Reconnect to Mother Earth and recharge your creativity by combining the healing energy of nature with the meditative process of drawing and painting mandalas. Explore Botanical Mandalas and watch your artistic expression flourish! Full of inspiration for reconnecting with natures beauty to inspire you to create expressive mandala artworks. Includes drawing, painting and mixed-media projects to find endless inspiration for your own botanical mandala journey.
Cleanse and heal yourself and your environment using simple smudging rituals and ceremonies. For millennia, Native Americans have burned sacred plants in a bowl or on a stick to clear space of negative energies and restore balance. These simple smudging rituals can change your life, too. Learn how to combine smudging with other ancient techniques to promote healing or to turn your home into a spiritual sanctuary. Celebrate a baby's birth with a gentle blessing that welcomes a new soul into the world. Begin each morning with a simple cleaning so you'll sail through the day with confidence and hope. This natural power is available to everyone.
A DIY guide to cleansing your home of negative energy with the power of the ancient art of smudging—includes photos. Invite happiness and power into your life! Sharing the ancient tradition of space clearing with sacred smoke, this comprehensive introduction to smudging teaches you how to empower your life, your home, and your heart. With step-by-step tutorials, colorful photos, and expert advice, this book makes it easy to: • Smudge your home, yourself, and others • Craft your own smudge stick and fan • Choose sacred herbs, oils, and resins • Select the ideal day and time to smudge • Add crystals to your smudging alter • Perform rituals for all occasions
This is the best book for beginners on how to smudge. It gives you simple, easy to follow steps on how to get rid of negative energy. Includes how to bless your home, office and self, bring positive energy into your life and home, and begin spiritual healing. Simple, but provide powerful results. Can't burn sage or incense? No problem, alternative methods include frequencies, essential oils and crystals. By Author Susan K. Edwards, Licensed Spiritual Healer, Reiki Master, Lightworker
Uncover Amazing Techniques and Insights to Take Your Crystal Work to the Next Level Deepen your knowledge of crystals, gemstones, and rocks, and learn how to put their power to work for you. Crystals Beyond Beginners helps you draw upon your foundation of crystal work to improve your skills and take the next steps in your personal practice. With this comprehensive book, you'll learn how to use crystals for: Career Support Specific Intention Healing Alignments Grids Spiritual Insight Mindful Manifestation Smudging Cord Cutting Chakras Aroma-Energetic Mists Crystal Intention Pouches Numerology Astrology And More Through exercises, affirmations, and in-depth guidance, Crystals Beyond Beginners teaches you how to fully incorporate crystals into your daily life and unlock your greatest potential. Praise: "Margaret Ann's positivity shines through each and every word, thus making the reading of this book effortless as well as truly enlightening."—Michael Eastwood, author of Crystal Oversoul Attunements "Highly authoritative and accurate. ... If you only buy one crystal book, make it this one!"—Alison Chester-Lambert, MA, resident astrologer on BBC2 TV's Daily Politics Show
Discover the limitless possibilities of pastels with this beginner’s guide to creating modern, lively, and colorful pastel artwork. Artist and teacher Rebecca de Mendoça offers beginners a complete course in using pastels. Step-by-step exercises and longer projects help you to build the essential skills you need to paint a range of subjects, including landscapes, still life, portraits, and animals. Vital drawing techniques are explained and demonstrated, along with easy-to-follow explanations of color theory, composition, and the pastels themselves. This volume includes techniques for using both hard and soft pastels, eight skill-building projects, and a wealth of finished artwork to provide ideas and inspiration.
Honor life’s milestones and bring sacredness into everyday life. The Book of Blessings and Rituals shows you how to create ceremony and meaning around the most important events in you life. Drawing from different world traditions, leading metaphysical teacher Athena Perrakis presents blessings to cover a wide array of occasions and intentions, including holidays and sacred days, love, healing, protection, prosperity and success, lunar blessings and rituals, and manifestation. Organized by month, you'll be able to celebrate the sacred all year long. DIY projects and rituals will help you perform each blessing. You’ll learn how to construct medicine bundles and altars, which crystals to use to amplify the rituals or clear energy, and how to smudge for clearing and protection. In addition, you’ll learn how to use the power of invocations and blessings to set the energy of your home or event and to assist in amplifying goals and intentions. Deepen your experience of the sacred, find inspiration, and heal with this non-denominational guide to blessings and rituals.
Learn how to create a sacred space free of negativity This clear and contemporary guide explores the ritual use of smoke and scents to cleanse the energies of mind, body, and home. Here, aromatherapist and long-time herbalist Amy Blackthorn offers the essential tools for creating sacred space--a safe space free of negative energies--using herbs, incense, smoke, and other practices. Written in an accessible style, free of jargon, Sacred Smoke has everything you need to know to get started on your practice of purification and cleansing, including: The importance of self-care How to keep your home and family safe How to protect your home while you are away Adding crystals to your cleansing practice Using essential herbs and recipes for creating cleansing smoke Sacred Smoke is an essential guide for anyone seeking to practice the ritual use of cleansing and clearing to protect and heal themselves, their home, and their family.
The essential prerequisite for working with crystals successfully is to understand the most effective methods for cleansing, purifying, and recharging them, as thoroughly discussed and evaluated in this conveniently sized guidebook. Users of crystals for their healing energies will learn how their tools become impure and corrupted as well as how to adequately purify them from foreign energies and information. The instructions are demonstrated through a complete cleansing ceremony that can be used on all crystals, including jewelry. Other topics covered include the external cleaning of jewelry for purely aesthetic purposes and the correct application of crystals for cleansing rooms.
This is a book that will be of great value to those who wish to know more about psychic development, auras, chakras, and the energy that is used by psychics. The author has a strong belief that everyone who is about to research their spirituality should be taught the basics of meditation and psychic development in order to know a little about the language used in meditation circles.
