Smudging Handbook

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TopicNew Age / Esoterics

AuthorMarkus Schirner

PublisherInner Traditions

66 Herbs, Woods, and Resins for Clearing and Emotional Balance

Explore smudging with this comprehensive illustrated guide that offers new and traditional ways to approach this ancient practice. While this book examines the common uses of smudging for protection and energetic cleansing with mainstays like sage, sweetgrass, and frankincense, it also offers unfamiliar and surprising ingredients and applications. The author explains how to smudge with rose petals for acceptance or elder to connect with ancestors. Learn how to ritually prepare mixtures of herbs, resins, and woods for various purposes such as divination, grounding, and approaching new beginnings. Markus details 34 physical and spiritual protocols for smudging rituals to improve overall health, courage and self-confidence, clarity, and lucid dreaming. This guide book will teach you how to prepare for a smudging ritual, choose the appropriate method, and select the right ingredients. Markus also shows how to properly collect, store, and prepare your ingredients in bundles and cones to smudge for yourself or others. With a comprehensive A–Z catalog featuring full color illustrated portraits of 66 herbs, resins, and woods, this book also offers a detailed history of these smudging materials. The Complete Smudging Handbook offers a modern interpretation of smudging and incense burning that will anchor and deepen any reader’s approach to this ancient practice. Immerse yourself in the world of smudging and open up to plant wisdom for improved physical health and emotional wellbeing.