Your home, your temple

YOUR HOME, YOUR TEMPLE

Creating an altar in your home, is a way of creating this little place where you can find peace when you arrive home, a place that helps you get grounded, reconnect with your deepest intentions for your practice and your life, transform the energy from outside, and create an harmonious home.

An altar is a place of worship, think about an altar as a physical manifestation of your inner spiritual landscape. Artfully laden with images and objects that remind you of your own best self.

Here is some recommendations to create your own little temple

Candles

Organic incenses

Indoor plants & Sacred plants such as sage, rosemary, laurel. Let's try to avoid Palo Santo, this sacred tree which is on the verge of extinction. Crystals: Each crystal has an effect & healing properties on our being.

Amethyst: calm serenity, sleep and zen. Pink quartz: love self-esteem tenderness. Moonstone: femininity, receptivity, intuition. Sunstone: optimism, radiance, Rock crystal: harmony, balance. A feather, which represents the air we breathe.

Himalayan bowl or a healing instrument A bowl of water that cleans us of emotions that no longer serve us.

An essential oil that you can use during your meditation. For example: the rose oil to open our heart, mandarin oil to give us energy, lavender oil to relax among other things.

A mirror to remind you that your altar is the reflection of what is already inside.

Any other sentimental object & photos