Being in Communion
Dewdrop Botanicals
Vibrational essences and tinctures
by Kaya & Emil
Dewdrop Botanicals was born from love and a quiet awakening of two souls who saw the beauty and innate balance that is so wild and yet so gracefully present in nature.
Like the fresh and most potent drops of medicine are collected in the dew from flowers and plants under the influence of planetary presences - when the moon is high, or right when darkness turns to light - so too are our tinctures and essences refined and collected into concentrated elixirs, at the key positioning of planets and transitions between day and night – dusk and dawn.
We do our best to source the purest and most potent plants for our elixirs, either collecting them in the wild ourselves or obtaining them from trusted sources. They steep and share their gifts in locally made alcohol while we steep them in our prayers and blessings of love.
We commune with the plants we work with, we pray, sing, dance and cry with them, to align to, support and facilitate the condensing of each individual plant's service into an energetically available structure.
The medicine of light, planets and elements are condensed into plant elixirs made to serve the expansion of love. The purpose of our products is to activate the potential inside each person.
In awe of the cycles within and without we see our reflections in the smallest particles and the greatest forces. In our alchemical understanding, one cannot transform any external matter, without transforming correlating internal energy. We are dedicated to showing up for our personal paths reflected in the beautiful dance of birth, growth, decay, death and rebirth that nature expresses itself through again and again.
Sometimes the plants let us know that they have certain gifts for us humans. And when we listen we can receive.
This is how Dewdrop Botanicals came to be. And this is how we grow.
Essence Categories
Personal Essences
We are all unique beings, unique combinations of energy and matter. Those combinations give rise to unique constellations and unique frequencies of resonance. Your personal essence is made in attunement with you, to support you in aligning with your path and highest potential. Kaya mix up to 7 essence in your personal blend based on your energy, constitution and intention.
Dieta Essences
The dieta essences are made from master plants from the Peruvian Amazon. They are made deep love for and guidance by my own dietas, to support dieters in preparing, integrating, connecting and exploring. The essences are not a dieta extact - meaning you don't open an active dieta with them. They are vibrational essences through which the plants share their energetic structure.
Wildcrafted Essences
Our wildcrafted essences are all made in prayer. Together with the plants and trees we co-create the alchemical manifestation of their energy into liquid form. The water hold the pattern and makes the energy available to you, the Earth energy and planetary alignment harvest cosmic vibration into the mix, all to support you with love in different flavors.
What is an essences
Flower and plant essences fall into the category of vibrational medicine, which is a kind of energy medicine. It fits into the same category as homeopathy and acupuncture amongst others. They work on the psychosomatic and more subtle emotional and mental levels.
Building on the understanding that a lot of physical illness or proneness to illness comes from trauma and emotional imbalances, flower and plant essences are used to treat the underlying emotional pattern behind symptoms.
Flower and plant essences are herbal infusions or decoctions with no plant material or chemical compounds left in the final product (all plant matter is removed), then it’s preserved and potentized through a dilution method. They are made from mostly wildflowers, but sometimes also pristine garden flowers, and can also be made from different plant parts, although most commonly flowers. They are made in a process of connecting to the elements present in nature, which is in a balanced relationship with each other, even though it may not be obviously perceived through the human eyes. The quintessential fifth element is the awareness and attunement of the person preparing the essence. In the alchemical process, the person preparing the remedy must go through her or his own transformation for the remedy to be able to transform from its originally separated compounds into a new collected whole.
Because essences are vibrational, their effect has so much to do with how the plants are harvested and prepared. When we create essences we do so with love, through ritual and ceremony. We co-create with the land, plants, mineral and planetary influences to manifest these portals of small drops. With the intention to offer you a physical medium to attune and align to the frequency offered by the elements and beings present in each essence.
Essences through time
Hildegard von Bingen recorded the first European use of flower essences in the 1300s, where dew was extracted from flowers and used to treat emotional imbalances.
In the 1930s the British doctor Edward Bach started developing his 38 well-known remedies mostly from British wildflowers, which also started with collecting dew. His findings and documentation is what forms the foundation of most western flower essence therapy today. He used both clinical and personal observation and was the first to categorize the use of flower essences.
There is not much older historical documentation for the use of flowers as medicine in the form of essences. Some of the oldest findings that point towards it is from Egypt where there are flowers portrayed in some liquid preparation used for healing on Egyptian papyrus scrolls, even though they were not necessarily prepared in the same way as an essence is today. Aboriginals have a long history of using preparations of flowers as essences for both emotional and physical healing, and in ceremonies.
Dieta essences
Kaya was asked by her dietas to hold space for them to manifest as essences. With the purpose of helping people on the path of dieting, to connect with their dietas in different ways, and provide a physical medium for that connecting which can also be used without being in dieta. Since then we have made dieta essences using different parts of the 5 sacred dieta plants offered at Inkankena. Using the essences of dieta plants really is pioneering work. This means you are to create your own way and relationship, through listening to and communing with your dietas and essences.
In our experience, you can use the essences while you diet, both externally and internally. Because there is no physical component in the essence - as there would be in an extract - the same requirements for fasting aren’t there as a set rule. Most importantly you check in with your dieta, to find out what is appropriate for you. When you are not dieting, you can, in our experience, use the essences to connect with or recharge your dietas.
The essences can also be used prior to doing a dieta with a plant to prepare the system and start the connection and relationship, so you are more open and ready for the dieta to root deeply in you when you do open a dieta.
The essences can also be used, as other essences, for people who do not diet or intend to. To connect and establish a relationship with the plant spirit as an ally or just to work with the signature of the essence.
We recommend taking the slow path, meaning to begin experimenting from a soft, gentle and curious heart. Much like how we see the process of dieting, it is about love, devotion, presence and dedication (and so so much more…)
If you are interested in essences of dieta trees/plants that you cannot find in the catalog then write to us. Some of the essences we have we don’t offer publicly, but only to folks that already have dietas. This is to honour their rarity.
Personal essences
We are all unique beings, unique combinations of energy and matter. Those combinations give rise to unique constellations and unique frequencies of resonance. Your personal essence is made in attunement with you, to support you in aligning with your path and highest potential.
After filling out a thorough questionnaire, and optionally an online consultation, Kaya commune with the plants of the essences that she works with to create a uniquely formulated essence crafted just for you.
Kaya will use her intuitive connection to the essences she has, and her abilities to receive information from her guides to mix a blend that resonates with what your constitution needs and your specific wishes and intentions.
For this Kaya uses a mix of the Dewdrop Botanical essences which we’ve produced ourselves, and around 50 other essences from sources that align. She uses a maximum of 7 different essences per blend, in alignment with her alchemical understanding. You can have several different personal essences for different purposes. You can also have them in pairs like one for daytime use and one for nighttime use or one for waxing moon and another for waning moon and so on
You receive a longer more detailed document with suggestions on how to use the personal essences.
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