“what is the secret council in your heart whispering to be here”
A series of one-to-one soul mentorship sessions guided by Rose.
If your looking for space to slow down to truly be with yourself, giving space to your heart’s calling to be heard - this is for you.
Meet yourself deeper in a space of love and bring who you are into the world.
About
Rose is heart of my practice.
It is a potent gateway - an axis mundae into your inner landscape.
Under the Rose sessions are Insight Herbalism sessions solely working with the plant rose. These can be a starting point for deeper one to one work in meeting plants to get to know your own inner landscape.
What does it truly mean to listen to your heart? There are so many ideas and expectations of what it means to live from the heart, many overlayed with conditioning of being ‘nice’ or kind. But so often I see women over riding their needs, their own intuition and therefore there own magic and intuition to fit in. What is would it feel like to genuinely and truly listen? to feel safe enough that you can actually discover what is there.
And what would it be to been seen, witness and heard, with no judgment as you reveal your deepest knowings.
there is a reason people are so drawn to Rose. like no other plant she takes us out of our human heart conditioning and into the vaster universal field of love.
Rose facilitates softening and deepening into your own heart space. She guides you to relax and slow down so you are able to listen more deeply to what is within you that wants to be heard.
What is included
Over a series of 3 or 6 sessions we will explore your story - giving it space, and then drop beneath it.
With meditation, breath-work and journeying with rose, we will uncover a theme that you would like unravel.
Each session will finish with subtle bodywork to integrate and deepen what is being discovered.
During the session I will be actively witnessing you. Connecting to rose, to you, and the space that is created between us, I will use my insight and awareness to support and guide you into this meeting, helping you to deepen and to integrate what is taking place.
I will give you Essence of Rose tincture and guided meditations to work with in between sessions. I will write notes for you so you can be present for yourself, and I will write these up with key themes at the end.
Duration and Exchange
3 x 90 minute sessions (£250)
6 x 90 minute sessions (£480)
Held in person at Ruskin Apothecary in Nailsworth, or Online. Session price includes Essence of Rose Tincture for you to connect with between sessions, and support via WhatsApp or Email for any questions that come up, as well as detailed notes of your journey highlighting key themes that arose. A deposit of £75 is required on booking and full payment is required before your first session, or can be arranged in 3 instalments via standing order. session are to be taken over a 3 or 6 month period. any sessions not taken up in this time are non-refundable.
The Meaning Behind Sub Rosa
Rose and humans have a long an intricate history. Dating back to antiquity particularly in ancient Persia and the middle east, humans have cultivated roses for at least 3000 years. I hugely suspect that it is far far longer. Throughout this long and interconnected history, the rose has been deeply symbolic in many cultures as a symbol of maternal creativity and essential feminine power - the secret essence of life.
Rose has long played a role in sacred and spiritual rites of passage. The petals and leaves from wild roses have been found in tombs belonging to ancient Egyptians, and throughout many cultures all over the world there is a connection between rose and our soul journey, or the path of the heart.
The term Sub Rosa is a latin phrase which literally translates as “under the rose”. It is used to denote something that is done in secrecy or with confidentiality. Roses were painted on the ceiling of Roman banquet halls to remind those present that all shared under the influence of wine should remain ‘sub rosa’. In the middle ages a rose suspended from the ceiling of a council chamber again reminded those present that what was being discussed was to remain secret, and in christianity it carries this same meaning with roses often carved into confessionals signifying for conversations to remain private.
It feels to me that this use of rose has been absorbed in patriarchal practice that wish to remain separated and in secret. But it is an echo of remembering the sacred feminine and of the sacred rites of passage of that were outside of normal life. In modern times we ‘miss’ the meaning of something held in secret. Not that it is something that is not ‘allowed’ to be shared but that it is a part of our being, and initiation or integration that cannot and does not need to be shared or explained to anyone outside of ourselves.
Sub Rosa is to reclaim our sacred and secret knowings that we all hold in our hearts. To rediscover our own sovereignty. In an age where oversharing and disclosure are becoming commonplace, it is important that we hold space for those sacred parts of ourselves that deserves privacy and confidentiality to be honoured. Sub Rosa sessions with me are a sacred space for you to be heard, and in doing so can be the catalyst for you to root into your own knowing, bringing it fully alive in your life.