The Flowerlounge with Katie Hess

Kristina is a lunar loving, sun worshiping, skywatching astrologer, keeping time with moon/tide in Pismo Beach, CA. Her body of work is anchored in the divine feminine, the exploration of cosmic time and the natural rhythms of lunar & seasonal living. Multi-perceptual listening allows me to give voice to unseen realms, offering guidance and support in navigating the ebbs & flows of life. To learn more visit: LOTUSWEI.COM/PODCAST

Kelly Brogan, is a Manhattan-based holistic women’s health psychiatrist, author of the NY Times Bestselling book, A Mind of Your Own, and co-editor of the landmark textbook, Integrative Therapies for Depression. She is board certified in psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, and integrative holistic medicine, and is specialized in a root-cause resolution approach to psychiatric syndromes and symptoms. To learn more visit: LOTUSWEI.COM/PODCAST

Greetings from Costa Rica! This week, Taylor and I decided to record an extra special episode about all of our different trips around the world to collect flower essences, and what we have learned, experienced, and saw during some of these wild trips! You'll hear stories from the road, when to trust your instincts, and get all the 'behind the scenes' dirt that you don't get to see through social media! To learn more visit: LOTUSWEI.COM/PODCAST

Robin Sandomirsky is the luminary intuitive, life cartographer, and medicine keeper of Soyala. Her main work is collaborative one on one luminary transformation sessions. She is also currently creating and holding her newest invitation, death medicine keepers project and circle. She is also currently writing a book of story and poetry based on her experiences taking care of her best friend and soul sister who died of breast cancer in July 2017. To learn more visit: LOTUSWEI.COM/podcast

Flora Bowley's soulful approach to the creative process has sparked a new holistic movement in the intuitive art world by empowering thousands of people to courageously pick up a paintbrush through her books, intimate in-person workshops, and popular online classes. To learn more visit: LOTUSWEI.COM/12

Dr. Grace Pundyk is a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist and writer. Her PhD research, titled ‘Invisible Words: the semaphore of skin’, drew on the mediums of photography, video, installation, theatre and artifacts of skin.. It is from this research that Grace began making parchment, which she sources directly from marsupial roadkill in north-west Tasmania.To learn more visit: LOTUSWEI.COM/11

Sasha Duerr is an artist and designer who works with plant-based palettes, natural dyes and place-based recipes. She is a professor at the California College of the Arts with a joint appointment in textiles and fine arts where she designs curriculum and teaches courses in the intersection of natural color, slow food, slow fashion and social practice. To learn more visit: LOTUSWEI.COM/10

Elena Brower is a renowned author, yoga teacher and speaker. Influenced by several yoga traditions, she's recognized internationally for her practices and her realistic reverence. She's the author of Art of Attention, a yoga workbook that has been translated into six languages, Practice You, just released in September 2017 and already a bestseller, and the creator of Teach.yoga, a virtual home for yoga teachers worldwide. To learn more visit: LOTUSWEI.COM/9

Rosemary Gladstar is a pioneer in the herbal movement and has been called the 'Godmother of American Herbalism'. She is the founder of the California School of Herbal Studies, the oldest running herb school in the United States, author of The Science and Art of Herbalism home study course, and is the organizer of the International Herb Symposium and The New England Women's Herbal Conference held annually in NE. To learn more visit: Lotuswei.com/8

Diego Perez is a meditator, writer, and speaker who is most widely known on Instagram and various social media networks through his pen name Yung Pueblo. The name Yung Pueblo means young people; it serves to remind him of his Ecuadorian roots, his experiences in activism, and that the collective of humanity is in the midst of important growth. To learn more visit: LOTUSWEI.COM/PODCAST

Brigitte Mars is an herbalist and nutritional consultant of Natural Health with almost fifty years of experience. She teaches Herbal Medicine at Naropa University, and The School of Health Mastery in Iceland. She has taught at Omega Institute, Esalen, Kripalu, Sivananda Yoga Ashram, Arise, Envision and Unify Festivals, and The Mayo Clinic. She blogs for the Huffington Post and Care2. She is a professional member of the American Herbalist Guild. To learn more visit: LOTUSWEI.COM/6

Carrie-Anne Moss is an actress, mother, wife, and owner of Annapurna Living. As a mother and wife, she is able to embody her true self and to engage in her most authentic work in this life. Carrie-Anne is a student and teacher of Kundalini Yoga—a technology that has changed her life and that she feels compelled to share. LOTUSWEI.COM/PODCAST

I fell in love with a company called Juniper Ridge several years ago. I had just come back from a distillation trip of my own (the first + only, actually), creating essential oil + hydrosol of Pinon Pine, so I knew how much work goes into the process. I started burning their Pinon Pine incense daily + drinking their evergreen needle teas. I spent a lot of time as a child playing in the trees + so the aromas that Juniper Ridge collect bring me right back into the woods.

In episode three of The Flowerlounge, I would like to talk about plants for spiritual growth. As our culture becomes more open to using plants to not only heal ailments of the body, but also the soul, I am noticing an interesting trend. It's a trend towards a fixation on only a handful of plants, that happen to be psychedelic plants, or that impair your usual perception of reality. To learn more go to lotuswei.com/03

Jini Patel Thompson is the author of 17 books and an internationally recognized expert on natural healing for digestive diseases. After healing herself of widespread Crohn’s Disease, people kept asking her how she did it. That led to her first book, Listen To Your Gut; which turned into 16 more books, over 300 health products and readers/customers in 60 different countries worldwide.