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Elevate Your Mood With an Incense Ritual

Isn’t it interesting that most probably we all experience similar feelings or sensations when we sense a smell of a freshly brewed coffee in the mo...

Return Home to Yourself

There's no place like home. Our familiar safe space, a shelter in which we can relax and rest. The word itself - home - can bring many different ...

Improve Your Day with an Incense Ritual

The reality of the 21st century is faster and more intense than ever before, topping it off with the chaotic, uncertain energy of this year - 2020....

History of Kōdō: Unearthing the Japanese Way of Incense

A REFINED ART AND GROUNDING DOMESTIC RITUAL Burning incense is rooted in ancient rituals of cleansing one’s space or self to evoke positive en...

Connecting through stories: literature that helps us escape, evolve … and eat.

Before we had books, we had stories. We had verbal narratives, images etched onto cave walls, pictographs on scrolls of papyrus. The first storie...

Loco Love Holy Cacao: Artisanal Chocolate with Restorative Properties.

It’s back. For those of you who are familiar with Loco Love’s Holy Cacao medicinal mushroom blend, those two words will have just made your day. ...

Not Just A Prop: How my linen yoga bolster became an essential part of my daily rituals.

I have two dachshunds. They love (and deserve) the finer things in life. Anything that remotely resembles soft-furnishings in my house is theirs fo...

4 Tips to beat Sleep Deprivation. Why you can’t Ignore It.

You’ve no doubt heard that you should be getting eight hours of sleep every night, but why is this so essential to our lives? Sleeping is not jus...

Tranquility, creativity and reflection: the ritual of brewing tea.

The story Over the years as I’ve gradually become more mindful, I have fewer anxiety triggers. Things that are out of my control (for example, tr...

Journal Prompts for Self-Reflection and Ritual Practices

Rituals and routines help us create a baseline of behaviour and predictability. And right now, with so much uncertainty surrounding us, our rituals...

3 Tips to Kickstart your AM Rituals

In a perfect world, we would all be morning people. ⁣ Every night we would log eight hours of solid sleep and jump out of bed feeling prepared and ...

The Simple Breathing Exercise To Lower Anxiety

We live in a culture where we ask one another "How are you?" and we all respond the same way, "busy!" Busyness has become a status symbol and it's ...