ISSUE NO. 09 | May 16, 2025
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This is part 2 of the Sanctuary of Flowers mini-series helping us all root in the peace and possibility of Healing Nature's nimble way to elicit the feelings of joy, pleasure and serenity with flowers.
Petals, Portals & Possibility
A flower isn’t just a bloom.
It’s a blooming invitation.
A wild whisper back to what is true inside you.
This time of year — as peonies begin to swell and the wild edges of spring soon to soften into early summer — there is a call rising from the Earth.
Should you turn your attention and listen? The message is not an ask to do more...
It asks you to feel more.
Because, my dear, flowers are portals.
portal, noun por·tal : door, entrance, the whole architectural composition surrounding and including the doorways and porches of a church, a communicating part or area of an organism, specifically : the point at which something enters the body
Portals to the parts of us that remember peace.
To the place in us that longs to feel—real: restored, engaged, alive, lit and safe, soft, sacred.
To possibility. To pleasure. To presence.
To the beauty of what still blooms in us even now.
Especially now.
The Sanctuary You’re Craving Isn’t Out There. It’s In You.
And flowers help you find it.
Create it.
Cultivate it.
When we work with flowers—when we tend, arrange, plant, witness, soak in or simply sit with them—we open a portal - a gentle, sacred space where nervous systems soften and something ancient in us exhales and recieves.
We sync with the pace of what is real.
We give our attention.
We focus.
We sync with the beauty of flowers, yes, but so too with our shared biology.
biomimicry, nonn bio·mim·ic·ry : the imitation of natural biological designs or processes in
engineering or invention
Because the shapes, scents, textures, and colors of flowers directly impact our neurochemistry. This is the miracle of neuroaesthetics—that beauty doesn’t just look good. It feels good. It heals.
Flowers are not decoration. They’re medicine.
This is the renaissance of Flower Magic™.
And when we work intentionally with them—as part of our spaces, our rituals, and our seasonal care—we access a level of sanctuary and sacred restoration that goes way beyond "pretty".
We begin to experience sanctuary as a felt reality—body, soul, space, and spirit.
The S.P.A. of Sanctuary™
My framework of Sanctuary as a S.P.A. experience holds true here in the bloomscape, too. With flowers, you’re invited into:
Stillness – A quieting of the noise. The pause where you can give your awareness to yourself and feel feelings perhaps deeply archived.
Presence – A grounding in the now, where you stop rushing and start receiving parts of yourself back.
Awakening – A returning to your senses, your essence, your sacred self.
And it doesn’t take a whole flower farm to tap into such S.P.A. benefits.
(Though, we are creating such a place of something wild of wildflowers, cutting flowers and
where convening intimate sanctuary events is our pleasure.✨)
Ready to Play with Petals?
Here are a few ways that Red Bird has helped people like you invite Flower Magic™ into their daily sanctuary self care:
Create a floral altar. Something our Sanctuary Social Club members know, bring blooms from your garden or a local market to your nightstand, desk, or windowsill. Let it become a daily point of reconnection and sacred attending where focusing frees feelings.
Run a flower bath. As supplied in our signature Flower Magic Kits, sprinkle petals into warm water, light a candle, and soak in the sensory reset and the vibrational "wisdom" shared within this chemistry.
Schedule solo time in a local garden or meadow. On our curated tours and field trips events, bringing a journal, sketch pad or just your bare feet always adds to the take aways and gentle epiphanies.
Sit with a single bloom. One flower. One breath. One presence. This is such a beautiful mind-soothing, mental-health boosting practice for our Sanctuary Within coaching clients.
No matter, know this, in every act—feel what wants to unfurl in you.
Flowers don’t care how long it’s been.
They don’t ask you to show your resume.
They don’t require your perfection, only your presence.
This is sanctuary. And this is your invitation.
To remember.
To root.
To receive.
Flowers are not just decoration. They are memory-keepers, mood-shifters, and sacred messengers of beauty. To work with them—designing, planting, arranging, simply being with them—is to open a quiet door inside ourselves. A door to peace. To the possibility of rest, renewal, and radiant becoming.
And know that forever more, your bloom of peace and possibility is welcome here.
Until next, take good care of your precious Self,
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