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How To Use Our Essential Oils
We often get asked, “How do I use your essential oils and for what?” For several years now, we have been teaching and sharing that we no longer see [...]
Essential Oil of the Month July 2022 Lavender
In the plant world, lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) is the archetype of the nurturing mother and resonates with the feminine and embodied soul. Lavender is a powerful antispasmodic and relaxant [...]
Essential Oil and Flower Essence of the Month June 2022: Boundaries
For this month's essential oil and flower essence we decided to focus on the theme of boundaries. The topic of boundaries in relationships is huge. Many relationships are tainted [...]
Flower Essence of the Month May 2022: Nylon Hedgehog Cactus
We’ve chosen the Nylon Hedgehog cactus (Echinocereus viridiflorus) as the flower essence of the month because it is the earliest cactus to flower around here in Northern New Mexico [...]
Essential Oil of the Month May 2022: Champaca
Our Essential Oil of the month for May 2022 is Champaca (Magnolia champaca), the most expensive oil at Cathy’s Attars! Having spent most of my adult life in France, [...]
Four Tree Allies for Empowerment
Florian and I use essential oils to support and guide the psyche on the healing journey towards individuation. Individuation is a word C.G. Jung coined to mean the natural [...]
What’s New Jan 2022
We wanted to let you know the latest additions and updates to Cathy's Attars in one convenient place. We plan to update it at regular intervals. Since we haven't [...]
What Makes A Sacred Essential Oil
A colleague recently wrote to us: "I will be giving a short class on sacred essential oils. (I will cover the origin, the history, the chemistry and their use). [...]
Three Essential Oils for Protection
Psychic protection is something all of us need to practice at certain times in our lives. It’s good to have a few go-to essential oils for protection in your [...]
Tulsi Brings Divine Inner Balance
It was a day of celebration when this beautiful tulsi essential oil arrived from India – finally a sacred basil to work with. It is easy to see why [...]
Vitex balances the inner masculine and feminine
When our artisan essential oil distiller in Croatia told us he had distilled vitex (Vitex agnus-castus) , I decided that I wanted to work with it. Knowing the plant [...]
Reconcile the Opposites and Heal with Cedar
When I began to work with our beautiful new Atlas Cedar Essential Oil (Cedrus Atlantica), I smelled it before going to sleep at night. That night I had a [...]
Yarrow the Wounded Healer
“The archetype of the wounded healer symbolizes a type of consciousness that can hold the seemingly mutually exclusive and contradictory opposites of being consciously aware of both our woundedness [...]
Learning How to Smell an Attar
A client emailed us recently because he was struggling with learning how to smell an attar: "You have a fantastic website with info about oils and interesting blogs. And [...]
Cardamom Helps Digest Trauma
Cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum) is in the Zingiberaceae family like tumeric and ginger. I have always liked cardamom. I remember making my first curries as a young student and crushing [...]
Rosemary brings grace to challenging periods
Cathy and I have really enjoyed and learned a lot from doing individual consultations. I wanted to share an experience from one of our consultations a few days ago that [...]
6 Essential Oils for Anxiety
Things have been extremely intense and unprecedented lately on this beautiful planet what with Covid, world politics, ecology...you name it, it’s anxiety provoking. Many people are not only feeling [...]
Midwifery of the Soul with Essential Oils
Florian and I met through aromatics and since we have been together, we have developed through a fusion of our experiences the AromaGnosis system of healing using aromatics as [...]
Essential Oils for PTSD Symptoms 1
5 Essential Oils to help you drop into your natural rhythm of life Trauma and PTSD can have long lasting effects on many of us and I feel [...]
5 Reasons You’re Not Getting the Results You Want from Essential Oils
We use essential oils at AromaGnosis for mental, emotional and spiritual healing. In short, we could say for ‘soul healing’. It is well known that aromatics have a powerful [...]
Blending Essential Oils for the Whole Psyche
Florian and I have been developing the work of AromaGnosis mainly by using individual essential oils as ‘simples’, meaning one aromatic ally at a time. This method has really [...]
Ginger Lily helps us through the Dark Night of the Soul
Ginger Lily, also called Kapoor Kachri, helps us through the dark night of the soul and replaces Palo Santo, which is critically endangered. Kapoor Kachri (Hedychium spicatum) is commonly known [...]
Mitti Attar grounds and reconnects us
There are many different grounding oils. In my experience they all have their own tonality and type of grounding that they help us with. In this article, I am [...]
Marigold connects us to the ancestors
A well-trodden path, Marigold connects us to our ancestors. Marigolds (Tagetes erecta) are a powerful symbol for many people in the world. The plant is native to Mexico, even [...]
Helichrysum: An Ally for Challenging Times
A powerful, inspiring and deeply healing ally arrived this week. We had been searching for a long time for an alive essential oil of helichrysum. Our new Helichrysum essential [...]
Cardamom heals the Mental Body
Cardamom has a long history of culinary, medicinal, mental and spiritual use. Cardamom is a member of the Zingiberacea family, which has over 150 species including ginger and turmeric. [...]
Saint John’s Wort heals the Inner Masculine / Animus
I am very familiar with Saint John’s Wort as an herb. It grows wild and abundantly on dry, unused lands under the summer sun in the south of France [...]
Sagebrush helps us reach a higher perspective
Sagebrush is THE essential oil that we use for the alchemical stage ‘sublimatio.' Florian decided to distill some of the sagebrush that grows around us here in Taos hoping [...]
Behind the Scenes
It feels like the time has come to talk about what goes on behind the scenes at Cathy’s Attars and who does what. First of all, you may wonder [...]
Flower Essences in Times of Transformation and Healing
This article is about the high desert flower essence range that I developed last year, how they work and why I feel they are a great medicine for the [...]
Aromatic Ally Profiles: Staying Centered and Grounded with Patchouli
I am so enjoying having my faithful aromatic allies with me during this unprecedented time on Mother Earth, that I am getting pulled to write monographs about them and [...]
An Ode to Rosemary
Fortify and Support Yourself in Challenging Times I have always loved Rosemary, but I have recently noticed myself being drawn to it more deeply. Rosemary bushes grow everywhere [...]
Bay Laurel digs for the Truth
Since receiving the beautiful and powerful Bay Laurel essential oil from our French distiller Florent, we have been exploring its effects along with its history and symbolism. The common [...]
The Breath of Angelica
Angelica is a plant that I have been very intimate with for many years. In this article, I am going to share my journey with the plant and then [...]
Aromatic Shamanism – A Manifesto
We have been thinking about writing this article for a while now. It is an open letter to the aromatherapy world about our calling and how we have decided [...]
Using Labdanum Absolute to work with Trauma
Labdanum is an aromatic oleo-resin-like that comes from the cistus bush, commonly known as rock rose (Cistus ladanifer L.). The vernacular names of the cistus bush, gum rockrose, ladanum, labdanum, [...]
Deeper Intimacy with Attars
I feel passionately about sharing my discoveries and personal experiences as we continue to go deeper with our attars. Like many women, I have suffered trauma related to sexual [...]
Aromatic Allies for Historical Trauma
The more I work with my own trauma and facilitate workshops about trauma, the more I realize the importance of working with transgenerational and historical trauma. We are not [...]
Using Attars to Deal with Stress
We’ve all been there—You just went to a weekend class or retreat and you feel awesome and inspired by what you’ve learned and you’re so excited to start practicing [...]
Sustainability, quality and transparency
Sustainability is the major and crucial issue facing the essential oil world. Huge quantities of plant material are needed to produce minute amounts of essential oil. Depending on the [...]
The Molecules of Connectedness
What does it mean to touch and to be touched? To us humans, the obvious answer is skin to skin contact. But what if you are a sessile being, [...]
Why sacred oils and ancient attars?
The website Cathy’s Attars is a branch that has grown from our main work AromaGnosis. We realized that in order to work with aromatic plant essences as allies in [...]
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Allow yourself to be guided by Cathy Skipper and Florian Birkmayer, MD, leaders in the field of aromatherapy for personal evolution. Choose from the carefully picked, powerful, alive essential oils to ensure that you buy oils of the quality you need for deep, transformative inner work. Cathy and Florian are the founders of AromaGnosis, a platform for online and live classes and consultations that help you transform life’s challenges into steppingstones for growth.
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