ROSE PETALS AND TEA LEAVES, roses of the Alhambra and other stories is an openhearted and heartwarming book about roses, love, loss, grief, history, religion and faith against the background of beautiful places like Paris, Seville, Cordoba and Granada. It includes the poems the "Roses of the Alhambra" and "Girl in the White Dress", published for the first time, as well as some beautiful pictures of the roses of the Alhambra. Most stories in this book were first published in ROSE PETALS AND TE...

Barbara Bahtiar explores her Celtic Roots by taking us on a journey to the Isle of Avalon using guided meditations and beautiful images. Over the years she has gathered beautiful Avalon lady’s around her, working together in Avalon workshops to meditate on the blessings of Avalon. The meditations in this book are the fruits and blossoms of the Avalon workshops at Bougainville, Center for Intuition tland enlivens our hearts and souls. Poems about red roses and white roses alternate with cher...

Barbara Bahtiar was born in 1963 in Alkmaar (Holland) as the eldest of three sisters. Her youngest sister died shortly before her first birthday, so grief has been part of her life from the beginning.

As a child, she used to read a lot of books, especially fairy tales about foreign countries. She travelled to imaginary beautiful places which comforted her in her loss. Besides this, she developed the gift of writing, first in her diaries, later as an intuitive psychologist by writing meditatio...

Barbara Bahtiar has travelled extensively through Europe and Indonesia. Rose Petals and Jasmine Flowers, a Journey through Authentic Indonesia, is her first book about her beloved country Indonesia, its customs, religion, culture, nature and kindhearted people. She has visited her family in Indonesia several times, but taking part in a traditional wedding ceremony rich with religious and culture significance, inspired her to write Rose Petals and Jasmine Flowers, a Journey through Authentic I...