We believe we have the most incredible lineup of vendors participating at the 2013 Expo. In fact, we’re so proud of them, we want everyone to know more about who they are and how their business fits in to the Expo’s passion for seeing Ottawa the healthiest city in Canada. We recently sent our vendors a list of four questions. Between now and the Expo, we will be highlighting some of these amazing vendors. Watch our blog every Tuesday & Saturday morning for another vendor spotlight.
Who are you?
Celine Cloutier, BA-Psy – President of Canadian Forest Tree Essences, Health Practitioner/Mediator
Celine Cloutier, Co Founder of CFTE, holds a B.A. in Psychology and has a background in special education and meditation. She is also trained in several fields of alternative healing and completed her certification as a counselor and facilitator in Conflict Resolution and Mediation at the Institute of Conflict Resolution Studies Ottawa. Celine has been responsible for handcrafting and co-creating tree essences, marketing, and training practitioners for the last 13 years.
As emotional health consultant and mediator, she works with both individuals and groups to help resolve issues of conflict, stress, insomnia, self-esteem, body-weight to name a few. Celine Cloutier’s work is about seeing people for the potential of who they truly are and by consequence helping them experience joy, balance, abundance, happiness and overall well being. Using techniques of meditation, conscious dialog and vibrational tree essences, Celine brings to light the obstacles blocking each person from attaining their total potential. Over the years, her one-to-one consultations and group trainings have helped transform hundreds of people in Canada, US and Europe.
COMPANY’S HISTORY
Canadian Forest Tree Essences (CFTE) offers products of exceptional quality. Tree ssences are individually handcrafted and prepared to the highest standards of vibrational resonance, right here in Gatineau Québec (Aylmer area).
In 1997, Daniel Tigner, Co-founder, began the work of preparing the first mother tinctures that were used to create our first Canadian Forest Tree Essences. For 25 years, Daniel had worked with Bach flower remedies and other essences. As a result of working with people and meditation, he gained insight to create essences that would embody the full light and healing power found in trees. With this new understanding Daniel fostered the first tree essences and subsequently founded CFTE.
In 1998, Celine Cloutier joined the company and became involved in overseeing the production of the tree essences, as well as working with Daniel to develop new essences. From Ottawa, the company moved the manufacturing and office to Gatineau, QC, leading Celine and Daniel to develop fully bilingual material for the Canadian market. With worldwide attention and demand for tree essence products, CFTE began producing its literature in Spanish.
Worldwide Attention
CFTE’s first distributor in the U.S. was and still is Alicia Rocco of Journey to Botanical, (1999). Alicia is an acclaimed Iridologist and Herbalist and contributed to The Essence Project. CFTE’s line of 12 body synergies was developed within a framework, which she described in her work with emotional Iridology.
Several distributors have joined CFTE over the years. Terri Phillips from Ridgeway, ON is a nurse practitioner and brings to the essences a wealth of knowledge from her work and training.
In 2005, JMA Lightworks of Japan requested the creation of a personalized line of body mists, for their own distribution. CFTE worked with them to develop a full line of essence sprays — eight of which are available as our Good Vibe Sprays. CFTE also co-created Oracle cards, which are very successful in Japan.
In 2009, Ottawa’s Holtz Spa incorporated a CFTE products and co-created a spa session named Spirit of the Forest, which was awarded “best new alternative therapy” from Travel to Wellness Best.
VibrationalTree Essences are also available in the Outaouais in your good Health Food Store : Rainbow, Market Organics, the Wheat Berry, L’essence-Ciel, Sol to name a few and also carried by health practitioners, nutritionist, naturopaths, massage therapists, alternative healers etc. Visit our site for locations. www.essences.ca
VISION
CFTE now produces 54 products which respond to the growing needs of today’s lifestyle. Tree essences are helping to support emotional states and challenges such as stress, insomnia, weight challenges, grief and loss, transitions, menopause among others. We offer e-commerce shopping, training and educational courses for practitioners, and personal coaching in the area.
We export products and work with large Distributors in the U.S., Japan, Israel, England, Italy, Quebec and within Canada. Celine Cloutier continues to travel all over the world to educate practitioners, distributors and customers about emotional health, and how Canadian Forest Tree Essences can play an important role in overall health and well-being,for both mind and body.