Amazonite - enables us to find emotional strength through a joyful cleansing of old emotional burdens; helps us connect to the water element and to our ancient origins in water; facilitates a clearing of our hearts and emotional bodies so that we can communicate more easily with other living beings.
	Amber - helps us to redefine our relationship to our body, especially with regard to our attitudes about aging; helps us contact the inherent strength, endurance, flexibility and instinctual nature of the physical body; relaxes and clears the pelvic region to promote a greater flow of energy moving down and up the spine; adjusts the energetic structure of the body so that more light and energy can enter and circulate with less resistance.
	Apophyllite - brings horizontal balance to those who are too vertical; improves the flow of emotional communication through the heart; opens and softens the heart chakra and brings balance to those who have an excess of energy focused in the head; helps us relax and share what we have; enables us to interact more freely with the water element, both within us and around us.
	Aragonite - helps one be fully present and energetically connected to the earth, spirit, and another person during healing work, and then facilitates the release of interpersonal energy connections so that both people can return to a state of energy independence; for those who work in other dimensions and have difficulty coming back into psychic balance on the physical plane; promotes energetic hygiene; helps us learn not to receive energy or information from another that is not our responsibility or in our highest good.
	Black Tourmaline/Master Quartz - works at the deepest level of the physical body to improve grounding, circulation and strength; balances the relationship between the 1st and 7th chakras; helps us exchange toxic energy held in the chakras for restorative energy; stimulates the release of old habits and patterns in an organized way.
	Blue Topaz - soothing, calming, and clarifying; helps dissipate mental confusion; strengthens mental clarity, focus and effectiveness; encourages the clear expression of our soul’s identity through the evolution of our thinking processes; opens our awareness to the higher soul/mental functions; helps us clarify how our spiritual identity can be expressed at the physical level.
	Celestite - gently opens and clears the upper chakras, helping them align with the divine and angelic realms; restructures our inner and outer vision enabling us to clearly see the world from a spiritual perspective; heals sadness in the heart resulting from experiences of loss and separation; works on a very deep level to help us identify and release the causes of physical tension in our bodies.
photo coming	Cinnabar - stimulates the clearing of ancient karmic energy stuck in the lower chakras of the body and in the subtle bodies of the earth; works with the feet chakras to increase the flow of energy coming from the earth into the legs and up into the body; brings awareness to issues we have about our relationship with the earth, issues that keep us from receiving the energy we need to sustain our physical bodies; helps us release pain and deep emotional sadness stored in the lower chakras.
photo coming	Diopside - releases self-destructive programming from the survival (1st) chakra; thaws out crystallized levels of fear, anger, and self-worthlessness that block the heart from accepting higher levels of consciousness and Divine Will; releases alienation and helps one rebuild trust and intimacy with all kingdoms of life; increases flexibility and exchange within the heart; support for moving through the density of grief and the sadness of separation.
	Fire Opal - releases blockages in our energy pathways to allow more Earth energy to rise up into the body and into all of the chakras; helps the body learn to hold on to this additional energy rather that making it available for immediate use, so reserves can be built up; helps us move from, “I have energy”, to “I am energy”; facilitates long term recovery from illness or overwork.
	Green Garnet - calming and soothing; anchors a person's energy, focus and consciousness onto the earth plane; facilitates vertical grounding and horizontal stability; works with the two way flow of energy and information between the heart and first chakra; helps one have a softer and more intimate relationship with the earth; helps one bring more earth energy through the feet and into the lower chakras.
	Green Tourmaline - a transparent stone that helps us see through the illusion of separation and experience oneness with life; lifts the veil between the human and natural world so that we can see ourselves reflected in all of life, and feel all forms of life within ourselves.
	Green Tourmaline/Smoky Quartz - expands the downward flow of energy between the fourth chakra and the earth; helps us release energies into the earth that are no longer necessary; facilitates the evolution of our creativity through the development of the heart and our relationships with others and the earth; helps us focus our creative energies as an effortless giving from the heart; promotes concentration and firm willingness in the creative act.
	Labradorite - helps one attract, gather, and anchor the energetic nourishment of light into the body, especially into areas of dense or stuck energy; helps replenish those who have become depleted from using up their own energy reserves; good for those who are experiencing a light deficiency (Seasonal Affectedness Disorder) and for those who spend long days indoors; for issues of magnetism and attractiveness; helps one learn how to be responsible and conscious about their attractiveness and the energy they project.
	Larimar - this stone holds the energy of nonviolence, safety, and nurturing; builds up a resonance in the emotional body that attracts and holds the energy of harmlessness and peace; helps one relax and receive nurturing without struggle; helps women feel safe in the feminine; helps men and women allow their inner masculine to serve the inner feminine; for strengthening the sense of Sisterhood between all women, the feminine, and the Goddess.
	Mangano Calcite - a gentle, soft, and very protective energy that helps one experience absolute safety in the heart; works with the inside dimension or structure of the heart chakra to create a safe, womb-like matrix for healing; helps one stay present with emotional pain, especially when it is felt as a dark or unidentifiable energy; gives strength and support to stay in a compassionate and loving space with painful situations; facilitates harmony in group experience; helps people move from fragmentation and separation to unity, and to also feel unity in separation.
photo coming	Pink Quartz - a sweet and sublime heart energy that helps us heal whatever sits in the way of living in the moment with an open heart; helps those who are dealing with profound suffering and pain move through and beyond it so they can help others do the same.
	Rainbow Hematite - strengthens our inner sight and vision by helping us ground it to the Earth; develops the innate capacities of the 6th chakra in a balanced, calibrated and practical way; helps us not be emotionally reactive or go into judgment in response to the information we are receiving, or to what we are perceiving.
	Raspberry Rutile - prepares the seventh chakra to accept information from higher sources; helps translate fourth dimensional energies to the third dimension; helps us ground energy back into the body after a shocking or traumatic experience; creates strength and protection for the heart; facilitates the flexible and fluid movement of energy between the 8th chakra and the heart; helps one come into alignment with angelic energies and attune to these without distraction.
	Red Quartz - grounding and energizing; protection and containment for the energy of the second chakra; helps one become more aware of the energy and information one is sending and receiving at this level.
	Rose/Smoky Quartz - synchronizes the heart with the earth's vibration and with the frequency of love; helps one move energy from shadow to acceptance; facilitates the process of clearing and releasing dense energy from the heart and the body through grounding, self-acceptance, and an awareness of divine protection.
photo coming	Silver - helps to restructure the physical and energetic bodies in alignment with universal intelligence and wisdom; anchors the infinite structure of Divinity in the heart and promotes the exchange of honor between the lower and higher selves; heightens awareness of the grace that resides within our own beings; promotes the balanced release of toxic energy from the aura; strengthens and balances the flow of energy from Divine Will through the heart and throat chakras and back again to the Divine.
	Star Ruby - promotes heightened awareness and sharp focus in the present moment; helps one to draw, attract, and anchor energy and information into the physical body, where ONE IS; helps ground those who stray off in their thoughts, who go into their heads or out of their bodies; balances both vertical and horizontal energy flows within the body; penetrates one's resistance to being present; good for those who are easily distracted, or who purposely maintain distraction in their lives.
	Tourmalated Quartz - works with the energy connections that link the chakras to their light sources; clears congestion in these pathways to facilitate a balanced flow of energy and information to, from, and between the chakras; draws off excesses of energy from all chakras and subtle bodies and the physical body; balances the base chakra in its relationship to the higher chakras; helps with the initial breaking up or shattering of a stuck pattern and can be used at the end of a healing process to carry off any remaining energetic debris.
photo coming	Vanadinite - helps us regulate and direct the energy of the fire element; for those who have an abundance of fire it brings an awareness of how to use it; for those who are depleted, it helps attract more through awareness; promotes flexibility and a willingness to release attachment to form during a transformative process; helps one transcend pain through a stronger identification with the limitless aspect of Self, rather than with the personality or the small self that is experiencing the pain.
	Vesuvianite - brings an awareness of how to ground love from the higher dimensions into physical form; helpful for those who are experiencing difficulties in forming deep heart centered loving relationships; connects us to the brilliant, purifying, energizing aspects of fire; helps us embrace our inner heat and vibrancy-to sit with confidence as the creator of our world.

Research Environmental Essences

Augustine Volcano - This essence was made on the southern Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska over a four-day period during several eruptions of the Mt. Augustine volcano. The beginning of the preparation coincided with the beginning of the visible plume of ash/steam rising from the volcano. Mt. Augustine is an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. It embodies the ancient prehistory and primeval nature of the planet and brings it forward to the present. The eruption is a blending of elements at the most basic level: water and molten rock transforming into ash, lava, and steam. The Augustine Volcano essence helps us release pent up energy and unexpressed emotion in a positive way. It can help us get in touch with what is unresolved inside of us, and then connect with the energy and rhythm to gracefully express this out into our world. The main lesson this essence has to teach us is that it is important to begin to view intense cataclysmic events, such as the eruption of a volcano, as benevolent instruments for positive change. The earth has and will continue to make these strong internal adjustments. If we are able to perceive them in the right way, it will not only make it easier to live through them, but we will also be able to use the amazingly powerful energy that is contained within them to support deep, intense, and positive changes within ourselves.

Bog - this essence was made in the Stepstone Bog near Kachemak Bay in southcentral Alaska. Bogs are semi-swampy habitats that harbor a rich diversity of plant and insect life. They hold the fresh new energy of potential and are alive with an abundance of elemental energies. On a vibrational level, bogs are special containers for the heart energy of the planet. They also represent freedom, joy, and adventure-the freedom of wilderness, wildness, and wide open spaces. Their healing gift to the human kingdom is to help us prepare and expand the spaces we hold for new experience, to help us learn what is it like to live with an open heart and a spacious mind. The Bog Essence represents a place of special connection with the Earth Mother. The earth is pregnant with wisdom, potential, fresh energy, and new beginnings, all held in an enormous heart space. This essence is about potential-not only the realization of potential, but also for the ability to hold potential for new creation. It can be used to support any creative act, but it is especially applicable for women, to help them hold the feminine heart space as a chalice for creating new life, and as a source of nurturing energy for their families.

Gigha Quartz -This environmental essence was prepared on the Isle of Gigha, off the western coast of Scotland, during our 2006 Practitioner Training Program. The essence was made on a quartz outcropping that rises out of the ocean at the southwest edge of the island like a giant dragon. The outcropping is visible for 100 meters before it sinks beneath the ground. It then runs through the island and emerges at the northwest tip of the island, where it is visible along the beach for a short distance before going back into the sea. This quartz formation embodies a very ancient and sacred energy that has the power to shift our grounding and alignment in very profound ways. It is a crystallization of light, energy, deep wisdom, and knowledge of the ancient secrets of the Earth. It embodies a complete marriage of the elements and represents the strong foundation places of the planet, and the essence made from it can take us to those places in ourselves. The Gigha Quartz essence offers many levels of healing. Primary, it is a grounding essence, encouraging us to become more present in a soft and empowering way. As we become more grounded, the essence can help us build up our inner core strength and discipline so that we can maintain a deeper alignment with the planet. This alignment will then enable us to live our lives with a physical and energetic posture that is more upright, self-contained and authentic, and that leads to a greater expression of our power and creativity.

Solar Eclipse - this essence was made in the northern interior of Alaska during the solar eclipse of 7/21/90. It is an essence for balancing and harmonizing the feminine and masculine energies in men and women and for the conscious empowerment of the inner male, especially where an imbalance exists due to dominant female energy. This essence is helpful in situations where the mother took on the responsibility for all aspects of a child's development because the father was incapable or absent, or because she was unwilling to share this responsibility with the father or relinquish her control over the child in later years. In such cases, the individual must eventually break free of the eclipsing energy of the mother and at the same time learn how to develop his or her own masculine qualities. The Solar Eclipse essence facilitates this process by working with the person to balance their inner masculine/feminine dynamic. It does this by bringing one's focus and awareness to what the inner male requires for healing and balance, and by helping one access the fortifying energy of the Sun.

Typhoon - this essence was prepared during a typhoon on the Izu Peninsula in Japan. It was made with rain from the storm and a small amount of water from a local spring. Typhoon is about surrender, trust and cleansing. It teaches us how to surrender to the cleansing power of nature with enough trust to let this energy in, without trying to block it in any way, so that it can do its healing work. The message of this essence is, "whatever you don't have anchored with purpose and intent is going to be carried away, so focus on what is important and let the rest go". Typhoon is a very penetrating essence that can work its way into our densest levels of resistance. It can also teach us about intensity-how to work with it in our lives, and how to co-create with it in nature.

Winter In August - this essence was made in water from melted snow on the Greenland ice sheet in the month of August. An essence for the clarification of identity; helps one determine what is essential to one's heart path in life; for clearing the mind, heart, and emotional realms of all that is not necessary to the realization of true PEACE in one's life and on the planet.

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