Your Healing Garden

Katie Hess is a flower alchemist who uses the healing power of flowers as potent medicine for wellbeing. As the founder of LOTUSWEI flower essence remedies, she travels the world in search of rare flowers to produce her library of over 150 elixirs. Katie teaches mindfulness practices and flower essence workshops worldwide and she is the author of Flowerevolution. Learn more about Katie and her wor...

Dr. Steven Farmer is a Licensed psychotherapist, shamanic practitioner, teacher, and healer. Steven has written several best-selling spiritual, self-improvement books and oracle cards, including, Animal Spirit Guides, Healing Ancestral Karma, Earth Magic book and Oracle Cards, Messages from the Ancestors Oracle Cards, and Messages from the Spirits of Nature. Learn more about Steven and his work at...

Louesa Roebuck is a visionary artist, floral designer extraordinaire, author, and creator of 2 visually stunning books: Foraged Flora and Punk Ikebana. Louesa’s acclaimed artistry has been showcased in House Beautiful, Vogue, Goop, and more. Last year she was the keynote speaker at San Francisco’s DeYoung Museum’s renowned event, Bouquets to Art. She has produced floral installations for such nota...

Louesa Roebuck is a visionary artist, floral designer extraordinaire, author, and creator of 2 visually stunning books: Foraged Flora and Punk Ikebana. Louesa’s acclaimed artistry has been showcased in House Beautiful, Vogue, Goop, and more. Last year she was the keynote speaker at San Francisco’s DeYoung Museum’s renowned event, Bouquets to Art. She has produced floral installations for such nota...

Today I am on a Zoom call with my very special guest in the U.K., author, journalist, and garden designer extraordinaire Naomi Slade. She has received awards for her installations at the recent Chelsea flower show, she's written ten books to date on flowers and gardening, such as Hydrangeas, Ranunculus, Lilacs, Lilies, Dahlias, Snowdrops, and soon to be released Chrysanthemums, as well as An...

Today I’m in Napa CA in the garden of my very special guest Rob Keller. Rob is a beekeeper who found his passion for bees through his journey in the visual arts. After receiving an MFA at UC Davis, he returned to the school to attend their Master Beekeeping Program and has become an inspirational leader and educator of regenerative beekeeping in Northern California. He spends his days working with...

Today I’m in the garden in Santa Cruz, CA with my very special guest Heather Houston. Heather is a vocalist, songwriter, and women’s vocal empowerment coach based in Santa Cruz, CA whose work in the musical arts is centered in a deep love for Nature with the Pacific Ocean as her muse. In 2016 her album Prayers for the Water reached the New Age Music top 10. In 2020 she released Sisters of the Moon...

Today I’m in my garden in Los Angeles with my very special guest Jessica Hundley. Jessica is an author and filmmaker specializing in music, counterculture, magick, and psychedelia. Her illustrious career as a journalist and editor has been displayed in various publications, such as Vogue, Rolling Stone, and The NY Times. She has published over a dozen books in the last decade, on the works of such...

Today I’m with my very special guest, Judith Poelarends. Judith is a master essence practitioner and owner of Alaskan Essences. Her career began in the Netherlands as a scientific researcher on animal health, which led her to her greater calling as an animal communicator, working with the medicine of flower essences. As her path in the healing arts broadened, she met her partner, Steve Johnson, th...

Today, I’m with my very special guests Olivia Simone and Iman Nazemzadeh. Olivia and Iman are both artists in the fields of acting, writing, and filmmaking, based in Los Angeles. In this conversation, we get to experience a tea ceremony with Iman, as we talk about the gift of tea in each of their lives. As Buddhist practitioners, we touch on how tea supports their spiritual engagement, emotional w...

Today I’m on the glorious Mendocino Coast in the garden of my very special guests Winnie Pitrone and Andy Mackey. Winnie is an organic flower grower who creates floral bouquets that are sought-after around the country, as her work emanates joy, reverence for the garden, and a deep connection with Nature. Andy is an organic horticulturist who uses mostly hand tools, as he honors Nature as the main...

Today I’m in Santa Barbara, CA in the garden of Cynthia James. Cynthia is a visual artist who works with oil paint on canvas to portray nature in a magical realist style. She spent 20 years living in Tulum, Mexico when it was still a remote jungle village. In our conversation, we talk about how this experience inspired her to focus on the surreal qualities of nature in her art and confront environ...

I’m at the Griffith Park Bird Sanctuary in Los Angeles with my very special guest Azalea Lee. Azalea is a crystal healer and flower essence practitioner in the greater Los Angeles area. She’s the author of The Crystal Workshop: A Journey Into the Healing Power of Crystals. In this conversation we talk about the profound energy of crystals and how we can connect with this energy through our deeper...

Today I’m in a majestic oak woodland at Huckleberry Botanic Preserve in Oakland CA with my very special guest Obi Kaufmann. Obi is an award-winning author, artist, and naturalist, whose books include the California Field Atlas, The Forests of California, The Coasts of California, and The Deserts of California. In our conversation we talk about his hopeful and integrated vision of California’s futu...

Nature is the universal source that nourishes every living being on the planet. Starting January 11, join Dina Saalisi as she goes on location to meet with healers, artists, authors, filmmakers, herbalists, botanists, gardeners, environmentalists, and teachers, to explore insights and inspirations on how nature supports us in creating healthy, vibrant lives. Each show Dina talks with a special gue...