Breath & wellness

To anoint is the ritual act of pouring aromatic oil over a person's head or entire body. That's not happening in my bathroom or bedroom anytime soon. 

The next best thing? Perfuming our body with healing lotions, balms and oils. When we consecrate and anoint we remind ourselves we are sacred and divine. 

At Adoratherapy, adding intention to acts of breath and self care is our main goal.

Here is how you can pamper your skin and elevate your every day beauty regimen creating a healing spiritual moment that leaves you feeling and smelling great.

How to get the most out of your wedding day, support your bridal party, and elevate your honeymoon with aromatherapy. 

If you are wearing traditional perfume, your goal is to spritz in the morning, or right before your evening out and smell amazing all day long.

If you are wearing aromatherapy perfume, then your goal is not to make your perfume last all day but tweak your mood all day long.

So how do you use aromatherapy perfume when it’s about more than smelling good? Find out here.

Renowned for its “beyond perfume” approach to perfume making we extended an invitation to New York sculptor, Leah Poller, to exhibit in its downtown Asheville store at the historic Grove Arcade for Mother’s day 2021.

Known for her series “BED”, Poller selected works from the 101 piece bronze sculpture series to curate exclusive pairings with Adoratherapy’s aroma-perfume scents. This collaboration titled: “The Art of Breath” provides a unique Mother’s Day experience promising to be both inspirational and mood shifting. 

Check out our interview with Leah and learn the art of breath from the artist and mother.

Essential oils are powerful healing botanicals that activate natural responses in your body that can move you from tittering on the brink of despair to thriving.¹

Having two children of my own, I know how hard it is to be a parent. 

It’s difficult to deal with the daily battles, the tantrums, the worry, and the flat-out exhaustion that comes with parenting. But there are also so many beautiful, fun, and dare I say… peaceful moments that come with parenting. 

Unfortunately though, the media only focuses on the stress and anxiety of parenting, causing most of our conversations to revolve around the negative aspects of helping our little ones navigate the world — rather than offering you the support and encouragement you need as a parent. 

To be honest, when my children were growing up, I had a minimal vocabulary when it came to all things health and wellness.

That’s why I founded ADORAtherapy. 

At ADORAtherapy we believe in the power of families and holistic health. Parenting is hard work, so we’re here to support you through every step.  

So my tips for your and your family to thrive.

As we all get healthier and are making cleaner choices about the products we use from soap to shampoo, makeup to hand sanitizer, is perfume passing the sniff test? A tip, try to avoid alcohol-based fragrance as much as possible, and invest in organic roll-on perfumes because what you put on your skin and up your nose is nothing to sneeze about!

From boosting your confidence to making you feel bold and beautiful, your perfume can do so much more than making you smell heavenly. A good aromatherapy perfume may be all you need to uplift your mood on days when you are a little low. Just a sniff of your favorite scent, and you will feel better. 

Fragrances become a signature, so ask for more from your perfume. ADORAtherapy goes beyond clean and green we are a conscious perfume brand. Choose from our organic roll-on perfumes and organic water-based sprays.

We’ve all seen the movies with demons and monsters cast out by a circle of chalk. We all know there is a true possibility there really are teenage witches down the street casting spells on their way to high school. We all know that negative energy feels like heaviness. So what to do when you want to create a space where only the sun shines in?

That is where Clear Away Room Boost comes in. It’s like Feng Shui in a bottle. This is the super hero of room sprays. We just need to make a cape. This magic blend of lavender, ylang ylang, grapefruit, lemon, rosemary, sage, peppermint and rose absolute smells crisp and cleansing. If harmony and clearing your energy, and the energy of your room is what you desire most then Clear Away Room Boost will ground your intention. 

I created this ritual for healing the heart and opening myself to joy. For me Joy is required in the most mundane and routine situations, it is like adding salt: It’s a seasoning, not the whole meal. Life is the meal, Joy enhances the experience. You can do this anywhere, anytime you notice your Heart Chakra is low. 

I don’t know about you but it’s getting more difficult to be clear these days. Forget the onslaught of different media opinions, the polarization of everything and everyone, the fact that there is clearly no one truth or reality. So what are we to do when all we desire is clarity? 

Am I on the right path? Is this person my true love? Am I living my purpose? From the mundane to the divine we have questions we want answered. We have desires we want met. We want more clarity. So how do we get closer to our “knowing”. Is it our knowing or a higher power’s knowing? You see what I mean, so many questions, so little clarity.

So join me in this ritual of worship and celebration I have created that includes prayer, the consecration of objects and the invoking of a higher power. 

Without going outside of ourselves we can all affect the mood in whatever room we step in. Good energy commands attention! No matter your personality or how it manifests, I hope it’s the case, more often than not, that we choose to display the “Patchoulia Roberts” passion for life!

"I AM open to fully experience love and the passion of life."

Having received my undergraduate degree in the subject, I often find myself in a rabbit hole focused on words, their usage, their meanings, and their authors. Recently I went on a search for the use of lavender in literature to see how playwrights and poets have talked about the flower in their works. I discovered a quote from the play, ‘A Beggar on Horseback’, written by John O’Keefe in 1798. Full disclosure, I’ve never seen or read the play. I only saw this one excerpt out of context that resonated with me. 

‘My dear, have some lavender, or you'd best have a thimble full of wine, your spirits are quite down, my sweeting', O’Keefe writes.

Rituals serve as a bridge between our outer and inner worlds, between the profane and the sacred, and between the ordinary and the extraordinary. Ritual provides an anchor in life’s messy storm. It brings ancient and mysterious knowingness of the true nature of our being-ness, our tribal-ness, our me-ness. Ritual after all is defined as a religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order. 

There are many types of rituals in which essential oils and aromatherapy can become an anchor or tool in your day and life and provide relief, focus and possibility. When I began to use aromatherapy in my daily life I found that these moments with myself provided incredible relief, focus and innumerable benefits. By combining ritual with my scent practice, I was able to, in the moment shift and lift my mood. From this experience ADORAtherapy created two major concepts that have become our “Raison d’etre”, our reason for being: “Scent with Intent” and “Adore Yourself!”

One of our core principles continues to be people are the main ingredient to our business, our communities and our lives. So it was with great pleasure that we have started to work with Frederick Rhodes Jr., a talented writer, musician and human. Frederick also happens to be an HR professional who has vast experience in building inclusive workforces that promote and embody an organization’s mission and vision to achieve organizational success. 

As we started our journey collaborating on creating some unique content for Adoratherapy the beauty industry and the world have as their backdrop Covid 19, Black Lives Matters and the birth of our nation. Frederick and I had started having these delightful and deep conversations about all of it. From that dialogue this beautiful piece of writing on freedom was brought forward. I can't wait to share it with you.

We are excited to launch our new feature Yoga Boosts where we introduce our favorite yogis. Our first Yogi lives in Italy, is the host to many challenges, and radiates love, compassion and energy. Meet Simona, who is @syoghina on Instagram. 

Your fragrance can truly make you happier and more assured. Science has proven that scent has the power to trigger feelings of optimism and reinforce self-esteem. The key, of course, is to find a fragrance that smells divine and can creative a positive recall.