peace and blessings everybody welcome to my first video I'm super excited today I want to give you a short tutorial on how to use sage to purify your home sage and some of you are familiar with in some of you are it is a plant that's native to North America and it's been used by indigenous peoples for a very long time to purify themselves spiritually mentally emotionally and also physically to purify themselves their bodies and also their spaces traditionally used in sweat lodges it is a very very very powerful purification tool so so you don't get confused there are a couple different varieties of sage one is the sage it's commonly used for cooking and also for medicinal teas that is salvia officinalis that's not the one that we're going to use for purification then there's another one called salvia divinorum and that is commonly known as divining sage which is used in ritualistic ceremonies it is a hallucinogen so it provides a gateway into the spirit world and then there's the white sage and that's the one that we're going to use today the white sage is also known as a salvia iana and that's the one you want to look for if you're gonna look if you're looking for some sage to burn however I have heard through the grapevine that all of them are fine burning sage also known as smudging has become quite popular and so you can find the sage bundles pretty easily in health food stores I found marcin bundle of sage and I'll be running today at Whole Foods so before we get started I want to just make a little checklist of some things that you'll need first of course you'll need a lighter or a match and you'll also need a heatproof bowl and of course your sage bundle gather all of these things and before you get started I'm gonna suggest one more thing which is to crack a few choice windows in the in your house just to allow for the negative energy to move out and the positive image from nature to come in and replace that during your serum I use an abalone shell as my heat proof Bowl you can find these in health food stores and online as well basically what I'm gonna do is open up at the stage about earlier and you just want to write it like this I didn't burn for just a moment didn't like the flame go out and now you've got a net flow of smoke okay and then as I smoke starts building up I like to purify myself first so I take the sage bundle and I gently move it around my body over my head all the way around and visualize any negative energy that's accumulated on my body moving out and being replaced by positive energy you may want to say a prayer as you're working something to the effect of please remove all negative energies and I ask that only those things that are positive and in my highest good those energies be allowed to remain or be carried in my in my energy aura my spirit field how whatever you'd like to say whatever feels great whatever feels good to you that's what you want to use whatever makes you feel powerful I'm it's just that and so you move all the way around your body and then that do you feel like you've fully washed your body with the sage Smoke I like to close my eyes and take a few deep breaths and just kind of go into that space of feeling cleansed and and renewed and then when you're ready then you can take that say H smoke and continue all around the house what you want to do is you want to use your hand I like to use a feather and move this the smoke through your house from the ceilings to the floor the floor to the ceiling and just allow it to wash over your entire home I like to start at the front door work my way all the way through the house and then get back to the front door and I open the door and clear that last little bit some people like to say prayers as they're working can say the same kind of prayer that you said for your body for purifying and allowing negative energies to leave and those positive images to come in or you can't end or you can you symbol some people like to do the sign of the Cross some people like to draw a pentagram in the air maybe you're a Reiki Master you practice Reiki and you want to use Reiki symbols all of those things are great you want to use what your ecology is and what feels most powerful to you so you work your way all around the house being sure that you really concentrate on those areas that don't commonly get a lot of sunlight places where it's dark places that these are the kind of places where negative energy accumulates and they really need a good cleansing some people will do closets also closets underneath the bed it's really up to you how thorough you want to be whatever feels right to you and then once you're finished you can blot out the sage that's what I normally do some people will use a little bit of water to stop the smoke come flowing and if you don't mind the smoke you can also just allow to burn out and it won't burn for very long maybe 5-10 minutes max and that just kind of let's it can the process continue I think that even though it's a very very simple ceremony you can do it in probably five minutes it's so powerful it's so powerful this it goes a long way to raising your mood and in clearing out any negative energy in your space a really good time to use the ceremony is after you've had an argument or some type of negative event in the house also maybe you've had an unexpected guest maybe you've had service bin or repair people coming into your home and you want to clear all that energy perfect perfect times to use ceremony so if this is your first time smudging smudge away congratulations for trying something new and awakening that little sage inside of you that knows exactly what to do peace and blessings and namaste to you