You don’t need to be a yogi or a meditator to burn incense. You don’t need to believe in strange Eastern cults or shave your head or chant Om six times a day. You don’t need to believe in a deity, or be aware of your third eye, or have had your chakras aligned...
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Yoga is not simply about asana, as so many in the West believe. The word means ‘union’ and, as it was originally intended, is a tool for transformation. Atman, the individual soul, must come to realise that he is one and the same as Brahman, the Universe itself. It is the belief that we...
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We burn incense for a variety of reasons: to make our house or place of work smell nice, to give a little nod to the divine, to offset unpleasant odours, to create an ambience for a yoga class or therapy treatment. Those are all great reasons, but the thing which perplexes us here at...
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Burning incense is a difficult choice here at dhuni natural incense sticks. Do we choose amber: with it’s deep vanilla undertone, and the rich mineral scent of ancient loam. Or Nag Champa, of which ours is quite simply in a different league to any out there on the market. It’s thick and uneven, because...
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Aromatherapy is used as a therapeutic method of achieving sound health and well-being and can be used medicinally to improve several issues. So what is an aromatherapy meditation? Well, an aromatherapy meditation is a type of meditation which utilises fragrance and the power of smell to produce desired states of well-being and raise our...
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It’s winter here in the UK and the skies have turned grey with cloud cover. Walking in the fields the wind stings ones face, and the cold burns. Easy to long for India, where it’s possibly to wear only a lungi and a pair of sandals, and to sleep under mango trees without ever...
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Thought I’d write again today on the continuing journey of meditation, and the role that our natural incense sticks may play. Life, it seems, has something to teach us, a big secret, which we nudge against at times when our eyes widen, but which seems mostly out of reach. We touch this secret when...
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Here at Dhuni we see meditation in quite a specific way. It’s not about sitting in full lotus for hours, or chanting specific mantras to effect the outcome of the universe. It’s simply about being with what is, and noticing where the holding on is. Understand what that resistance is without trying to change...
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