Incense Crafting Workshop

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Sustainability is always something to keep in mind when sourcing your incense ingredients. Many aromatic plants today are struggling in the wild due to over harvesting and environmental changes. Threatened and endangered plants are harvested daily (often illegally) in massive amounts to be distilled into essential oil or kept whole and sold around the world, with most consumers kept unaware of these harmful practices. 

As an incense crafter, it is a responsibility to research your sources and ensure plants you buy are wild-harvested sustainably, grown on a plantation (preferably organically grown), or grown or harvested from the wild yourself. And that you never buy threatened or endangered species that were harvested from the wild. Many plantations grow endangered plants to help keep the strain off of wild populations, while planting more plants and spreading awareness. 

These types of operations are important to support as an alternative to wild-harvested plants. 

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Incense is the most universally widespread tool for all things spiritual. It is used to enhance prayer and meditation, evoke deeper spiritual introspection, as a sacred offering, for spiritual and energetic cleansing and consecration, for blessing, to accompany body/mind/spirit practices such as yoga and qi gong, for spiritual protection and so much more. Thousands of years before its countless Biblical associations with the divine, incense use is seen across the histories of ancient civilizations such as the Maya, Aztec, and Egyptians, where daily rituals and offerings called for generous plumes of smoke from sacred blends of herbs and resins, used to appease gods, goddesses, and deities. 

There are many reasons that incense is held in such high spiritual regard. To many cultures, the sense of smell is considered our sacred, or exalted sense, above all others. Therefore, aroma is the key that unlocks that sacredness. Many ancient cultures believe incense and plant smoke to also be the key to God’s, or the Creator’s, heart.