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September 29, 20170Comments

The Sacred Sense of Smell

Since time immemorial, our sense of smell has been intrinsically connected to the sacred and divine, above all other senses. Across the Earth, the ancients considered our sense of smell
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⏳ The special enrollment window for the Botanical ⏳ The special enrollment window for the Botanical Resins & Gums Course closes tonight at 10 PM PST.

Have you ever wanted to work with plant materials that carry real depth, history, and aroma unlike anything else?

Imagine being able to:

✨ Harvest or source raw resin and transform it with your own hands into oils, salves, tinctures, incense, and more (without second-guessing your process or wasting materials)
✨ Work directly with some of the most beautiful and storied botanicals in the world: resins that carry potency and character unlike anything else
✨ Create preparations and natural remedies you can actually use and trust
✨ Bring more intention and richness into your plant practice for personal use, ritual, or creative expression
✨ Share what you make with others through gifts, product lines, or offerings that reflect something real and meaningful

That's exactly what the Botanical Resins & Gums Course teaches you to do.

Join before 10 PM PST tonight and you'll get:
🌿 Discounted enrollment + a new payment plan (just added!)
🎁 $437 worth of bonus resources FREE

Crafting Supreme Attars Mini-Course ($225 value)
Aromatics & Incense Master Interview Series ($97 value)
Listening to Incense Meditation Guide ($40 value)
Aromatic Tea Tasting Guide ($25 value)
Aromatic Plant Meditation Guide ($25 value)
Resin Plant Monograph Collection ($25 value)

This offer expires tonight. 

🌿 Your aromatic journey starts here → link in bio

 #plantresin #treeresin #resincraft #medicinemaking #traditionalmedicine #herbalism #naturalfragrances
Did you ever climb trees as a kid and end up with Did you ever climb trees as a kid and end up with sticky "sap hands" that collected every speck of dirt in the universe? 🌲 

I did. That sticky, evergreen-scented mess was a childhood rite of passage for me (and a sneak preview of the world I'd fall into years later).

As a teenager, I was burning that same “tree sap” as incense to calm my mind, find inspiration, and deepen my meditation practice. A decade after that, I discovered what ancient cultures had known for millennia: resins are one of nature's most versatile and powerful substances.

They've shaped:
✨ Ancient healing systems
✨ The aromatic arts: incense, perfumery, aromatherapy, cosmetics
✨ Trade and culture via the ancient spice routes
✨ Spiritual practices and rituals across the world

No sticky-handed kid climbing a tree could have guessed all that.

When I started working with resins as an adult, I witnessed real healing, right before my eyes.

A custom resin balm I made brought my friend Ryan relief from debilitating knee pain when nothing else had worked. A resin-infused mouthwash transformed my friend Becca's battle with gum disease. A compound tincture cleared up arthritic ulcers on my parents' friend Craig's legs in just a month.

These stories are why I've dedicated my life to this craft.

And they're why I created the Botanical Resins & Gums Course — a complete guide to working confidently with resins for health, beauty, ritual, and pleasure.

⚠️ Today is the LAST DAY of the special enrollment period. The price goes up by $120 tonight and the bonuses disappear.

If you're ready to unlock what resins can do, click the link in our bio to enroll before this special offer expires. 🌿

 #botanicalresin #treeresin #holistichealing #resincraft #medicinemaking #herbalcourse #diynatural
This is it! Discounted tuition ends tonight ⏰ For This is it! Discounted tuition ends tonight ⏰

For everyone who's been exploring botanical resins with me this week, today is the day!

The special enrollment window for the Botanical Resins & Gums Course closes TONIGHT at 10 pm PST, and I'm sending it off with a special bonus bundle worth $437 (included free for anyone who joins today!).

✨ Crafting Supreme Attars Mini-Course: Guided by master perfumer JK DeLapp
✨ Interview Series: Explore incense & aromatic traditions with expert insights
✨ Listening to Incense Meditation Guide: Deepen your practice through mindful burning & plant connection
✨ Aromatic Tea Tasting Guide: A sensory workbook for meditative herbal tea exploration
✨ Plant Meditation Guide: Strengthen intuition through guided, nature-based practices
✨ 11 Resin Monographs: A collection of in-depth resin profiles, exploring their origins, characteristics, traditional uses, and practical applications 

Join before 10 pm PST tonight, and you'll get:
🌿 Discounted enrollment & access to a new payment plan 
🎁 $437 worth of bonus resources FREE

If you've loved the free workshop, you'll absolutely love what's inside the course. 

Come join us — link in bio! 🔗

 #resincraftingcourse #resincourse #aromaticresin #botanicalresin #treeresin #resinmedicine #holistichealing
If you're already drawn to herbs, scent, or natura If you're already drawn to herbs, scent, or natural remedies but feel like something's missing… resins might be exactly what you've been looking for.

The Botanical Resins & Gums Course is now open at a special price, with a bonus content bundle that won't be available any other time this year.

You'll learn to craft resin-infused oils, salves, tinctures, cordials, liniments, natural perfumes, incense, and more — working with some of the most ancient and storied plant materials in existence.

If the world of resins has been calling to you, now is the time.

⏳ Price goes up TOMORROW, April 14 at 10 pm PST.
⏳ Last chance! You’ve got just 1 day left to watch ⏳ Last chance! You’ve got just 1 day left to watch the free Botanical Resins Workshop Series before it’s gone.

If you’ve been meaning to dive in (or come back to it), this is your window.

Inside the series, you’ll learn:

✨ How to unlock the therapeutic and aromatic power of resins
✨ How to prepare sticky, raw resins so they’re usable in remedies
✨ Step-by-step resin-infused oil tutorial and recipe
✨ How to make a Frankincense resin salve from start to finish

Each lesson includes a downloadable workbook you can keep and return to.

🌿 Link in bio (dive in before it expires tomorrow!)

P.S. If you've been enjoying the free series, the full Botanical Resins & Gums Course goes much deeper into the world of resins with 32 video lessons, detailed recipes, expert tips, sourcing guides, and more. 

It's open now at a discounted rate, but this offer closes Tuesday at 10 pm PST, and the price goes up $120 on April 15. (Students who sign up before the deadline also get a bonus content bundle that won't be available any other time this year!)

🌲 Link in bio to explore and join. 

 #botanicalresin #treeresin #resinmedicine #resincraftingcourse #resincourse #aromaticresin
The stickiness is real. 😅🌿 If you've ever tried t The stickiness is real. 😅🌿

If you've ever tried to grind, blend, or infuse resins, you know they cling to everything: your tools, your grinder, your hands. But there's a simple trick that changes the whole process.

In this video, I'm sharing my go-to method for working with resins without the mess. This is just one of many techniques I've refined over 15+ years working with botanical resins through Higher Mind Incense and the Northwest School of Aromatic Medicine.

If you want to go deeper, my Botanical Resins & Gums Course covers everything from raw material to finished preparation:

🌿 History, properties & behavior of resins
🌿 Oils, salves, balms & topical preparations
🌿 Tinctures, liniments & internal preparations
🌿 Incense, natural perfume & aromatic blends
🌿 Ritual use, therapeutic benefits & sustainable sourcing

This is the most comprehensive course I've ever put together, and it's at a special discounted rate for just a few more days. Price goes up on Wednesday, April 15th.

🌲 Link in bio to learn more.
Don't just take it from us… Here's what students Don't just take it from us…

Here's what students are saying after stepping into the Botanical Resins & Gums Course. 

Many come in already working with plants, herbs, or natural aromatics, and leave with a whole new relationship to some of the richest, most storied botanicals in existence.

Inside, you'll learn to make resin-infused oils, salves, tinctures, natural perfumes, and incense — plus exciting things like cordials and liniments — all from ethically sourced ancient resins (and even some raw resins you can often source right in your own backyard).

Lifetime access means you can move at your own pace and return to the material anytime.

✨ P.S. The course is open now at a discounted rate (but only for a few more days!). Price goes up April 14 at 10 pm PST.

🌲 Link in bio to explore and join. 

 #resincourse #aromaticresin #diynatural #herbalfirstaid #resincraftingcourse #holistichealing
There's a certain kind of confidence that comes fr There's a certain kind of confidence that comes from making your own remedies… from taking something straight from the earth and transforming it into medicine with your own hands.

Maybe not everything, but at least enough to care for the small, everyday things. Enough to create preparations you understand, keep your home herbal apothecary stocked, and feel less dependent on mass-produced products.

When you make your own remedies, you know exactly what’s in them (and why). There are no fillers, no synthetic fragrances, no mystery additives… Just clean, intentional materials and botanicals you’ve chosen yourself.

It really changes the way you relate to what you’re using.

Resins are one of the most versatile (and underappreciated) plant materials you can work with. Oils, salves, tinctures, incense, perfume, first aid... the uses go on and on.

And sometimes… they’re growing right in your own backyard. 🌳

There's something magical that happens when you collect resin from a tree in your own neighborhood (one you've walked past a hundred times), and then turn it into medicine. 

The natural world around you stops being a backdrop and starts being a partner. ✨

I've been working with plants for 15+ years, and resins are still something I reach for again and again, for everything from ritual work to healing.

If you've been curious about working with resins but don't know where to start, I built the Botanical Resins & Gums Course for exactly that reason.

If you feel drawn to this path, come explore it with us.

🌱 Learn more about the course at the link in bio.

I’ll see you inside,
Evan

 #aromaticresin #resincourse #resincraft #medicinemaking #herbalcourse #herbalism #aromatherapy
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