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Winter is a time to practice seeing in the dark and greeting obstacles as possibilities. It symbolizes patience and a willingness to journey beneath the surface of things. This albino Redwood essence is for wintering, be our journey into the long night literal, with the changing of seasons, or a metaphoric psychological descent. It is an essence for showing us the truth of who we are… through showing us what stands in the way of it.
This essence carries an affinity for wounded healers – the archetype of those who carry invaluable gifts born from vulnerability that can never fully heal. Albino Redwood supports those who resist asking for help and prefer to go it alone, rather than receive. Because this tree cannot photosynthesize, it relies on its kin to survive. What could be deemed a weakness instead leaves this tree an emblem of perseverance, magic and potential.
This essence reminds us we are never alone. And that every wounding is a gateway for growth and grace. It is an invitation to engage more deeply with the mystery of life; to surrender to its intelligence; to remember the vast strength that lay in the most vulnerable places. An invocation of the great teaching from sage Leonard Cohen, “there is crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
Albino Redwood essence is featured in Flora Luna’s Release essence.
// This is an essence for those undergoing deep transformation. For those ready to reclaim core wounds as strengths. For those who want to cultivate an ability to receive and lean on others. For those ready to shine their unique light. //
DIRECTIONS: Ingest 3-5 drops, up to 5 x a day. Drop under the tongue or add to tea or water. This essence can also be used topically and applied directly on the body (typically at the pulse points), added to a bath or on a pillowcase.
INGREDIENTS: Filtered Water, Artisanal Mezcal (27%), Raw Wildflower Honey, Essence of Albino Redwood.
tinctures & flower essences
Aspen grow as a collective, rising from the same interconnected root system. While they appear to be individual trees, they are, in fact, a single organism. The same is true of all life on this planet. While each species and individual emerges as a distinct expression of nature, all are woven from and inextricably held within life’s tapestry.
We are bound to one another by our breath, our hunger and our love.
Flora Luna’s Aspen essence, made on October’s Harvest Moon in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Santa Fe, is a meditation on letting go. When we let go of plans, expectations or identities, we make space. In doing so, we become increasingly vulnerable, exposing our gnarled and tender bits to be witnessed. Laid bare,we sensemore deeply what welong for and invite the touch of that which longs for us.This is how new lifebegins.
“To be big, we must be bare.” -Annutara Lakshmin Naht
Autumnal Aspen reminds us not to rush, and that the process of letting go requires patience, rest and trust. In stillness there is movement. Aspens’ Goliath strength remains underground and invisible to the naked eye. So too is untold capacity that exists within each of us. Like Aspen, we carry the ability to shift great winds within and without when we align with the whole of nature’s wisdom and share our most valuable of resources: our gifts.
// This is an essence for those who feel lost or disconnected. For those who feel stuck. For those who have forgotten how to still. And, for those who, together, want to remember how to move as one. //
DIRECTIONS: Ingest 3-5 drops, up to 5 x a day. Drop under the tongue or add to tea or water. This essence can also be used topically and applied directly on the body (typically at the pulse points), added to a bath or on a pillowcase.
INGREDIENTS: Filtered Water, Artisanal Mezcal (27%), Raw Wildflower Honey, Essence of Aspen.
Calm is a formula to support relief - the kind measured in inches the shoulders drop. This remedy encourages the ability to go beyond the drama, the mental chatter and the cacophony of life’s stress to return to the well of inner peace always awaiting us within. Calm offers perspective and a simultaneous grounding of energy and levity of mind.
DIRECTIONS: Ingest 3-5 drops, up to 5 x a day. Drop under the tongue or add to tea or water. This essence can also be used topically and applied directly on the body (typically at the pulse points), added to a bath or on a pillowcase.
INGREDIENTS: Filtered Water, Artisanal Mezcal (27%), Raw Wildflower Honey, Essences of Violet and Comfrey.
Receive a custom-handcrafted flower essence inspired by your unique intention or invocation. A beautiful gift for self or someone special you love during times of transition and crossing thresholds of potent passage.
Simply include your particular intention in the purchase notes during checkout: include specific qualities you would like the essence to support (from softness or connection to the sacred, to play or healing a particular emotional or energetic wounding), and we'll create something totally unique from our library of essences.)
The Flora Luna complete set includes each of our seven core essences: Love, Calm, Purpose, Joy, Release, Passion and Clarity.
Share a handmade and one-of-a-kind gift: support your loved one with a floral essence or herbal elixir. Our products are perfect for special occasions, celebrations and sacred life passages of transition and transformation.
Joy is a formula for ease in times of uncertainty and change. It strengthens childlike curiosity and shifts one out of judgement and criticism. This remedy supports one’s innate state of joy - one that is calm, enlivened and inspired.
DIRECTIONS: Ingest 3-5 drops, up to 5 x a day. Drop under the tongue or add to tea or water. This essence can also be used topically and applied directly on the body (typically at the pulse points), added to a bath or on a pillowcase.
INGREDIENTS: Filtered Water, Artisanal Mezcal (27%), Raw Wildflower Honey, Essences of Honeysuckle, Foxglove and Violet.
Love is a formula for protection and strength. Courage is often what is most needed in cases of mending the heart and finding more ease with regard to giving and receiving love. All healing in the realm of love starts within; thus, this remedy particularly nourishes one with respect to self-love and self-respect.
DIRECTIONS: Ingest 3-5 drops, up to 5 x a day. Drop under the tongue or add to tea or water. This essence can also be used topically and applied directly on the body (typically at the pulse points), added to a bath or on a pillowcase.
INGREDIENTS: Filtered Water, Artisanal Mezcal (27%), Raw Wildflower Honey, Essences of Cala Lily, Rose and Yarrow.
Passion is a formula for clearing stagnant energy related to sensuality, creativity and/or giving and receiving of pleasure. It may promote greater balance and harmony with regard to intimate relationships. It may ignite greater energy for creative projects and pursuits.
DIRECTIONS: Ingest 3-5 drops, up to 5 x a day. Drop under the tongue or add to tea or water. This essence can also be used topically and applied directly on the body (typically at the pulse points), added to a bath or on a pillowcase.
INGREDIENTS: Filtered Water, Artisanal Mezcal (27%), Raw Wildflower Honey, Essences of Pomegranate, Vitex and Matilija Poppy.
Purpose is a formula to stimulate creativity and commitment. It helps support the realization of one’s unique purpose through discernment and opening to the unexpected. It aligns one with a greater sense of intelligence and direction.
DIRECTIONS: Ingest 3-5 drops, up to 5 x a day. Drop under the tongue or add to tea or water. This essence can also be used topically and applied directly on the body (typically at the pulse points), added to a bath or on a pillowcase.
INGREDIENTS: Filtered Water, Artisanal Mezcal (27%), Raw Wildflower Honey, Essences of Comfrey, Forget-me-not and albino Redwood.
There is perhaps no flower more recognizable the world over than Rose. Revered for its quintessential beauty for millennia (its petals adorned palace wall illustrations as early as 2,000 B.C.), Rose is ubiquitous yet complex. A tea of its petals tastes bitter and sweet. Bouquets are bestowed to beloveds and beside gravesites. Midwife alike to new love and unbearable grief, Rose tends thresholds of endings and beginnings.
Flora Luna’s Rose essence, made with Cecile Brunner “sweetheart” roses in West Sonoma County, California, is a meditation on beauty. As the popular idiom implies, imbibing life’s pleasures requires slowing down. We must stop to smell the roses. To perceive the splendor surrounding us and receive its nourishment, we must slow to the pace of sensation. In doing so, we become increasingly vulnerable to life’s touch – its pleasures and pains.
It is our willingness to honor life’s thorns that allows us to receive its beauty in full bloom.
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” -Helen Keller
It is said that we behold beauty not through the eyes, but with the heart. That this organ of perception is home to our inner wisdom. That Rose has long been used across cultures as a tonic for the heart as well as the womb is perhaps no coincidence. Beauty is born from wisdom – the recognition and protection of life’s gifts. Creating new life demands the courage (cour, Latin for heart) to let go of what we have known and allow the heart’s knowing to guide us.
// This is an essence for navigating thresholds of loss and mourning. For those who feel a lack of self-love and compassion. For those who have forgotten how to hear the heart’s wisdom. And, for those who want to remember the touch of beauty. //
DIRECTIONS: Ingest 3-5 drops, up to 5 x a day. Drop under the tongue or add to tea or water. This essence can also be used topically and applied directly on the body (typically at the pulse points), added to a bath or on a pillowcase.
INGREDIENTS: Filtered Water, Artisanal Mezcal (27%), Raw Wildflower Honey, Essence of Rose.
Oat Seed (aka: Milky Oat) is a plant that brings calm, deep nourishment and soothing. A nervine (supportive to the nervous system), Wild Oats are known as a rasayana in Ayurveda, which means they are rebuilding and replenishing for a depleted nervous system.
Feeding particularly the myelin sheath (the protective cocoon around the wires of our nervous system), ongoing use of Oat Seed tincture may significantly reduce jumpiness, reactivity and edginess of the nerves. In acute moments of panic, a dropper-full of tincture may dramatically soothe without side-effect.
Harvested during a short window in spring, this particular tincture comes from fields of oat seed surrounding apple orchard in West Sonoma County. The fresh oat tops were tinctured in high-grade organic grape alcohol.
INGREDIENTS: Organic Grape Alcohol, Oat Seed
DIRECTIONS: 1-2 dropperful x day or as needed
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testimonials
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"I introduced Flora Luna Essences to my daily life at a time when I was going through a lot of transition and uncertainty. The effects of flower essences are subtle but very powerful and I find myself wishing I had discovered them sooner!"
-Dominique
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“I'm as skeptical as anyone, but when I'm feeling anxious and take Flora Luna's essences I feel an immediate difference. Plus, good things have happened when I take them--even the first time I took them."
-Eviana
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"Flora Luna has me hooked on flower essences. As a tarot reader, I use them with clients. As a human in need of healing, I use them for a pick me up. As a people person, I use them to brighten up parties. Everyone I have introduced them to gets hooked!"
-Angie
Flower essences are subtle, yet potent vibrational remedies that preserve plants’ unique healing properties into portable potions. They imprint the subtle energy body with the energetic blueprint of particular plants - songs of coherence that invite greater harmony within.
Learn more about how flower essences differ from essential oils.
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