Episodes

Tuesday Apr 22, 2014
Tuesday Apr 22, 2014
In this week’s Nature Connections show Sara interviews Director of the Bach Centre and Author, Stefan Ball. If you love the Bach Essences and want to meet the team that is carrying forward the legacy of Dr Bach and his essences, you will love meeting Stefan.Stefan discusses how to choose flower essences for yourself, the most Bach popular flower essences in different countries and makes suggestions for essences that can help us all in today’s busy world.If you’d like to find out more about the Bach Centre, purchase Bach Essences and find out about their training courses worldwide, please visit http://www.bachcentre.com

Wednesday Apr 16, 2014
Wednesday Apr 16, 2014
Dr Andrew Tresidder is a Somerset GP who believes that the secret of good health lies in the natural world. “Medicine, surgery and pills definitely have their place” he says, “but if you want your health to blossom, you have to build it up in other ways, and not just treat disease”. Flower Essences can help us achieve greater health and happiness.Dr Andrew Tresidder has been an NHS GP in Chard, Somerset since 1989. His philosophy is to provide the best of orthodox medicine, but also to be aware of the many other factors that influence health. “We don't have to feel unwell to want to feel better,” he says. “At a profound level, energy from nature – or the feelings it evokes in us – helps us transform ourselves. Flower essences for instance contain a healing vibration that catalyses change and enables transformation on emotional, mental and spiritual levels to take place. In some ways they are the easy accessible self-help tools for personal growth.”Dr Andrew’s talk draws on his years of practical experience in the South West. “I’ve practiced Family Medicine in Somerset for twenty years,” he says. “In my experience when people feel well, they heal well. It seems that nature has the ability to help us retune ourselves, and help bring us back into balance.” Dr Andrew is the author of I'm Fine! Learning to Unblock Your Emotions and the writer and presenter of the DVD Nature’s Alchemy, which can be seen at the online Spirit Enlightened Festivalhttp://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/50397/Nature-s-AlchemyDr Andrew's website is www.drandrew.co.uk

Friday Apr 04, 2014
Friday Apr 04, 2014
In this week's Nature Connections show Sara interviews Director of the Bach Centre and Author, Stefan Ball. If you love the Bach Essences and want to meet the team that is carrying forward the legacy of Dr Bach and his essences, you will love meeting Stefan.Stefan discusses how to choose flower essences for yourself, the most Bach popular flower essences in different countries and makes suggestions for essences that can help us all in today's busy world.If you'd like to find out more about the Bach Centre, purchase Bach Essences and find out about their training courses worldwide, please visit http://www.bachcentre.comSara also discusses flower essences that can be used to help gardeners when sowing seeds, transplanting, and to keep your plants and flowers healthy and stress free.

Saturday Mar 29, 2014
Saturday Mar 29, 2014
Claire Sierra, MA, is the author of the Magdalene Path – Awaken the Power of your Feminine Soul. A True Purpose Coach TM Master Coach, ordained minister and Expressive Arts Therapist for more than 22 years, Claire has helped thousands of women step into hope, clarity and new direction in their lives. She has led hundreds of workshops and private sessions all across the country to facilitate clarity, direction and purpose.As director of BlissBreakthrough.com, Claire offers in-person and virtual retreats, talks and tele seminars. She is a widely published write who has contributed to wellness magazines for decades. As a visionary mixed media artist, Claire has exhibited and sold her art throughout the U.S.In this show Sara also discusses flower essences to awaken and support the Divine Feminine.

Friday Mar 21, 2014
Friday Mar 21, 2014
In this week's Nature Connections show we are celebrating Spring Equinox with the help and support of the nature kingdom. Join Sara at midday on March 21st (or later by podcast) where she will be discussing flower essences for balance, the colours yellow, lime and green (colours of Spring) and flower essences that can assist the Liver and GallBladder energies. Sara also takes you through a visualisation to meet the Daffodil flower.To find out about Sara's training courses visit www.essentiallyflowers.comTo find out more about MoonFlower Essences visit www.moonfloweressences.com

Friday Mar 14, 2014
Friday Mar 14, 2014
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.

Friday Mar 07, 2014
Friday Mar 07, 2014
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

Friday Feb 21, 2014
Friday Feb 21, 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.

Friday Feb 14, 2014
Friday Feb 14, 2014
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.

Saturday Feb 08, 2014
Saturday Feb 08, 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