Comments on: The Sedona Equinox and Planting Festival

By: Mira Murphy

Mira Murphy — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:30:31 +0000

Not to be redundant, the weekend was amazing. I feel like it ties together all my passions and aspirations, from food, to the environment, to health, to spiritual evolution and I find my direction in life emerging with greater clarity. Like David says, I think the plants themselves are guiding me. Since the spring planting festival, actual spring planting is really taking off! The garden at 7 Centers is really moving forward into a realm it has not seen in years past as we work towards our goal of supplying our yoga students with homegrown food. Thank you David, for your wisdom and inspiration.

By: Laurel Brown

Laurel Brown — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:42:22 +0000

I want to thank everyone who came to the Floracopeia events in Sedona during the Spring Equinox. It was such a pleasure and joy to meet all of you! I experienced my own shift in conciousness last weekend and it has been inspiring to hear about some of your individual experiences with the oils on the phone this past week. I look forward to going back to Sedona soon. Thank you for sharing your time, love, enthusiasm, and appreciation of the oils with all of us.
I am thrilled to be taking Jai Dev’s place next weekend, April 4-5, at the Southwestern Conference of Botanical Medicine in Tempe, AZ. I will have the oils & resins and would love to see some familiar faces. Blessings to you all.

By: Jai Dev Singh

Jai Dev Singh — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:08:42 +0000

Hi Melissa,
An event in France sometime would be lovely. We just finished skyping with a group in Prague for a couple of hours. They were taking an Ayurvedic course and David spoke to them on video…they seemed to love it and it was fun for us too. Lots of possibilities these days

By: Melissa Moritel

Melissa Moritel — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:44:14 +0000

How I regret not being able to attend this event ! But I’m not giving up on organising something here in France. I hope to be among you soon;

Always walking beside you from afar,
Melissa

By: elYvn

elYvn — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:33:09 +0000

It is so great to share in Verde Valley Spring Planting Festival in Sedona. A true honor to be a part of the Sedona community gardening experience. What a beautiful event for inspiring well being for all on an experiential level. We shared in yoga classes, gardening work, music and dance, and then we all experienced with our awareness the plant intelligences of various plants through meditations lead by David Crow. May all communities be inspired to promote community gardens because it feels great to come together in the gardens and share our abundance on earth…

By: David Crow

David Crow — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:44:45 +0000

Thank you everyone for your presence at the events, your contributions to the community, and your nice messages here…much appreciated!

By: Marie

Marie — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:18:51 +0000

What an amazingly rich week this has been. I received so much from every one of the events I attended.
I thank David and Ruth for putting this Festival together, Jai Dev and all who participated. The week end retreat with David was unlike any event I had previously attended. I knew I was in for something very special from the start: I love scents, Nature and the Beauty of Creation. But what I experienced far exceeded my wildest dreams. Exotic fragrances, one after the other, making their way to our olfactory senses, weaving their magic on them as well as on our mood and consciousness: from white lilly, Dawn Blooming Jasmine, the rich essences of Neroli, to Roses and rare Sacred wood essences, the opulence of the Earth ’s true riches and heritage. David’s vast botanical and Ayurvedic knowledge made this event riveting, as were the stories he had to share.
Being partial to flowers and scents, I was simply: in Heaven! Coupled with meditating, this was unquestionably a great vintage experience for me. Becoming acquainted with the intelligence of each plant, realizing that this Intelligence also flows through us and having a tangible experience of Unity Consciousness as a result was priceless. I left the retreat with a much more fluid, expansive ‘idea’ , or more accurately ’sense’, about ‘my’ self. Realizing that the 5 elements flow through me as they do through all of nature helped me to exercise reverence for the life force not just outside of me but also as I observed it within. And I who love the Earth find it neat to now be able to recognize its presence within me, inseparably from ‘outside’. I love the expansive and unified overall ‘picture’ that is emerging out of these changes in my perception.
It would be tempting to say that this was a unique experience, but thankfully I am going to be back for more in September, a true sign that we live in an Abundant Universe, for which I am thankful both to the Universe and to the Floracopeia team ! It was so nice meeting Laurel too and the rest of the Floracopeia team. To all of you: THANK YOU!

As a result, life without the exotic essences of Neroli, Rose or Jasmine is no longer an option !
There remains to thank David for producing these amazing oils in ethical and planet-sustaining ways, and in so doing, preserving our Earth’s heritage so it can be shared. I really applaud him for his unique contribution to replanting the Global Garden that it was a priviledge and much fun being part of it during the Sedona Planting Festival week. As was the community spirit!
Perhaps it will be the plants themselves, and the Intelligence within them, that will bring us back to our senses and help us wake up again to the beauty and diversity of the Garden, in time for it to be preserved, so that it, in turn, can preserve us.

By: Ishtima

Ishtima — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:34:38 +0000

I am so grateful to have been a part of this weekend’s workshop as well as David’s previous visit in November.
David’s connection to the plant kingdom and the awareness of a sustainable environment so simply go
together with the most amazing fragrant oils. This was my first opportunity to actually “sit” in meditation and feel the support of all the aromatic treasures in the voices of the plants. It was a very enchanting spiritual event.
DAVID COME BACK SOON!
Namaste
Ishti

By: Jai Dev Singh

Jai Dev Singh — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:15:38 +0000

If any of you who were at the events in Sedona have pictures that you took, we’d love to see them. You can post them on the Floracopeia Facebook page. It’s really easy.

By: Elaine Stewart

Elaine Stewart — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:07:44 +0000

I attended the Contemplative Aromatherapy workshop this past weekend in Sedona. This was the first time I met or heard David speak. It was a deeply spiritual, uplifting and extremely informative weekend. Learning from and about the oils by listening to my senses taught me so much about myself and my connection to everything around me – specifically about the sacred plants on our planet and their immense role in healing us and keeping us alive. David’s passion of replanting the global garden really inspired me to live and carry this message forward. David is very generous in sharing his deep understanding of the connection between the plants and all other living creatures, how we can heal ourselves through awareness and allowing us to smell and experience many oils and their effect on us. If you have an opportunity to participate in one of these workshops, I highly recommend it.