Thank you For Your Medicine
The Healer in me bows to the healer in you
Thank you for stepping into this space with your courage, your stories, and your medicine. The land felt you. The walls of the Medicine House hold your songs. What you released and what you reclaimed now lives as a gentle strength woven into this home.
To Maria and to Cindy, my deepest gratitude. Your facilitation, your teaching, your kindness, your magic hands, and your embodied hearts continue to inspire me. I am blessed to learn from you as dear medicine sisters and teachers.
This page is a bridge. It gathers the vibrational allies I used throughout the retreat so you can continue your healing at home should you wish to use them. Hydrosols, essential oils, balms, herbs, and more are linked here for your convenience. Most offerings come from small makers I know and trust, people who are pouring love, light, and integrity into every bottle and blend. Only a few items are from larger brands.
Thank you again for coming, for opening your hearts, and for adding your thread to this quilt of healing.
May you always Live in Good Medicine.
Until we meet again,
Ayla
Mountain Rose Herbs
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Peppermint Hydrosol
Peppermint Hydrosol is a powerful cooling an protective ally that clears heat from the body and field. it supports the throat and solar plexus chakras easing digestion and expression, while also protecting the heart and third eye by calming emotional intensity and sharpening intuitive clarity. Use it when the body feels overheated, the mind feels foggy or energy feels heavy. Peppermint restores flow, focus and a sense of grounded protection, heling you stay cool, clear and true. I also like to chew mint when I work on clients, or have them chew some as your work through density.
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Tulsi Hydrosol
Tulsi or Holy Basil, is a sacred apoptogenic plant that brings both protection and upliftment to the body and spirit. It’s essence helps clear stagnant energy, strengthen the immune system, and anchor the nervous system in calm clarity. Vibrationally, Tulsi supports the Heart, Crown and Root Chakras, harmonizing devotion with grounded presence. It purifies the energetic field helping you to release fear, restore faith and reconnect to divine order. Use Tulsi when you need spiritual protection, emotional balance or a reminder of your inner resilience and sacred strength.
Daughter of Earth
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Cacao Body Oil
Cacao ritual body oil is a deeply heart-centered ally that softens, nourishes, and awakens the emotional body. Infused with the loving spirit of ceremonial cacao, this oil carries the frequency of unconditional love and creative life force. When applied over the heart, it opens pathways of compassion, allowing emotions to flow freely and gently. When placed in the belly button or womb space, it acts as a blessing, honoring creation, sensuality, and the lineage of women who came before. (very healing for miscarriages, PCOS, endometriosis, fertility struggles, postpartum, hysterectomies, ovarian cysts etc)
Energetically, cacao connects the heart, sacral, and root chakras, bridging love with grounded embodiment. It reminds us that healing doesn’t have to be hard; it can be tender, warm, and full of grace. This oil is a perfect companion for ritual, self-massage, or daily devotion…a way to return to love, both within yourself and the world around you.
If you feel called to work with cacao internally, Daughter of Earth’s ceremonial cacao is also extraordinary. I highly recommend her medicine for those seeking to open the heart through sacred ceremony and connection.
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Auga De Florida Spray
Florida Water is a traditional spiritual cleansing and blessing water that originated in the early 1800s and became deeply woven into folk medicine, Indigenous, and Afro-Caribbean healing traditions. Often used by curanderos, medicine people, and spiritual workers, it serves as a tool of purification, protection, and energetic reset.
Blended from floral waters, citrus peels, mints, and spices, Florida Water carries both bright and grounding qualities. It clears dense or stagnant energy, calls back the self after emotional or spiritual work, and creates a protective veil of light around the aura. In practice, it can be sprinkled, sprayed, or applied to the hands, crown, heart, or soles of the feet before and after ceremony, meditation, or healing sessions.
Energetically, Florida Water aligns the root, heart, and crown chakras, helping bridge heaven and earth within the body. It restores harmony, refreshes the spirit, and reminds us that cleansing is not just about removal; it’s a return to clarity and sacred balance.
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Copal Balm
Copal is an ancient Mesoamerican resin revered for its grounding, protective, and purifying qualities. Traditionally burned as incense for hundreds of years, it was offered to the gods as a bridge between the human and spirit realms. In its resin form, it clears heavy energy and sanctifies sacred space, while in balm form it offers a deeply embodied way to anchor the spirit into the body.
Used on the feet and hands, Copal balm helps ground energy, restore presence, and strengthen the root chakra. Its earthy, resinous aroma reconnects us to ancestral wisdom and the heartbeat of the Earth itself. Whether used as a clearing smoke, anointing balm, or ritual scent, Copal invites stillness, reverence, and protection; reminding us to walk in balance and carry the sacred with every step.
Wisdom of The Earth
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Lavender Oil
Lavender is one of the most universally soothing plant allies, offering comfort to both the body and spirit. It calms the nervous system, eases tension, and creates an atmosphere of peace and safety. Energetically, lavender harmonizes the heart, throat, and crown chakras, helping to release worry and restore trust in the flow of life. In self-practice or client work, apply lavender hydrosol or oil to the temples, wrists, or heart center to encourage rest, integration, and emotional balance. Its gentle floral spirit reminds us that softness is strength and that peace itself is powerful medicine.
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Himalayan Cedarwood
Himalayan Cedarwood is a deeply grounding tree ally that speaks to the ancient forests of the soul. Its scent anchors scattered energy and offers protection during emotional release or ceremonial work. Cedar has long been used in purification rituals for its ability to seal the energetic body after cleansing. Apply the oil (well diluted) to the feet, spine, or back of the neck, or diffuse during meditation to invite stillness and stability. Cedarwood harmonizes the root and heart chakras, reminding us that strength and love can coexist within the same breath.
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Frankincense oil
Frankincense is a bridge between earth and sky - a sacred resin that invites the breath of spirit into the physical form. Used since ancient times in temples and healing rituals, it clears the mind, deepens meditation, and opens the crown and third eye chakras. When used on clients, a drop of diluted oil on the forehead, heart, or palms helps integrate healing work and seal the field in divine light. Frankincense teaches reverence, patience, and surrender, reminding us that healing is holy and that the body itself is a temple.
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Angelica
Angelica is a radiant protector and amplifier of light, long regarded in European and Indigenous traditions as a plant of spiritual defense and divine guidance. It strengthens boundaries, dispels fear, and invites clarity during energetic work or emotional processing. ***Because Angelica essential oil is a hot oil, it must always be diluted and used with care; it is skin sensitive.*** A single drop in carrier oil applied to the solar plexus or root chakra can create an immediate sense of grounded protection. The spirit of Angelica connects us with courage, sovereignty, and the wisdom to walk boldly in our truth.
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Pinon Hydrolat
Piñon Pine is a cleansing and heart-strengthening tree medicine native to the desert mountains of the Southwest. Its hydrolat carries both grounding and uplifting qualities…smelling of sun, resin, and sacred smoke. Energetically, Piñon supports the heart and root chakras, helping to mend the bridge between courage and compassion. In self-practice, mist the hydrolat over the crown and chest or around the room to purify and fortify the field. Used on clients, it helps restore vitality after deep emotional release. The spirit of Piñon teaches resilience, offering a reminder that from even the driest soil, life continues to bloom.
Shamans Market
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White Sage
White Sage has been used for centuries by many Indigenous peoples of North America as a sacred purifier. Its smoke is believed to cleanse negative or stagnant energy, create spiritual protection, and invite clarity into a space or body. When burned with intention, Sage purifies both the physical and energetic environments, helping the spirit return to neutrality and peace. In modern practice, use it respectfully, light a small bundle, let the smoke drift, and always express gratitude to the plant for its medicine. Sage clears the way for prayer, grounding, and renewal.
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Palo Santo
Palo Santo, meaning “holy wood,” comes from the dry forests of South America where it has been used in shamanic and folk traditions for spiritual cleansing, protection, and healing. Its sweet, resinous smoke lifts heavy energy while inviting calm, creativity, and blessing. Palo Santo connects the heart and crown chakras, helping bridge human intention with divine inspiration. To use, light the wood until it smolders and allow the smoke to gently circle the body or room. Sustainably sourced Palo Santo honors both the Earth and the ancient cultures that have tended this sacred tree.
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Juniper
Juniper is a guardian plant that has been used across cultures; from Native American ceremonies to Himalayan mountain rituals, for its ability to ward off negativity and call in strength. Its wood and needles release a grounding, purifying smoke that clears fear and stagnation while strengthening personal power. Juniper’s essence aligns with the root and solar plexus chakras, offering stability and courage. Use it for grounding after emotional work or to prepare a space before deep ceremony. Juniper smoke reminds us that purification is not just release….it’s deep renewal.
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Frankincense Resin
Frankincense is one of humanity’s oldest sacred resins, used in temples and healing rituals across Africa, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean. When burned, it releases a sweet, resinous smoke that purifies, protects, and elevates consciousness. It clears the aura, deepens meditation, and connects the heart and crown chakras, allowing divine light to flow more freely through the body. In practice, burn small pieces on charcoal or use it to anoint sacred objects. Frankincense invites the presence of spirit, turning any room or moment into a temple of breath and devotion.
How Plants Became Our Allies
A Teaching from my people passed to me from my Grammy Walela Onacona
And So It Is Good.
Long ago, in the first days of this world, all of Creation spoke the same language. The four-leggeds, the two-leggeds, the winged ones, the stone people, the tree people, the rivers, and the winds, all could understand one another. Each being had its place, its purpose, its medicine.
In those early times, harmony lived between all nations of beings. The people walked gently upon the earth and gave thanks for every gift they received. When they took from the land, they offered tobacco or song in return. The animals gave of their bodies for food and clothing, and the plants gave their roots, leaves, and flowers for healing.
But as the generations passed, the people forgot the old ways. They grew careless and proud. They took more than they needed, and they stopped giving thanks. The balance of the world began to tremble.
Seeing this, the animal nations grew angry. “These two-leggeds are ungrateful,” they said. “They take our lives and our young without respect. We will bring sickness to remind them of humility.” And so, each animal created a disease, one from the deer, another from the bear, the birds, the snakes, and so on… to teach the humans how it felt to suffer.
When the plants heard what had happened, they were filled with compassion. “The people have lost their way,” they said, “but they are still our relatives. We will help them.” And so the plant nations gathered in council, and each one spoke in turn:
“For every sickness that the animals bring, we will offer a cure. For every wound in body or spirit, we will provide medicine.”
The trees offered bark for fever, the flowers offered fragrance for grief, the roots offered strength for weakness. Every plant gave something of itself, a leaf, a seed, an essence, so that humankind would never be without help.
From that day forward, the plants became our allies. They carried the songs of healing within their veins, whispering to those who remembered how to listen. When the people returned to gratitude, they learned to hear the voices of their green relatives again; in the rustle of the leaves, in the scent of the blossoms, in the stillness of the roots.
This is why we speak to the plants before we harvest, why we offer prayer and song when we use their medicine. For the plants have kept their promise. They continue to heal us, even when we forget.
So when you sip an herbal tea, burn sacred smoke, or anoint yourself with oil, remember this story. Every leaf and petal is part of that ancient covenant, the great act of compassion when the plants said, “We will help the two-leggeds remember who they are.”
