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Akika Flower Essences & Apothecary
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Winter is the quiet teacher, inviting us into a different rhythm: one of rest, reflection, release, rooting, and eventual rebirth.
The Medicine of Winter
This month invites you to:
- Rest your nervous system
- Reflect on what the year has taught you
- Release the weight you’re not meant to carry
- Root back into your body and ancestral wisdom
- Rebirth your inner light as the Winter Solstice returns
Winter is not a pause. It is preparation.
Join The Soul Soil Collective!
The Soul Soil Collective
A monthly membership for nourishing your inner landscape and deepening your spiritual practice.
Inside the Collective, you’ll receive:
• Monthly live ritual sessions
• A monthly ritual card to anchor your practice
• Soul Soil Newsletter with plant allies & ancestral wisdom
• A supportive community space
• Access to Divine Collection teachings
• Founding member pricing — $16/month
• Free access to the Sanctuary of She Winter Solstice Gathering
The Soul Soil Collective is where ritual meets remembrance, where you stay rooted, present, and spiritually nourished through every season of your life.
WINTER OFFERINGS
FREE 3-Day Rooted Reset
FREE
Prepare Your Spirit for the Winter Solstice
a guided elemental journey with water, earth & fire
December 18–20 - Live Each Morning • Free to Join
Before we cross the threshold of the Winter Solstice, the spirit asks for one thing: to be rooted.
Rooted in rest.
Rooted in clarity.
Rooted in your body.
Rooted in the wisdom of your ancestors.
The Winter Solstice is a portal, a moment when the light shifts, intentions sharpen, and your spirit asks you to slow down and listen.
This 3-day reset is designed to help you make that transition with intention.
Sanctuary of She Winter Solstice Gathering
$21 • Free with Soul Soil Collective Membership
Sanctuary of She is an immersive healing experience offered virtually and in person. It invites you to slow down, return to your body, and reconnect with the Divine Feminine through ritual, herbal medicine, and deep rest.
You will move through a series of grounding and restorative sessions:
- Opening Ritual: Return to the Waters
- Workshop 1: Womb Wisdom & Feminine Flow
- Workshop 2: Medicine Making Circle
- Workshop 3: Reiki & Rest
- Closing Circle: Sanctuary Within
Optional Water Ritual (NYC - In Person)
A sacred bathhouse ritual for cleansing, release, and renewal. Limited spaces available. A gathering to remember your body as sanctuary and your inner rhythm as sacred.
Featured Projects At Akika Flower Essence
Be The Medicine Podcast
Be The Medicine Podcast
Be The Medicine Podcast
Be The Medicine Podcast is cultivated to help with us find different pathways to our healing liberation, anchored in our ancestral intelligence, the intelligence that our forefathers had, the intelligence that the earth has, the intelligence that our family and communities have in our own knowing. And so we embark on a journey to continue to explore that ancestral intelligence and hope that this is a space that allows you to find your liberation. Through this, may each of us …. Be The Medicine! Join the journey !
The Divine Collection
Be The Medicine Podcast
Be The Medicine Podcast
The Divine Collection Flower Essence: Connecting to the Ancient Wisdom of Transformation through Flower Essences presents a unique line of 13 signature flower essence blends, each crafted to connect you with primordial energies that inspire deep personal growth and transformation. Rooted in African spiritual traditions, these essences empower you to explore key aspects of your life—truth, focus, remembrance, self-love, and healing—by tapping into the profound wisdom of nature.
New Book Alert!
Be The Medicine Podcast
New Book Alert!
Kitchen Medicine: 21 Healing Herbs for Everyday Wellness is a soulful guide to reconnecting with the plants that have supported our bodies and spirits for generations. Featuring 21 healing herbs, this beautifully crafted book blends ancestral wisdom, practical remedies, and sacred reflections to help you build your own relationship with plant medicine, right from your kitchen.
About Our Founder
Founder of Akika Flower Essences & Apothecary
Renee K. Smith (Ifagbaye Esubola Ayelaagbe Egbesina) Renee Kimberly Smith, also known as Ifagbaye Esubola Ayelaagbe Egbesina, is a multi-faceted healer and the founder of Akika Flower Essences & Apothecary. She is a certified flower essence practitioner with training from the Flower Essence Society and Oceans & Rivers Acupuncture and Wellness. Her practice emphasizes connecting with the ancestral wisdom of plants for personal and collective transformation, healing, and empowerment.
Renee’s work integrates various modalities, including flower essence therapy, Level II Reiki, and alchemy, which she studied under Diana Pharr. She is also an initiated Iyanifa and Olorisa in the Ifa and Egbe spiritual traditions. Her Brooklyn-based apothecary offers tinctures, teas, salves, and other plant-based products designed to align individuals with the vibrational healing energy of flowers and nature.
As a cultural arts curator, strategist, and advocate, Renee incorporates her rich background in wellness and community building to guide individuals and groups toward balance and self-discovery. Her initiatives include workshops, wellness retreats, and community healing sessions focused on ancestral intelligence and vibrational medicine.