Katie Hess is a flower alchemist, founder of SAN Center, 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 in over 15 countries.
Whether it’s a retreat in the hot springs of Iceland, her meditations, or her travels to find the planet’s rarest flowers, her work all boils down to bringing people into a whole new world, both outside and in.
LEARN MOREAfter traveling in the Himalayas for 11 years, living in monasteries and doing retreat in a cave, Lisa Reinhardt came back to the US to share what she’d learned about meditation only to discover that it would take another 16 years before mindfulness became a thing. After an a-ha moment eating chocolate, things took a delicious turn and she started an organic chocolate company to subversively teach meditation by enticing people to let the chocolate melt slowly in their mouths.
With over 30 years daily practice, she offers uniquely valuable insight into the world of meditation.
LEARN MORETaylor Rico is the Creative Director of Marketing for the LOTUSWEI + SAN Center. She travels the world with Katie to collect flower essences, lead Flowerlounge events + perform botanical treatments + ceremonies.
As a LOTUSWEI practitioner, Taylor weaves together flower essences + exquisite experiences to create a space for insights arise + transformation to occur.
Justin is a food & beverage director & private chef with over 15 years experience in a large variety of restaurants, cafes, and event spaces in multiple countries and states.
With a broad scope of focus steeped in the need for holistic vision, he creates food with a sense of place that is just as beautiful on the plate as it is good for the body.
His concepts & thematic dinners nurture connection, growth and expansion.
LEARN MOREAlison Van Wyck is an artist, mother & tea maker. She's 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 is the found of Wisdom Nectar Tea ~ an organic, hand-blended & loose leaf tea company that makes teas, tisanes & tinctures that nourish the body.
LEARN MOREAlan 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.
Remove obstacles, cleanse your energetic system & strengthen your best qualities.90-minute ceremony includes: Private Consultation with Katie Hess, LOTUSWEI Botanical Treatment, Smoke Offering Ceremony & Flower Offering Ritual.
Dissolve stagnancy in your auric field & come alive with the life-force of nature. An experience that is gentle, fully clothed, and more relaxing than a massage. Includes never-been-seen before white flower & orchid remedies -- the most powerful elixirs in our apothecary.
Discover new aspects of yourself through a mirror of the botanical world, combined with a customized meditation session with a longtime meditator. Receive custom flower essence recommendations to target exactly what is going on in your life with a LOTUSWEI certified practitioner.
Enjoy the intersection of flower essences with Traditional Chinese Medicine with LOTUSWEI certified licensed acupuncturist. This session may include acupressure, acupuncture or energetic medicine depending on your needs.
Think of every white flower you've ever seen ~ daisies, Lilies, Columbines, Orchids, Irises, Roses, Magnolias, Gardenias & Jasmine.
Imagine that your entire body is filled up with these flowers ...
Burning plants as an offering & purification ritual has been in practice for millennia, across every culture.
The burning of special plants releases the vibrational energy of their qualities, and the smoke is used as offering, carrying prayers and aspirations into the universe.
Chef Justin Booher was inspired to make a delicious drink with petals of wisdom falling from the sky.
If you loved what you were hearing while at the Flowerlounge, you can listen to our event playlist here.