Smudging is ritual alchemy — changing and shifting the air element, and transforming our current experience to a mystical one. Smudging your sacred space, your home or office, objects, or even your body is like taking a refreshing energetic shower, or doing a deep spiritual cleansing. This ancient shamanic mystical ritual is a simple one to incorporate into your daily or weekly routine, or any time you feel like you might need a little aura polishing. You can never really smudge too much! 

The use of dried white sage however, is a 2,000 year old Indigenous American practice. The shamans used dried sage plants on their fires as a ritual of calling upon ancestral spirits. Any conflict, anger, illness or evil was absorbed by the sage smoke to be released or cleansed from the energy field of a person.

Some ideal times to sage smudge your aura and/or space would be:

• When you move into a new living space
  
• When you begin a new job or start your own business
  
• Before and after a guest enters your home
  
• Before and after a yoga or healing session
  
• Before and after spiritual work and rituals
• Before meditation
  
• After an intense exercise workout routine
• After expelling any kind of negative or stressed out energy
  
• During periods of depression, grieving, or sadness.
  
• After an argument or any illness
  
• After a long hard day at work
• Upon returning home from crowded situations

Blackthorn & Rose's SACRED SMUDGE KIT includes:

• 1 Blessed White Sage Smudge Stick 4 inch
  
• 1 Abalone Shell 4-5 inch
• 1 Black Organza bag
  
• Instructions