On Guard pairs beautifully with the Christmas season. The warm spicy aroma is uplifting and energising. Add it’s immune supportive properties and this an Oil valuable to know what to do with at home !
Sweet Potato Pie Recipe
Natural relief for the Common Cold
Abhyanga Warm Oil Self Massage
Rasayana recipes for Nourishing your Strength
Rasayana
रसायन
Path (āyana) of essence (rasa)
walking the path of sacred wisdom.
an Ayurvedic concoction for longevity, radiance and health.
Herein are a couple of my current favourite Rasayana recipes for you today - inspired by the Autumn here in Switzerland, her sweeping cedar hues and green to golden change - these nourishing preparations are made with sustaining Ojas (longevity) in mind.
Autumn especially is a fabulous time of the year to embrace the potent potion making potential of yummy nourishing drinks.
But first, a little about Ojas; what is it and how to strengthen yours.
Backgroud story
Contrary to common assumption, the Doshas that we know as Kapha, Pitta and Vata, are actually not seen in such positive light Ayurvedically so. Their tendancy to excess, implies the potential of disease. However each has a subtle counterpart known as Ojas, Tejas and Prana.
Ojas is the beneficial role of Kapha dosha and means strength.
Tejas is from Pitta dosha and the means radiance.
Prana is of Vata and eludes to the vital essence of life.
Together they work to encompass health within.
Back to Ojas
Ojas is heartiness, deep tissue health and resilience. It is the biological water humor, immunity and our mental emotional harmony and strength.
The equivalent of Ojas in Traditional Chinese Medicine is called Jing and both TCM and Ayurveda imply that we are born with a certain amount and it declines with the natural process of aging, yet can be preserved with appropriate life-stlye choices.
In a nutshell, Ojas is important and to Nourish your Strength (check out my upcoming workshop) is an important factor in bolstering mind-body-spirit health.
Visit the Events page for details
5 quick tips to Strengthen Ojas
Rest; take it easy. Don’t overdo yourself and make time to pause.
Nutrition; not to much, not too little. Ayurvedic, vegetarian preference. Fresh is best.
Devotion; have faith, practice forgiveness and patience. Handle pleasure and pain with equanimity.
Meditate; let the mind be witnessed for a bit and hang out with the witness. Bliss.
Time communing with nature; get out an be an Earthling, the other 4 tips will take care of themselves ;)
Now time for your Rasayana drink recipes !
The following Rasayana recipe is very good as a grounding pre-bedtime treat. Substitute the milk as you desire and the dates for honey if you are following a Kapha reducing program. As you gain familiarity with the spices, play around with the measures according to your taste.
SLEEPY TIME RASAYANA
Ingredients
1 cup almond milk
1 tsp Ghee
1/8 tsp Nutmeg (fresh ground is more effective in sleep supporting benefits)
1 tsp cinnamon
1.5 medjoule dates (optional for extra grounding) or honey if watching Kapha
pinch saffron (optional)
Method
Warm your ingredients on the stove.
Transfer to a blender to blitz into a warm creamy whip.
Sip by candlelight and slip into a serene night time sleep.
Enjoy this mojo building pre-bedtime treat that will melt cravings and stress into deep restful dreams.
STRESS BUSTING AFTERNOON TEA
Ingredients
1/2 cup almond milk
1/2 cup water (or a pre brewed tea of choice - I like liquorice root at the moment)
1/4 teaspoon of your rejuvenating tonic herb of choice (*Ashwaganda or *Shatavari powder)
1/4 teaspoon turmeric
Crack of black pepper
1 crushed Cardamom pod (OR dip a toothpick into your doTERRA Cardamom essential oil and stir it into the finished drink)
Method
Cook your ingredients on the stove
Strain and sweeten to taste
Enjoy as a warm, calming Autumn afternoon treat
*Although typically safe, please check with your local Ayurvedic practitioner for your own personal indication of use.
*Rasayana is best enjoyed when you are healthy - without congestion, cold or flu.
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Love and hearty Rasayana vibes,
Amber xoxo
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How to get your doTERRA Oils
Nothing more Nothing less; Natures pure intelligence at her best !
Its possible to order your oils retail yet it makes the most sense to become a member for many reasons !
The standard doTERRA membership entitles you to wholesale prices (25% off retail) for 12 months. There is absolutely:
No obligation to order minimum amounts or to order monthly.
No obligation to order again, ever. Although 70% of customers do reorder because they love the product so much.
No obligation to renew your membership (if at the end of 12 months you would like to renew your membership for another year the cost is $25 and doTERRA will send you a free 15ml Peppermint as a thank you).
You also gain access to promotions, free product (doTERRA are very generous with this) and ongoing learning.
HOW TO ORDER YOUR ESSENTIAL OILS:
1. Visit my website
2. Select "Join & Save"
3. Select language and country
4. Select “Wholesale Customer” (cannot sell doTERRA) or “Wellness Advocate” (can sell doTERRA)
5. Enter your details
In the Enroller ID and Sponsor ID boxes my name will show up.
If it is not there already write;
5440212
Please ensure that this is correctly filled in so I can best support you.
Frankincense, Lavender, Lemon, Melaleuca, Oregano, Peppermint, doTERRA Breathe®, DigestZen®, doTERRA On Guard®, Deep Blue®(5 mL)
6. Select your kit
(here are the top two)
The Home Essential Kit is the top choice for most people to get started.
It includes the 10 most popular essential oils (15ml if not stated otherwise)
PLUS the Petal Diffuser and Wellness Advocate Introductory Packet.
+ 100 Points (dōTERRA dollars) to spend on further orders through the Loyality Rewards Program, all wrapped up with a lovely wooden box.
The Natural Solutions Kit is also called the "Lifestyle Make-over Kit"
An amazing bundle of goodness that offers a fresh start and huge savings, it not only includes the ten most popular essential oils and Diffuser, also special doTERRA Essential Oil blends like: Clary Calm, Serenity, Balance and Elevation + Supplements: Life Long Vitality and others. + VerágeTM Skin Care Collection + Fractionated Coconut Oil + Deep Blue Rub + dōTERRA Salon Essentials® Conditioner dōTERRA Salon Essentials® Shampoo + dōTERRA ON GUARD® COLLECTION: (Beadlets, Cleaner Concentrate, Foaming Hand Wash + 2 Dispensers, Laundry Detergent, Softgels, Toothpaste)
Note: If you want to select your own oils, choose “Introductory Kit/Welcome Package" and type the names of the oils you'd like in the box.
Optional items you may want to add to your order: Fractionated Coconut Oil for making rollers and diluting your oils; Petal Diffuser if you've chosen a kit without one.
7. Enter in your payment details & go for it !
Your goodies will soon be on their way and with you to enjoy everyday. You now not only have opened this wonderful world of botanical support and nourishment for yourself, you also have access to 12 months of wholesale product prices, support from me, our wonderful community and promotions that will continue to ignite an inspired intuition within you, for ultimate wellness longevity.
If you’re satiated for now, there is nothing more you need to do however there is a next step for those of us feeling the opportunity for being a part of our monthly self-care incentive, delivered in sustainable doTERRA packaging right to your door.
We call it the LRP (Loyalty Rewards Program) because not only will you enjoy the many benefits from using and growing the collection of your gorgeous oils, you’ll also soon see all the other wonderful non-toxic wellness supporting possibilities doTERRA holds for you - swap out household cleaning items, hair care, skin care, supplements (on and on) at reduced cost all whilst gaining free products for the privilege of supporting your greatest wellbeing and living low-tox.
Plus gain access to our exclusive online community and join us on monthly deep dives into themes and oil alchemy that serves to nourish you completely.
8. Join the LRP
Choose a monthly date for delivery before the 15th.
After you’ve placed your order, you will see the invitation to set up your first LRP order.
Click yes to proceed where you’ll be taken to a calendar screen - choose a monthly date for delivery before the 15th.
On the next screen add something special into your cart that you would like to receive for your first LRP shipment. Do this by typing it right into the search box but don’t worry if your not 100% certain on your choice as you can change it as many times as you like all the way up too the day before that magical date of your choosing. Actually once your LRP is all set up, it’s much easier to simply log into your personal Virtual Office and make any necessary changes from there.
Proceed to enter your payment details again and your all set on to participate in the monthly LRP self-care club !
A few bonus’s of being a part of doTERRA’s premier loyalty program - the LRP
Once your order is processed you will receive (not only your gorgeous oils in the post soon - yipee) some email inspiration from yours truly. Annnd some additional goodies ;) For those beginning with the LRP, receive a personal invitation form me to join our Self-Care online community. You’ll be so glad you did !
Contact me if you have any questions, anything. I am here to help and so excited to share the magic of a plant empowered life with you.
How to choose your Essential Oils
It takes 5000 tonnes of raw plant material to make 3 litres of precious pure Rose oil
Quality is paramount in choosing essential oils. In order to maintain safety and efficiency, the oils you choose Must be sustainably, indigiously sourced and of the highest quality. The oils I recommend are dispensed from one of todays leading, most trusted Essential Oil providers, who sustainably sources its oils from the countries and communities each plant is native too and has rigorous testing procedures to ensure every drop is the pure essential oil and nothing more, or less.
This is a big deal as according to leading Essential Oil researchers, up to 75% of essential oils on the market today are in some way tampered with and there is no regulatory agency to illicit change. The company I source my essential oils from offers transparent practices that make available laboratory testing of single oils to the public, ensuring purity and trust within the Essential Oils community.
“For me this was an important part of my decision in choosing the company I chose (above all other companies) but ironically, not the deciding factor !”
After rigorous investigation and experimentation of many of the Essential oils on the market, my head was spinning. (Take a look - or better yet, don't - at all the propogander circulating throughout the google pages)
In choosing the best company to partner with, I knew that the decision would be an important one for me for two main reasons.
Firstly, the relationship we have with botanicals is highly personal. It is (or can be) beautiful, scared and something that filters through into ones entire family, their community and I really don't have any inclination towards needing to defend such well researched and heart made choices with anyone.
Secondly, for me, this company would provide the wonderful opportunity of reigniting my inherent entrepreneurial creativity - a way for me to build a lucrative business within a well informed tribe; a community content and inspired to join me in sprinkling the magic of pure plant based wonderment worldwide. Maybe that could even be you and if it is, then please reach out :)
I digress... If you'd like to read a little more about my Essential Oil journey, find the blog post here.
Back to the story !
So. Thereupon consuming, digesting and assimilating all the necessary jargon, I let the mind stuff settle and went directly to the practice; using the oils in my day-to-day life.
It took me almost 6 months of sampling and trialling the products of the two major essential oil leaders, to make my choice and I must say it was a difficult choice as the quality of both companies is truly high !
Quite surprisingly though clarity arrived one fateful day after watching the emotionally gripping movie LION.
My goddess, I watched that movie in tears; not the gentle dainty kind of tears that accompany a tentative sniffle and dab of a tissue no, the gut wrentching snot laden tissue box emptying kind of tears that invite 'a little lay down' after the ordeal. For those virgin to the film about which I type, here is the synopsis courtesy of IMBD
“A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.”
The entire first hour of that film touched all the pain points of being a mother. Having spent a good portion of time in India during my younger explorer days, I was transported, my present mind reeling with dismay, every cell in my being wailing - "But they are only little boys !!!"
This movie beautifully illuminates the abysmally dismal situation of extreme child exploitation that India maintains as a hideous stain.
Not two days following my exposure to this film, I fell upon the following and my choice was made.
“Operation Underground Railroad
The doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation is proud to be partnering with Operation Underground Railroad (OUR Rescue) to bring healing and hope to the world. OUR Rescue exists to rescue children from sex trafficking by utilizing some of the world’s experts in extraction operations and anti-child trafficking efforts.
OUR Rescue’s Jump Team, consisting of former CIA, Navy SEALs, and Special Ops operatives, lead coordinated identification and extraction efforts to rescue children being trafficked for sex.”
Its hard to read, I want to look away and yet; in Yoga we'd call that Avidya (ignorance) that, and philanthropy is a cause ever close to my heart. I have always offered my time, finances and services for the greater good and even now since becoming a mother this has remained unchanged, perhaps however rescaled.
What I have found from my experiences of giving charitably over time, is that (exceptions recognised of course) it makes sense to support foundations already organised. It makes getting the dollar to exactly where it is needed to go, easier and more effective.
Learning of doTERRAs humanitarian efforts was certainly the change maker for me and I am delighted to not only be using their superior quality essential oils - also to know that my product usage and propagation supports the Healing Hands Foundation (amongst other philanthropic efforts), directly.
If you feel called to join me, on my team, within the blossoming doTERRA healing tree;
Contact me with your top 3 health concerns and I'll get in touch with some solutions. Or if you know you are ready to join me on the journey immediately
to
Purchase your starter pack here
Wishing you all the LOVE and miracles of a plant empowered life,
xo Amber
Blended to bring light into the darkest places, Hope offers the full purchase price of each bottle as donation to support the work of ending sex trafficking world wide via the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation.
Faith. Belief. Hope.
To have hope is to hold in your heart the possibility of embodying the whole. Happiness is your birthright. Born wide eyed and full of soul, sometimes its necessary to be reminded of your invincible dynamic might.
The doTERRA Hope blend is a courageous concoction of cleansing Bergamot, innocence restoring Ylang Ylang and perspective shifting Frankincense; tickled by the steadying scent of vanilla in a base of fractionated coconut oil.
Apply this gorgeous blend directly from the roller bottle. It's fresh, playful and enlightening perfume comes in handy during times of trauma recall and despairing stress.
Be reminded of your nature as whole.
Our plant friends are wonderful ally's on this path and a little hope, goes a long way.
Would you like to purchase a bottle of doTERRA Hope for your own ?
Why I quit with Essential Oils
Ganesha Mudra embrace. May all obstacles to your highest Grace, be removed from the way !
I use essential oils everyday and in so many ways. On my body, diffused, in lotions and potions and even with know-how, internally.
To withhold any of this information would be to withhold a big part of who I am and all that makes me, me!
Scattered throughout my offerings, my yoga, teachings and contributions I will show you how you can incorporate botanical extracts into the elevation of your everyday experience of life.
But first, let me be clear on something - I took a sabbatical from consciously using Any essential oils for about 3 years and here’s why.
I became jaded. Jaded by the surge of essential oil consumerism, injury and fallacy. I didn’t want to participate in the evolution of modernistic botanical reach, it was a perceptual train wreck to me and so instead I retreated. Retreated from that which had only ever been a deeply personal communion with the most potent form of botanical healing I'd known. For me, the unregulated face of the Aromatherapy I'd cherished became endangered and I felt as though I'd lost a home.
During that time I deepened my study of herbalism. I was pregnant with my first son and instead of inhaling aromatics, I’d sit with, listen too, lay beside, seed, harvest, prepare, macerate, medicate, craft with and ultimately dance with plants. The actual plants. The whole plants, their different parts, their colours, their grit, grime (sometimes slime) and the personality of each. The plants enveloped me inside of a heady curiosity, carrying me through the seasons on a cycle of deeper states of presence, Wonder and awe. Some things can’t be rushed.... and the whole process nourished my yearning for home.
I first studied clinical aromatherapy in 2001 at the Australian School of Clinical Aromatherapy. I was soon to be living in a little house just up the street and had been experimenting with oils wholeheartedly (uneducated and full of curiosity) since my first purchase of 40 oils in a wooden box, some years before.
Like most new to the world of Aromatherapy I was SMITTEN. These oils seemed to save my life. Really. I was struggling with change, leaving a relationship that I’d far outgrown and entering an adulthood that my adolescence couldn’t rectify no matter how hard I tried. Cedarwood was my ally then, Geranium and Lavender not only quelled the tremors of my mind they also appeased a suppressed yearning for expression that little patches of eczema erupting on my neck tried to hide. I shared so passionately about my beloved botanical allies and how they’d transformed the relationship I had with upcoming milestones in my life. They set me on a path of deeper intimacy and truly, the rest is history.
Furthering my education in Essential oils and the study of Aromatherapy, I delved into reflexology with massage soon becoming a modality that served as a catalyst for deeper remedial and clinical qualifications.
Essential oils guided me through the gamet of understanding chemical toxicity, and eradicating harsh cleaning supplies, body care products and food stuffs from my home. Their unique, natural and harmonious chemistry infiltrated my senses to rewire expired beliefs, confirming a deeper knowing that as organic organisms, we humans need to live organically. I was never formally taught that and it was these experiences that transformed me, sustainably and for life.
And then after all those years of deep intimacy, private experimentations and joyful revelations; I became jaded. It seemed as though all of a sudden, everyone started sharing about essential oils. Seemed as though all kinds of far reaching claims, promises and consumption demands were being made; all for the pull of a dollar.
And something so beautiful, so healing and so sacred for me became void.
I shied away and it wasn’t until my second born was admitted to the emergency room at 2.5 weeks old with a (unknown at the time) benign stomach virus, that my knowledge and need for these powerful plant extracts reignited. You see in the very next room a 4month old whooped day and night with pertussis - a potentially deadly childhood disease. I diffused a suitable dose of melaleuca in our room to clear the air, with a drop of lavender to soothe. Body, mind and soul, they offered protection and it was palpable. After a 3 night stay we were freed and since then my good ol’ botanical extract/essential oil friends have been reverently reintroduced to our home.
Having braved that sabbatical, I developed a whole new respect for essential oils and am grateful for my time of being ‘jaded’.
Essential oils need to be respected. And to respect them is to know how to use them.
I have joined the company doTERRA as an independent distributor - a Wellness Advocate. Because after much exhaustive research, I’ve fallen in love with the company and their essential oil based products above all others. I use them on myself and for my family, daily, wisely and would love to help you do the same for you and your family ! Join me and many other like minded future friends, on the journey.
Contact me with your top 3 health concerns and I'll get in touch with some solutions. Or if you know you are ready to join me on the journey immediately
to
Purchase your starter pack here
Wishing you all the LOVE and miracles of a plant empowered life,
xo Amber