What are flower essences?
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Each flower has a unique spirit (or essence) and therefore, a unique medicine. Flower essences are natural medicines that capture this vibrational and energetic fingerprint of a flower.
They support our spiritual and emotional bodies (though these effects often manifest physically as well).
With the help of the sun & intention, a flower's essences is captured in spring water, then preserved to hold an intricate positive vibrational pattern of being. Upon each use, that pattern is repeated through the water in our bodies, helping us create changes we wish to manifest.
How are flower essences made?
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Infuse natural spring water with flowers under full sunlight to capture their vibration
Preserve it in brandy to create the “mother essence.”
Dilute to enhance the vibrational properties & preserve it further.
Incorporating intention & communication with the plant spirit at every step.
At Emporium
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We use the natural spring water which bubbles up from the earth in Manitou Springs, Colorado
(which happens to be an energy vortex on the earth’s surface).
Our essences are created in a meditative state, allowing us to stay open to the plant’s methods of communication in order to best to honor it and ensure the highest medicinal value possible.
Under full sun & in the plant’s natural habitat, we infuse the water with only the plant’s flowers to capture it’s vibration, or “essence.”
We only flowers from the plants & do so sustainably. Additionally we believe it’s essential to ask permission of the plant with each flower we take.
Then, comes the infusion process! The flowers float in the fresh spring water with rays of sunlight or moonlight creating a vibrational imprint upon the water.
And lastly, the charged water is preserved with brandy. This is called the “mother essence.”
The mother is further diluted with intention and prayer, creating the “stock essence.” where the vibration becomes stronger as it is diluted.
When the process is complete, we like to leave an offering for the plant, and share many gratuitous words of gratitude with it.
How seriously do we take sustainability?
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We only harvest flowers from areas with an abundance of the plant from which we are making medicine with.
We take only so many flowers that ensures the landscape looks the same when we leave as it did upon our arrival.
It takes roughly 1/100 of one flower to create each essence we sell. One bottle of essential oil uses 1-2 entire plants.
We love the earth by leaving it as close to wild and untouched as possible. We hug & kiss it, and share its most creatively expressive (and medicinal) form - flowers.
Emporium Apothecary Flower Essences
