Your Healing Garden

Katie Hess is a flower alchemist who uses the healing power of flowers as potent medicine for wellbeing. As the founder of LOTUSWEI flower essence remedies, she travels the world in search of rare flowers to produce her library of over 150 elixirs. Katie teaches mindfulness practices and flower essence workshops worldwide and she is the author of Flowerevolution.Learn more about Katie and her work with flower essences at www.lotuswei.com.Visit www.dinasaalisi.com to learn more about Dina, buy her books, and discover how you can cultivate wellbeing with the energies of nature.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Steven Farmer is a Licensed psychotherapist, shamanic practitioner, teacher, and healer. Steven has written several best-selling spiritual, self-improvement books and oracle cards, including, Animal Spirit Guides, Healing Ancestral Karma, Earth Magic book and Oracle Cards, Messages from the Ancestors Oracle Cards, and Messages from the Spirits of Nature.Learn more about Steven and his work at https://drstevenfarmer.comReading List: Cameron, Julia. The Artist’s WayKimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding SweetgrassLevine, Peter. An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing JourneyVisit www.dinasaalisi.com to learn more about Dina, buy her books, and discover how you can cultivate wellbeing with the energies of nature.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Louesa Roebuck is a visionary artist, floral designer extraordinaire, author, and creator of 2 visually stunning books: Foraged Flora and Punk Ikebana. Louesa’s acclaimed artistry has been showcased in House Beautiful, Vogue, Goop, and more. Last year she was the keynote speaker at San Francisco’s DeYoung Museum’s renowned event, Bouquets to Art. She has produced floral installations for such notables as Alice Waters, Michael pollan, Michelle Obama, and my favorite, Dame Vivienne Westwood. Our interview takes place in her garden in Ojai, CA.Learn more at https://www.louesaroebuck.comVisit www.dinasaalisi.com to learn more about Dina, buy her books, and discover how you can cultivate wellbeing with the energies of nature.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Louesa Roebuck is a visionary artist, floral designer extraordinaire, author, and creator of 2 visually stunning books: Foraged Flora and Punk Ikebana. Louesa’s acclaimed artistry has been showcased in House Beautiful, Vogue, Goop, and more. Last year she was the keynote speaker at San Francisco’s DeYoung Museum’s renowned event, Bouquets to Art. She has produced floral installations for such notables as Alice Waters, Michael pollan, Michelle Obama, and my favorite, Dame Vivienne Westwood. Our interview takes place in her garden in Ojai, CA.Learn more at https://www.louesaroebuck.comVisit www.dinasaalisi.com to learn more about Dina, buy her books, and discover how you can cultivate wellbeing with the energies of nature.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today I am on a Zoom call with my very special guest in the U.K., author, journalist, and garden designer extraordinaire Naomi Slade. She has received awards for her installations at the recent Chelsea flower show, she's written ten books to date on flowers and gardening, such as Hydrangeas, Ranunculus, Lilacs, Lilies, Dahlias, Snowdrops, and soon to be released Chrysanthemums, as well as An Orchard Odyssey and The Winter Garden. Naomi's work is a love letter to the garden, full of beauty, poetry, and wisdom. Find Naomi's website at https://www.naomislade.comVisit www.dinasaalisi.com to learn more about Dina, buy her books, and discover how you can cultivate wellbeing with the energies of nature.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today I’m in Napa CA in the garden of my very special guest Rob Keller. Rob is a beekeeper who found his passion for bees through his journey in the visual arts. After receiving an MFA at UC Davis, he returned to the school to attend their Master Beekeeping Program and has become an inspirational leader and educator of regenerative beekeeping in Northern California. He spends his days working with students and clients who wish to incorporate the art of beekeeping into their lives. Owner and operator of the Napa Valley Bee Co. his mission is clear and simple; “The bees come first.”Learn more at https://www.napavalleybeeco.com/Visit www.dinasaalisi.com to learn more about Dina, buy her books, and discover how you can cultivate wellbeing with the energies of nature.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today I’m in the garden in Santa Cruz, CA with my very special guest Heather Houston. Heather is a vocalist, songwriter, and women’s vocal empowerment coach based in Santa Cruz, CA whose work in the musical arts is centered in a deep love for Nature with the Pacific Ocean as her muse. In 2016 her album Prayers for the Water reached the New Age Music top 10. In 2020 she released Sisters of the Moon with her acclaimed women’s choir, Yala Lati. Heather has taught thousands of private voice lessons and since 2005 she has led her Sisters in Harmony singing circles for those who want to free their voice, open to their creative flow, and feel more connected to their inner power.Learn more at https://heatherhoustonmusic.com/Visit www.dinasaalisi.com to learn more about Dina, buy her books, and discover how you can cultivate wellbeing with the energies of nature.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today I’m in my garden in Los Angeles with my very special guest Jessica Hundley. Jessica is an author and filmmaker specializing in music, counterculture, magick, and psychedelia. Her illustrious career as a journalist and editor has been displayed in various publications, such as Vogue, Rolling Stone, and The NY Times. She has published over a dozen books in the last decade, on the works of such luminaries as David Lynch, Dennis Hopper, Gram Parsons, and more. Most recently her title as creator, author, and series editor of Taschen’s Library of Esoterica, includes gorgeous visual volumes on Astrology, Tarot, Witchcraft, and Plant Magick.Learn more at www.jessicahundley.comVisit www.dinasaalisi.com to learn more about Dina, buy her books, and discover how you can cultivate wellbeing with the energies of nature.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today I’m with my very special guest, Judith Poelarends. Judith is a master essence practitioner and owner of Alaskan Essences. Her career began in the Netherlands as a scientific researcher on animal health, which led her to her greater calling as an animal communicator, working with the medicine of flower essences. As her path in the healing arts broadened, she met her partner, Steve Johnson, the founder of Alaskan Essences and moved to Victor, MT. Since Steve’s death in in 2017, Judith took up the reigns as director of the company. Every year, she makes a solo pilgrimage to Alaska, to create the essences.Learn more at https://alaskanessences.comVisit www.dinasaalisi.com to learn more about Dina, buy her books, and discover how you can cultivate wellbeing with the energies of natureLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, I’m with my very special guests Olivia Simone and Iman Nazemzadeh. Olivia and Iman are both artists in the fields of acting, writing, and filmmaking, based in Los Angeles. In this conversation, we get to experience a tea ceremony with Iman, as we talk about the gift of tea in each of their lives. As Buddhist practitioners, we touch on how tea supports their spiritual engagement, emotional wellbeing, and the health of their relationship.Learn more on Iman and Olivia's Instagram and the Global Tea Hut WebsiteIman https://www.instagram.com/iteaceremony/Olivia https://www.instagram.com/livsimone/Global Tea Hut https://globalteahut.org/Visit www.dinasaalisi.com to learn more about Dina, buy her books, and discover how you can cultivate wellbeing with the energies of nature.Join Dina for her upcoming Flowers and Sound Workshop in Woodside, CALearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices