Discover nature’s blueprints for core wound healing and modern day resilience


and the deep, transformative healing offered by flower essences

Through guided journeys, archetypal exploration, and attunement with key flower essences, you will:

  • Learn how early imprinting influences our emotions and how core wounds can be repaired

  • Learn how flower essences support our emotional needs while providing a template for healthy emotional balance

  • Become closely attuned to the signature of key FES California flower essences

  • Learn how to use flower essences for alchemical emotional transmutation

  • Experience guided journeys that invoke deep levels of transformational healing

Curriculum

Class One – Emotional Roots

Alchemical Encounters with Our Inner Child

General Context: Conception, birth and our initial bonding – entering incarnated form, forming our foundational emotional bond, Soul coming into the body


Deepening Inner Work: Flower essences that help transform feelings of separation, lack of warmth, abandonment, loneliness, resistance and difficulty being in the body


A very important FES Flower Essence, the Mariposa Lily Calochortus leichtlinii, helps to bring in nurturing comfort and warmth for parts within our Inner Child where we may have stored feelings of emotional neglect / or lack of warmth

FES Flower Essences that are foundational for the process of transmutation of emotional neediness, feelings of abandonment, rejection or lack of love. It helps us heal at the level of our Inner Child, touching the roots of issues that cause great suffering, affecting our relationships and our capacity to manifest our aspirations.

When the pregnancy period has been troubled and disturbed, when the child was rejected or neglected before and around birth, or when there has been trauma during these pre-verbal times, these imprints can affect the individual's whole life.

Awareness of how we experienced our initial arrival into incarnation. Infusing with healing beauty the primordial foundations of our emotional life.

Class Two – Foundational Development

Expanding the Work with Our Inner Child

General Context: Beyond the first bonding, how our emotional connections have expanded and become established


Deepening Inner Work: Flower essences for fulfillment of emotional needs, protection, safety, groundedness, sense of significance; strengthening the basis of our existence here on Earth


The flower essence of Shooting Star Primula hendersonii helps the Soul enter more fully into Earthly incarnation, bringing its presence into fuller engagement with embodied life

Stress during the initial phase of life, lack of protection, lack of someone who is attuned to the child's emotional needs, the lack of an attuned and preceptive presence who is able to sense the specific needs of the child. FES California Flower Essences to help configure a feeling of protection, security, and stability, that helps the child trust that their needs will be perceived and attended to. Configuring relaxed trust that our needs will be met.

Accessing and healing the basis of one's feelings of trust, protection and joy, 

Class Three – Foundational Boundaries

Early Establishment of a Healthy Sense of Self

General Context: Blueprints of wholeness for the establishment of a well defined and firm sense of identity, with healthy boundaries in relationships and social interactions. 


Deepening Inner Work: Habitual violation of boundaries, abuse, blaming, lead to co-dependent and unbalanced relationship interactions. Flower essences can be part of a process of awareness that leads to repair and to the configuration of healthy patterns. 


The Echinacea Echinacea purpurea flower essence strengthens the core, the very axis of one's Sense of Self, rebuilding it in its wholeness, infusing health that naturally radiates and preserves firm and healthy boundaries.

Clarification on how the essences as blueprints of sanity bring in basic notions of how to honor one's wholeness and protected sense of self. Building the capacity to embody these principles in practical life.

Class Four – Identity and Belonging

Templates for Wholeness for an early and healthy sense of Identity

General Context: Archetypal templates for enhancing the development of a healthy sense of individuality in connection with family and community. Common challenges, dysfunctions, distortions and misalignment


Deepening the Inner Work: Help for insecurities, feelings of inferiority, lack of a balanced sense of self confidence. Archetypal support from the flower essences for openness in communication, self expression and self confidence


The Sunflower is part of the Asteraceae, botanical family. These usually are flowers composed of many flowers, ordered in a mandalic form that holds the harmonics of Sacred Geometry.

Presenting FES California flower essences that help support a healthy configuration of one's initial and basic sense of identity

Supporting the creation of a sense of individuality, that embodies self confidence, trust in being oneself, and ease in communicating one's own truth.

Your Instructor & Guide
Ruth Toledo Altschuler

In practice for more than three and a half decades, Ruth has a unique combination of experience unparalleled in the field, being often called to mentor and inspire other practitioners. Originating from Brazil, Ruth was instrumental in developing flower essence therapy as a widely accepted modality in that country.
Ruth's teaching style is richly illustrated with photos and research material, combining the transmission of in-depth knowledge with journeys that provide healing experiences through an effective use of current technology.
Her courses are created based on her wealth of experience and her deep familiarity with the plants from which the flower essences are prepared.

  • Certified Flower Essence Practitioner, Educator, and Mentor
  • Authorized FES Certification Program Instructor
  • Founder of Essence Mentoring and Flower Essence Studies
  • Host and Facilitator of Essence Circles
This is for you if:
  • you use flower essences and are interested in conscious self-growth
  • you want to cultivate emotional resilience in your daily life
  • you wonder how early life experiences have affected you and what you can do about it
  • you want to enhance your skills for working with clients (if you're a practitioner)
  • you're drawn to the potent energetic wisdom and healing of plants
  • you're open to experiencing self-exploration and healing through guided journeys
  • you have introductory knowledge and basic experience on how to use flower essences
This is not for you if:
  • you have not had introductory instructions and experience using flower essences and vibrational medicine — this doesn’t take the place of basic training
  • you're seeking crisis support or intervention

Full Course Curriculum

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    1. Welcome! Start Here

    2. Prepare for this Deep Inner work

    3. Flower Essences featured in this Course

    4. Soul Alchemy Essence Reference

    1. Preparation for this deep healing journey - Gathering your story

    2. Preparation - a healing altar for your inner child

    3. Soul Alchemy - Patricia Kaminski's foundational contribution

    4. Soul Alchemy - Learning about the Essences and about the Soul

    5. Soul Alchemy - Barbara Ann Brennan's insight and clarity

    6. Soul Alchemy - The Compulsion to Recreate Childhood Wounds

    7. Soul Alchemy - Peri-Natal Matrices and Purpose

    1. Class One - Welcome

    2. Class One - Opening Attunement

    3. Class One - Soul Interweaves Between Realms

    4. Class One - Evening Primrose - introduction to its healing

    5. Class One - Dune Primrose - introduction to its healing

    6. Class One - Reppaterning qualities shared by the Onagraceae

    7. Class One - Star of Bethlehem - its healing in this context and more

    8. Class One - Reflection in preparation for the healing journey

    9. Class One - Mariposa Lily - introduction to its healing

    10. Class One - Using Evening Primrose with Mariposa Lily

    11. Guided Journey - Evening and Dune Primrose, Star of Bethlehem, Mariposa Lily

    12. Class One - Guided Journey Integration

    13. SLIDES - Class One - Introduction

    14. SLIDES - Class One - Evening Primrose

    15. SLIDES - Class One - Dune Primrose

    16. SLIDES - Soul Alchemy - Class One - Star of Bethlehem

    17. SLIDES - Soul Alchemy - Class One - Mariposa Lily

    18. Evening Primrose FES Video

    19. Dune Primrose FES Video

    20. Mariposa Lily FES Video

    1. Class Two - Opening - What holds our individual healing journeys

    2. Class Two - Recap; reflections on our early imprints

    3. Class Two - Testimonial and Encouragement for the journey

    4. Class Two - Madrone - introduction to its healing

    5. Class Two - Almond - introduction to its healing

    6. Class Two - Q&A on the application of Almond and Madrone

    7. Class Two - Pretty Face - introduction to its healing

    8. Class Two - Shooting Star - introduction to its healing

    9. Class Two - Bleeding Heart - introduction to its healing

    10. Class Two - Splendid Mariposa Lily - introduction to its healing

    11. Class Two - Q&A on the application of Pretty Face and preparing for the journey

    12. Guided Journey with Madrone, Pretty Face and Shooting Star

    13. Post Guided Journey words

    14. SLIDES PDF - Almond

    15. SLIDES - Bleeding Heart

    16. SLIDES - Madrone - Range of Light and Madrone at Terra Flora

    17. SLIDES - Madrone and its Cycles

    18. SLIDES - Pretty Face

    19. SLIDES - Shooting Star

    20. SLIDES - Splendid Mariposa Lily

    21. Almond FES Video

    1. Class Three - Opening and recap

    2. Class Three - Chamomile - introduction to its healing

    3. Class Three - Yarrow and Pink Yarrow - introduction to their healing

    4. Class Three - Yarrows and how they help us re-pattern survival conditioning

    5. Class Three - Mountain Pennyroyal - introduction to its healing

    6. Class Three - Saint John's Wort - introduction to its healing

    7. Class Three - Baby Blue Eyes - introduction to its healing

    8. Class Three - differences in deep Baby Blue Eyes wounding

    9. Class Three - Pink Monkeyflower - introduction to its healing

    10. Class Three - Golden Ear Drops - introduction to its healing

    11. Class Three - Why we chose these essences for the Guided Journey

    12. Guided Journey - Chamomile, Yarrow, Pink Yarrow and Pink Monkeyflower

    13. Class Three - Our Healing Journey is also our Service

    14. SLIDES - Guided Journey with Affirmations

    15. SLIDES Chamomile

    16. SLIDES - Yarrow and Pink Yarrow

    17. SLIDES - Mountain Pennyroyal and Saint John's Wort

    18. SLIDES - Baby Blue Eyes, Pink Monkeyflower and Golden Ear Drops

    19. Pink Monkeyflower FES Video

    20. Baby Blue Eyes FES Video

    21. Saint John's Wort FES Video

    22. Yarrow FES Video

    1. Class Four - Honoring our Community and the Plants

    2. Class Four - Sunflower - introduction to its healing

    3. Class Four - Goldenrod - introduction to its healing

    4. Class Four - Echinacea - introduction to its healing

    5. Class Four - Calendula - introduction to its healing

    6. Class Four - Q&A on Echinacea, Goldenrod, Calendula

    7. Class Four - Zinnia - introduction to its healing

    8. Guided Journey - Echinacea, Calendula and Zinnia

    9. Class Four - On continuing this work and being part of the Healing

    10. Herbal Uses and Stories on Five Asteraceae Plant Allies

    11. Sunflower SLIDES

    12. Goldenrod SLIDES

    13. Echinacea SLIDES

    14. Calendula SLIDES

    15. Zinnia SLIDES

    16. Guided Journey SLIDES - Echinacea, Calendula, Zinnia

    17. Sunflower FES Video

    18. Calendula FES Video

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