Emma Leafe

Energy & Ash : How to Clean Your Incense Space

Energy & Ash A smouldering stick of incense, fills the air with divine fragrance. Carrying prayers, thoughts, wishes up into etherial space to be heard Incense turns to ash Ash nourishes...

EARTH the mother of life ... 5-Element cycle

We enter the element of Earth, the mother of life. The matrix that contains, allows and supports all living processes ... Earth is the balancing...

Listening to Incense ~ What does this Mean ?

The old adage stemming from the Oriental art of 'listening to incense', often confuses people - as they wonder how you can listen to something that...

FIRE divinity, transformation and passion

Fire is a symbol of divinity, of transformation and of passion. It has been the predominant force of nature in most of the World's mythologies...

Sacred Scents and Internal Arts

A practice I love to do, also find myself spontaneously doing without thought, is to combine deeply precious anointing oils like Holy Wood (Palo Santo)...

Seasonal Adjustment ~ The Wood Element

 The Wood Element This is written as we move closer to the Spring Equinox on March 20th- in the Northern hemisphere where I am. We have entered...

Qi Flow in Winter : Keeping Spirits High

 WINTER : This most Yin season of all, with a total shedding, a dying off reflected in nature, as we hurtle towards the blackest point...

INCENSE FOR THE GODS ~ Natural Aromatics from Ancient Technology

Ancient Aromatics Earliest texts documented the use of ancient aromatics as a tool to worship gods through incense: the Latin phrase per fumum, literally meaning...

Scent & Natural Gifting

The art of gifting  A practice that has been passed down to us, through the centuries. Yet in the blur of fast consumerism, the sentiment...

Nature Immersion ~ Regeneration

This September I took some time to go away, just to immerse in Nature. It had been almost two years, since I left the country....