When you think of a Green Witch, The Wicked Witch of Oz may come to mind, but what Katie Sosa, The Green Witch offers is something entirely different. She offers healing remedies and potions from herbs and flowers, which can help both physical and emotional problems.
Katie started working with flowers and making her own holistic skincare range during lockdown. Being passionate about working with pure organic ingredients and pure essential oils.
Through her herbalism education using pure essential oils and flower remedies that can help with the emotional benefit of a person, as well giving amazing skin results.
The Green Witch is passionate about using natural ingredients, she even makes her own carrier oils and forages flowers to assist in the making of her range, she states,
“the amount of toxic chemicals which are in commercial cosmetics is terrifying. I believe that all skincare issues, illness and disease comes from 3 things.
What we are putting in to our body. What we are putting on our body. And, what we are emotionally holding on to and not processing. Therefore the combination of making natural skincare infused with either essential oils which have an aromatherapy benefit. The Bach Flower Remedy Flowers can offer an emotional benefit is a win win for people, look good for yourself, feel good within yourself!”
Katie is extremely proud that her full range of skincare rates excellent on the YUKA app – a free app which gives you a score on the chemical or toxicity of a product, proving her range is as natural as it gets.
She makes everything from Anti-Aging skincare products, cleansers, toners, serums, to deodorants, healing hemp butters, and hair oils!
Most weekends you can find Katie attending Holistic Events sharing her knowledge and skincare products. Or you may find her doing a talk on how herbal remedies can help us navigate difficult periods within our life, such as the menopause, an area in which she extremely passionate about. She has even created a bespoke range of herbal remedies that can help women experiencing difficulties and discomfort during this time. Combining aromatherapy, bach flowers and herbs to combat symptoms.
After studying at The Bach Centre in Oxford Katie became a fully qualified and registered Bach Flower Practitioner and she now offers Flower Remedy Consultations. The only Bach Flower Practitioner who is registered with the Bach Centre in the borough.
Dr Bach, a bacteriologist and pathologist and had been working in the field of research for vaccines, however after working with bacteria he decided that he wanted to find remedies that would be purer and less reliant on the products of disease. He began collecting plants and in particular flowers – the most highly developed part of the plant – in the hope of replacing the nosodes with a series of gentler remedies. Over the course of many years of research, trial and error, and testing he discovered flowers which could help the particular mental states or emotion of the patients.
His legacy is the 38 Bach Flower Remedies which Katie works with today. Each remedy is associated with a basic human emotion and taking the remedy can help to bring a person back in to balance.
Katie says “Natural Medicine is not the alternative medicine it is the original medicine, and society desperately lost its way. There is a massive shift in people wanting to return to the old ways, where we could make our own healing tonics and tinctures from what Mother Nature has to offer. Everything on the planet is made up of energy, so it makes sense that the energetic properties of flowers can help us”
Her 1-1 Flower Remedy Consultations are a safe space for women to come and talk about whatever problems, issues and emotions may be effecting them, and from that Katie will make a bespoke remedy using flower which help to bring the person back in balance.
“Women have so much going on these days, and its all being supressed, I want to offer a place of sanctuary, where they can unload and talk openly and freely about their emotions. From that I can make up a bespoke remedy which help bring them back to themselves when they are feeling lost. Every remedy is different for each person, depending on their circumstance, their feeling and how they respond to situations”
Katie is the only Registered Bach Flower Remedy Practitioner in the area and she offers consultations from her witchy cabin based in Hindley.
She has also teamed up with Victoria Wesby owner of The Curly Cow Salon in Westhoughton. A holistic hair salon specialising in the health and wellbeing, to offer a monthly women’s circle, aligning with each full moon. A safe space for women to unwind, share and gather for a guided meditation. Katie also takes bookings at the salon one day a week if you cant make it to the cabin.
She is a fully qualified Reiki Practitioner and she offer Reiki sessions, Holistic Massage, Meditation sessions, and she even hosts unique day retreats for ladies to escape and find peace and sanctuary from her Cabin based in Hindley, which includes a treatment, a homemade lunch and some chill time in the hot tub!
A place for ladies to unwind, escape and relax.
You can book a treatment with Katie via her website www.greenwitchflowerpower.com