Educator of Natural Medicine
David Crow, LAc
Explore the unique life-enhancing benefits of flower medicines, including their healing properties and cosmological dimensions for your physical, mental, and emotional health, as you deepenyour spiritual development.
What happens inside you when you start noticing the first blushes of spring – with flowers bursting forth in all their colorful and aromatic glory? When the first whiff of lilacs tickles your nose?
Across cultures, flowers are offered to express love, sympathy, and celebration. They’re used ceremoniously in a wide range of traditions – stirring our hearts, eliciting in us a sense of joy and renewal, and awakening our senses and belief in the beauty of life.
Flowers also have great medicinal properties for our overall physical health and wellbeing – in fact, they carry some of the highest healing energies in the natural world.
According to renowned master herbalist and aromatherapist David Crow, healing practitioners across the globe, including herbalists, naturopathic doctors, and shamans...
... have used flower essential oils, salves, healing balms, incense, aromatic baths, powders, and tinctures for centuries, if not millennia, for their therapeutic qualities.
Because they’re easy to use and hold powerful preventive and curative properties for a wide variety of common health challenges, flower medicines can be a highly beneficial addition to your home pharmacy and everyday self-care routine.
They’re particularly effective for cooling your body (and your mind) – especially for women experiencing hormonal changes.
When you join David in his 7-module video course, you’ll learn how to create and effectively apply flower medicines to address a wide range of physical, mental, and emotional ailments...
... including digestive problems, sleep disturbances, anxiety, depression, inflammation, hormonal imbalances, and more.
Flower medicines are also known for their antimicrobial, antiviral, skin regenerating, and wound-healing properties, and can help treat acute and chronic respiratory conditions, increase your immunity, help with detoxification, and provide pain relief.
With more than 40 years of experience in the field of botanical medicine and grassroots healthcare – and as a foremost authority in herbal remedies – David will guide you into a deeper understanding of the ancient and modern practices and technologies that flower medicine affords you.
As he shares different preparation methods of numerous flowers and how to use them...
... he’ll also help you embody and apply their cosmological intelligence as he leads you through meditations, rituals, and prayers that you can incorporate into your life.
You’ll experience the unique capacity of flower remedies to deepen your spiritual practice and connection with the healing frequencies of the Earth.
This is where the illuminated aspect of flower medicine comes in.
Illuminated herbalism is the use of medicinal plants (in this case, flowers) to enhance and deepen your meditative practices, while at the same time using contemplative processes to potentize your flower remedies.
Throughout the seven modules of this program, you’ll commune with and harness the healing properties of flowers for your mental, physical, and emotional health – as you also cultivate a more profound spiritual life.
During this informative and deeply spiritual course, you’ll learn:
- Why flowers are a unique category of botanical medicine and highly effective for treating a wide range of physical, mental, and emotional conditions
- How to formulate and prepare many flower remedies, such as teas, tinctures, essential oils, flower essences, aromatherapies, and more – and start developing your own home floral pharmacy
- Contemplative spiritual practices to experience how meditating with certain flower formulations can strengthen the efficacy of the medicines
- Ways to use flower medicines as potent allies in preventive health care that can also improve the quality and enjoyment of your life
- The powerfully rejuvenating benefits that flower medicines can have on your immediate and long-term health
- How using flowers in your self-care practices can increase your pleasure, even if you have no immediate health concerns
- Why flower formulations are uniquely effective at cooling your body – which is distinctly important for reducing inflammation and managing symptoms of menopause
- The curative sweetness of some flowers and how they can help you renew your experience of sensuality and sexual pleasure
- Which flowers can reduce your anxiety, promote deep relaxation, and improve your sleep
- How to prepare teas, medicated oils, poultices, baths, and salves, for their antimicrobial, skin regenerating, and wound-healing properties
- Ways to treat acute and chronic respiratory conditions and create antiviral formulas
- Which flowers can improve your digestive health, increase your immunity, detoxify, and enjoy pain relief
- And much more...
As David says, flower medicines are relaxing, uplifting, and euphoric, and therefore excellent additions to supporting meditation and rituals, as well as enhancing dreaming, visualization, and manifestation practices.
You’ll learn that simply using floral baths, aromatherapy, and flower teas has been found to improve the quality and enjoyment of your life, while offering you effective ways to prevent disturbances of your body and mind before they manifest.
Every session will include experiential uses of medicinal teas and essential oils to gain an immediate and deeper understanding of the physiological effects of each species.
You’ll also discover that flower medicines are generally low-cost and easy to find and use – often available in your own garden, local environments, herb stores, and online, making them a practical addition to your self-care regimen.
David will provide a full list of the flower species you’ll be using and resources for procuring them before the course, so you can taste and smell them during body-based meditations in each class and feel their healing capacity in real time.
If you’d like to be immersed in the healing potential of flower medicines and how to work with them to amplify your health and wellbeing, join us.
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What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules
In this 7-part transformational course, David will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to understand the unique life-enhancing benefits of flower medicines – their healing properties and cosmological dimensions for your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health.
This course will feature step-by-step teachings and experiential practices with David. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to experience the healing properties and cosmological dimensions of flower medicines for your physical, mental, and emotional health – as you deepen your spiritual development.
Module 1: Flower Medicines to Rejuvenate Your Sensuality & Eros
The primary aroma of flowers is sweet, and sweetness is the fragrance and taste that nourishes the body and promotes pleasure and longevity.
Potently aromatic flowers – worn as perfumes, attars, and garlands and strewn abundantly at celebrations and festivities – have been used throughout history for their sensuality-enhancing powers.
When you’re under the spell of floral intoxication, you can’t help but feel and act younger. Your heart remembers joy, and your relationship and intimacy improves with yourself – and then with others.
In some cultures, it’s said that flowers were given as gifts to humans by the celestial deities – and they have the capacity to lift your consciousness into higher realms of happiness.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- The spirituality of flowers, Part 1 – How flowers created humans
- The longevity-promoting benefits of sweet aromas
- The most sensual and erotically intoxicating flowers and their essential oils, including champa, ylang ylang, lilac, osmanthus, ginger lily, and others
- Exotic flower oils for erotic perfumes, and how to make simple perfume blends
- How to use sensual flower perfumes for spiritual practices
- How to use botanical perfumes for their mood-enhancing and immune-boosting powers
- An Illuminated Herbalism practice in which you’ll offer flowers to the inner fertility deities
Module 2: Flower Medicines for Deep Relaxation, Improved Sleep & Calming the Spirit
Flower medicines can have powerful effects on your nervous system, heart, and spirit – through their aromas when inhaled, and then through their chemistry when taken as teas.
A combination of floral aromatherapy and calming flower infusions can often overcome most chronic forms of stress, tension, and insomnia...
... especially when you use them in conjunction with relaxation and meditation practices.
Some flower medicines for stress and sleep disorders have been used in Asian and Western herbal traditions for centuries, while some have only recently been introduced into modern pharmacopeia.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- The spirituality of flowers, Part 2 – The mandala of flowers, heart, and spirit
- Blue lotus flowers – an ancient medicine for sleep, meditation, and dreaming
- Cannabis, Part 1 – How to safely and effectively use one of the strongest herbal sedatives
- The primary flowers from Asia that calm the spirit, including mimosa and magnolia
- Rhododendron, clary sage, neroli, and other highly effective essential oils for relaxation
- Important flower medicines from North America that are commonly used in sleep formulas
- Illuminated Herbalism practices to strengthen the relaxation powers of flower medicines
Module 3: Improve Your Health & Wellbeing With Flower Medicines That Balance the Female Hormonal System
There’s a direct biological relationship between the biorhythmic blossoming of flowers and the female hormonal system. This is clearly seen in the hormone-balancing therapeutic benefits of flower medicines for women’s health.
Gentle – yet frequently highly effective – flower medicines can be used from a single species, or flowers can be combined together or with other categories of herbs.
The treatment of gynecological imbalances with flower medicines can be relaxing and enjoyable, as well as therapeutic. These therapies include flowers in baths, floral oils for body oils, floral perfumes, and other applications.
Some flower remedies work at deep levels of your endocrine system, and can bring balance to chronic and acute conditions of your menstrual cycle and menopausal changes.
In this module, you’ll explore:
- The spirituality of flowers, Part 3 – The biological unity between flowers and human reproduction
- How to use the biorhythms of flowers to restore and balance human biorhythms
- The primary essential oils and their applications for reducing menstrual and menopausal discomfort
- Butterfly pea, an ancient remedy for women’s health and wellbeing
- Flower essences, which are subtle remedies for sensitive people
- Illuminated Herbalism visualization practices for enhancing assimilation and increasing the medicinal potency of herbs for the endocrine system
Module 4: Flower Medicines for Healing Your Skin & Supporting Your Eyes
Flower medicines have been used by cultures around the world for millennia for treating infections, wounds, and skin conditions.
Prepared as teas, medicated oils, poultices, baths, and other forms, they’re cooling, soothing, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, skin-regenerating, and wound-healing.
Some species of flowers are rich in nutrients that are especially beneficial for strengthening and protecting the eyesight.
In fact, there’s a unique biological link between the colors of these flowers, their nutrients, and how they can strengthen your vision.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- The spirituality of flowers, Part 4 – The sense organs and flowers
- Flower baths and herbal washes for healing skin conditions
- How to safely use floral essential oils for skin healing and regeneration
- Helichrysum, the miracle oil for skin regeneration
- Illuminated Herbalism meditation methods to circulate nutrient-rich, vision-protecting herbs into the eyes
Module 5: Flower Medicines as Antivirals & Antimicrobials to Enhance Your Immunity, Purify Your Environment & Improve Your Respiratory Health
Flower medicines have been included in traditional Chinese herbal formulas for treating acute and chronic respiratory conditions for over 1,500 years.
Many of these species are now the subject of research for their antiviral powers against SARS-CoV-2 virus and as applications for acute and long Covid-19 infections.
Species such as echinacea are common in home pharmacies, while others, such as bee balm, are found in gardens and local environments.
When you use them as essential oils in aromatherapy, they can become a potent addition to purifying blends that remove pathogens from the atmosphere and strengthen your respiratory immunity.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- The spirituality of flowers, Part 5 – Flowers, pollinators, the food chain, and human survival
- Flower teas and tinctures for increasing respiratory immunity
- Aromatic salves, steam treatments, and herbal baths with flower medicines for the lungs
- Floral essential oils for antimicrobial protection and atmospheric purification
- Floral honeys and syrups for coughs and congestion
- Flower medicines from your local countryside for treating the lungs – including elderflowers, honeysuckle, bee balm, mullein, and more
- Illuminated Herbalism practices that combine herbs and meditation to increase the purifying and protective powers of flower remedies for respiratory conditions
Module 6: Flower Medicines to Heal Your Digestive System
Some of the most effective herbal remedies for digestive problems are flowers.
Numerous species have well-known benefits for improving the appetite and protecting gut immunity.
Many species can be used in different forms for their antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory powers, while others are important antispasmodics and digestive relaxants.
There are also numerous flower medicines that can benefit your dental hygiene.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- The spirituality of flowers, Part 6 – The nectar of flowers and nutritional rejuvenation
- How to effectively use well-known flower medicines, such as chamomile and calendula, and lesser-known species from Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine
- How to combine flower teas with aromatic abdominal massage, using floral essential oils
- Illuminated Herbalism techniques to activate the gut-brain axis and promote the healing of digestive ailments
Module 7: Flower Medicines for Detoxification, Pain Relief & Anti-Inflammatory Uses
Detoxification is an important aspect of healing and is directly related to pain relief and anti-inflammatory benefits. Using flower medicines for detoxification requires specific knowledge about how to get the best results.
Numerous flower medicines can gently support your body’s natural detoxification processes, and others are stronger purgatives and purifiers. Some work by assisting the cleansing of your blood, some work by enhancing lymphatic drainage...
... some work by improving digestive power and restoring the gut membrane and microbiome, and some work by supporting liver and kidney functions.
Numerous flower medicines have significant anti-inflammatory and analgesic powers that can be helpful for both acute and chronic conditions. Some are in the form of essential oils that can be prepared into liniments... some are best taken as tinctures and teas... and some can be used in herbal baths.
Flower medicines in various forms are used for treating dysmenorrhea, headaches, inflammation in the digestive tract, musculoskeletal pain and inflammation, and many other conditions. These medicines are often milder than their modern synthetic counterparts, but work at a deeper level of healing and with far fewer side effects and adverse reactions.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- The spirituality of flowers, Part 7: – Flowers, moonlight, and cooling the mind and body
- Cannabis, Part 2 – How to safely and effectively use one of the strongest herbal analgesics
- Flowers that promote healthy detoxification of the kidneys, including goldenrod and corn silk
- Flowers that treat specific types of pain, such as St. John’s Wort for shingles
- Flower medicines for headaches and migraines
- Flowers that treat pain, swelling, and bruising of soft tissue injuries, including helichrysum and arnica
- Important anti-inflammatory flowers, such as meadowsweet and calendula
- How to use flowers and flower essential oils together for external treatments for musculoskeletal pain and inflammation
- Important Ayurvedic flowers, such as Nagkesar, for detoxification and pain relief
- Numerous ways to prepare and combine flower medicines for treatment of pain and inflammation
- Illuminated Herbalism methods of potentizing anti-inflammatory herbs with visualization and invocation
The Illuminated Flower Medicine Bonus Collection
In addition to David’s transformative 7-module online course, you’ll receive this special bonus collection to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Flowers, Pollinators & Humans
Video Teaching From David Crow
As humans, we’re dependent on flowers and their pollinators for survival. We’re creatures that live on the nectar of flowers. Without it – and them – there would be no food chain as we know it. There would be no grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, or seeds, and most foods for animals would be gone. Discover that the basis of pollination is the sweet nectar of flowers, and the final result of metabolizing our food is glucose. According to Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine, this nectar is the basis of longevity, endurance, and vitality – all of which become depleted as we age. You can use flower medicines to rejuvenate the nutrient essence, boost your immunity, prevent illnesses, support your spiritual practices, and enhance your cognitive functions.
The Flowers of the Human Body & Subtle Nervous System
Video Teaching From David Crow
The opening and closing of flowers is a metaphor found in mystical and spiritual teachings. In Taoist medicine, the sense organs are described as flowers that open and close according to the cycle of waking and sleeping – allowing the prana of consciousness to project into and withdraw from the outer world. The chakras of yoga and Tantra are described as flowers of higher consciousness waiting to blossom. Learn how many flowers can be used in a variety of forms to support your meditation practices – from euphoric blue lotuses to uplifting roses to intoxicating plumerias.
Herbal Supplier Discount Package
10% Off 2 of David Crow’s Favorite Herb Companies
David’s extensive knowledge of plant medicine means he has years of experience in selecting the best suppliers for his formulas. As part of your participation in this course, receive 10% savings on purchases made from two of David’s recommended herbal suppliers below. No purchase is required for the course, and it’s not required to use products from these particular brands. You may use whatever products you’d like for your learning.
10% Discount at Banyan Botanicals
Banyan Botanicals produces the highest-quality Ayurvedic products using certified organic herbs that are sustainably sourced and fairly traded.
10% Discount at Herbalist & Alchemist
Herbalist & Alchemist’s mission is to develop, manufacture, and distribute herbal supplements that are of the highest quality, manufactured from plant material that originates in harmony with the environment: organically grown, ethically wild-crafted, or sustainably harvested.
What Graduates of David’s Courses Are Saying...
– Kathryn Wylde: “David Has an Incredible Desire to
Bring His Teachings and His Knowledge to Help as Many People as He Can”
“I began to deeply realize the deep sacred connection of plant medicine to our soul, body, and mind.”
I began to deeply realize the deep sacred connection of plant medicine to our soul, body, and mind. Ingesting these with mindful meditation adds so much light at the cellular level.
– Shobha, Ottawa, Canada
“Excellent material not found or presented elsewhere, by the inimitable David Crow.”
Unbelievable insight into the subtle energies of working with plants – the missing link between the known medicinal qualities of herbs and our body/mind/spirit’s assimilation of those qualities, producing a very deep level of healing. Excellent material not found or presented elsewhere, by the inimitable David Crow.
– Lizabeth Maris, Elmore, Vermont
“Thank you, David Crow, for teaching these methods to enhance our lives...”
As a psychic medium with many clients, I have noticed a measurable increase in my connections with the higher realms, spirit guides, and visitations from deceased loved ones using the herbs and essential oils in my meditations on a regular basis. It has helped me so much and I will continue to add more of the herbs, teas, and oils in my practice as the year goes on. Thank you, David Crow, for teaching these methods to enhance our lives on every level of mind, body and spirit.
– Sandra, Boca Raton, Florida
“... truly a stunning tour de force.”
This course allowed an incredible integration of so much I’ve known about our biology, psychology, and spiritual practice. The depth of understanding of cosmological intelligence, archetypes, and understanding the biological basis for the gods and goddesses was truly a stunning tour de force.
– Raphael, Lake Oswego, Oregon
“[David’s] teaching style made complex and new material easy to assimilate.”
I loved the insight I got from teachings from a wide range of traditions, and how I could easily apply them to my life without needing to personally study a new belief system in-depth. I also loved the way David drew connections between belief systems and all of us, and gently supported participants in challenging any beliefs they held that were incongruent with facts. I would happily study any more courses that David were to offer, as I found that his teaching style made complex and new material easy to assimilate.
– Sheena, Wellington, New Zealand
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 2-Hour Class Sessions With David Crow, LAc
Experience a unique opportunity to learn from world-renowned plant medicine pioneer David Crow – from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a streaming video option and will guide you to improve your health, heighten your enjoyment of life, and deepen your spiritual practices.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each lesson.
The Illuminated Flower Medicine Bonus Collection
- Flowers, Pollinators & Humans
Video Teaching From David Crow - The Flowers of the Human Body & Subtle Nervous System
Video Teaching From David Crow - Herbal Supplier Discount Package
10% Discount at Banyan Botanicals
10% Discount at Herbalist & Alchemist
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, Illuminated Flower Medicine
We feel honored that David Crow has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive online course. This is a unique opportunity to learn from a world-renowned plant medicine pioneer and leading grassroots healthcare expert whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about improving your health and developing a deeper spiritual life with medicines from the natural world, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
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More Praise for David Crow, LAc...
“... respect and reverence for the traditions.”
David makes the ancient teachings of Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Tibetan medicine relevant to our times, without compromising his respect and reverence for the traditions.
– Robert Thurman, American Buddhist writer and academic
“... the wisdom of the ancient Himalayan cultures...”
David shows us how the wisdom of the ancient Himalayan cultures can benefit humanity today.
– Deepak Chopra, MD, author of How to Know God
“... always up-to-date on modern developments in his field.”
David Crow is an elite teacher of natural medicine who really knows what he’s talking about – and is able to express that deep knowledge in a way that his audience can sink their teeth into. He has the rare, remarkable ability to make clear the sometimes arcane concepts of traditional healing systems, and he’s always up-to-date on modern developments in his field.
– K.P. Khalsa, Ayurvedic herbalist and teacher
“... a clear and articulate teacher of deep herbal wisdom.”
David is a clear and articulate teacher of deep herbal wisdom. Steeped in the ancient arts, he also has his finger on the pulse of the most current research. Time spent with David is time well spent!
– Dr. Marc Halpern, president of the California College of Ayurveda
“[David’s] knowledge of botanical medicine is unsurpassed...”
David is well-traveled and weaves traditional Ayurvedic and Chinese medical wisdom together with modern scientific research and his own clinical experience. His knowledge of botanical medicine is unsurpassed – and grounded in an appreciation and love of the natural world that he brings to all his courses and topics.
– Dr. Jill Stansbury, naturopathic physician, associate professor botanical medicine, and medical director
About David Crow, LAc
David Crow has been a clinician, consultant, researcher, and educator in the field of natural medicine for over 40 years. A world-renowned speaker, author, and thought leader, David emphasizes reimagining healthcare and empowering individuals to become their own self-care experts.
David has taught extensively for more than 25 years throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe. He’s been a top faculty member at The Shift Network since 2015, where over 10,000 students have taken his online courses. He pioneered and hosted The Shift Network’s annual Plant Medicine Summit, which has been attended by over 300,000 people from more than 120 countries.
David was one of the first Westerners to train and be licensed in Traditional Chinese Medicine, and one of the few to study Ayurvedic and Tibetan medicine in traditional internships in Nepal and India. He was also one of the first medical pioneers to use essential oils and aromatherapy in clinical practice, and to integrate these diverse modalities into comprehensive treatments.
He’s traveled extensively for ethnobotanical research and to study traditional medical systems, including sojourns in Central and South America, Europe, North Africa, Taiwan, Burma, Nepal, and India. He’s worked with many communities around the world to establish a network of projects supporting sustainable cultivation and production of botanical medicines and artisanal essential oils.
David, who has studied extensively with numerous spiritual teachers and meditation masters in Asia, integrates these teachings into his medical practice and presentations on natural medicine and ecological spirituality.
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