human soul with a culminating eight level. The Meta-floral levels approach to healing is used nowadays by thousands of therapists, all over the world, linked to the Flower Essence Society with very successful results, as regard as achieving progressive levels of transformation.Rosana is coming to the UK to teach a weekend workshop entitled The Wheel of the Soul on March 22nd and 23rd 2014. To find out more about how to attend, please visit this link:http://www.universalessences.com/proddetail.asp?prod=W113FESWorkshopGenDuring this hour programme I also discuss the importance of flower essence rescue remedies and discuss essences that may be useful during times of devastation and trauma.

Anna Breytenbach Nature Connections Interview

n this week’s Nature Connections show I have the privilege of speaking to Animal Communicator Anna Breytenbach. Anna is a professional animal communicator who has received advanced training through the Assisi International Animal Institute in California, USA and has been practising for 12 years in South Africa, Europe and the USA with domestic and wild animals. Anna lives her personal mission of being a voice for the animals and the wilderness.Anna speaks about how she first began to “receive” messages from the animal kingdom and how her work has evolved now into teaching worldwide. Anna believes we can all communicate with other species and now teaches how to reconnect with our natural intuition.Anna answers listener questions such as:- How can we hear the true voice of our own animals?- What do animals communicate to us regarding the health of our planet?- How do we communicate with flower spirits?In the second part of the show I discuss flower essences for animals and share the stories of two cats who taught me so much about their use - Marvin and Barney.

Nature Connections with Lila Devi January 7th 2014

In this week’s show Sara speaks to Lila Devi, Founder of Spirit In Nature Essences. Spirit-in-Nature Essences is the oldest flower essence line globally outside the UK. They work by stimulating our positive qualities. These 20 essences are prepared from the blossoms of fruit trees and vegetable plants. Since 1977, their worldwide distribution spans 37 years on every continent with growing success, repeat customers and a fine international reputation. They are committed to ongoing research, analysis, case histories, and direct testimonials and offer dedicated care to people of all ages, and to pets, animals and also plants. Visit their website to find out more http://www.spirit-in-nature.com

Nature Connections with Lila Devi January 7th 2014/Essences for Imbolc

In this week’s show Sara speaks to Lila Devi, Founder of Spirit In Nature Essences. Spirit-in-Nature Essences is the oldest flower essence line globally outside the UK. They work by stimulating our positive qualities. These 20 essences are prepared from the blossoms of fruit trees and vegetable plants. Since 1977, their worldwide distribution spans 37 years on every continent with growing success, repeat customers and a fine international reputation. They are committed to ongoing research, analysis, case histories, and direct testimonials and offer dedicated care to people of all ages, and to pets, animals and also plants. Sara also explores the early February festival of Imbolc and flowers and therefore flower essences that are relevant for this time.

Nature Connections with Angie Twydall January 24th 2014

In today's Nature Connections Sara interviews Angie Twydall. Angie’s life’s work has led her to a vocational calling to work with women who have fertility issues, emotional trauma from abortion, still birth, C-sections.  She is grounded in the knowledge of the sexual healing path as a Priestess of Rhiannon, walking the path of love and beauty.  Sara also discusses the vibrations of colour and in particular red, orange and yellow and their ability to bring light and warmth into darker phases of life.

Nature Connections Show with Sarah Jane Alexander - January 17th 2014

Before becoming an author and psychic channeler, Sarah Jane Alexander pursued her love of words in a newsroom. She graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in journalism with an emphasis in reporting and editing. Afterward, she accepted an internship that took her to California’s Central Valley. The internship, at a midsize newspaper’s copy desk, turned into a job where she sifted through punctuation, grammar and headlines for more than a dozen years.Now Sarah Jane runs a business using her psychic skills to help other people connect with archangels and fairies. Sarah Jane’s primary skill of extrasensory perception is clairaudience, but she also frequently uses clairsentience (psychic feeling), claircognizance (psychic knowing) and clairvoyance (psychic seeing) to help her clients.Sarah Jane’s desire to help others also inspired her to become a certified massage therapist and to study energy healing.For fun, Sarah Jane escapes to nature, exploring beaches, mountains and forests. Hiking is her favorite form of interacting with nature; a stroll is the perfect opportunity to admire plants and animals. She also dabbles in rock climbing to challenge herself mentally and physically.In this interview Sarah talks about her connection with the fairy kingdom and how the fairies have much wisdom for us regarding how we can heal the earth and improve our own health and well-being.

Nature Connections January 10th 2014 with Cathy Skipper

This week on my Nature Connections show I am really excited to interview Teacher, Herbalist and Gardener, Cathy Skipper. Cathy is English and has lived in France for over 20 years. She teaches field botany, practical herbalism, healing plants with plants, wild crafting and herbal gardening at the herbal school in Lyon  and is also one of the founder members and coordinators of a newish international herbal network called ‘Herbalists sans Frontieres.Cathy’s overriding philosophy and mission in her work is to help people reconnect with nature, the natural world and themselves. She says: ” I believe in helping my students become as autonomous as possible and am an advocate for using the plants that grow around us and making our own medicines”.I enjoyed every second of speaking to Cathy and I know you will too. You can find out more about Cathy’s work and her 2014 workshops here:Blog: www.cathyskipper.wordpress.comI also discuss the potential of this time of year and how the energy of the moon and the seasons can support us in clarifying and growing our intentions. I speak in  particular about Snowdrop and Magnolia flower essences.

Nature Connections Show January 3rd/ Flower Essences for 2014

In the very first Nature Connections show of 2014 we celebrate new beginnings by looking at the seasons and cycles of nature and how we all access support by understanding and working with nature and her cycles. Sara also offers a short New Year / New Moon visualisation – a space to reset and realign your energies at any time.I also speak to two of my newly qualified graduates on the Essentially Flowers Flower and Vibrational Essence Diploma – Diane Campbell of The Lavender Room and Linda Perry ofNatural Magick Holistic Health and Well-being. Diane and Linda both share how they feel flower essences can support us and also give suggestions to listeners of flower essences that are supportive as we begin this new year.