Akika Flower Essences & Apothecary
Akika (A- Kee- Ka) Flower Essences & Apothecary is a wholistic wellness practice that aligns with the power and ancient understanding derived from plant intelligence in order to heal, transform and empower community. Using flowers and the vibrational medicine through flower essences, Akika is a resource for clients of all ages to tap into plant intelligence and ancient indigenous practices as a methodology for achieving balance and transformation.
An apothecary is a person that uses plants as their main source for creating medicine for the community. In many cases, the word apothecary is seen as archaic because society no longer values the medicine derived from plants. Akika Apothecary is an opportunity to explore and reconnect to the ancestral intelligence of plants. Everything that we have ever needed to survive, heal, and thrive exists in the form of plants and through the Earth’s bounty. Exploring this lifelong journey to reconnect with the intelligence of the Earth will allow future generations the opportunity to learn what many have forgotten.
Akika Flower Essences & Apothecary provides products cultivated by the exploration of a plant from seed to root including tinctures, salves, teas, elixirs, soaps, essences and other plant based products to assist with a consistent state of balance as needed by community.
Earth is an ancestor, we have so much to learn from it...
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Be The Medicine Podcast
Pathways to Healing & Liberation Through Ancestral Intelligence
We are excited to launch this podcast as an opportunity for us to engage in our ancestral knowing. Tune in on February 11 for Episode 1: What Is Ancestral Intelligence?
“This body of work is a container to continuously sustain the stories that have been passed down from generation to generation, it is a reclamation of our culture in real time through the reactivation of ancestral memory through the powerful act of the spoken word being heard, through our ears, with our hearts and reanimated through our cells ” - Nashé
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Akika Flower Essences is launching a new flower line!
We need your help! Are you interested in learning more and experiencing flower essences? Join our beta test group for our new lines coming out.
What are flower essences?
Flowers were and are the very essence and the highest concentration of the life-force in the plant. They are the crowning experience of the plants’ growth. Flower essences are vibrational energy that assist with our soul’s evolution. Check out the video about what they are and where they can assist.
Grand Rising Summer Solstice Summit 2024
Be The Medicine...
"To heal an individual is to heal the whole wheel, the whole society. Be the medicine..." - Dr. K. Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau
We are the medicine! This year's summit will explore how we, collectively and individually, are the medicine for the whole. Join us as we explore what it means to heal in earn from community!
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About Our Founder
Founder of Akika Flower Essences & Apothecary
Renee K. Smith (Ifagbaye Esubola Ayelaagbe Egbesina) is a certified flower essence practitioner and proud founder of Akika Flower Essences & Apothecary. Akika Flower Essences was created to explore the ancestral practice of tuning into plant intelligence as a tool for transformation, healing and empowerment on one’s soul journey. Renee received her flower essence certification from Oceans & Rivers Acupuncture and Wellness and The Flower Essence Society (FES). As a strategist, Renee believes that everyone can manifest their dreams by creating a strategy that encompasses the right people at the right time. Her goal is to assist others to find joy through the use of plant intelligence in as many forms possible beginning with flower essences. As an Iyanifa and Olorisa, initiated to Ifa and Egbe in Nigeria, Renee also uses the knowledge she gains from her spiritual practice to assist her clients in finding and maintaining balance in their lives. She continues to expand her repertoire of community tools for healing through consistent study of our plant allies, learning and practicing the art of alchemy as taught by Master Teacher Diana Pharr and becoming a Level II Reiki Practitioner certified by Taino Reiki Healing. Renee is a Brooklyn native, mother, artist, healer, alchemist, strategist, cultural arts curator, flower essence & reiki practitioner, SRJ advocate, priest, artist and community member.
TO BE HEALTHY IS TO BE, MU KINENGA, "IN BALANCE" - WITH OURSELVES, OUR ENVIRONMENT, AND THE UNIVERSE.
Dr. K. Kia Bunseki Fu-Kia, Self-Healing Power and Therapy
