Welcome to Desert Alchemy Flower Essences

Producing quality flower essences from the unique plants of the Arizona deserts since 1983


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Upcoming Workshops & Presentations

FLOWER ESSENCE CIRCLE

A Community of Support for Self-Awareness
April 16, 2025

with Cynthia Athina Kemp Scherer

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Timely Flower Essences

A selection of universally applicable flower essences for this time.
You can use them in any combination or any of them on their own.

Aloe

Do you need support with healing and releasing?

It is not uncommon to desperately want to release old patterns of behavior, yet when the patterns arise and you feel uncomfortable you feel upset. It can feel even worse if those patterns are connected to old, painful memories that you have buried instead of felt.

Aloe helps you see that the process of healing and releasing is not a punishment. It is a common response to want to run away from pain. You probably learned that running away from pain is better than facing it.

Instead of feeling like you are a victim to the process, this flower essence helps you find the joy that resides underneath the old, painful feelings. If you simply feel them, they will transform into healing energy. You are then able to see that, however painful the experience is, it is bringing you exactly what you need, and freeing you from what you don’t need.

Bear Grass

For those who are living life from their heart center

When you make a commitment to live your life from your heart center, you are choosing openness. For many of us it is a challenge to remain in an open position if you fear that others may be stronger or overpower us.

When you encounter aggression or strong attitudes of others, you may feel overwhelmed. How do you deal with other people’s aggression and keep an open heart? Sometimes dealing with others means taking a strong and decisive stance. Sometimes coming from your heart means being tough or standing your ground.” “Often when you need to take a stance of strength you doubt yourself. You wonder whether your actions are heart centered. Actions that come from the heart are ones that are appropriate to the situation.

Mariposa Lily

Finding mothering support within you

Mariposa Lily — To go along with the healing theme of Aloe, if you did not have a great mother who could soothe you when you were in pain, this flower essence helps you develop those skills now.

No matter how old you are, mothering support can come from within you. Mariposa Lily helps you assess what you need and then give those messages to yourself.

Thistle

Connecting with your spiritual reality

At some point in your life you come face to face with a need to understand spirituality. It is a natural part of growing. Some of us may originally have ideas we learned from church or school that ultimately conflict with our understanding of spiritual reality.

Thistle helps us move beyond limiting preconceptions to experience a sense of inner connection and spiritual understanding…

When we make this contact with our spiritual reality, we naturally develop a greater respect for ourselves and for what we need in life. Just as Thistle stands in spiny glory with its head open to the heavens, so too can we personally open to the nature of spirituality. The essence can support us in feeling a deep sense of safety and security in our inner spiritual relationship.

Latest News

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And the ESSENCE of the YEAR 2025 is…

Every year Cynthia asks the devas to indicate a flower essence that is universally applicable that supports our continuing evolution and sets a theme of focus for the new year.

Read the announcement of the Flower Essence of the Year 2025:

Read the article here

Updated Article!

Using Flower Essences with Pets

We updated our article on using flower essences with pets with a mini cross reference.

Read the article here

About Us

We produce quality flower essences from the unique plants of the Arizona deserts, and make them available to holistic health practitioners and self-help users.

As pioneers of desert flower essences, our extensive research began in 1983 and continues today. Our publications are dedicated to sharing this research with others.

We provide flower essence therapy courses to health practitioners and individuals who wish to add flower essences to their repertory of healing tools.

We offer private flower essence consultations to individuals interested in using flower essences for emotional support, attitudinal changes, and self-awareness.
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