the mindful essential oils edit

Detoxing the body can be hard going. But it doesn't always have to be hardship.   A homemade body scrub will slough off the dead skin of winter giving you instantly brighter skin, and a whole lot of feelgood. A body scrub spa treatment will set you back around €70 and...

  Seeking ‘Peace of mind - post gym or pub? Check out this awesome piece from The Yorkshire Post on our multi purpose oils:

  In twelve years of Hatha Yoga, I have not had a yoga injury. On one hand, you could say that I have been very lucky, as knowing so many people who have, I have seen how it disrupts your practice, your balance and your whole life. When yoga practice becomes an...

So how does a feminist create a Wonderbra for the mind? Sounds like it might be a joke, but nope, that’s what’s happened... I created Yogandha oils through 3 years meditation using herbs that have been used in meditation, mindfulness and Yoga ritual for many thousand years.  I sought out...

    We live in a hectic world. There’s always something to do, somewhere to go and with all of the phones, group texts & social media there is very little chance to escape and just be. But we are Human Be-ings (!) & we need to take that opportunity...

Springtime can be a mixed blessing for some - if you suffer from symptoms of spring allergies - runny nose, watery eyes, sinus pain - it can be no fun at all. So can 100% natural solutions help - when it seems like nature itself is the problem? Absolutely. Here's...

I never curse in front of my children. The worst thing I EVER heard my mother day was ‘Jesus, Mary and Joseph’ when she dropped the entire week’s shopping. And I remember it vividly. Back of the maroon Fiat 127. I wanted the same for my kids, and I was...

The Midas touch In yoga we work a lot with Intention – with setting the goals for what we want to achieve. Sometimes the Intention we set seems to magically manifest. It can get pretty crazy – the strangest confluence of events happens and EXACTLY what we were asking the...

  Yes, Black Friday is about getting some good deals. But it’s primarily a big kick-off for the strong commerciality that Christmas has become associated with. A commerciality and buying frenzy that has many you’ll meet stressed to the max. At Yogandha, we are not having a Black Friday. We...

It’s a well-known story that the three Wise Men brought the gift of Frankincense to the birth of Jesus. How you ever wondered why is it that Frankincense could have been considered fit for a king? The answer is in the depth of its uses - from the every day...

The heart chakra is the Anahata or the fourth Chakra. It has usually taken quite a battering by others and even by ourselves with negative self-talk. Given this, it might seem ironic that Anahata is sanskrit for 'unstruck' or 'unhurt' - but this actually refers to the place that lies...

17 years ago today, I had the most incredible experience possible - I became a mama essential oils were part of every aspect - and I'm so glad they were as when I was in labour my sense of smell was on hyper-drive. everybody's is - but you don't always get to...

‘’I'm not sure if you know about the 'aha moment' that started yogandha.... It was 2004. I was doing Vipassana - (10.5 hours per day seated meditation, for 10 days)  I was sleeping on a mattress on the floor of a classroom in central Bangalore, India - with 20 other...

not many people know about the essential oil ravensara some confuse it with ravintsara - another oil with a strangely similar name (especially given they're from the same part of the world) it comes from the island of madagascar - where it is considered a 'cure all' in the same...

so I've been studying and practicing meditation since way back before it was 'normal'. full disclosure: since the early 90s I've studied seventeen different forms of meditation (in truth of course, one is all you need but I found that each has its own nuanced perspective on big T truth as I...