I remember working at Harnetts, a wonderful health food store in Harvard Square, Cambridge back in 2001.  I had been a customer there long before becoming an employee, spending hours at a time browsing the isles, carefully examining the bottles of supplements, natural body care products and bulk herbs.  I was often drawn to the back of the store where the flower essences were kept.  I was fascinated by their mysterious healing powers and so began reading about them and experimented with them on myself, willing friends and feline.  Shortly thereafter, I was moved to attend a flower essence conference in Rowe, Massachusetts which opened my eyes to the history of flower essences, their broad applications, current use in our country and throughout the world, the many different essence brands and local essence makers and the number and kinds of practitioners using flower essences in their practices.  

I gained more knowledge about herbs, essences and plant energetics through my 8-month herbal apprenticeship with Rosemary Gladstar in Vermont.  My  work with gifted naturopaths Julie Wiener and Peter Swanz demonstrated how the practical and therapeutic usage of vitamins, botanical medicine, homeopathy, nutrition and lifestyle counseling could bring people great relief and balance in their lives. 
  

My flower essence practitioner training, set in the woods in upstate New York, with Delta Gardens and Woodland Essence, brought everything together for me and gave me the tools and confidence I needed to begin helping people with essences.  

I have attended several workshops since then including:

• Treating Sexual Abuse with Flower Essences
  

• Treating Guilt, Fear & Anxiety with Flower Essences
  

• Advanced Teasel workshops (for treating Lyme disease)
  

• Treating Women & Children with Australian Bush Flower Essences
  

• Multiple Flower Essence Conferences in Rowe, Massachusetts
  

• Levels I, II, III (in Australia!) training for Australian Bush Flower Essences
  

• Teacher Training for Australian Bush Flower Essence 'college' flower essence course (16, 24, 32 hours)    
  
  

I have been under flower essence treatment consistently for the past several years and have found my own healing and transformation with the essences to be an invaluable resource while treating clients.  Currently I enjoy treatment by a practitioner in Australia with the Australian Bush essences and traveled to Australia in August 2009 to attend their Level III course with Australian Bush Flower Essences founder Ian White.
  
I'm also a Reiki Level II practitioner and offer Reiki healing as a separate service or combined with flower essence treatment. 

 

My love, fascination and passion for these magical essences continues to deepen and I'm excited to be able to share them with my community.  

 

bio of catherine iagnemma

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       flower essence healing

They (flower essences) are able, like beautiful music, or any gloriously uplifting thing which gives us inspiration, to raise our very natures, and bring us nearer to our Souls: and by that very act, to bring us peace, and relieve our sufferings. 

~Edward Bach, Ye Suffer From Yourselves (1931)

 

Catherine in Australia

with Boronia