VERDITER
BOTANICAL DEWS
Intro
All Flower Essences
Flower Combinations
Custom Blends
Ecoregions
Bog / Water
Tuckamore / Wood
Meadow / Fire
Boreal Forest / Earth
Coastal Barrens / Metal
About the practice
Contact
About
A flower essence is the subtle energetic imprint of a blossom and its accumulated dew, captured in spring water through the light of the sun, then preserved and diluted for personal use. While modern flower essence therapy has been documented since the early 20th century, practices involving flowers, water, and sunlight span centuries across diverse cultures.
Flowers are a reminder of the joy, strangeness, and creativity in nature’s vital expression, which is not separate from our own bodies and minds. This approach treats flower essences as compassionate companions for attuning to the subtle dimensions of human experience through the light of nature. Rather than offering a “fix” or suppression of symptoms, they support moving through personal challenge with greater capacity, helping to transform old conditioning through the nuances of inner life.
Humans and plants share a deep evolutionary entwinement. In my experience, flower essences create a more spacious capacity for inner seeing and embodied awareness. They communicate a sense of safety to the body’s habitual processing systems. Through sympathetic resonance, they support the conditions that allow the body’s innate intelligence to release subtle blocks and realign with its essential nature.
To borrow Donna Haraway’s language, this is an artful process of “staying with the trouble,” transforming our experience at its deeper, more subtle root form. This calls for embracing the inherent wisdom of body and being, holding mystery and present-moment awareness as an intelligence beyond the logical mind.
Verditer
Verditer is the heart work of Erin Hunt, an artist living on Fogo Island. This project approaches Fogo Island as a living laboratory for deep listening, emerging out of an inquiry into the correspondences between somatic, emotional and ecological well-being. Part of Erin’s practice involves working one-on-one with individuals to identify flowers that may offer subtle support.
What began intuitively over the years through close attention to local flowers has deepened through formal training and certification, clinical study, and 6 years of individual client work. Erin’s practice draws on five element theory and explores the harmonious relationship between one's internal energy and the rhythms of nature.
For more about Erin’s art practice and the work arising in relation to this research please visit erinhunt.ca