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How to Choose Incense Sticks for Your Space

Learn how to choose incense sticks for meditation, cleansing, relaxation or gifting, with simple tips on scent, ingredients, strength and use.

Palo Santo: The Ultimate Guide to uses, benefits, & origins

A balanced guide to understanding Palo Santo, its benefits, origins, and mindful use Palo Santo, a widely controversial topic in many respects and one of which we love to talk...

Palo Santo: Uses, Benefits and How To Use It

Learn how to use Palo Santo for cleansing, energy clearing and relaxation Palo Santo is used in spiritual practices across the globe and is said to hold the ability to...

Incense Sticks Guide: History, Types, Benefits & How to Use

Incense Sticks Guide: History, Types, Benefits & How to Use Introduction Incense sticks have been used for centuries across cultures to create sacred spaces, calm the mind, and connect with...

How to smudge with sage for beginners?

Smudging or the burning of sacred herbs to purify and cleanse, is an ancient ritual that has been practiced for centuries. Sage, (white sage, blue sage, Californian white, black sage)...

How to Use Shamanic Spirit Water

Welcome to the world of Shamanic Spirit Water, and a blog we’ve been meaning to put together for a while now! We get a lot of questions about spirit waters,...

How to smudge with White Sage this spring

We’ve had a busy few weeks here at Sacred Essence, we’ve been enjoying the lighter mornings and evenings at our shop here in Coniston. With the Spring Equinox now behind...

How to use Peruvian Incense

Peruvian incense originates from Central and South America, and in particular Peru. It has a history that dates back centuries and that is intertwined with ancient traditions, shamanic rituals, and...

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