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Nature is a teacher of mine and I often work with her tools (plants) to unite healing with ceremony. The chemistry plants produce for health and healing is what we use in aromatherapy as medicine to heal our body, mind and spirit.

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 Our breath connects us intimately with plants, through the exchange of oxygen & carbon dioxide. Plants and fungi share their bodies with us both as food and medicine, and if to complete a cycle, our flesh is returned to nature in death. The more I observe plants and ecosystems, the more I believe we humans might learn from their 700 million years of successful evolution on this planet. 

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I grew up in the flower gardens my mother and grandmother created. My love for flora is expressed through my practice in the arts of aromatherapy and the growing the plants supportive of healing and natural skincare. I now tend my mother's rose gardens, established almost thirty years ago. Many of the selfcare tools I create begin with the plants in this garden.