A Mindful Sit with Palmarosa
After a few moments, you notice yourself taking deeper breaths – breaths saturated with the deep rosy notes from the Palmarosa surrounding your safe space.
I discovered aromatherapy through massage school and never looked back. In addition to teaching aromatherapy courses, I support Aromahead students through case studies and research paper processes.
After a few moments, you notice yourself taking deeper breaths – breaths saturated with the deep rosy notes from the Palmarosa surrounding your safe space.
Our aromatic plants and their volatile oils can provide similar or the same therapeutic benefits they utilize to keep themselves healthy and vital.
This month we will dive into a more profound experience with Palmarosa (Cymbopogon martinii var. motia). We can't wait to share some of the properties this unique aromatic grass brings to assist our physical, emotional, and energetic bodies.
Little did I know that many years later, while sitting in a yurt classroom, I would learn how truly amazing these fungi are and how they have been ‘cleaning up’ nature since the beginning of time, along with a lot of our man-made messes too.
What a clever way to deliver plant medicine that can often be rather difficult to swallow due to taste.
I've made this many times over the years when I'm in the mood for a light French dinner!
Then came the pandemic, and not only was finding a hand cleanser a necessity but nearly impossible at times.
Whether we are looking at this aromatic tree from the gifts it brings via its essential oil or how it was first used by indigenous people we can see the significant role it has played.
I want to take the time to thank “my” owls for this reminder that who I am is not static but always shifting…and that is ok.