The altruist alchemist

10/10/2023

Coming Saturday 14 October we will be gathering under the new moon solar eclipse to transition to autumn. 🌑✨🍂
How will you find your balance? What release would bring you opportunity? With a specially made blend of natural aromas, Barbara and I will guide you in a conversation with yourself, with your body and with nature. You can expect a gentle, meaningful and connected journey inward, with heartfelt yoga, earthy nature symbolism and delicious aromatherapy. 🌱🙏🏽♥️
Would you like to join us? Reserve your spot here https://www.momoyoga.com/.../new-moon-gathering-met...
I’m always warmed and amazed by responses to these gatherings. So looking forward to creating again with Barbara van Norden

03/05/2023

If you could speak with plants, what wisdom would they share?🌱 Next Wednesday 10 May I'll be relaxing amongst the plants and opening the senses at Wildernis - Kamerplanten- & stadstuinwinkel in a creative and connective evening workshop.
Want to join? Tickets at https://wildernisamsterdam.nl/workshops/

we’ve added a new workshop:
relax and reflect with plant wisdom!
click the link in our bio 💚

10/07/2022

*It’s scary to forgive myself* - a herbal compress after the samurai sword 🗡🌿🩹

I find it possibly one of the scariest things to forgive myself.

With a head full of harsh inner voices, I’m reaching for a herb. And I’m prompted to recall an encounter with this same plant essence, one year ago.

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When I sat with a teacher I admire, he was feeling critical, responsible and ashamed. The pressure of supporting his wife and daughters, as well as guiding groups of students - had been building up. A pressure that unleashed when his act of generous giving, an additional gathering he had so effortfully organised, was met with complaint.

In his own words he retaliated - he took his samurai sword and swung - a sharp vocal sting to those who he felt took advantage. And in the process, he cut a little of their connection to one another.

I found him in this post-swing position. Sat across from me, head in one hand, sharing his regret.

I heard his harsh voice, criticising his mistake. I listened as he told me that he wanted to set limits in a more loving way. I heard clarity, discipline, responsibility, respect for his community, the willingness to change.

And I listened to the space between these words. To the heaviness of his shoulders and the furrow of his brow. His voice and his body told me that the swing of his samurai sword had also wounded him on the way down.

Hearing his account of events - I knew that what I was about to offer would challenge him - perhaps moreso.

What I offered - was gentleness.

And so we expanded the story with a blend from nature’s soothing hands. A healing compress for his open wound, lovingly tending and comforting him:

Soft petals restore his faith in love and trust by receiving it himself 🌸, herbs release bitterness and forgive his actions so that he may change his behaviour from clarity 🌿, and bountiful fruits reinforce the knowledge that there is always enough to go around - that the gifts he offers will return tenfold 🍊There is enough time, enough money and most importantly - that he is enough.

The process of making this blend supported him not only to send a more loving message to his community, but also to himself.

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24/06/2022

Sparkle sparkle - your inner creative spark is ready to crackle💥⚡️.

and I are super excited to be stirring the creative cauldron next week at the Conscious Camping Summer Festival with

We’ll guide you to connect with your childlike expression, to listen to your intuitive self and to *Feel your inner magic* ✨.

What ignites when you give attention to your intuition? What is the form, the medium in which your unique magic wants to express? How can it become an embedded part of your day to day life?

Magic exists in all of us - join us and discover!

https://fb.me/e/1mINsgTNj

21/06/2022

Not long now! Looking forward to getting magical and adventurous in the sunshine ☀️ at the Conscious Camping!

We welcome Hannah Wright at the Conscious camping Summer Festival!

''How does it feel when a luscious wildflower meadow or a whole ancient forest grows inside you? 🌿🌳🍃
Hannah - a.k.a. the The altruist alchemist - is a magical creature who guides you to listen to the messages of your soul through the most powerful of our senses - scent.
With love, nature and intention creates personalised and delicious blends of essential oils.
What would your inner botanical garden look, move and sound like? Imagine your very own aromatic incarnation that reminds you of your own true essence every day.

At the Conscious Camping, Hannah will guide us through this journey of the soul. She’ll team up with fellow forest creatures and to welcome you on sensory, magical and ta***ic adventures.''

Come, open up to the fullness of life, and feel your inner sparkle ✨

https://hipsy.nl/event/1651-conscious-camping-summerfestival

06/04/2022

*Find the clarity to fulfill your potential by the light of the full moon* 🌕🌼✨

In May we will gather to cleanse and let go in a full moon gathering at De Yoga Tempel.

As Summer starts to arrive, nature displays its gifts and asks us to do the same. Join Hannah and Barbara to tune into the gifts of plant essences and embody their messages in this sensory journey with yin yoga, essential oils and meditation. A chance to illuminate, cleanse and prepare for the fullest expression of ourselves in Summer.

Full moon gathering with Hannah & Barbara 🌕🌼✨
Saturday 14 May
19:00 - 21:00
De Yoga Tempel, Haarlem
€30
Sign up via momo yoga @ https://www.momoyoga.com/de-yoga-tempel/lesson/13383847/full-moon-gathering-with-hannah-barbara

A special blend of essential oils will be made for this moment, season and full moon, which will guide our gathering and can be purchased and taken home with you to help integrate your insights each day of the moon cycle.

13/03/2022

“I say yes to my magic, my truth & my life - the power of intention” 🌑🌱💫

The new moon is a wonderful moment to set intentions. It's the moment that we see the moon dark in the night sky 🌑 Cleansed and unencumbered by what happened before, this empty state is a fertile beginning for planting seeds. A chance to ask - what do I want to invite and attract in the next cycle? And to watch your intention grow into life with each silver moon slither that returns to replenish the moon once again 🌙

On the last new moon, a dear downtrodden soul came to make a blend with negative beliefs swirling around their head. Doubting their choices, concerned by not seeing the way through, and caught in the currents of indecision.

During our time together, we found that to deal with the practicalities of life and demands of society - they’d put aside the thread of their purpose - the thing that to follow made them most happy. And that it was this movement away from the lustrous and sparkling cord that led them, this misalignment, that affected them so deeply.

Step by step together, we caught sight of the glimmering fibres that could lead them back to themselves. They planted seeds for the new moon by listening to the messages of those plants. The essences and messages that lit up this blend and this being were:

Quieting the mind so that the subtle voice of spirit can be heard; dreaming new possibilities in alignment with their path; recalling the simplicity and wonder of a child unlimited by negative beliefs; saying ‘yes’ with courage to participate in life - whatever the external circumstances; and releasing, as this magical motion of life flows into emotional catharsis - making space with each cycle for new possibilities to grow again 🌱

Inhaling the attentive aromas of these plant essences - their intention came with a smile
- “I say yes to my magic, my truth and my life” 💫 (Wow!)

Where the thread leads is unknown. It twists, turns and changes over time. Our dear soul knew no more of what the future held than when she arrived.

Yet feeling their inner magic and saying yes to it so clearly, gave them the confidence to continue taking steps - with sparkling eyes 🌚✨

08/03/2022

Evoke the essence of a growing community - a blend for ‘Sprout’ 🌱

I arrived at the opening of Sprout - concept store with a wooden chest of organic aromas under one arm and a bundle of nature under the other, this sunny Saturday in Driebergen. This lovely bunch of humans were sharing satisfied sighs, hopeful smiles and rosy cheeks after welcoming a new community to enjoy the local and sustainable crafts and inspiration.

How sparkly it feels to create an essential oil blend for this community - so that everyone who discovers the new growth sprouting here can carry the experience with them every day.✨

I listened and soaked up their impressions…How does it feel to welcome people to Sprout? What new shoots and ideas spark? What challenges do you face as you start to take root? How would you like to grow together?

And blended aromas together - with love and ritual - right there and then at the opening, when the energy is most fresh.

The essence of sprout honours the strength of community - a shared life experience, a fresh flow of life in a once empty place, rooting and exploring deeply together, and the help of a soft bedding and a warm cup of bosthee to follow your spirit, your true life purpose - and enjoy the simple, sweet and wondrous moments as you go 💚

Enjoy the aromas and the support of the Sprout community wherever you are. You can find a blend waiting for you - charging with Sprout’s energy on the nature altar. 🙏🏽

Would you like to feel the potential of collective change? For the times that you’re moving through an experience together - as a family, a group of friends or colleagues, a community or even with a specific environment. I can help to navigate the journey by bringing the group together through a shared aroma, experience and intention. Get in touch at www.altruistalchemist.com.

19/02/2022

Tuning into natural cycles & the collective consciousness 💫🌕🌱

The moon, the seasons and your own life cycles influence you and your emotions all the time. I use this awareness so that the plant essences I choose are in sync with where energy naturally flows. Together their harmony is deepened. And the dear friends who invite a personalised blend into their lives are supported by these natural rhythms and harmonised depth.

This counts too for making blends for our community. Here, I ask myself ‘What does the collective need at this moment? What are we going through together?’

Full moon, February, 2021 - the Netherlands is about to come out of lockdown. At the Yoga Tempel, Haarlem, we lovingly wrap a full moon blend, a candle and movement meditation into a home ritual for our friends to prepare to step outside once more.

Our aromatic journey with the plants led us to freshly cleanse stagnant energies in ourselves and our environment, restore the earthy freedoms that had been blocked during lockdown, cast a medicinal energetic boundary for healthy contact with many more people, and step anew into our surroundings with a simple, unburdened and hopeful perspective.

With this refreshing, warm, herbal and sweet citrus scent tantalising our skin - we took a deep breath and a step into spring and into society. 🍈🪴

With love,

Hannah

14/02/2022

Receive the love & nourishment that you need and anxieties can fall away❤️💨☀️

A mother's love and devotion was the inspiration for the blend we co-created for this dear friend. When I asked what she learned as a Mum, she told me “everything my daughter experiences is a phase, as long as she received the love and attention that she needed and longed for, any challenging behaviour passed.”

She named her blend“freedom of mind” - with the intention to disconnect from the overanalysing and judgement on herself that reared its head whenever she was alone, without the affectionate presence of a loved one.

Admiring the devotion of this wonderful mother, what better gift through this blend than to receive the same maternal love and affection that allowed her daughter to let experience pass. Her blend became a tangible act of tenderness and love that she could offer to herself, alone or otherwise, at any moment of the day.

The journey she embarks on combines earthy and floral plant essences with aromas that calm the mind by grounding in the here and now, swaddle her in the soft petals of love and trust, offer the herbaceous nourishment of mother earth, and from there open up to enjoying the zest of non-comparison and self acceptance.

After each blend is made, I offer a moment to reflect on how the journey feels. Three weeks on, she told me that she felt supported by her blend, her colleagues and her loved ones, and she felt more able to let go of the spinning analysis in her mind - a beautiful step on her journey.

With love,
Hannah