ABOUT  

New Woo was founded by Portia Barnett-Herrin.

The company produces and sells flower essences & offers 1:1 guidance and custom essence blends.

There is nothing New about flower essences.

There are hundreds producers across the globe who have been making and selling phenomenal essences for decades.

But we’re entering a new era of ‘Woo’

Consciousness is moving faster than before and there are new levels becoming available to us.

The Practical and The Mysterious go hand-in-hand.

It’s Woo, but it’s New.

ABOUT P  

I think people are a series of contradictions. People are not one way, they do not have a single tendency. Most of us are managing the tension of their inner contradictions. Sometimes this creates potent energy, sometimes this is a massive struggle.  

My aim is to bring people into a state of greater coherence, so they experience more flow. This is brought about by recognising and working with both the Being and the Doing aspects of being Alive.

I love to work as both a coach and witness. Often our inner qualities go unnoticed and can benefit greatly from being seen, activated and supported.

Here are some of my contradictions; 

I like doing Maths. There was a time when I could solve quadratic equations. Somewhere in the back of my brain is the ability to do long division by hand. 

Also, I am highly intuitive. The way I experience my intuition is a subtle bodily experience that is best described as A Nudge. Suddenly I have a sense of knowing. I don’t know how I know something, I just do. 

I’m an extrovert who really likes her own company.

I have a Cancer sun and an Aries moon. It’s natural for me to be nurturing. I want to cook you dinner and ask you about your childhood. I also want to start fires and drive fast cars. 

I have a middle class background. My parents are from the world of academics and political activism. I grew up in a house jammed full of books. It was also a very exposed upbringing. All my life, I met all kinds of people, all the time.

Small talk is difficult for me. I can do deep conversations about challenging things, or I can do games and cultural sh*t-talk. If I sit next to you at a wedding, we will ending up talking about something painful or something playful. Basically, I want to hear about your current crisis, or swap Dad jokes - and ideally both.

Truly, I could live with cats or dogs. I currently have neither. 

Lana P, London

“These potions are a portal to communion with the wisdom of the plant realm….

…I’ve had the gift of working with the flower essence blends from Portia for about 6 months and they have subtly but powerfully revealed to me depths and crevices of life’s teachings which otherwise would have gone unturned. It’s not only the blend which transforms - the quality and depth of being heard imparts it’s own transformation. Portia listens to a frequency in your voice beyond even your own comprehension and translates this frequency into a complementary vibrational drink with the flower essences. She is a seer, a listener and a creator.”


✿ How I met the flowers; a story.

It’s somewhere in the weirdness of 2020. I was (of course) doing an online course that was kinda about spiritual stuff, and also kinda about marketing. And I became aware that there was a quiet but persistent inner voice, somewhere inside me, that said ‘yea, safety is great, but safety is not for us.’ 

This made no sense. I had plenty of stability. I had a loving partner. We owned our flat. My parents were taking care of themselves. And tbh, as much as it was lockdown times, I wasn’t that freaked out about covid. 

But there was a long established, insistent lack of safety somewhere in my system. 

I didn’t know how to deal. It wasn’t a logical issue. But I also knew that it was real. I knew in that moment that this previously unacknowledged issue around safety had been low-key sabotaging more than a decade of creative work. 

I could show up on time, do the job, work hard, finish the thing. But I struggled to promote myself. I didn’t like hiding, but in a really subtle way, I just hid. A lot. And I realised it was because hiding felt safer. 

Here comes one of my biggest contradictions. I don’t believe it’s a safe world. I don’t believe we should expect life to feel safe all the time. I think we are vulnerable in life and trying to contort ourselves into an environment that is completely controlled is a fools errand. However I also know, now, that there’s an energetic type of safety that can and must be established. It’s not that you can eliminate threat. Instead it’s that you can develop trust. Trust in life and trust that you are in relationship with yourself.

This creates a knowing that you are paying attention, which in turn means, when something unexpected or dangerous happens, as it inevitably will at some point do, you will be able to respond. 

So back to me and my inexplicable but urgent issue. I heard the woman leading the course talk about flower essences as one of the ways she stayed regulated when she was feeling unsafe. 

I did some googling and purchased a blend called Emotional Relief and when it arrived two days later, I started to feel exactly that. Something started to ease. The relief was palpable. 

It wasn’t an overnight transformation, it was better than that.

It was the beginning of a healthier relationship with myself and a remembering of our inherent relationship to nature and all of its inexplicable, potent intelligence. 

SOME VALUES:

I care about coherence and I think we get there by embracing our contradictions.

DEEP WORK and LIGHTNESS go HAND IN HAND.

Linear time is punishing, cyclical time is nourishing.

WHEN IN DOUBT - TEST IT OUT.

YES PLEASE

Palo Santo

Unusual vintage armchairs

Taking myself out to dinner

Discontinued soapy Prada fragrances

DROP ME OUT

Microwave dinner smell

Rollercoasters

Long meetings with no agenda

Doodle polls

WANNA WORK TOGETHER?

1:1 SESSIONS COMING SOON