The 
Traditional Incense 
Making Course

Did you know that incense crafting is the oldest aromatic plant practice? For centuries, incense has been a symbol of tranquility, spirituality, and connection across cultures. From ancient Egyptian temples to traditional Japanese tea ceremonies, the art of crafting incense has been cherished as a way to evoke mood, enhance meditation, and bring beauty to daily rituals.

YOU can learn the ancient practice of incense crafting to bring positivity, healing, and enjoyment to others!

Incense crafting can be a tricky practice...

Many people make incense that doesn’t burn properly
or smell quite how they want it to, and they get discouraged.

They waste time, ingredients, and money composting failed batches of incense.

They don't understand the proper ratios of bases, binders, liquids, 

and dry ingredients required to formulate a blend.

They don't know the age-old secrets to working with difficult ingredients and calculated combinations.

Our online incense-making class takes you on a journey through the rich history of this timeless tradition. You'll explore how ancient civilizations blended natural ingredients to create aromatic masterpieces and how these techniques can be adapted to craft your own unique scents.

Whether you’re looking to deepen your mindfulness practice, create personalized gifts, or simply learn a new skill, this class will spark your creativity and soothe your soul. Join us and learn how to transform simple, natural materials into handcrafted incense.

Ready to ignite your passion for incense making and learn how to make incense online? Become A Certified Artisan Incense Crafter

Creating and using handmade incense isn’t just a creative outlet—it’s a way to enhance your everyday life. Here’s how incorporating this ancient craft can benefit you:

• Sooth the nervous system and relieve anxiety and stress
• Fight off infections, colds, and flus during the cold season 

• Aid emotional healing with custom aromatherapeutic blends

• Strengthen your immunity & increase longevity

• Cleanse the atmosphere and kill airborne pathogens and viruses

• Add depth to your spiritual practice, prayer, yoga or meditation

• Uplift your mood and create a calming atmosphere

• Enhance concentration, focus & memory

• Please the sense of smell through heavenly aromas

• Create a stream of revenue selling your aromatic creations
  

• Enhance dreaming and expand awareness

• Provide hand-crafted gifts or tokens of appreciation

• Promote grounding and centering

• Impress your guests with beautiful, welcoming aromas

• Aid you in a better night's sleep 

• Help you create an aromatic ritual of mindfulness
  

• And much more...

Through an exploration of cultural uses of medicinal and ritual plant smoke, you'll gain insight into the ancient applications of incense to help strengthen your aromatic foundations.

Learn the qualities and roles of botanical ingredients used in incense crafting. Understand how to properly use gums and resins, binders and bases, fragrant hardwoods, and oil-dense botanicals. 

Learn multiple methods for formulating incense for specific intentions and purposes.From aesthetics and fragrance to therapeutics and medicine to spiritual and ritual blending.

Get step-by-step instructions for making the world's favorite forms of incense. Create fully-burning, solid incense sticks and cones that smell amazing and reliably burn on their own.

Work with raw aromatic materials to make your own loose blends—the original form of incense. Become skilled at mixing raw resins, roots, woods, flowers, and foliage into pleasing & powerful aromatic creations.

Learn how to properly incorporate essential oils to enhance your incense blends for added aroma and medicine. Adding essential oils to incense mixtures can be a tricky process, but you'll get my simple process.

Also, you can work at your own pace and complete the training stress-free in your own time.

"Evan's teachings came at the perfect time on my healing journey. Whether you're wanting to expand your knowledge of the healing properties of plants, deepen your connection to your heart and intuition, or want to add more tools to your self-healing toolbox, this program IS A MUST for an incredibly expansive journey."

This incense class is thoughtfully designed to cater to everyone. Whether you're a beginner eager to explore the art of incense making or an experienced practitioner looking to deepen your craft, this course has something for you.

• New to aromatics and incense making? This program will build the proper foundations that will give you the confidence and competence to become an Artisan Incense Crafter.

• A practicing aromatherapist or healer? You'll discover a powerful new aromatic modality to expand your holistic healing potential.

• Already making incense? This course fills in the gaps, getting you closer to perfecting your craft. Learn new aspects of making different types of incense.

Whether you're just starting or ready to take your expertise to the next level, this course will help you master the art of incense making.

When it comes to the art of incense crafting, the Northwest School of Aromatic Medicine offers an unparalleled experience. Here's why this program stands out:

This is the only complete course dedicated to the art of incense making. With step-by-step crafting instructions and an incredible depth of knowledge, nowhere else offers as much hands-on guidance in one program.

This course is the culmination of over 13 years of experience, including:

• Studying various incense traditions from around the world

• Experimenting to uncover the most effective methods and avoiding common pitfalls.

• Formulating products for one of the top incense companies

• Working alongside other world-class incense crafters

Every piece of wisdom, every tip, and every trick learned through years of dedication has been poured into this course. The result? A priceless program designed to guide you on your journey to becoming an expert incense crafter.

If you’re ready to learn from a seasoned professional who’s put their heart and soul into creating this one-of-a-kind experience, our incense making class is the perfect place to start.

I’m Evan Sylliaasen. Back when I was a teenager, incense became my gateway to a sense of sacredness. As I journeyed deeper into the world of incense, I discovered it was used for more than just ritual, relaxation, and enjoyment—it's also a powerful healing modality around the world.

Through my work with my company Higher Mind Incense and my school, The Northwest School of Aromatic Medicine, I’ve seen beginning incense makers encounter the same problems over and over. There are basics to the practice that you have to get just right before you can progress down the incense making path.

That’s why I created the Traditional Incense Crafting Course. Each time I open enrollment, people tell me they love how quickly they can start making their own incense. And advanced students say they wish they’d had this course when they were first starting out.

~ THE ONLY COMMUNITY OF ITS KIND ~

When you join the program you'll become a Lifetime Member of our thriving...

Traditional Incense Crafting Facebook Group.

This is a special community of over 1000+ like-minded traditional incense crafting alumni...

They've been through this course and are making their own successful incense blends

to share with their families, customers and clients.

Gain invaluable insights, see inspiring posts and pictures, learn new tips and tricks.

Learn from other's experiences, join in the conversation and expand your learning.

 Forge new friendships and find an accountability buddy to go through the program with.

And you'll be a member for life! 

"This program isn't just about incense, but about working with the life force of plants themselves - the key to holistic plant medicine. I've been given a refreshing perspective on the use of incense as a traditional medicine. My eyes have opened to yet another avenue of herbalism. Whether you're an herbalist like me, an aromatherapist, or simply a lover of incense, you'll be as blown away and inspired as I am from this program."

Fill out the form below. Become A Certified Artisan Incense Crafter

Gain precious and rare insights into the artisan world of incense and scent with hours of interviews from the world's top incense crafters, perfumers, and herbalists. Explore many beautiful fragrant traditions, hear expert advice and tips for working with incense, perfumery, and herbs; plus rare insights into "Mystical Aromatherapy", Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese medicine, and plant/human connection. 

An in-depth guide to the traditional ritual, aesthetic, therapeutic and medicinal uses of the 20 most popular incense plants in the world. This one of a kind book is the only English reference on using incense for various purposes. Enjoy full plant monographs that highlight the use of plant smoke, fumigation, and aroma. 

Upon completion of this course, and with your acceptance of the Artisan Incense Crafter Code of Ethics, you'll become a certified incense crafter by The Northwest School of Aromatic Medicine.

Additionally, if you're a member of the National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy, submit this certificate of completion for 13 Continuing Education Credits (CEUs are potentially applicable to other associations).

"Since taking this course last year, I’ve added herbal incense sticks and cones to my company’s offerings, and I’m already selling wholesale to stores in addition to offering online. I’ve been working with professional practitioners who use my incense prior, during and after consultations with their patients and clients. I also offer my blends as a ‘prescription’ to my own clients who come to see me for Reiki sessions. I absolutely love the integrity and respect given towards the plant realm in this course. The teachings were thorough, precise and deeply respectful."

Carmen Nemet, Founder of Lulani Moon Therapies, Australia

"I am so grateful of my experience of this program. I recommend it to everyone for a personally transformative and life-changing experience. Through taking this program, my life mission became so clear: to bring harmony, ritual and incense to people’s lives. This school offered me all of the tools I need so that I can take care of the people I love."

Héloïse Roy, Founder of Rituel incense company, Quebec CA

"What Evan has put together in his course is a beautiful exploration of aromatic plant medicine. Cultural exploration of aroma and plant smoke is an exploration of the very breath that gives Earth— and each one of us on it— the power to heal. Evan has given us access to the power of healing behind every breath we breathe.”

JK DeLapp, The Rising Phoenix Perfumery, Georgia

"This was an absolutely enjoyable course from start to finish! This program takes you through the rich history of incense crafting to modern day custom formulations. The video presentations are engaging and professional. Evan’s passion for creating artfully handcrafted, traditional incense is contagious! This is the original aromatic medicine at its finest!"

Anna Doxie, Founder & Director of The Institute of Holistic Phyto-Aromatherapy

“As an Ayurvedic practitioner, I’ve only read in ancient and modern texts about the use of incense for healing, known as Dhumapana. Through this program, I now I have the guidance to make any kind of incense I wish to prescribe to my patients. I found the lesson on therapeutic formulation to be immensely useful! I’m excited to offer an even more holistic herbal regimen to my patients with incense as the main application of aromatic medicine.”

Amita Agrawal, Ayurvedic practitioner, California

"I never realized incense has been used cross-culturally for healing and medicine for so long. I feel so lucky to have found these teachings and am now making incense at home to keep my family and I healthy and happy. Not to mention, making incense is so much fun!"

Jennifer Colts, Herbalist, Arizona

“I’ve been into burning incense as my own personal ritual for years now, and have helped many people find balance in their minds and hearts through my sharing of it. But not until after learning Evan’s teachings did I truly realize what a powerful tool I’ve had at my fingertips all along. My family and friends have all been positively affected by my incense creations. Thank you Evan, for showing me the traditions that have supported my inner and outer work for so long.”

Chris Darling, Vermont

“This course has changed my perception of aromatic plants forever. I feel my practice with aroma now has a deep rooted foundation that’s initiated a strong cohesion of everything I’ve learned about plants, aroma, and healing; and has given me a totally fresh perspective and a burst of inspiration to move forward with in my work with aromatics and incense.”

Shae Amherst, Boulder CO

"I’m already starting to get feedback and orders for my incense which is super exciting! And I’ve been making blends that actually smell nice and stay alight. So I’ve shared with friends who are now buying it from me and responding amazingly. I have been told many times, ‘this is the most amazing incense i have experienced!"

Ky Alecto, Founder of Seedstar Co.

"Evan’s easy going nature, enthusiasm, and vast knowledge of incense leaves you excitedly waiting each week for the next lesson. This course is easy to understand, well structured and has loads of downloadable notes and videos. If you're looking for an incense making course then look no further, because this is the only incense program there is!"

Katherine Moss, Horticulturist, Australia

"This course has fed my soul. I’ve worked with herbs as a community kitchen wise woman crafting teas, tinctures, and oxymels for friends and family. I have added essential oils to my practice and have now continued to follow the scents into their energetic sphere. This course has so much practical knowledge with the right amount of do it yourself for me to continue on my journey. I highly recommend this course!"

Andrea McCluskey, Maryland

"I thoroughly enjoyed this course and feel blessed by Evan's knowledge and passion. The modules are methodical and respect the individual pace of the student, which allowed me to really let the teachings set in. I also loved all of the close-ups when a technique was explained or incense ingredients were introduced. As in Evan's other courses, the handouts that accompany the modules are attractive and extremely helpful. I highly recommend this incense crafting course; your first step in becoming a master incense maker."

John Berg, Wisconsin 

"I am particularly interested in the medicinal applications of incense, and the glimpses Evan has provided are filling in spaces in my herbalism studies. I look forward to creating now with an intentional purpose!"

Daphne Seruntine, Nova Scotia, Canada

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