Spiritual PhytoEssencing & Natural Health Science System; Gemstone Essences; Membership Program Updates & More!
10 Mar, 2025
Hello Everyone,
I began developing the art of Spiritual PhytoEssencing (SPE) in the 1990s. Having studied and taught scientific disciplines for many years, I naturally wanted SPE to be a very organized and disciplined approach to soul-level healing work.
I'm happy to see that today many of my experienced students are able employ a great deal of additional nuanced cross-correlation and creative interpretation. The more time one invests in the practice of the art of Spiritual PhytoEssencing, the deeper and more profound one’s understanding becomes of the oil’s used in soul-level healing work. In turn, the resultant blends become more powerful, dynamic and imbued with greater potential to help transform a person’s soul state from stuckness and fragmentation to self-actualization and wholeness.
Spiritual PhytoEssencing is a synthesis of certain aspects of: aromatherapy, doctrine of signatures, classical homeopathy, modern physiology, Kabbalah, philosophy, anthroposophical science, Chinese medicine, herbal medicine and folklore, depth psychology, gemstone essences and color therapy.
The basic premise of Spiritual PhytoEssencing is: In order to be able to ameliorate soul-level disharmony, the essential oil blender must engage with the archetypes embedded within the fabric of the soul rather than with the archetypal images which manifest as emotional and physical symptoms.
The Natural Health Science System™
The major foundation stone of the Natural Health Science System is traditional naturopathy, a healing discipline established in the 19th century which views most chronic disease as the consequence of a habitual pattern of dietary and other lifestyle errors, and as a reactive effort by the body toward self-cleansing and regeneration.
As traditional naturopathic therapies played a crucial role in my own recovery in the 1980s from ulcerative colitis, I realized their value and place in the modern lifestyle. Therefore, I have adapted many classic naturopathic spa-based techniques for instant and inexpensive home treatment. My readers and personal clients, as well as those of other doctors, for whom during my years of practice I served as a consultant have employed these adaptations countless times over the years with remarkable results.
If you're interested to learn and blend with me, please join the SPE student and practitioner membership program. The program will provide you with guidance on getting started with practicing the SPE analytic and blend-development method and the opportunity to participate in real-time SPE blending with me.
As traditional naturopathic therapies played a crucial role in my own recovery in the 1980s from ulcerative colitis, I realized their value and place in the modern lifestyle. Therefore, I have adapted many classic naturopathic spa-based techniques for instant and inexpensive home treatment. My readers and personal clients as well as those of other doctors for whom I am a consultant have employed these adaptations countless times over the years with remarkable results.
If you're interested to learn and blend with me, please join the SPE student and practitioner membership program. The program will provide you with guidance on getting started with practicing the SPE method and participate in live blending workshops with me.
If you’re interested in both achieving vibrant physical wellness and learning the basics of SPE blending and soul-level therapeutics, then the NHSS/SPE Membership Program is for you.
This membership program will provide you with guidance on the basic theory and practice of both, the Natural Health Science System (NHSS) and Spiritual PhytoEssencing (SPE).
NHSS will include instruction in healthful natural diet and cooking, strategic nutritional supplementation, Vital Chi Skin-Brushing, naturopathic hydrotherapies, herbal medicine, cell salts, homeopathy, acupoint therapy, chi kung exercise (chi kung is actually apart of both the NHSS and SPE) and much more.
SPE will include the in-depth study of specific essential oils and gemstone essences, guided blending exercises, case-study analysis work, the basics of blend formulation, interactive cosmic light projections, and more.
I began preparing gemstone essences in the mid-1980s. I use carefully selected gemstones and have developed a sophisticated method for mother essence preparation that begins with purification of the stones via placement among wild plants and trees, followed by the burying of the stones within an energy vortex by a forest creek and various other techniques that utilize the purifying and strengthening elements of the natural world including sun, rain, wind, patches of wildflowers or wild berry bushes buzzing with bees, etc.
Gemstones store energy within their crystal matrices. The purification of the stones eliminates extraneous energies picked up during their mining, storage and transport. This allows their natural, vibratory characters to once again radiate without foreign wave form interference.
By “clearing the memory” of the stone, the purification process creates a vacated space for new vibratory impressions to be received and stored. In this regard, the stones are placed in a protected open area surrounded by woods. Throughout the gemstone mother essence development process the stones, while immersed in their distilled, mountain rainwater medium are receiving and storing the energies of sunlight, surrounding wild plants, wild animals, birdsong, wind, passing clouds, rain (some of the mother essences experienced rain showers during their development), moonlight and starlight.
Thus all of the gemstone mother essences feature the energies indigenous to that specific gemstone and its original habitat as well as those native to the natural world of the Pacific Northwest.
To experience a gemstone essence blend, one can consume a few drops in pure water or mix with a SPE essential oil blend for use in a bath or a soak.
There are 2 categories of Gemstone Essences available:
All gemstone essences are exclusively available to current NHSS/SPE Students and Practitioners. You will learn how to blend them in the NHSS/SPE membership program.
As always, please feel free to write to me, my team and I are here to work with you and help you grow.
Berkowsky’s Synthesis Materia Medica of the Twelve Cell Salts
This is a textbook to learn Dr. Berkowsky’s CSCO (Cell Salts / Corresponding Essential Oils) Method and the Acupoint Application of Associated Essential Oils or CSCO Blend.
Each of the twelve tissue salts are discussed in detail with regards to their characterology, corresponding meridians, essentials oils, herbal and nutritional synergists. Leading rubrics have been provided for the practitioner to implement remedies.
Topics:
● In-depth Materia Medica for each of the 12 Cell Salts ● Cell Salts’ Role in Human Physiology ● Cell Salts and Corresponding Emotional Archetypes ● Cells Salts and Acupoint Meridians ● Cell Salts and Nutritional and Herbal Synergists ● Cell Salts, SPE Corresponding Essential Oils and Customized Essential Oil Blends (CSCO Method) ● Cell Salts for Acute and Chronic Pain ● Molecular Hydrogen and Cell Salts Synergy
The recording link for the last Tuesday's (2/25/25) members live class is available in the member zone now. In this class I discussed, the human rhythmic system; rhythmicity as a factor in health and disease (from both western physiology and Chinese medicine perspectives); Spikenard Oil.
Also a new article has been posted where we discuss Excessive Visceral Fat and Increased Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease, I emphasize both content and process.
In Part II, I will be discussing the Deep Front Line fascia. You can see how the Deep Front Line fascia (highlighted in blue) directly engages with the deeper parts of the abdomen.
Importantly, acupoint meridians course through the Deep Front Line fascia. Thus, constriction and disturbance of the form of this fascia will result in inhibition of the flow of chi (life force) through these meridians.
In Part II, I will describe this relationship between the Deep Front Line fascia and specific meridians, and how inhibition of these meridians within the abdomen can contribute to the development of diseases such as those affecting the cardiovascular system and the brain.
Included in this discussion will be an easy-to-do protocol that I have designed, featuring a synergy of self-acupressure massage of specific, easy-to-locate acupoints, color lights, small, acupoint magnets, and specific essential oils, to help reestablish an unhindered flow of chi (life force) along these meridians through the Deep Front Line fascia of the abdomen.
Sign up for the membership program to access these articles plus video classes, gemstone essences, blend formulation guides and a lot more!
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Dr. Bruce Berkowsky (N.M.D., H.M.C., M.H.) has devoted himself as a teacher and practitioner of the art and science of natural healing for over 40 years. He has constructed a dynamic system of health creation from a synthesis of the complementary aspects of traditional naturopathy, classical homeopathy, western science, traditional eastern healing arts and anthroposophical science. He applies modern physiological and biochemical knowledge into a context that acknowledges the unity of human life with the fundamental elements and rhythms of nature. And for the past 25 years Dr. Berkowsky has devoted much of his attention to the development of the art of Spiritual PhytoEssencing (SPE), a system of deep, soul-level healing work with essential oils.
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DISCLAIMER: All content is intended as an educational tool, and not as a prescription. Readers are advised to seek the advice of their healthcare providers before discontinuing any medication and/or trying any new remedy or technique.
Dr. Bruce Berkowsky is the founder/teacher of the Natural Health Science System™ which he has developed over the course of his 40+ years of research and private practice, and includes: traditional naturopathy (N.M.D., MRN, CTN); herbology (M.H.); nutrition (Ph.D.); homeopathy (DHM, H.M.C.); massage and bodywork (NCTMB); aromatherapy (cert.); constitutional iridology (cert.) as well as East/West healing arts/exercises/bodywork.
Dr. Berkowsky, a registered naturopath, master herbalist and classical homeopath, is the founder/teacher of Spiritual PhytoEssencing and the Natural Health Science System which he designed following many years of research and clinical practice.
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