About Us
Frances Fitzgerald Cleveland established Frogworks in 1996. Her aspirations for FrogWorks started with horses and grew to include people and other animals. For more than 25 years, she has offered quality products, individual consultations and custom herbal and essential oil blends for you and your animals. FrogWorks aims to heighten the well-being of people and animals naturally, through individualized use of plants and essential oils.
About the Owner
Frances Fitzgerald Cleveland is a respected and accomplished herbalist and aromatherapist with extensive experience in health and behavior in both animals and humans. She obtained certification from The School for Aromatic Studies, formally known as the Institute of Dynamic Aromatherapy, and the International School of Animal Aromatics.
Frances is an apprentice of Rosemary Gladstar, a world-renowned author, herbalist and teacher, and has completed the intensive Apprenticeship Program and the Science and Art of Herbalism Program in the didactic, therapeutic, laboratory and fieldwork in herbalism. She is also a graduate from the University of Connecticut, receiving a BA in Journalism and Environmental Science.
Among Frances' resumé highlights is her training zookeepers in essential oils with animals. The Denver Post and Los Angeles Times covered her groundbreaking Animal Aromatherapy work at The Denver Zoo with the Orangutans, Gorillas and Black Crested Macaque. Frances' work has also been covered by The Rocky Mountain News, Associated Press and international media. In addition, she has been a featured guest on Animal Radio. Her work has shown excellent results, confirming essential oils' effectiveness and wellness benefits.
Frances lives in Colorado, where she teaches and practices the art of working with essential oils and plants. Since 1996, she has operated FrogWorks, a boutique firm offering quality products, individual consultations and custom blended herbal and essential oil blends for people and animals worldwide.
About FrogWorks
Frog Works has conducted extensive research in finding quality oil suppliers. As a result, Frances has discovered people who travel the globe to obtain the highest quality oils. She has established relationships with these people and formed her network of highly reputable suppliers worldwide. FrogWorks' oils are organic, ecologically grown and carefully wildcrafted. These are the only oils her company uses.
About the Name
In China, the Frog is a symbol of good luck. In Japan, it is believed that carrying an image of a Frog in your coin purse, brings the good fortune of having your money returned. The Japanese word for "Frog", "Kaeru," also means "return." The Frog represents participation in the abundant flow of life. The Frog is a symbol of transformation, love and alchemy.The "Frog Prince" beautifully demonstrates these characteristics when a frog convinces a young maiden to kiss him so that his (inner beauty) true identity as a Prince is revealed. Native American culture considers the Frog the cleanser of emotions and is connected to water energy, the energy of emotions. Native Americans believed that the Frog teaches us to honor our tears for cleansing the soul. When ponds are dry, it is the Frog who sings to the heavens to cleanse and replenish the earth. "Frog speaks of new life and harmony through its rain song. Sing Frog Sing! Call the rains, quench the dryness, cleanse the Earth. Then fill me up again." Jamie Sams & David Carson - Medicine Cards
A sense of new life and harmony is facilitated by working with plants and essential oils. Whether in form, appearance or character plants and essential oils enhance one's transformation in healing the body, mind and spirit. The name FrogWorks refers to this powerful/empowering transformation.