Hello, I’m Steven Lydford,
Steven Lydford
BEd, PGDipTchg
Registered Practitioner & Tutor
First Light Flower Essences of New Zealand®
I am a certified practitioner and tutor for First Light Flower Essences of New Zealand® since 2007. I am privileged to be a father of two lovely children and a dedicated primary school teacher since 2002 and am committed to delivering value through the highest quality of instruction techniques. I have a deep respect for New Zealand native flora and I enjoy sharing their gifts with others.
Once I started working with these essences the shifts that I experienced personally were nothing short of incredible. I then went on to become certified and practice with friends, family and clients. I have witnessed so many positive changes in the people I have worked with that now First Light® flower essences are my chosen modality. Working with these essences allows us to assist people with deep levels of pain and trauma in a gentle and very effective way. I have a special interest in using the essences with children within the family matrix, for animals and in house clearings.
I am passionate about sharing this range of flower essences, they are an integral part of my life and it is a privilege to be able to pass on the incredible information within the sacred plant medicine of New Zealand to help clients create shifts that help to bring balance and holistic wellbeing.
What are Flower Essences?
Flower essences have been used by indigenous cultures for thousands of years with documentations of their use discovered on papyrus scripts in Ancient Egypt. Indigenous Australians also recognised their healing qualities and would use them as part of healing ceremonies. They came back into mainstream awareness in the 1930s.
The practice uses flora, water and sunlight. The water absorbs the vibrational potency of the flora which can then be ingested. When a person ingests a flower essence blend the vibration of that particular essences has an effect or impact on the person’s vibration by what is known as resonance transfer.
However not all flower essences are equal. It appears to be a relatively easy process, to pick some plant material, then steep it in water in sunlight. However this is not the case. There are many factors involved to producing a range of flower essences that have energetic potency and is why there is such a range of effectiveness between flower essences products.
How do Flower Essences work?
First Light Flower Essences of New Zealand® were created in 1999 by Franchelle Ofsoské-Wyber using a proprietary process. Each essence was made in accordance with ancient processes and protocols. This involved communication with the sophisticated plant intelligence of each plant to release its full vibrational healing potential. Being able to do this is incredibly difficult and beyond the reach of most people.
All First Light® flower essences are blended from native New Zealand flora which is totally unique and unlike any other ecosystem on Earth. New Zealand native flora has the keynote of co-operation and was isolated for hundreds of millions of years without land dwelling predators. Co-operation is imbued into the First Light® range of essences.
Before Franchelle could make an essence, she had to firstly receive an invitation from the plant deva – the over-lighting spirit of the plant – to make the essence. The deva then imparted very specific directions to Franchelle, for making the particular essence. Adhering to the sacred protocols and processes in the preparation and making of the essence was crucial – not a single step could be overlooked.
Franchelle then had to undertake and successfully pass through the many physical and metaphysical tests and rites of passage associated with that plant, another very challenging part in the making of these essences.
Why First Light® Flower Essences?
Flower essences are made using plant material, water and sunlight. The resulting mother or stock flower essence contains the plant vibrations or plant energy. So that when a person ingests or places the drops of the flower essence under their tongue the holistic healing vibration is transferred into their body by a process called resonance transfer.
As vibration or energy moves faster through water this is a very efficient, effective and dynamic and natural way of working with nature. This process works on the holistic level of a person, their physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels through the electrical system above and inside the body.
In the making of First Light® flower essences, the energetic blueprint or healing ‘song’ of the flower or plant is transferred into the flower essence. Franchelle had to learn each unique plant song. This healing ‘song’ is then transferred to the person who takes the essence.
This unique range of healing flower essences were created to help people and animals meet the unprecedented challenges of current times. They are a totally revolutionary range of energetically potent flower essences which are carefully blended and crafted to support us through the Aquarian Age and is why Steven chooses to work with only First Light Flower Essences of New Zealand®.
First Light Flower Essences of New Zealand® are a range of 185 essences carefully selected to provide holistic support at all levels; physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
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