During 2008 I am focusing on making and developing this new web site (a big learning curve!), and book writing. I am continuing to offer Flower Essence Making Days at my Rainbow Healing Garden in Porlock (dates below), and "1-to-1" or small group training by arrangement. If you are interested in other teaching or courses, please contact me to discuss with details.

See also below re CDP Bach Flower Remedies for professional and student health carers at Bath, Sunday 15th June.

Making Your Own Flower Essences / Relax and Meditate / Bach Flower Remedies / Mix And Match Days / For Therapists And Healers / CPD Bach Flower Remedy day in Bath, 15 June 2008

MAKING YOUR OWN FLOWER ESSENCES, WITH THE RAINBOW HEALING GARDEN
One-Day Workshop in Porlock, Somerset, dates for 2008** 9.30am - 5.00pm

• Monday 21 July
• Monday 18 August
• Sunday 14 September

**Dates are scheduled from Biodynamic calendar, and can also be arranged individually.

Fee £40.00/ £20.00 child (to 16 years), including all materials.

An opportunity to co-create with Nature Spirits an Essence just for you, which will be safe and easy to use for many benefits in your life. Having clarified your purpose, and attuned with Nature, you are guided through all the steps of making your own Essence, and how to use it to greatest benefit. You will be drawn to the plant who answers your need. You will explore more of what your essence is about, and how to use it in many ways throughout your life; and learn more about what Essences are and how to use them, including Bach Flower Remedies. Children often intuitively understand and respond easily to Nature Essences; if interested, they are welcome with a parent. Past participants enjoyed a deeply moving and healing experience.

RELAX AND MEDITATE Currently offered BY PRIVATE BOOKING, see also "Mix and Match Days" Below

Unwinding through a day of practising the simple yet empowering skills of presence, focus, quiet mind, and compassion; with life tools including breath and posture; and most importantly integrating these powers into your daily living.

A gentle day, for health and enjoyment, to practice simple powerful techniques – breathing, sitting, walking, and learning to integrate them into your daily living. Suitable also for young people 14+. Your own questions answered. Letting go and forgiveness, and becoming more aware of how patterns of thinking, outlook and belief contribute to levels of stress or ease in daily living. Guidance for developing regular practice, and integration are key to this day. Accompanied children (from age 10 years) are welcome. Suitable for beginners and people of all backgrounds.

BACH FLOWER REMEDIES (AND NATURE VIBRATIONAL ESSENCES**) Currently offered BY PRIVATE BOOKING, see also "Mix and Match Days" Below

Bach Remedies, 38 gifts from nature, are safe and wonderful means to help us be well, and develop positive attitudes. "Treat the person, not the disease, the cause and not the symptom." This was core to Edward Bach's approach to health, far ahead of his time! Learning to choose and use these safe and simple gifts from Nature for yourself, family, friends, garden and pets. We will study how to use them in many ways, figure out 'which for what'. A very practical day, with an introduction to the equally empowering philosophy of Dr. Bach's "Heal Thyself". Particular attention to your questions about individual Remedies, and with Julian Barnard's inspiring DVD "The Twelve Healers".

**If you already use Bach Flower Remedies and would like to expand your understanding and skills to include other Vibrational Essences, please discuss your wants with Cynthia, for your individual "Essences Mix and Match" workshop day.

MIX AND MATCH DAYS Fees from £50.00 - £90.00 per person depending on group number (one – six), requirements, times (minimum 6 hours), and materials.

For learning, developing and practising a range of Lifepower skills, you (1-to-1 day) or your group can make special arrangements to fulfill your specific needs and interests.

"FLOWER REMEDIES & NATURE ESSENCES FOR THERAPISTS AND HEALERS" (See also page Flower Essences for Therapists)

This study is currently offered by special arrangement only, including "1-to-1" tuition so you can gain the benefits if Essences to support your therapy work (and yourself!). Contact me to discuss possibilities, full details, and your individual needs. To give you some idea of possibilities, content list of the original full course follows. The fee for 1-to-1 tuition days is £75.00 including tutor's research, all materials, and follow up.

Cynthia Alves is a tutor and practitioner member of the British Flower & Vibrational Essences Association, presenting approved BFVEA Vibrational Essences Practitioner courses, as well as shorter studies.

Course Content

• Choosing your 'working kit' of Essences: how to know 'bona fide' products; assess what an Essence is for; informed by a wide range of producer's samples and leaflet materials. Care of Essences
• What are Essences? Several approaches to understanding and talking about them; and current views on how Essences may work
• What Vibrational Essences are for and not for; and relevant Codes and law
• Choosing ('assessing for') Essences: many means including intellectual, intuitive, according to energetic indicators (e.g. muscle testing), and subtle senses (e.g. dowsing and 'feeling'), appropriate to whatever your means of working with people, animals and the land
• Use of Essences to support your self care and development, especially (but not only) in relation to your work
• Information on Essences specifically relevant to your work as therapist / healer and your particular discipline
• Many ways to use ('deliver') Essences, and this will be related to your discipline/s: e.g. via meridian system for Shiatsu, chakra / aura for healers, spray for rooms, etc
• Study of 'person', human nature and psychological patterns in relation to Essence choosing and issues you may be helping your clients to address, as well as for your personal exploration
• Personal Protection ('energy integrity') – why and how, including with Essences, and expanded consciousness that Nature assists
• Perennial philosophy (including Bach's "Heal Thyself") as applied to therapy / healing / care work, and understanding Essences
• When Essences don't seem to be 'working', response strategies
• In-class student-with-student practice

Please note that this is not an Essence Therapy Practitioner's Course. However, depending upon your existing qualifications and experience, your individual tuition you may enable you to apply for Practitioner's status with the BFVEA.

BACH FLOWER REMEDIES: CULTIVATING GROWING HEALTH One-day CPD course for The British School of Homoeopathy (BSH), Bath. Sunday June 15, 2008. For further details and booking contact the BSH

Anyone can easily learn Bach Flower Remedies on their own, as I did over twenty years ago. Meaningful guidance comes not so much from giving information as leading exploration into understanding what the Flower Remedies are about. Dr. Bach pointed us toward 'intuition', the nature of personality and its correlation with natural form, simplicity, and a broad view of our part in growing health. A day - thoughtful and practical - including to find how his ideas and Remedies fit with and support your professional health care practices.

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