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Winter Solstice Ritual: Honouring Darkness and Welcoming Light with Flower Essences
With the longest night of the year just around the corner, we’re excited to share our favourite Winter Solstice ritual . At Patagonia Essences, essences are always at the heart of our practice. After all, would it even be a ritual without them? The Winter Solstice is a time to honour the darkness while making space for the returning light. It’s not about denying the heaviness we may feel, but about holding it alongside hope. When approached this way, the Solstice becomes a g

Gabrielle Astin
Dec 17, 20253 min read


What Season of Life Are You In? Discover the Flower Essences That Can Support This Phase Of Your Journey
In this journey of life, things rarely remain the same. Just like nature, we adapt and flow through many states, stages, and rhythms. What our life looked like last year can be vastly different from its current state. That is the beautiful complexity of life. Of being human, of being alive on this incredible planet. Just as we begin to get comfortable, life invites us to face new challenges. We can also see these challenges as opportunities for growth and as invitations to em

Gabrielle Astin
Nov 7, 20255 min read


The Healing Power of Winter: Understanding Melatonin, SAD, Darkness, and How to Stay Well Naturally Through the Season
Embracing the Darkness: The Healing Power of Wintering As the clocks go back and the evenings draw in, many of us instinctively brace ourselves for the darker months. We talk about “getting through winter” as if it’s something to endure, yet darkness has its own wisdom. In nature, winter is never wasted time. It’s a season of deep rest, regeneration, and quiet transformation beneath the surface. When I first moved from Chile to the UK, I found the long winters especially har

Nata Montes Viviani
Oct 30, 20257 min read


Flower Essences for Anxiety – Finding Calm with Bach Flowers and Essences from Patagonia
Discover how anxiety manifests not only in the mind but also through your energetic system, and learn how Bach Flowers and Flower Essences from Patagonia can help restore calm, clarity, and inner balance.

Sandra Viviani
Oct 23, 20254 min read


How Flower Essences and Vibrational Essences Can Transform Relationships: My Journey with King Penguin Essence
Part of our Bird Essence Set, King Penguin essence works like flower essences but carries the expansive energy of birds, supporting...

Gabrielle Astin
Sep 26, 20253 min read


Healing the Earliest Wounds: Exploring Perinatal Experiences with Flower Essences
Have you ever wondered why some patterns in your life feel so deeply ingrained, as though they’ve been with you forever? My journey with...

Nata Montes Viviani
Apr 30, 20254 min read


Worthy: A journey of remembering your innate enough-ness
Everyone is inherently worthy. Just by existing, by simply being - you are enough, you are deserving. But not everyone is connected to...

Gabrielle Astin
Feb 10, 20254 min read


Bird Essences - Reflections on the energy of birds
The wings of the heart “Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?” Gaston Bachelard. What...

Nata Montes Viviani
Nov 12, 20233 min read


Flower Essences for labour
Eight Emotional Needs in Childbirth and the essences that helped me nurture them The years working as a Vibrational Essence Practitioner...

Nata Montes Viviani
Nov 12, 202310 min read


a Journey into the Wild
Chile, the Dragon’s Back Built along the skirts of the magnificent Andes mountains and delimited by the sea on the other side, Chile, my...

Nata Montes Viviani
Nov 12, 20236 min read
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