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Ildiko Berecz is an intuitive mentor, coach and holistic therapist who is passionate about sharing her inspiring personal stories from behind the mountains of Crete island, while being on the road, searching and experiencing, capturing, collecting, distilling, making herbal preparations, blending botanical perfume and more. She offers her insights of authentic approach and humble practices for better understanding and appreciation of nature, herbal remedies and awareness of trustworthy natural applications in our self-development and everyday life practices. More about Ildiko’s extensive life-changing work at ildikoberecz.com

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Demonstrating the use of my own distilled Mandarin

Demonstrating the use of my own distilled Mandarin hydrosol as a refreshing summer AlcheMist. I feel like a movie star!
Would you like to play? The hydrosol reflects that moment when you scretch open the peel of the fresh fruit which often induces happiness in the act. In many countries that'd be around winter-time, and the aromatic water captures and contains that feel for the whole year! 🍊
Learn more about my hydrosols on my website ildikoberecz.com or read my aromatic adventures journal at essentialreflections.com
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This bunch of freshly dried oregano is dedicated t

This bunch of freshly dried oregano is dedicated to @soleone.pantelleria who happened to become my 500th follower today! Thank you so much for your follow! 🙏 💗 I think we've been long time fb friends, perhaps even met at the Botanica conference??? I admit I don't know, the swirl of socal media... but at least I recognised our connection from before. 🤗

And wow, you're doing beautiful things down there living in Italy! 🇮🇹 Beyond our love for aromatic herbs, wilderness of nature, distilling medicinal plants, botanical perfumery, and all that magic... we also have another life changing aspect in common! We are blossoming in a country that we chose to be our new 🏡!

For me, moving from Hungary 🇭🇺to Crete 🇬🇷 7 years ago was THE ALIGNMENT in itself! Preceded by lots of personal work, and followed by the Path of Fulfillment on this beautiful aromatic journey that I am now able to share with many, both online and in person on my transformative retreats and fieldtrips. Hope I can welcome some of you again here soon! Meanwhile, be very well dear imaginary friends! 💗
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Oooops!!! 500 followers, thank you so much! Amazin

Oooops!!! 500 followers, thank you so much! Amazing, I never wanted fame or anything like that, but it's just the way it is in our world now that we can connect so easily and share what's in our hearts! I am so grateful to all of you for being out there expressing interest in my passion, whatever ways you like, loud or silent!

Even if being a star is not my cup of tea, but as for every single one of us as human beings, receiving appreciation is just as important, heartwarming and truly a vivid driving energy too! I am so very grateful and wanted to express my appreciation back to you with this short note for now! 🙏 Thank you a million for this inspiring community of awakening, sensitive, deep feeler, nature loving, magic makers! 🙏 So much love to you all! 💗

Let's share the joy through this amazing bougainvillea from the garden, that I thought may represent every single one of you all in one branch! 💗🌺 Imagine ourselves being all together in a party enjoying the Mediterranean sun on our beautiful island of Crete! Chose if you want to take your position as the little white flowers, or the colouful magenta bracts, or any other amazing living beings creeping, crawling, flying all around! Have a wonderful day!!! 🥳💕 😍🙏
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Just a quick hello from the fields this weekend! I

Just a quick hello from the fields this weekend! It's been a year for us all taking poses, sort of, while it's been a year that went by the fullest in many ways, the fast & the furious. Feels like yesterday when we did the very first thyme (Thymus capitatus) harvest at this beautiful wild land for the very first time.

Almost a year ago, but since this year has been much dryer, now we started earlier. And I am so blessed that this time I have a photographer assistant, a 14 year old young lady Erika, and most of these pictures are coming through her talented eyes! Meanwhile, I can focus on the plants.

Much to be told, and much to be done, and we are ready for another day of fieldwork when the temperature is around 33 Celsius here on Crete! Have a great Sunday everyone! If you just wanna relax today, here is my recommendation for a good-thyme read, an article from my blog from 2018: https://essentialreflections.com/take-your-thyme-be-strong-courageous/ 🌿
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I can't promise, but try to make this one my last

I can't promise, but try to make this one my last Helichrysum post for a while... Just went back to the article I wrote a year ago saying "Although I do not have a still capacity to distill
helichrysum essential oil of my own..." Indeed the yield of this beautiful oil is fairly low, and I did not manage to acquire any essential oil from the Immortelle distillations I made in the previous years.

BUT, this time I re-wrote my own story and here we go, a few drops! And if I tell you that I also lost about the same amount you now see in the bottle? Yes, as it is quite tricky to collect this quantity and shepherd these droplets from the separator's long tube all the way through the neck of the smallest of vial! What a precious game of life!

This is certainly when less is more... appreciation is something we can develop and cultivate through learning and experience, and certainly letting go the demand of instant magic in the sense of superficiality. Rather holding the aspect of the mesmerising momentarily magic regardless of the outcome.

Be well, patient and curious dear ones! The sun will keep coming back! 😉☀️
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Kalo mina! Good month blessings is one of those cu

Kalo mina! Good month blessings is one of those customs Crete offers as a gift. You can say it to anyone you meet, old or new, a basic heart-warming human connection. This beautiful pile of helichrysum from a fresh harvest entered my door. We had a wonderful hour together connecting though our summer senses, and then, I woke up from the dream to follow my inner guidance.

🌿 Stepping into a new month is a simple and beautiful opportunity to celebrate new beginnings. I am letting go precious gems to create more space for those that want to enter into my life. I have made an everlasting roll, perhaps the biggest scented sachet ever, holding it it my arms for a last long cuddle, then stepped out the door to be held by the winds of change!

🌿 Sending many midsummer seeds of good vibes to you all! I don't know what you did last summer... but feel free to share your plans for now! Anything aromatic, like books, studies, field experience, lab magic? Let's bubble ideas and turn thoughts into reality! 💗
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Happy Sunday! This is what we call potato chips he

Happy Sunday! This is what we call potato chips here, freshly digged from fertile soil by my friend Manoli, and baked in just a little olive oil by his wife Christina. Seasoned with sea salt and wild Cretan thyme picked on the side of the green cypress track as we were strolling through the land. How blessed we are! Wherever you are, all I can advise is find your way out to Nature! Connect in every possible way! 🌿
When you make it to my Aromatic Journeys on Crete one day, you get to experience such simple delicacies of life. Knowing the lineage of your culinary and wellbeing medicine brings essential values to a redesigned way of living and a more sustainable future. .
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Last week I had the honour and joy of talking to m

Last week I had the honour and joy of talking to my creative friend, therapist and change-maker @edwillpike for his podcast at @thetemple.love about the beauty, wisdom and challenges of aligning our lives and our work with nature. If you have an hour to sit back, relax and listen, here is your chance to hear me speaking pop-up style about my path, work, holistic approach to life and intuitive inspirations randomly. Be gentle... that was my first ever podcast interview! 😉🤩 Follow the link here:
https://thetemple.love/content-all/15-how-to-align-your-life-and-work-with-nature-with-ildiko-berecz

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The kind of everlasting transit you would want to

The kind of everlasting transit you would want to experience! Now imagine driving home from the fields with this basket full of Helichrysum italicum! Natural car fragrance at its best! 😉👌💗
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