
Rhonda is an herbalist, flower and plant essence practitioner, plant medicine guide,plant whisperer, author, spiritual facilitator, educator, and nature photographer. Rhonda has been especially guided by the nature and plant kingdoms, along with alternative healing modalities throughout her adult life. Many solo vision quests into nature
Rhonda is an herbalist, flower and plant essence practitioner, plant medicine guide,plant whisperer, author, spiritual facilitator, educator, and nature photographer. Rhonda has been especially guided by the nature and plant kingdoms, along with alternative healing modalities throughout her adult life. Many solo vision quests into nature with plants as her teachers, along with professionally working with a vast diversity of people (ages and cultures) in the field of social services; her experience as a guide and practitioner at a non-residential retreat center in Sedona, AZ along with teaching plant students and flower essences over the past 30 years; and in addition, her endeavors in the health and wellness industry has led Rhonda into the person she is now. Her love and passion is creating magic in her apothecary and being amongst the plants.
She is the founder and owner of The Center for Plant Studies and Healing Arts in Cottonwood, AZ. She received a certificate of Herbal Medicine from Matthew Wood, a Diploma of Homeopathy from the British Institute of Homeopathy in the UK, and an M.A. in Education from the Ohio State University.
Rhonda’s intrigue in exploring spirituality and her understanding of whole plant medicine linked with whole person healing led her to discover more deeply the human energy system known as the chakras. She continues to drive her passion for plants and flowers, nature, health, and wellness. Her fascination of the doctrine of signatures of plants and their folklore ignited her discoveries into delving deeper into plant communication, plants’ sensory perception, along with the psychology of plants as shown in the language of flowers.
Rhonda’s love is to inspire those who are on a path of personal transformation and growth to open new portals of awareness within themselves. Her desire is to share and weave all that she’s learned about the gifts of plants, how they communicate and live as energetic beings, and combine these gifts with nature and people as a teaching to be shared with others.
She is the author of The Healing Power of Flowers: Bridging Herbalism, Homeopathy, Flower Essence, and the Human Energy System, Voices of Flowers, and co-author of Plant Energy Medicine. Rhonda also has a CD called Voices of Flowers: 7 Flowers & Chakra Meditation Sound Bath with crystal singing bowls and a DVD, A Journey Into Plants & Flowers featured in the 2014 Sedona Film Festival and the 2022 International Herb Symposium. Rhonda resides in Cottonwood, AZ.
Module 1 is a sacred initiation into plant energy medicine.
Lessons blend teaching, storytelling, guided reflection, plant study, and ceremony.
Module 1 : 75 hours
A Path of Self Discovery with the Essences of Flowers & Plants
Plant Energy Medicine & Meditation
Video (15 minutes in my greenhouse)
What do you want to shift most in your life?
How do you want plant medicine to support you?
Integrating the History of Flower Essences, Homeopathy, Research Provings & My Story
Video (36 minutes in the garden with my roses)
Have you felt a personal connection with a plant without knowing why? What did your experience feel like?
Do you know what a flower essence proving is?
The Process of a Plant Study
Introducing Rhonda’s Plant Study Format with Nasturtium
Doctrine of Signatures, Plant Connection, Ceremony
How to Make A Plant/Flower Mother Essence and bottling
Video (46 minutes in my greenhouse)
What patterns in your life do you want to bring balance to?
Visualize yourself as a plant. Notice your structure. What do you look like and where do you grow? Do you carry an aroma? Who are your neighbors? How does it feel to be this plant?
Communicating with Plants
(10.37 in my garden)
Find the company of a plant. Look around and see who notices you! Breathe, feel, listen, and create within you a magical experience of deep connection!
Bring in the energetics of a plant as well as its voice inside of you.
Ceremonial Plant Journeys with Manzanitas
Bringing in the Directions (East, South, West, North, what is above, what is below, and the center of the Universe)
Two different locations of Manzanitas with story telling
Video: (23 minutes with Manzanitas in the mountains)
How do you choose to give blessings to the land, plants, and flowers?
Get to know Manzanita and its healing qualities.
The Human Energy System known as the Chakras
(Video Webinar: 59.34)
Do you want to learn how chakras and plants can work together?
Learning about the connection of the essences of plants and chakras can help you become more aware of and deepen your relationship with your energy field, which includes your physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and overall well-being!
Sunflower Meditation
(7:39 minutes at Wild Heart Farm with Kate Watters)
Begin a new mindful practice and become a Sunflower!
Strawberry Hedgehog Plant Journey with Student Megan In Nature with Ceremony and making an essence with the Plant Study Format
Video: (12 minutes on an upper Sonoran desert mesa)
Imagine stepping into the hot Southwestern desert sun. Learn about how the strawberry hedgehog is a plant of survival and how it can teach you to survive.
Experience the passion of a strawberry hedgehog flower essence and what it has to offer to you!
Renewal with Chaparral in the Upper Sonoran Desert
(Video: 18:2 takes place on the upper Sonoran desert)
Visualize and experience what it feels like to be in the presence of chaparral.
How is chaparral a teacher for you?
Thistle Plant Journey with Daisy & Buster
(Video: 23:17 in the Upper Sonoran Desert)
Imagine being with me in nature and connect with the guidance of Thistle. How can you integrate the feeling of being balanced and centered throughout each day?
Give Thistle a voice and listen to its message!
Your Own Plant Study
Allow a plant to choose you to journey with! Follow Rhonda’s Plant Study Format.
Become aware of your connection with this plant and allow it to show you something about yourself that is in need of tending to.
Wrapping Up
Learn how Module 1 enriches the journey within yourself and with the plant world.
Step into Module 2 to expand your Plant Energy Medicine Healing Practice and/or deepen your own skills for yourself. Continue to travel farther into the plant world and your own life journey with the assistance of meeting 58 plants, flowers, and trees.

If you feel the call, trust it.
The plants are waiting. Are you listening?