how to use essential oils for anxiety and sleep

6 rituals what will help you to sleep

How's your sleep? Lockdown has - through general anxiety, feelings of loss of control and epic levels of screen - watching - messed with many people's sleeping. I believe that ritual can have a massive role re-calibrating sleep patterns. Because sleep is all about the state of the subconscious mind.  And the subconscious mind is like Pavlov's dogs when it comes to rituals, totally suggestible.   So bring on those bells! We also know this instinctively when we're trying to teach a baby to sleep. We have a whole bedtime ritual for baby, each part of which reinforces the message...it's that time.... Our subconscious...

Read more


What time do you call this?

If you find getting to sleep pretty easy..but you tend to wake up at silly o'clock in the night and it's the 'wake-wake' type, where you find yourself cajoling your body....come on now, it's still night-time.." Well here are a few things that you can do to help this. 1. Investigate - there could be an external stimulation - a bright light in from the street, a noise household appliance, loud sound of some kind. If that sound is a child - not much you can do, though you can still practice the following exercises to get back to sleep....

Read more


Top 5 essential oils for depression

top 5 essential oils for depression

with mental health awareness week in the UK, we want to share some of our 5 favourite essential oils for mental health and wellbeing. you can find some of these uplifting aromatic oils in our yogandha products.

Read more


Breathing for balance

breathing for balance

In Yogic philosophy, we know there is a connection between our breath and our emotions or mental state. If we breathe properly we can literally calm the mind. There are even certain breathing practises for specific purposes.

Read more