From humble beginnings in 2000, Essence World was born, supplying essences to Practitioners via mail order on a super up-to-date Ecommerce website which was way ahead of it's time.
In 2002 we found the cutest of shops in Eton High Street, just a stones throw from the famous College that dwarfs everything in the village. We didn't know if we would last a year but eight years later the landlord sold the building and we reluctantly said goodbye to the building that was our home for such a long time. What a joy to be there every day (well nearly), halfway between Windsor Castle and Eton College, what impressive neighbours we had. Prince Charles (got to get this one in) also gave us a glance one day as he walked passed on his way to visit the boys, no doubt our indoor garden window display was the draw card. |
The building was little more than a lighthouse, with one room on all 3 floors but we managed to run our clinic and shop within this nearly 400 year old gem. With creaking floorboards, uneven surfaces, sewers that went nowhere and a roof that constantly leaked, I for one felt safe and loved in this little haven.
Lu, Sam, Sharon and Laura, were always there for the customers and clients with a cup of tea, a box of tissues and a big shoulder to lean on. Stu and Nick, the Saturday help and Becky and Viv were roped in to help out at times when I was overwhelmed. We had a clinic that was full every day and orders filled and sent out to clockwork, except the time we had a fabulous article, well it was actually three lines, by Sarah Stacey in the Mail on Sunday's You Magazine, on our super best seller Stress Buster. It took 3, 12 hour days to clear the backlog! |
The shop became a drop in centre for everyone from the local "bobby" to the resident inebriated former Shakespearean actor. We became the alternative Emergency Room, no doubt my life as a former nursing sister helped, but the knowledge I gained from being at everyones beck and call on all matters Energy proved to be an experience I couldn't have paid for.
We had a range of off the shelf essences that I formulated especially for Urban Retreat at Harrods, I wrote a book, The Flower Healer and 8 students commenced training with me over 3 three years part time. Clients came from as far away as Moscow and as close as the next street for their treatments. I cleared spirits from College properties, that uncovered a wealth of history that I would never had realised otherwise. Like did you know when the plague was rife in London and people were escaping the capitol to save their lives, Windsor Castle grounds saw gallows erected to hang anyone who came from London to keep the plague away from sterile Windsor. Many stories that will most probably emerge to be written when I retire from clinic life.
I grew and grew far bigger than my size 6 shoes and I realised that we were on the threshold of something enormous. Something much larger than Eton or even England, the energy was actually expanding and with it came London bombings, conflict in politics and the financial world and a collapse of the world as we had known it. Isn't that what the Mayan Prophecies were all about?
So with the move out of Eton came a new experience, working from home....................and then the word Home took on a new vista, where was it? I was now planning to move back home to Sydney.
Our website was deleted overnight by an oversight and no record existed that we could resurrect. I was being given a big message, I was to leave Essence World as we all had known it, to focus on understanding this new expanded energy and what would you know, I broke my foot, not once, but twice, had surgery and months of physio and had all the time in the world to concentrate my efforts on learning.
So although Essence World was right for the time, it is time now to take it forward. I am Essence World, I have drank of its elixir and fed on it's energy, watch out!!
We had a range of off the shelf essences that I formulated especially for Urban Retreat at Harrods, I wrote a book, The Flower Healer and 8 students commenced training with me over 3 three years part time. Clients came from as far away as Moscow and as close as the next street for their treatments. I cleared spirits from College properties, that uncovered a wealth of history that I would never had realised otherwise. Like did you know when the plague was rife in London and people were escaping the capitol to save their lives, Windsor Castle grounds saw gallows erected to hang anyone who came from London to keep the plague away from sterile Windsor. Many stories that will most probably emerge to be written when I retire from clinic life.
I grew and grew far bigger than my size 6 shoes and I realised that we were on the threshold of something enormous. Something much larger than Eton or even England, the energy was actually expanding and with it came London bombings, conflict in politics and the financial world and a collapse of the world as we had known it. Isn't that what the Mayan Prophecies were all about?
So with the move out of Eton came a new experience, working from home....................and then the word Home took on a new vista, where was it? I was now planning to move back home to Sydney.
Our website was deleted overnight by an oversight and no record existed that we could resurrect. I was being given a big message, I was to leave Essence World as we all had known it, to focus on understanding this new expanded energy and what would you know, I broke my foot, not once, but twice, had surgery and months of physio and had all the time in the world to concentrate my efforts on learning.
So although Essence World was right for the time, it is time now to take it forward. I am Essence World, I have drank of its elixir and fed on it's energy, watch out!!