Introducing Floracopeia Essential Oils
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Allison Rae now distributes Floracopeia Essential Oils to support worldwide healing. She has studied with master herbalist David Crow, creator of the Floracopeia line, and interviewed him for an article in the current issue of the new magazine, Green Lifestyles on Planet Paradise. To read the article, click here.
Allison supports David’s vision to “replant the global garden” through sustainable harvesting and cultivation of precious medicinal and aromatic plants around the world, as well as David’s commitment to making these essences affordable and available to all.
Floracopeia offers a large selection of aromatic treasures, including essential oils, traditional Ayurvedic attars from India, exotic and infused body oils and natural perfumes. Floracopeia was established by David Crow, L.Ac., master herbalist, aromatherapist, author of "In Search of the Medicine Buddha" and meditation teacher.
We invite you to support this collaboration by ordering through our affiliation with Floracopeia. When you order Floracopeia products by phone or the Floracopeia web site, please give Allison’s name with your order. To access the Floracopeia web site, click on the essential oils picture or the Floracopeia logo on this page.
We're pleased to provide these exceptional oils and other aromatic products to support your journey of transformation and enlightenment! Namaste.
Floracopeia: Replanting the Global Garden
by Allison Rae
(published in Green Lifestyles Magazine, June 2009)
David Crow is an unassuming visionary with a simple focus.
"The bigger global issues today - ecologically, environmentally, politically and economically - are accelerating rapidly in terms of the need for change," Crow says. "We need a new model, a new culture."
In these times of change and uncertainty, he wants communities to empower themselves on a grassroots level by becoming involved in local resource management, growing food and cultivating medicinal plants. Crow works to realize this vision around the world by helping communities establish local gardens. "Then we have our health care system taken back again," he said.
Driven by a clear vision to reclaim medicinal plants for the planet and the people, Crow created Floracopeia as a vehicle to achieve his goals. A master herbalist and doctor of Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine, Crow knows first-hand about the power of plants to heal and restore balance within the human body. He's worked with native plants for more than 30 years and in 2000 published the book, "In Search of the Medicine Buddha," based on his travels and study in the Himalayas. From this work grew the idea of making the medicine of the plants widely available, and at the same time protecting endangered species.
"Herbal medicine is the people's medicine," Crow said. "Everyone should have access to it."
In Every Bottle
On the outside, Floracopeia seems like a line of essential oils. But it's so much more. Every drop of essence from the herbs, flowers and trees represents Crow's tireless efforts to "replant the global garden" by strengthening the plants themselves as well as those who cultivate, harvest, distill, bottle and use the precious oils.
"Inside every bottle is a success story," Crow says. "We can use these medicinal plants to solve a lot of the world's problems."
He explains the four global benefits embodied in the oils:
- Plants are medicines for people. "This is humanity's oldest and most widespread form of health care, health care that does what pharmaceutical drugs can't do, which is to give us nutrition and boost our vitality, our immunity and resistance, and detoxify us," Crow said. "There's no drug that does that."
- The plants are economic commodities. Distributing the oils supports local growers, villages and distillers who participate in cultivating, harvesting and bringing the oils to market. Purchasing the oils alleviates poverty by supporting communities at the level of tribes and villages around the world.
- Restoration of the plants is an ecological mission. Floracopeia has created specific eco-projects to preserve the traditional use of herbal medicines, curb over-harvesting and, where possible, replant crops so they won’t be lost to future generations.
- The plants represent wisdom lineages in natural health care. The company has a goal of preserving traditional and indigenous knowledge of medicinal and aromatic plants and their uses.
As Floracopeia flourishes, people around the world and the Earth herself are the benefactors.
"They look like essential oils and we use them for a variety of purposes, but inside every one of these bottles is all four of those global benefits," Crow said. "That's why I'm doing this. I'm not doing it because of the business. I'm not doing it to sell essential oils. I'm doing it because we are replanting the global garden, one project at a time."
Replenishing the Earth
During Crow's years of study and practice of Eastern medicine in the Himalayas, he discovered that many medicinal plants are quickly disappearing due to climate change, over-harvesting and other causes.
"We're now giving something back to the plants," he explained. "We're focusing on the root of sustainability because herbal medicines are disappearing like a lot of our natural resources. But they don't have to. They're so valuable. Humanity needs these plants more and more. "
Floracopeia's eco-projects focus on sustainability in specific areas around the world. For example, 5,000 Palo Santo trees have been replanted in Ecuador. Both the wood and oil distilled from this tree, considered sacred in traditional shamanism, are available in the Floracopeia line. Through the Cedar of Lebanon Project, this rare tree referenced in ancient texts is being donated to religious organizations as a symbol of their shared spiritual ancestry.
Other eco-projects are detailed on the Floracopeia web site. “The plants must receive benefit or it's not sustainable,” Crow said.
To read more about Floracopeia's eco-projects, visit the Floracopeia web site by clicking on the logo below.
Floracopeia Community
Crow, 54, is founder and president of the company. To help Floracopeia expand and rise to its potential, he hired marketing and technology guru Jai Dev Singh as chief executive officer. Laurel Brown serves as general manager and Kari Lane as operations manager. They manage the business while Crow is out spreading the word through lectures, workshops and retreats.
Under Singh's creative guidance, Floracopeia has blossomed as a high-tech, community-based organization using the latest web site devices and social networks like Facebook and Twitter. A presence on YouTube expands the company's educational outreach and promotes the product line.
Floracopeia also supplies custom essential oil blends to several companies for use in their beauty and skin care lines, and will soon provide access to these products on the Floracopeia web site. Companies using Floracopeia oils include Sarada Ayurvedic Remedies' Tarika facial and body care products, DoshaCare skin care, Aromabliss massage oils and Sahaj Integrative Botanicals.
Anyone, anywhere, can join in and support the work. Crow travels extensively to teach, inviting people to hear about the projects and sample the oils. Many choose to get involved by purchasing the oils, attending workshops or meditation retreats with Crow, or inviting him to coach them in establishing local gardens.
"Floracopeia is really a community," he said. “We are changing the paradigm of business. This is about all of us working together.”
Floracopeia products, projects, events and other information are detailed on the company’s web site. Click on the logo below to go there. The company is based in Nevada City, California. Phone: (530) 470-9269. When you call to order, please mention Allison Rae as the affiliate who referred you.
