The Bach Centre’s education programmes celebrate a birthday early next month: the first ever practitioner course started 33 years ago, on the 3rd September 1991.
Lyon Whyte BFRP was a student on that first course, and has been on the Bach Centre’s Register ever since.
“I was very excited about attending,” Lyon told us. “I had only discovered the little brown bottles full of miracles about a week before, when visiting my parents who were feeding a neighbour’s cats. They were on the neighbour’s shelf and I felt drawn to them.
“I phoned Mount Vernon to find out more and was informed that they were just about to embark on the first ever course. It was a long way for me to come as I was living in Wales at the time. But I was on a mission and wasn’t going to let anything get in my way!”
Lyon soon felt at home at the Bach Centre. “It was a beautiful few days. I remember John and Judy, who were so very warm, and it was so peaceful to be in their presence.
“Judy’s husband Keith talked us through the flowers and plants in the garden, and it was wonderful to see the furniture that had been made by Dr Bach himself and see some of the original tinctures – the whole experience was, and still remains, a very special one to me.”
Lyon has found many opportunities to use what she learned.
“It’s quite remarkable that I discovered them through my mother, because I went on to treat her throughout her ten year journey with Alzheimer’s. Even when she had retreated very deeply into the disease, could no longer speak, and didn’t recognise anyone but me – she would still reach for her little bottle. She knew, at a sub-conscious level, that the remedies helped and supported her.
“I have gone on to use the remedies with animals, and there too the results are life changing for pet and owner.
“I am eternally grateful for my decision, not only to go with my mother and help her feed her neighbour’s cats, but to take the interest further and make the enquiry that was to go on and help not just my mother and of course myself, but the many people who I’ve been able to share this discovery with and make their journies that bit easier.
“There was a lot of synchronicity going on then, and it continues today!”