The Wild Peach

Tree of Courage
The wild peach tree has a potent energy to assist with putting you in touch with your personal power. This essence may foster courage, confidence and self-worth and may bring focus and clarity - like a clear bright light, it shines the way forward.

This is an essence to balance indecision and procrastination. Wild peach may assist with accessing the spiritual courage to speak your truth in the face of intimidation or oppression.

This essence enlightens the solar plexus chakrum.

Use of Wild Peach in Energetic Space Clearing: allows energy to spiral upwards and outwards. Use to infuse the overall energy with a sense of expansion and optimism; to lighten energy that is dense and slow.

The Bladder Nut

Tree of Self knowledge
The bladder nut teaches us that being our authentic self is all that is required. By removing the need to be other than who we truly are, our life force is liberated. Paradoxically, in our humility we access our true, authentic power. By bringing our awareness to those parts of ourselves that we find shameful or unlovable, bladder nut may assist us in gaining a greater understanding of unconscious patterns of behaviour that we then have the ability to transform.

The bladder nut can assist us with centering and may enhance the sense of feeling at home in your own skin. Bladder nut essence may be helpful for mood swings, poor body-image, negative peer pressure and the challenges of puberty. Bladder nut teaches us that everything is as it should be.

Use of Bladder Nut in Energetic Space Clearing: lightening of the atmosphere; clearing physical, emotional, electric and energetic smog. Helps to lift feelings of depression.

The Rock Alder

Tree of Bliss
The Rock Alder essence may enhance sensuality, bringing in a fresh, youthful energy. It may be helpful for maintaining boundaries and balance in relationships. It may be especially helpful for those who idealize their partners or whom have co-dependency issues.
The Rock Alder essence may bring balance to the inner male and female energies so that the need to feel "completed" by another is no longer necessary.
Rock Alder essence may aid with expressing our inner-most feelings and so assist with fostering increased trust and harmony within intimate relationships.

This essence enlightens the sacral chakrum.

Use of Rock Alder in Energetic Space Clearing: its effect is like a quiet, moonlit pool - use it to bring quiet regeneration of the spirit into the home; use to tone down frenetic energy and to provide a still centre.

The Milkwood

Tree of Wholeness

The energy of the Milkwood tree brings a deep sense of connection and belonging. This is a nurturing and supportive tree and this essence may balance feelings of insecurity and lack of grounding. Milkwood essence may be helpful for nightmares and fears of the unknown.

This essence may be useful for adjusting to changes in the family structure brought about through loss or divorce. The energy of the Milkwood tree can assist us with feeling at home in the world - it connects you with your personal power, and may remind us on a cellular level that we are all one family - each of us loved and needed and cared for.

This essence enlightens the root chakrum.

Use of Milkwood in Energetic Space Clearing: to introduce or to re-establish a sense of sanctity and to anchor the spiritual aspect. Steadies and firms up energy; embodies energy of the wood element; provides a "container" to anchor energy; clears away dross; connects different kingdoms.

Journey to the Heart

Humanity is on the verge of a momentous shift in consciousness: from the Love of Power to the Power of Love. This is the path of Heart Consciousness that embodies compassion, tolerance and unconditional love.

The forest teaches us how to tune into the guidance of our hearts – an invaluable guide for chartering our soul’s unique journey home to Source.

Like branches spiraling up the Tree of Life, the thirteen African Tree Essences offer a framework of supportive energy to illuminate our journey. Thirteen, far from being a “bad luck” number, represents transformation and rebirth. This number holds a vibration that transports us to the next level of perceptual awareness.

The thirteen tree types of Platbos Forest share their light and wisdom with much joy for they are eager to see humanity graduate to the next rung on the evolutionary ladder: the era of Heart Consciousness.

The Call Of The Forest

Since ancient times, the tree has been a symbol of creation, power, wisdom and of life itself. The main-stream culture of today however views the Earth as a soul-less commodity. Consequently, many old-growth forests are under threat, endangering the future of our entire planet.

Old-growth forests sound an urgent call for us to remember a fundamental truth: Spirit permeates all Life. All that exists is part of a greater Oneness. Indeed, the material and spiritual realms are inseparable – the one being a reflection of the other. The African Tree Essences are a result of this call from the trees. The tree essences hold a key for reactivating this truth: All is One.

Touch Wood: Tapping into Forest Wisdom

Old-growth forests are sacred places. Of all the Earth’s power points, native forests radiate the highest levels of positive energy. It was into the heart of such forests that the Ancients journeyed in order to gain spiritual guidance and healing.

Forests hold the balance between Earth and Sky. They maintain the physical and spiritual equilibrium of the Earth. Trees anchor the light for our planet, thanks to the green chlorophyll molecule that transforms sunlight into the energy that fuels all organic life. Without this molecule, we would not exist.

Fittingly, the colour green is known as the bridge that connects Heaven and Earth. Green holds the midpoint in the colour spectrum, uniting the light and the dark, synthesizing spirit and matter. The colour green resonates with the human heart: it balances, calms and opens the heart chakrum and fosters increased sensitivity and empathy for others. Forests are literally channels of radiant light and they gift to the world an illuminating yet grounding energy.

Platbos: Africa’s Southernmost Forest

Platbos is a mystery forest. Growing upon an ancient sand dune with neither a river nor spring to sustain it, the forest survives the hot, dry summer months by drawing moisture from the morning mists that bathe its thirsty canopy. On a still day, the distant roar of the ocean can be heard as it echoes off the sand dunes of Walker Bay and resounds down the Baviaanspoort Hill to Platbos. This coastline evoked the desert wastes of the Sahara in the minds of the early explorers. For botanists, the presence of Platbos Forest in this landscape, where only the drought-resistant and fire-tolerant fynbos of the Cape Floral Kingdom flourishes, remains unfathomable.

To enter the forest is to enter a world of enchantment. Draped in wispy oldman’s beard, the wizened and baobab-like trees of Platbos grow in a most unusual way: here the divergent trees grow together, not apart. Harmoniously sharing the same space, the trees of the forest intertwine and embrace each other.

Platbos holds within its age-old roots a sacred truth whose time has come: we, children of the Earth, are of one family – each of us a golden thread and together we weave an exquisite tapestry that is the Golden Whole.