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See also Sparkling Lotus FAQs also note I have a blog and usually make entries several times a week. My life as a plant reader began in early childhood. These formative years were richly blessed with many caretakers who were wise to the ways of the earth and heavens. I didn't realize how unusual or lucky this was until I was old enough to begin searching out a different level of learning through books and formalized paths of what the western world defines as education. My most organic and powerful example of this model was my mother. She was very gifted as both a student and teacher of many classical subjects. She also maintained a rather remarkable salon atmosphere of friends and associates who influenced me on many sub-textual and far more direct levels. My interest in co-creative gardening, for instance, was born while I was still a very quiet child listening to adults converse after a long leisurely dinner. As I got older I began to press the advantage of connections made at that dinner table in order to audit a number of first class university programs which would not have been available to me otherwise. In this same general time frame I also moved to Boston and began my independent adult life with the man who is now my husband and only child's father. For almost a decade I learned about flower medicine and various sacred ceremonies in a primarily academic or academically experiential sense - beginning my study with a species of plant I've loved since the December I was five and saw Brugmansia flowers for the first time. They were at the conservatory at Longwood Gardens. When I became a mother at 27, the profound change in consciousness (which began and accelerated steadily within the process of conscious conception) seemed to unleash a gift for developing various methods of merging the two styles of gaining knowledge & practical awareness. All told I've been immersed in studying flowers and their various properties for at least 47 of my 51 years. The recurring meditation-based image of a beauteous sparkling lotus flower first started finding me in my late thirties. At the time I was heavily immersed in building and maintaining a co-creative garden space. It was my third such gardening endeavor and the beginning of my practical experience with flower essence preparation. As I explored their efficacy at a personal level I grew curious to know if I'd produced healing remedies that could have a positive impact on others as well. This lead to a five year research project which in turn lead to the Sparkling Lotus Flower Essence Handbook. I'm currently working on second drafts of two related volumes. I'm also preparing a written reference to a Next Generation of Sparkling Lotus Flower essences. They include a beautiful selection of wildcrafted remedies from the hillside where I was blessed to create the second Sparkling Lotus garden. Land Healing is another important writing focus at this time. My life/healing work experience includes suicide prevention, addiction recovery, PTSD support, and incest/abuse recovery. In addition to growing things, attending to my various Beloveds, writing, and sewing, I drum for peace and make altar cloths with the ongoing prayer that these actions do their organic part to make the world just a little more mindful and beauty-filled. Previous teaching experience includes quilt-making, family-friendly gardening, exotic flower gardening, developing ceremony (with special emphasis on comparative techniques and low impact non-appropriation of traditional cultural ceremonies and sacred objects), chakra intensive workshops and all the various forms of ground/crash testing that went into development of the Sparkling Lotus learning program and its handful of research projects related to co-operative interspecies development. Contact Acey for more info on flower essences, altar cloth subscriptions,or if you'd like to learn more about the Sparkling Lotus one-on-one mentorship program. |

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