Experience flower remedies in your body, notice how they impact your state of mind & learn about specific flowers that can make your life easier.
Discover the world of vibrational medicine & see your body in a whole new light.
Experience the water from the mother essence & do a wish-fulfilling flower offering with flower petals outside with a dedication. Catalyze your true nature with ancient cleansing practices.
Learn a variety of simple practices that awaken insights in your daily life and nourish your subtle body.
Includes: dark chocolate meditation, tea ceremony, absorbing elements from nature, body movement practices, and Tai Chi.
Vibrationally-enhanced beverages & snacks throughout the day using local plant ingredients.
An ancient Tibetan Smoke Offering practice, involving burning precious herbs & sound therapy in an auspicious, transformative experience, specifically dedicated to removing obstacles & inspiring prosperity, longevity & happiness.
Enjoy wildly creative, mood-boosting meals that support the intention of the retreat.
Can include foraged flora from property, and will be enriched with flower elixirs, dark chocolate, and Ayurvedic & Chinese Herbs.
Dissolve stagnancy in your auric field & come alive with the life-force of nature with fresh plants & flowers, acupressure, sound therapy, and a palette of hundreds of flower essences & essential oils.
A treatment that is gentle, fully clothed, more relaxing than a massage, and the most divine nurturing Mother Nature experience.
Enjoy the intersection of flower essences with Traditional Chinese Medicine with LOTUSWEI-certified licensed acupuncturist.
Explore 3,000 year old chi flow practices like moxibustion, cupping, guasha & ear crystals, and community acupuncture.
Art/painting/ceramic workshops
Botanicals on silk scarves or cotton bags with foraged Hawaiian plants & flowers
Fresh flower mandalas
Cooking or making beverages with healing flowers
Katie Hess is a flower alchemist, TEDx speaker, author of Flowerevolution and founder of LOTUSWEI, one of the world’s leading floral apothecaries.
With her signature elixirs featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, The New York Times and the LA Times, her flower-powered community is thriving. She’s founder of the Self-Arising Nature Center in Phoenix, Arizona, a center for flower essence education and practitioner training. She provides transformative sensory experiences that reawaken the true indescribable essence of who we really are.
Find out what your favorite flower means about you at lotuswei.com.
After traveling in the Himalayas for 11 years, living in monasteries and doing a retreat in a cave, Lisa Reinhardt came back to the US to share what she'd learned about meditation. After an a-ha moment eating chocolate, however, things took a delicious turn.
Now, as founder of Wei of Chocolate, Lisa delights in awakening people to the joy of eating chocolate every day, free from guilt. Realizing what differentiates healthy chocolate from candy, she shows how daily chocolate is a path to wellness, as well as a method to bring the peace of meditation effortlessly into our modern, busy lifestyle.
Justin has fifteen years of experience as culinary director, food & beverage manager, event specialist and traveling chef in Spain, Switzerland and Croatia.
As a private event and retreat chef, he creates joyful experiences through holistic food cooked with a sense of place. He infuses his creations with flower essences to enhance mood, along with Ayurvedic and Chinese herbs to strengthen the body. His cooking is a physical + spiritual expression that brings guests deeper into experience.
Through flavor, texture, aroma and vision, Justin’s food gently demands your attention while nurturing connection, growth, and expansion. His mantra while cooking: abundance.
Alan Chang, second generation L.Ac, has been in the medical field of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine for 20 years.
During the past 2 years of psychological difficulty, he has noticed the Spiritual and Emotional aspects of many clients have suffered, which has caused imbalances in the physical being. Circling back to the foundation of Chinese Medicine, Alan is now also incorporating flower essences into his modality of healing the Mind, Body and Spirit.
In his own personal growth, flower essences have been foundational in the shift of moving from California to Arizona in 2022.
Taylor Rico is the Creative Director of Marketing for LOTUSWEI & SAN Center. She travels the world with Katie to collect flower essences, lead Flowerlounge events and perform botanical treatments + private ceremonies.
As a LOTUSWEI practitioner, Taylor weaves together flower essences and exquisite experiences to create a space for insights to arise and transformation to occur.
Alison Van Wyck, local artist + teacher, has spent a lifetime exploring the connection between art, life + meditation. She holds an MFA in painting, and is professionally trained in Chinese calligraphy + Thangka painting.
Alison says, “I make workshops for people who want to try something new, for people who want more possibilities in their lives.’