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Love meditating? Love essential oils? You can combine both for an amazing meditation experience. Aromatherapy meditation is a great way to release your daily stress and worries, clear your energy, feel more calm, relaxed and at peace. Since breathing is at the core of meditation and aromatherapy, combining both can help you get all the healing benefits.

Blue Moons are just full moons that occur infrequently, they are thought to be emotionally charged and packing double the energy! On May 31st the Blue Moon rises. A rare second full moon in the month of May. A Moon for seekers, for the wanderers, for the quietly untamed!

Learning to trust our intuition is something that can connect us with our highest selves. Sometimes it might not seem easy to do this. Our thoughts and minds often get in the way. But by accessing our innermost self, we will find that the information we receive is usually what we truly need at that moment. One of the techniques that allows us to really get in touch with our deepest internal wisdom is using our body as a Pendulum. The simple act of letting our physical being lead us in a certain direction can offer us extremely deep insights and help us find the answers we seek.

The Winter Solstice is the shortest day and the longest night of the year. It is also officially the first day of winter. Winter is a season of yin characteristics: cold, slow, quiet, and feminine. Yin energy is associated with nighttime, so it's fitting that the Winter Solstice is the longest night of the year. We have reached the pinnacle of yin energy. Our current custom of frantically rushing around doing last minute holiday shopping is not in sync with nature. We would be better off with more rest, slowness, warmth, and quality time with loved ones.

In celebration of the June Strawberry Full Moon on June 11th I want to highlight my 'Moon Power' Anointing Oil & Ritual Mist. According to the Farmers’ Almanac, some North American native tribes called the full moon in June the Strawberry Moon, because it coincides with the ripening of wild strawberries.

When your energy vibrates at a frequency that is within direct alignment to what the Universe has been attempting to deliver your entire life, you begin to live in the flow and true miracles start to happen!

It is when you are willing to listen to yourself and be fearless, that figuring out your next step becomes easy.

The family Christmas Eve that my hair caught on fire before or after the pic! Can you guess where I'm at in the pic? My mother is behind me and my aunt Ally is to the right.

Our sense of smell is deeply connected to our emotions, memories, and overall mental health. When we inhale an aroma, scent molecules travel through the nose and stimulate the olfactory nerve, which communicates directly with the limbic system – the part of the brain that regulates emotions and memory. This makes our sense of smell a powerful pathway for influencing our moods, stress levels, and even depression and anxiety symptoms.

As scared as we were, it was fun to face our fear. The rush we got from overcoming that fear was empowering, like we had looked into the actual realm of spirits and faced a real danger, coming out triumphant!

This article was written by Jade Shutes, my Instructor at The School of Aromatic Studies. Now that fall is in the air and we're hiking in the woods mesmerized by the beautiful fall colors I thought this article was very timely to share. I created my Evergreen Resilience Rollerball blend from the calmness I would feel after taking my walks in the woods.