The picture is from the beautiful shop and esoteric center Labyrint in Stockholm. Katarina, who owns Labyrint, regularly holds workshops in making esoteric herbal salts where intention is the focus.
I can't recommend her salt courses enough! When I participated, we started by visualizing ourselves in a salt cave with a campfire burning. By the fire, we would sense what our hearts needed, what our hearts needed . In silence, we would then make our herbal salts based on our hearts' desires.
This is how Katarina herself writes: " We work with various basic salts, herbs, essential oils, minerals, stones plus some other more or less unusual ingredients to create, for example, ceremonial and ritual salt, salt for wisdom, transformation and the archetypal powers, salt to eat, bathe in, sprinkle, as decoration and as a spiritual and mental tool ."
In her workshops, Katarina sets up several tables with countless herbs, with many salts that have different colors and textures, with small stones, with oils and much more. So the course participants create completely freely based on this, based on what came to them in meditation. There are no right or wrong here.
When I created this herbal salt, which also contains minerals and cemetery soil, it was as if I entered a strange creative flow. At her workshops, Katarina sets up several tables with countless herbs, with many salts that have different colors and textures, with small stones, with oils and much more.
Personally, I followed my intuition, but I also chose plants based on their meanings in older folklore, based on their colors, their growth habits. My salt is not edible as I also had crystals and soil. Instead, I have chosen to use it for foot baths and have it in front of me in a bowl as a reminder of my heart's longing. Sometimes I anoint my heart with the salt, close my eyes and think about my intention. When we made these salts, there was no right or wrong. The participants also got to choose for themselves whether we wanted to mortar the salts or not. For me, the creation of this salt felt like an artistic process.
When we made these salts, there was no right or wrong. The participants also got to choose whether we wanted to mortar the salts or not. For me, the creation of this salt felt like an artistic process. At the end, we charged the herbal salt with what was in our hearts. This way of working deeply meditatively with herbs became for me another step on the path of my journey along the paths of the herb kingdom. I gained access to the voice of my heart, to my intention, to herb work in meditative silence. This is something I will take with me into the future. When I created this herbal salt, it was as if I entered a strange creative flow.
Text and image: Sara Bonadea George
