Shamanism has a deep reverence for the healing power of plants, referred to as plant medicine.
It honors both the nourishing physical qualities of the plant, and, even more powerfully, it honors the spirit of the plant: its prana, its life-force, its energy, and its particular expression of the divine. It’s medicine.
Each plant has different medicine, and the essential oil is its concentrated essence. The medicine of an earthy tree is very grounding, while the medicine of a bright citrus is energizing. These oils are symbiotic with our nature and will promote healing on a physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual level. Let’s take orange oil for example:
Physical Benefit: Provides gentle daily cleanse of vital organs, immune-boosting - add a drop to water
Emotional Benefit: Upflifting, good if feeling ‘bluesy’ - diffuse or ‘cup and inhale’
Mental Benefit: Supports focus - apply to temples, forehead, and back of neck
Spiritual Benefit: Promotes creativity, abundance, and play - apply to second chakra and over heart
Added Benefit: Non-toxic cleaning of our homes (add several drops to a spray bottle of water), makes a great at-home chemical peel mask - add a drop to a teaspoon of real honey (wait for the tingling, then rinse)
Whether you use it aromatically, topically, internally, or in your environment you get its sweet medicine.
Priestesses the world over have been using this plant medicine for a hot minute (at least Cleopatra anointed herself daily with essential oils.
For the record, I’m not a perfect green goddess. I use gel nail polish, and I get my hair highlighted. I love chocolate chip cookies. These are not ‘pure, toxin-free’ moves.
AND, I also know that every little bit of ‘healthy’ helps, and when I am connected to nature, I just feel better. Plus, essential oils offset my not-so-angelic indulgences.
I personally use essential daily oils in my cooking, to clean my house, as my skincare, to keep my family healthy, to make my house smelly yummy, in my bath, in my shower, as gifts, you name it. They are my lifestyle.
But my absolute favorite use of essential oils is for their energetic bennies.
First thing in the morning, I pamper myself with oils to start my day on a high vibe note. Before any social media, while my coffee is brewing, I select my fave essences and get them on my body and in my diffusers (one in my open kitchen-living area and one in my home office).
I wouldn’t dream of trying to do anything without them. They are my little arsenal of extra protection, light, and flow.
They connect me to my true self, to my divine nature, and to whatever medicine I need for that day, whether it’s creativity, communication, boundaries, heart-opening, connecting, manifesting, calling in abundance, or whatever.
By applying various oils with their various medicines to various pulse points (wrists, elbow creases, belly button, heart, throat, forehead, temples, back of neck, bottoms of feet, chakras), I instantly raise my vibration.
Essential oils are an unregulated industry. The oils you will find in most healthfood stores and online are frankly, gross. They are often filled with artificial fillers, inferior oils, or carriers. They are not the plant medicine nature intended.
If you buy oils and don’t get the benefits we are talking about here, that’s probably why.
Because of this, I have chosen to partner with doTERRA, which is leading the industry by self-regulating with a third party testing company, who tests all their oils for strict purity and potency standards.
So when it says orange oil, you can bet your sweet hiney that means 100% pure orange oil cold-pressed right from the rind.
I want to help you get the same life-changing benefits I’ve received from using these precious oils, so be sure to check out the BONUSES section at the bottom of this page (worth over $200). Here are my fave Urban Shamaness Oil Kits to get you going:
I love this kit because it includes everything you need to be an essential oil shamaness: 8 fantastic starter oils, my favorite carrier oil (fractionated coconut oil) for enhancing topical use, and the adorable Petal diffuser for aromatic use and a space that smells divine.
Here’s what’s included:
Balance - Spiritual Benefit: Helps you ground your energy and manifest your vision. Reduces feelings of stress and overwhelm. Physical Benefit: Harmonizes physiological systems of the body and promotes balance.
OnGuard - Spiritual Benefit: Helps to maintain healthy energetic boundaries. Physical Benefit: Powerful immune booster so those seasonal ailments don’t stand a chance of taking you down.
Deep Blue - Spiritual Benefit: Helps assimilate life’s experience and process any emotional pain. Physical Benefit: Instantly soothes physical aches and pains, muscle tension, and joint discomfort.
AromaTouch - Spiritual Benefit: Provides comfort and relaxation, so you can be emotionally open and flexible. Physical Benefit: Great for massage, helping to alleviate physical tension, and for supporting the nervous system (also great to apply when you are feeling the ‘fight or flight’ stress response)
Melaleuca - Spiritual Benefit: Helps to clear negative energetic baggage and codependent and toxic relationships (also fantastic skin support)
Wild Orange - offers feelings of creativity, joy, light-heartedness, and abundance (also lovely to add to water to support a gentle daily cleanse and detox of vital organs)
Peppermint - supports feelings of energy, focus, and feelings of buoyancy, so that you effortlessly glide through life (also great for head tension, tummy upset, and enhancing workouts)
Lavender - this popular calming oil also enhances communication, self-expression, and speaking your truth
PLUS:
Fractionated Coconut Oil (4 oz) - my fave carrier oil. When applied to skin with essential oils, it allows the essential oil to penetrate more deeply while offsetting skin sensitivity.
Petal Diffuser - permeates an ultra-fine, yet substantial mist output into the air, releasing the aromatic and therapeutic benefits of essential oils quickly and safely. Covers up to 330 square feet with three timed settings—1, 2, and 4 hours—allowing you to customize the release of essential oils into the air.
The doTERRA Essentials Booklet - Your go-to resource for a list of all the essential oil uses and benefits. Includes a free suggested cleanse protocol.
AROMATOUCH DIFFUSED KIT -
$150
*With complimentary wholesale account. Select ‘become a wholesale member’ at checkout to get this savings (normally $200).
Exclusive Urban Shamaness Access - You will have immediate access to our Urban Shamaness oily community, programs, resources, and ongoing support! This isn’t the end, it’s just the beginning.
A FREE Lifestyle Design Appointment with Me ($200 value) - Once you purchase, I’ll shoot you a link to schedule. Then we’ll hop on the phone so I can personally welcome you to the Urban Shamaness tribe. Here’s what we’ll cover:
I’ll introduce you to all the exclusive oil support resources I have for you
I’ll go over any q’s you have + make sure you are feeling super comfy with your new oils
I’ll find out a little more about your health and wellness goals + help you design a plant-medicine based lifestyle + daily protocol to help you manifest your mind-body-spirit intentions
I’ll also show you the inside scoop on how to use your new wholesale account save a ton of cash
LIFESTYLE DESIGN APPOINTMENT WITH ME
Yours free with any wholesale kit purchase.