The Australian Bush Flower Essences Level 2 Workshop runs over two days. You need to have attended either Level 1 or the College Course to attend.

Level 2 is much slower in pace than Level 1, but nonetheless is a profound healing experience for many who attend it.

Themes of the Level 2 workshop include:

• Sexuality
• Anger
• Sadness
• Spirituality
• Self nurturance

Also explored are:

• An in depth analysis of more Essences, including 15 Essences not included in the Level 1

• Guided meditations and artwork

• A powerful, yet simple technique that allows one to determine the emotional trigger behind any

physical symptom

• The five steps of abundance and how to master this

• Sharing and discussion of case histories

• Open forum and question time

• Bush walk, plant observation, energy exercises and attunement

• Working with and tuning into Nature Spirits and Devas and discovering their crucial role in a plants life cycle

• Inspiring new research and developments

For Linn’s workshop schedule, click here.

For the full Australian Bush Flower essences schedule throughout Australia, North and South America, Asia, Europe and the UK, click here.

If you are interested in hosting an Australian Bush Flower Essences workshop in your area, please contact Linn on herbs.to.heal@gmail.com

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Mountain Devil is very beautiful red flower growing in the Sydney Sandstone region of Australia. As a flower essence, its healing qualities include the release of the emotions of:

• anger
• frustration
• rage
• hatred
• jealousy

For adults whose predominant emotional response to a situation is anger, and children who react to being thwarted with a temper tantrum, Mountain Devil is very calming. It is effective whether this is a personality tendency, or due to circumstances.

Anger is one of the early stages of grief, and Mountain Devil can be taken as a flower essence to help you move through to the next stage.

Many men can react to situations with anger and aggression, not only due to the influence of testosterone, but also if social conditioning from an early age taught them that expressing sadness, disappointment, vulnerability and other tender emotions is ‘unmanly’ and unacceptable.

I also often give Mountain Devil to people born under the sun sign Aries, who are much more likely to express overt anger than any other sun sign.

Justifiable anger is a positive force – there are some things it is quite right to feel angry or outraged about, and the force of this emotion provides the energy to effect positive change.

However if anger is a constant emotional state, it can be an indication of deep seated stress or unhappiness, and can cause physical problems in the long term, most particularly with the liver and heart. Using Mountain Devil as an aid to releasing anger, frustration and hatred in these circumstances is a good long term preventative health strategy

Mountain Devil is a very useful flower essence taken alone, or in conjunction with anger management strategies.

Mountain Devil is one of the flowers explored during the Level
2 Australian Bush Flower Essences workshop, which is taught worldwide.
Releasing anger is one of the major themes of this workshop.

Click here to find when I will be teaching this workshop next.

If this does not happen to be nearby to you, click here for the global schedule, with another certified teacher.

Feel free to leave a comment below with your experiences taking Mountain Devil, or with any questions you may have about this flower
essence.

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What most people think is a “bad menopause” is really oestrogen dominance. This is when the proportion of oestrogen is too high compared to the other female hormone progesterone.

Dr John Lee, an American gynaecologist, did ground breaking research in this area. He discovered that it is the hormone progesterone that stimulates the body to lay down new bone, while excess oestrogen erodes bone. According to his research, internal and external dryness also resulted from not enough progesterone. Dr Lee consequently pioneered natural progesterone treatment. A free series of articles on Oestrogen Dominance, how it can affect women throughout their lives, as well as how natural remedies can assist with it, is available here.

Poor memory and vagueness are also common complaints during the hormonal shift in menopause. A good digestive detoxification, along with flower essences such as Isopogon, Paw Paw and Crowea help strengthen both your digestion and your brain function. Your brain has first dibs on any nutrition you extract from your food. If its truggling, imagine what is going with the rest of you.

Mood swings can be another problem in normally rational, sensible women through menopause. Crying spells, outbursts of anger, bitterness and feeling low can all be helped with specific flower essences. I find Red Suva Frangipani wonderful for assisting with excess crying; Dagger Hakea for bitterness; Mountain Devil for anger, and Tall Yellow Top for low moods. I use these flower essences an excellent addition to herbs when supporting women through menopause.

An important part of this healing process is to allow yourself to acknowledge your feelings, understand where they may be coming from and take various steps to release them. This may include counselling; it is quite extraordinary how much resolution with old emotional baggage can be reached in a short amount of time with a good counsellor.

For more on flower essences for women, Australian Bush Flower Essences have a One Day Workshop on Women’s Wellbeing. Their Level 1 workshop discusses women’s hormonal health in detail and one of the themes in Level 2 is the release of anger and sadness. More information on these workshops and the full international workshop schedule is available here.

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