April 29th, 2:00-5:30 (Sunday)
Incense making for ritual and everyday use.

Have you ever wanted to learn how to craft your own incense?  

Incense is a powerful tool to assist in your personal spiritual practice. For millennia, fragrant and aromatic substances have been used to alter ritual space and assist in creating sacred states of emotion and consciousness.  

This class will show how you can empower your rituals to a new level by creating and working with your own handmade incense.  This hands on  workshop will explore the history, use and creation of various types  of incense and guide you through the process of making your own personal incense blends to take home with you, Including:

1) Powdered Self-Igniting - Dry:   Basic Ritual Incense  
2) Powdered - Dry:   Basic “Cleansing / Clearing”
3) Herb Based - Dry Self Igniting:  Intuition / Divination
4) Powdered Based - Wet: Prosperity
5) Raw Dried Herb:  Love / Attraction

Materials will be provided.  Please dress comfortably and be prepared to work with raw dried herbs, powders, essential oils and natural resins.  Please bring to class a small mortar and pestle, a limited amount may be available for purchase at the store.

Instructor Christian Hanson holds a Masters degree in Oriental Medicine from the Minnesota College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine at Northwestern Health Sciences University.

He is board certified by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM,) and is licensed by the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice. Christian is also a Certified Therapeutic Coach with certifications in Neuru-Linguistic Programing (NLP,) Neuro-Linguistic Humanistic Psychology (NLHP) and Hypnotherapy.