Handcraft Herbal Smudge Sticks, Incense & Smudge Feathers

The energy in our homes can affect our health and happiness

Saturday 14th August 2027

10.30am to 4.30pm

Join me for a calming hands on workshop, being held during the Summer season when the herbs and flowers are at their peak, with oils being high in the plants, which is a perfect time to craft smudge sticks. These are bundles of dried herbs, leaves or plants that are sacredly crafted together and slowly burnt to produce fragrant smoke, which can be used in spiritual practice, meditation, ritual or even to make a space smell pleasant. They are traditionally used to cleanse the energy of your sacred space, home and even work or negative energy and create a fresh more energetic energy. The ritual of lighting the smudge stick and setting intentions can help you feel grounded and focused. Some people use them when moving into a new home, after a difficult time, before meditation or a healing session or at the start of a new chapter in life.

You will learn how to handcraft your own herbal smudge sticks using natural seasonal plants, whilst exploring the traditional uses of herbs, mindful crafting techniques and how to respectfully harvest and work with plants.

We will be crafting with herbs I have grown from seed, with intent for their purpose and healing, together with wild foraging from local, good energy places.
Weather permitting, some of the day will be working amongst the herbs and flowers, in the quiet, meditation and healing part of our garden.

Smudging is the burning of sacred herbs, woods or resins to purify and cleanse the energies in our homes. How many times have you entered a home or area and suddenly felt sad, angry or extremely tired when you didn’t before. This is sensing the negative, stagnant energy of the place. Maybe someone has been depressed, arguing, ill or overworked in there. 

As we clean our homes, it is equally important to cleanse the energy of our homes, workplaces, our auric field and even the auras of our animals.

This workshop is designed to help you craft your own personal, different varieties of smudge sticks, incense, smudge fans and prayer ties and the correct way of using them. However, it is designed to take you a step further in connecting with the energy of the herbs that choose you.

What you can expect to experience _

• Beautiful guided meditation to connect with the energies of the garden herbs.
• Learn the spiritual energies of the plants, which ones call to you and why
• Traditional smudging techniques to enhance energy clearing, blessings and protection
• How to make the most with the herbs from your own gardens
• How to craft different types of herbal smudge sticks, incense, smudging fans and prayer ties
• Smudging ritual
• How to smudge yourself, your home, workplaces, crystals and spiritual tools and your herbal garden
• Different life changing events and the times to smudge
• How to smudge during a healing session
• Ethical ways of harvesting and how to dry herbs and retain colour and oils
• What makes smudging so powerful?
• Craft your own smudge fan to use when smudging
• Craft herbal prayer ties to aid the release in your own personal healing process and how to use them

Cost: £150 to include all materials required. An initial deposit will secure your place with the balance being due 4 weeks before the workshop date.

Klarna is available to help spread the cost.

Please note - ALL payments are non refundable once paid. However, I know life happens! If you can’t make it to your course once you have booked, you’re very welcome to pass your spot on to a friend or loved one so the magic can still be enjoyed, but please contact me beforehand.

My spiritual practice is run on the edge of the New Forest and neighbouring old towns of Wimborne, Cranborne and Ringwood in Dorset. They are all steeped with old wise traditions, folklore and country ways.

With nearly 30 years of experience, Lorraine Tricksey is an experienced medium, healer and spiritual teacher dedicated to supporting others on their spiritual and personal healing journey. Trained with both the National Federation of Spiritual Healers (NFSH) and the DHWSHA Dorset Hants and Wilts Spiritual Healers Association has developed a compassionate and grounded approach to spiritual work and has a vast knowledge.

Over the years Lorraine has worked with individuals from all walks of life, offering spiritual healing, spiritual guidance and teaching in a safe and supportive environment. Her work is rooted in integrity, empathy and a deep commitment to helping others reconnect with their inner peace, intuition and spiritual awareness.

Through workshops, private sessions, demonstrations and spiritual development classes, Lorraine continues to inspire and empower people to explore their own connection with spirit and the healing energies within.