The Essence

The Embodied Floral Design™ Method is the heart of FloraSoma.

It is a way of creating that supports you to learn how to listen to yourself. Each workshop is a full-body experience where self-awareness, art, and reflection come together through flower design.

As you arrange, you learn to notice what’s happening inside you: Sensations, Emotions, Thoughts that are always running in the subconscious. And what you discover within begins to shape what takes form before you in your arrangement.

The Process

Each session begins with purposeful stillness. You’re guided through body-centered meditation and gentle Self-Breema movements, allowing your awareness to settle into the body. From there, we explore Ikebana and Five Element Theory — learning how the principles of balance, relationship, and movement in nature reflect the same patterns within us.

You’ll begin by noticing which emotion or element calls for your attention.
Does it need support, or release?
Is the emotion stuck, or a little extra?

Each question becomes a doorway into understanding your internal landscape before you begin to create.

Working With the Elements

Each element carries its own rhythm and information.

Wood offers direction and growth.
Fire opens warmth and expression.
Earth steadies and nourishes.
Metal clears and refines.
Water restores trust and flow.

As you work, you’ll learn how these qualities live in the body and how you can express this in your arrangement. Then comes you get to choose your flowers. Which colors and textures are you drawn toward? Each choice is intentional.

The choices become a direct reflection of your internal process and the support you are receiving in This Moment.

The arrangement becomes a kind of journal in bloom — visible to others, but carrying meaning known only to you, unless you choose to share it.

Through this process, you discover how the language of nature mirrors your own awareness. Each stem you choose becomes a way of listening to yourself.

Integration & Ongoing Practice

Every workshop includes a 7-Day Embodied Floral Design™ Practice. This is a gentle rhythm of reflection and interaction with your arrangement for a week! Although you can do it again and again. This practice is designed to never get old, just like we love the seasons changing again and again.

Each day focuses on one aspect of embodiment and self-understanding:

The Body Is Breathing.
The Body Has Weight.
The Body Has Movement.
The Body Has Posture.
The Body Has Tone of Voice.

The practice arrives as a guided email series and a downloadable guided body centered meditation, helping you keep the conversation with your creation alive within yourself. While you are tending to your arrangement, you are reflecting and observing yourself in action.

The Practice

The Embodied Floral Design™ Method is truly about learning to listen to yourself in a new way.

We hope you begin to recognize the dialogue between how you feel and what you make - experiencing the flowers a bit like teachers. Opening up a possibility of tasting daily balance, & clarity in a real grounded way.

Experience the Method

There are two ways to begin:

Join a Workshop — Experience the method in a guided, in-person setting where flowers and self-understanding meet.

Explore the Kits — Continue at home with guided videos, meditations, and materials for your own elemental designs.