“I thought, ‘Why use essences from Australia, India, Africa, etc., when I can use what we have here in Ilkley?'” It’s a place,” says Jenny, who regularly ventures out into the moors, taking essences from heather, gorse, bracken, soft rushes and berries. We steeped the plants in water to extract their essence, which we used to create Verveia, a body care range named after the Celtic-Roman goddess of Wharfedale.
Now Jenny has partnered with a complementary medicine business in Ilkley, steeped in a long tradition of combining science and nature. Bailey Flower Essences and Verbeia, together known as Yorkshire Flower Essences Ltd, offer the UK’s largest collection of essences and remedies for natural healing.
Bailey Flower Essences was founded by the late scientist and Senior Lecturer in Electronic Engineering at the University of Bradford, Dr Arthur Bailey.
Dr. Bailey, who passed away in 2008, was an engineering scientist and chartered engineer with a lifelong fascination with flowers. It was while working at the University of Bradford that he became interested in dowsing and healing. He joined the British Dowsers Association, becoming its president, and was well known in the fields of dowsing and essences.
Through his work in electronics, he developed lighting units, pumps, and other equipment, but he also spent many years researching dowsing, and while he found no scientific reason why dowsing worked, he knew it worked. I concluded that. In 1967, Arthur first discovered his six flower essences in his home garden during his early days of dowsing, and subsequently traveled the world in search of essences.
Bailey Flower Essences has been based in Ilkley for 50 years. Yorkshire Flower Essences, still based in the town’s Nelson Road, is run by widow Chris Bailey, Jenny Howarth and homeopath and accountant Nikki Whitehead, and offers treatments for conditions such as sadness, anger, obsession and mental health conditions. We offer over 101 types of essences and over 20 types of composite products. depression. Dropped with the healing energy of plants, essences can be ingested internally, on the skin, or in bath water.
“Dr. Bailey is often quoted as saying, ‘To my surprise, it turned out to be effective,'” Jenny says. “He spent a lot of time trying to analyze flower healing in a scientific way and accepted that he couldn’t do it. He just knew that it worked.”
Jenny, who has met Dr. Bailey and seen him dowsing, adds:
Flower essences were recorded in ancient Egypt, and recipes for the essences were carved into pyramids. Based on the idea that water receives energy from flowers, British homeopath Edward Buck promoted flower essences, including the rescue remedies we know today, in the 1930s. He collected dew drops and put cut flowers in water. However, Jenny’s method involves bending the flowers into the water instead of cutting them. “Middleton Woods in Ilkley has bluebells that you can easily bend and put in the sun to create an essence,” says Jenny, who uses bamboo sticks to keep them bent. “Water receives the energy of flowers just as it receives the energy of rocks.”
Ilkley’s healing powers date back to ancient times and are evident in the rock carvings of its moors. Inspired by the Celtic goddess Verveia of Wharfedale, Jenny places a bowl of water on top of a rock in Ilkley that contains a stone carving of Filfot. At sunrise on this summer’s solstice, she joined a group of people above Whitewells to create the Essence of What the Moors Mean to Us and sprinkle it over the bog area. “It was a healing process after the bog fire, drawing out the essence from the bog and bringing it back,” Jenny says.
Energized by sunlight and preserved in alcohol, the essence captures the vibrational and healing properties of plants and minerals. “It starts with a fundamental concept in physics, which is that everything vibrates,” says Jenny, who founded the homeopathic center in Ilkley about 20 years ago. Initially, she created moorland flower essences to be sprayed into the air, on pulse points, or dropped on pillows to aid sleep, but as her interest grew, she began combining essences with therapeutic essential oils. We have developed body care products. This product contains a morning pick-me-up, a mid-afternoon energy boost, and a calming essence at night.
“Verbeia products include Ilkley, heather to boost energy and improve sleep, gorse for relaxation, bracken for cleansing and calming, soft rush for calm, and some berries to clear the mind. We use plants that are unique to the Moors,” says Jenny.
Although flower essences were not designed to replace conventional medicine, they are becoming increasingly popular to help with various aspects of mental and physical health.
“This is another aspect of a complementary approach to health,” says Jenny. “The body is always trying to find its way back to its natural health. If you live well, these essences will start that process. Today’s general practitioners are encouraging people to take more control of their health. We are more open to the idea of doing so.”
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Jenny, a registered practitioner with the British Flower and Vibrational Essences Association and a member of the British Flower Essence Producers Association, will be running an essence-making workshop at this year’s Ilkley Complementary Medicine Festival on 29th and 30th October. To do.
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