Orchid Essence Links

Vibration Magazine

March 8, 2009, Vibration Magazine is converting to a blog. For the past 11 years, we have edited and co-created Vibration, the premier online educational journal about flower essences and other vibrational remedies. In that time, we've published over 400 articles by essence practitioners, makers, and users.

Our archives will still be available online, but from today forward there's a new format. Rather than quarterly issues of a dozen or more articles, we anticipate publishing one article a week on the blog. It's still the same number of articles, just in more digestible form for our busy readers. It also gives us the option of instantly publishing anything new and interesting we come across - "This is just in!"

We anticipate that there may be a theme each month, and for the first month, we're focusing on essences to help give us strength and composure to face these difficult times. See also HealingOrchids "Positive Flow." The four articles we have scheduled are all by long-time contributors you're may recognize-Connie Barrett, Lila Devi, Holly Beattie, and one by editor, Donna Cunningham. You can see Donna's article, "Essences to Help Face and Overcome Fear," right now at http://www.floweressencemagazine.com/blog/ If you think you'd like to be a guest blogger and share what you know about these wonderful healing tools, see the writers' guidelines link under "Pages" on the blog.)

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Sincerely,Donna Cunningham, MSW & Deborah Bier, PhD - Editors, Vibration

Living Essences of Australia

The Living Essences of Australia do not focus on orchids in particular, but out of their range of 88 flower essences, 14 are orchids. In conversation Dr. Vasudeva Barnao does say that there is something both distinct and special about orchids. Their approach to essence-making, which involves no cutting of the flowers, was adapted by us and combined with the non-cutting approach that Shabd-sangeet Khalsa of the Dancing Light Orchid Essences uses. So to both of these essence-makers we owe our thanks! Here is the url of the Living Essences of Australia's website:
http://www.livingessences.com.au

In the UK the British Association of Flower Essence Producers plays an important role in helping essence makers in our relationship to government regulations, and in fostering communication and support between the various companies and developers involved in essence-making.

British Association of Flower Essence Producers

http://bafep.com

For therapists and the general (interested) public there is a related organization called the British Flower & Vibrational Essences Association. It hosts an annual conference each March in Wales, and also provides very useful information and support to therapists working with vibrational essences.
http://www.bfvea.com

IFER also carries essences from two other companies that have a strong focus on orchids. Shabd-sangeet Khalsa of the Dancing Light Orchid Essences was the person responsible for sparking Don Dennis' interest in orchids in the autumn of 1997. She was also (as far as we have been able to determine) the first person in the world to make orchid essences with orchids growing in a greenhouse. This was an important conceptual break-through, and her pioneering spirit is wonderful to see, and manifest to all who know her. Here is the url of her website:
http://www.orchidessences.com

Star Riparetti makes orchid essences with plants growing in the wild in Peru. She was the first person in the essence world to make a spray which combined flower essences and essential oils. Her Angel Rejuvenation Spray proved to the essence community that this was both possible and very desirable, and in the past 10 years many other essence-makers have followed suit. Beyond that, her tremendous appreciation of the magic of the orchids, as well as the culture and landscape and peoples of Peru make her work all the richer. She's also simply a delightful, wonderful soul, and her work deserves our attention. Here is her website's url:
http://www.starfloweressences.com

Other Links of General Interest:

One very rewarding aspect of our work with the essences is hearing from customers who have found the Living Tree Orchid Essences especially supportive and helpful. One customer started her own business, supplying top-quality make-up brushes. Here is what she said in an email to us last year:

"Firstly, thank you for your wonderful Orchid Essences. They have helped me a lot over the last couple of years while setting up and growing my new business The Make-Up Brush Company. It may not appear at first to be your kind of subject, but you might like to see how their subtle and generous vibes are percolating through my business where I approach the subject of beauty and self-image, self-love and self-confidence, by way of a means a lot of women use and could enjoy more ..... make-up. I am even finding men comprise 30% of my customers, so let's hear it for the men ....."

Here is the url of Christine's wonderful website:
http://www.themakeupbrushcompany.co.uk

Printing company that printed our photo cards.
www.ivorygraphics.co.uk/playing-cards.asp