The Flowerlounge with Katie Hess

Laura Hollick is an Award Winning Artist and Visionary Guide. Laura's art and insights inspire audiences around the world with her Global Events like International Soul Art Day, the Global Vision Quest, the Yoni Art Project, the nü Icon Movie and weekly Pure Inspiration Newsletter. To learn more about International Soul Art Day and this episode's content, please visit: LOTUSWEI.COM/PODCAST

This is the fourth episode of our MOONSHINE series, where we invite intuitive astrologer Kristina Wingeier to share her wisdom by providing us with a full lunar report. This Moonshine is for LUNAR CYCLE: MAY 15TH - JUNE 12TH The themes for this lunar cycle: grounding, adaptation, big visioning = radical shifts + shake-up of values. To learn more please visit: Lotuswei.com/PODCAST

Rosalee de la Forêt is an herbalist and best selling author of Alchemy of Herbs: Transforming Everyday Ingredients into Foods and Remedies that Heal. She is passionate about helping people discover the world of herbalism and natural health. As the the Education Director for LearningHerbs she regularly teaches people how to simply and effectively explore the world of herbalism. To learn more visit: LOTUSWEI.COM/PODCAST. If you have any questions/comments/concerns please email podcast@lotuswei.com

Frank Banuelos has been studying and practicing Tai Chi for over 10 years. He was fortunate to be taught a very old form of the Yang style of Tai Chi that was brought to America by Master Fu-Yaun Ni and passed on to him by Master Ni's former student and retired teacher Gary Kukuk. Frank teaches both the martial application (self defense) and the meditative aspects of Tai Chi. To learn more visit: LOTUSWEI.COM/PODCAST

Ali is the founder of Truce with Food®, host of the top-ranked podcast Insatiable, a holistic nutritionist, integrated health coach and rebel with a serious cause. She created her Truce with Food method while in graduate school where she earned her Masters in Organizational Dynamics, where she drew from her decade plus of working with real life clients and her own personal healing journey from having cancer as a teenager. To learn more visit: LOTUSWEI.COM/podcast

This is an extra special episode! This is the third episode of our new series every month called MOONSHINE, where we invite special guest Kristina Wingeier, an intuitive astrologer, to share her wisdom with us once a month, by providing a cosmic forecast for the upcoming lunar cycle. We will also be providing flowers + rituals to help you navigate through it! What you'll hear in this episode: New Moon in Mars: Inner child, depth/intensity, identity.

Karta Purkh Singh Khalsa, Ayurvedic Doctor and Herbalist, is one of the country’s foremost natural healing experts with over 47 years of experience in alternative medicine. K.P. Khalsa is the President Emeritus of the American Herbalists Guild, and board member emeritus for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. He mentored in Ayurveda with Yogi Bhajan for 32 years. To learn more visit: LOTUSWEI.COM/PODCAST

Erin is a Transformational Health Coach and Herbalist. Erin now works remotely with women all over the world to resolve hormonal symptoms and nourish fertility. She uses her fifteen years of clinical experience to provide her clients with a comprehensive holistic health strategy and effective, natural solutions. It is her belief that true and lasting healing must also integrate emotional and spiritual aspects, which she addresses via consistent coaching calls. To learn more visit: LOTUSWEI.COM/podcast

Diane Read's mother and grandmother taught her first to look to spiritual wellbeing for beauty. After leaving home, going to design school, years of a lot of travel and, living in London and Hong Kong, Diane moved back and began to focus on her own wellness. It was time for her to look at how she was eating, what she was using my skin and, ways to live more mindfully. This led to Diane exploring beauty from a different perspective. To learn more visit: LOTUSWEI.COM/Podcast

This is an extra special episode! This is the second episode of our new series every month called MOONSHINE, where we invite special guest Kristina Wingeier, an intuitive astrologer, to share her wisdom with us once a month, by providing a cosmic forecast for the upcoming lunar cycle. We will also be providing flowers + rituals to help you navigate through it! To learn more visit: LOTUSWEI.COM/podcast

Nick Polizzi has spent his career directing and producing feature-length documentaries about holistic alternatives to conventional medicine. Most recently, Nick directed The Tapping Solution and co-edited Simply Raw - Raw for 30 Days. His current role is producer of The Sacred Science —a documentary about explorations in the Amazon to learn about traditional, healing practices. To learn more visit: LOTUSWEI.COM/PODCAST

Rachael Pontillo is the bestselling author of the book Love Your Skin, Love Yourself, and co-author of The Sauce Code. She’s an AADP and IAHC Board Certified International Health Coach, licensed aesthetician; and natural skincare formulator and educator. To learn more visit: LOTUSWEI.COM/PODCAST

Shannon is a passionate holistic health educator and food artist based in Portland, Oregon. Working with chefs and farmers at the Portland farmers markets for most of the last decade, Shannon's style is strongly informed by the local landscape, community and the fluidity of the natural world.  With a whole foods philosophy, her work centers around simplicity, balance and harmony within and to our relationship with Earth. To learn more visit: Lotuswei.com/podcast

This is an extra special episode! We are launching a new series every month called MOONSHINE where we invite special guest Kristina Wingeier, an intuitive astrologer, that we featured in a previous podcast, to share her wisdom with us by providing a cosmic forecast for the upcoming lunar cycle. We will also be providing flowers + rituals to help you navigate through it! To learn more visit: LOTUSWEI.COM/PODCAST

This week's episode of the Flowerlounge, comes from the edge from which Katie is personally learning, and from the world of flower essences. It's not meant to be obscure - it's kind of like finding language for something that doesn’t yet have a language. When she looked at the themes during the last few collection trips, she realized there are two main themes that are presenting themselves in a BIG way lately. To learn more visit: LOTUSWEI.COM/PODCAST