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Ritual Baths: Be Your Own Healer
In this gorgeous, full-color illustrated guide, “fashion’s favorite healer” (Vogue) teaches you how to use baths to relieve stress and depression and soothe common aches and pains.Ritual Baths shows you how to use common crystals, herbs, and flowers in your bathtub to achieve inner peace and spiritual wellness. A blend of ancient traditions and contemporary self-care methods, this indispensable handbook, packed with more than 250 color photographs, provides helpful advice and sixty bath recipes, organized by aura color,
Awareness Wolf BathEmpath BathHope BathI am Nature BathBe My Own Healer BathLove of My Life BathAlly BathHealthy Boundaries BathWarrior BathFind My Purpose BathMy Gut BathConfidence Bath
Deborah Hanekamp leaves no crystal unturned and no restorative plant unused. She teaches you about auras, touches on phases of the moon, explains crystal and herbal magic, and provides an encyclopedia of ingredients that addresses each element’s healing properties.
We all want to achieve wellness and live our best lives. Ideal for anyone interested in natural healing and alternative medicine, as well as everyone looking to integrate beautiful and accessible self-care practices into their daily routine, Ritual Baths shows you how to create your own medicine and transform your bathroom into a unique healing space.
Awareness Wolf BathEmpath BathHope BathI am Nature BathBe My Own Healer BathLove of My Life BathAlly BathHealthy Boundaries BathWarrior BathFind My Purpose BathMy Gut BathConfidence Bath
Deborah Hanekamp leaves no crystal unturned and no restorative plant unused. She teaches you about auras, touches on phases of the moon, explains crystal and herbal magic, and provides an encyclopedia of ingredients that addresses each element’s healing properties.
We all want to achieve wellness and live our best lives. Ideal for anyone interested in natural healing and alternative medicine, as well as everyone looking to integrate beautiful and accessible self-care practices into their daily routine, Ritual Baths shows you how to create your own medicine and transform your bathroom into a unique healing space.
267 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 24, 2020
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About the author
Deborah Hanekamp
2 books1 followerMy birth chart tells me I am a Scorpio sun, Cancer Moon and Leo Rising.
I am American-born, and a DNA test tells me I descend from mostly Irish, then a travelers blend of (in order of percentage) Sicilian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Scandinavian, North African and West Asian, the rest of what shows up is in negligible traces.
I was raised in New England as a cult level strict evangelical northern baptist, this is very purposeful because it is where I was first introduced to Ritual Baths and where I heard Jesus’s message of the power of love which deeply resonated with me. The rest of the religion made no sense to me, the people were so wound up, tucked in and depressed, women were shamed, even as a child could clearly see that my church was misinterpreting Jesus’s message. When I was twelve and my family fell apart, I moved away from that religion and reached more toward my spirituality in a mystical and undefined way.
Because there was no university for what I wanted to study I had to find my own way. In my teens I began practicing zen meditation, studied and taught Hatha Yoga and Ayurveda with a wild and powerful woman named Ifat, I traveled back and forth to Thailand where I studied sound, crystal and energy healing with a beautiful woman named Ella. By the time I was 24 I had already built up a solid following for my work and opened up my first brick and mortar business where I facilitated Medicine Readings, Moon Ceremonies and taught Yoga and Reiki.
I had the honor of finding myself in an eight year Vegetalismo (plant medicine) apprenticeship going back and forth from New York to the Peruvian Amazon within what is called Mestizo Shamanism. I spoke ok Spanish and had two consecutive teachers who spoke pretty decent English, one light, one shadow, who out of respect for their privacy and safety I do not name. My first teacher told me that the line is called Mestizo (mixed) because during the Spanish Inquisition the tribes were forbidden in horrible ways from speaking their language and engaging in their practices, later when it felt somewhat safer, they collaborated what was left of their languages with Spanish and Quechua, a language from an entirely different part of the country in the Andes. This is how their beautiful Icaros (healing songs) were formed. They resiliently, reclaimed, reformed and recreated a culture now known as Mestizo. Icaros carry a very powerful healing vibration when you have dieted (spent time fasting for 10 days to three months) with the plant you are singing to. When you come for a Medicine Reading Ceremony I sometimes tell you about some of the plants I dieted with. As they become more and more integrated into my energy field I sing Icaros less and less. These beautiful songs and healing baths are the only elements from that entire eight years that I keep with me because I know the plants and the plants know me deeply and singing to and bathing in nature is simply how I learned how to heal and what heals me.
Before awareness around cultural appropriation was more widely acknowledged, I started becoming very sensitive to the harm it can cause during my apprenticeship as during that eight year span of time Ayahuasca went from being virtually unknown to very popular. I recognized that even though I had this rare, extremely authentic experience, this wasn’t my culture and it just didn’t feel right to offer what wasn’t mine. I realized I didn’t want to give people something from outside of themselves to heal, I wanted to help them find the Medicine within, the power of love. While I felt so adopted and embraced by the jungle and her people with great respect I chose to not to pursue the Vegetalista path. I also thought a lot about the example I set to others who look up to me and I didn’t want to set an example of using what isn’t one’s own true essence of Medicine for healing. I want to be a beacon of cultural appreciation. Traveling to foriegn lands or even just diffe
I am American-born, and a DNA test tells me I descend from mostly Irish, then a travelers blend of (in order of percentage) Sicilian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Scandinavian, North African and West Asian, the rest of what shows up is in negligible traces.
I was raised in New England as a cult level strict evangelical northern baptist, this is very purposeful because it is where I was first introduced to Ritual Baths and where I heard Jesus’s message of the power of love which deeply resonated with me. The rest of the religion made no sense to me, the people were so wound up, tucked in and depressed, women were shamed, even as a child could clearly see that my church was misinterpreting Jesus’s message. When I was twelve and my family fell apart, I moved away from that religion and reached more toward my spirituality in a mystical and undefined way.
Because there was no university for what I wanted to study I had to find my own way. In my teens I began practicing zen meditation, studied and taught Hatha Yoga and Ayurveda with a wild and powerful woman named Ifat, I traveled back and forth to Thailand where I studied sound, crystal and energy healing with a beautiful woman named Ella. By the time I was 24 I had already built up a solid following for my work and opened up my first brick and mortar business where I facilitated Medicine Readings, Moon Ceremonies and taught Yoga and Reiki.
I had the honor of finding myself in an eight year Vegetalismo (plant medicine) apprenticeship going back and forth from New York to the Peruvian Amazon within what is called Mestizo Shamanism. I spoke ok Spanish and had two consecutive teachers who spoke pretty decent English, one light, one shadow, who out of respect for their privacy and safety I do not name. My first teacher told me that the line is called Mestizo (mixed) because during the Spanish Inquisition the tribes were forbidden in horrible ways from speaking their language and engaging in their practices, later when it felt somewhat safer, they collaborated what was left of their languages with Spanish and Quechua, a language from an entirely different part of the country in the Andes. This is how their beautiful Icaros (healing songs) were formed. They resiliently, reclaimed, reformed and recreated a culture now known as Mestizo. Icaros carry a very powerful healing vibration when you have dieted (spent time fasting for 10 days to three months) with the plant you are singing to. When you come for a Medicine Reading Ceremony I sometimes tell you about some of the plants I dieted with. As they become more and more integrated into my energy field I sing Icaros less and less. These beautiful songs and healing baths are the only elements from that entire eight years that I keep with me because I know the plants and the plants know me deeply and singing to and bathing in nature is simply how I learned how to heal and what heals me.
Before awareness around cultural appropriation was more widely acknowledged, I started becoming very sensitive to the harm it can cause during my apprenticeship as during that eight year span of time Ayahuasca went from being virtually unknown to very popular. I recognized that even though I had this rare, extremely authentic experience, this wasn’t my culture and it just didn’t feel right to offer what wasn’t mine. I realized I didn’t want to give people something from outside of themselves to heal, I wanted to help them find the Medicine within, the power of love. While I felt so adopted and embraced by the jungle and her people with great respect I chose to not to pursue the Vegetalista path. I also thought a lot about the example I set to others who look up to me and I didn’t want to set an example of using what isn’t one’s own true essence of Medicine for healing. I want to be a beacon of cultural appreciation. Traveling to foriegn lands or even just diffe
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March 8, 2021
What I like about this book: Author is knowledgeable and has experiences with ritual baths. The book is beautiful, nice layout, and easy to read. Great source of inspiration if you are wanting to incorporate herbs and crystals to your bath experience.
What I don't like about this book: most baths require many herbs and crystals that may not be easy for everyone to find. Because most baths require several ingredients you may be finding yourself spending lots of money for one bath ritual, and left not knowing what to do with the rest of the herbs you purchased online. While there is some overlapping herbs from one bath to the next, you will still have to buy a bunch more ingredients. Book is overall not something of depth- I suppose your experience with the baths is where you need to find the most depth.
What I don't like about this book: most baths require many herbs and crystals that may not be easy for everyone to find. Because most baths require several ingredients you may be finding yourself spending lots of money for one bath ritual, and left not knowing what to do with the rest of the herbs you purchased online. While there is some overlapping herbs from one bath to the next, you will still have to buy a bunch more ingredients. Book is overall not something of depth- I suppose your experience with the baths is where you need to find the most depth.
May 26, 2021
A gateway into your own power and intuition
Detailed recipes of gorgeous baths for various purposes from grief to community building. Each recipe includes a short summary of the intention behind it, suggested ingredients, and a short ritual to do before getting in the bath. The baths themselves are gorgeous both visually and energetically.
The most important message of the book however, throughout but specially in the introductory chapters is that anyone can be their own healer. Anyone can channel the right bath recipe for themselves or ritual for their own energetic healing. In a way I felt this book is a gateway to trusting ourselves more.
Detailed recipes of gorgeous baths for various purposes from grief to community building. Each recipe includes a short summary of the intention behind it, suggested ingredients, and a short ritual to do before getting in the bath. The baths themselves are gorgeous both visually and energetically.
The most important message of the book however, throughout but specially in the introductory chapters is that anyone can be their own healer. Anyone can channel the right bath recipe for themselves or ritual for their own energetic healing. In a way I felt this book is a gateway to trusting ourselves more.
January 8, 2023
This book has beautiful images! I love the vibe of this book. The content is not on the same level. I was excited there was an aura test but then it wouldn’t tell you which mixed aura colour you had if you tested for the mixed aura colour. That was disappointing.
Many of the herbs I can’t access where I am in the world. Also many of the essential oils I am allergic too.
There were great idea for what to put in your bath and how to have your bath be more spiritual or a sacred space.
I wouldn’t buy this book.
Many of the herbs I can’t access where I am in the world. Also many of the essential oils I am allergic too.
There were great idea for what to put in your bath and how to have your bath be more spiritual or a sacred space.
I wouldn’t buy this book.
January 12, 2021
A beautiful and luxurious self care guid with practical application for the modern mystic. Beautifully photographed and well written instructions offer the reader an easy to use step by step for making your ritual baths not only a sacred experience, but one that helps with all your manifesting and releasing needs.
January 29, 2023
Truly stunning imagery (as a photographer I loved the photography and appreciated the illustrations),the way Deborah writes is also so beautiful. I love the way this book is organized ritual baths by chakra. I also appreciate the reference guide at the back. I got this book from the library and love it so much that I would like to buy a copy to own )which rarely happens).
January 5, 2021
This book is gorgeous and helps you find yourself and learn what colour your aura is. The prescribed baths use nature as the root of them all. After discovering my aura was green, I did one of the green aura baths “I am nature” it was truly a relaxing and insightful experience.
September 7, 2021
Meh. This book is entirely focused around aura colors, which isn't really my jam. In addition, the author's frequent use of the term "smudge" in a non-indigenous context is problematic.
December 28, 2021
Was a gift and I am so grateful my mentee gave this to me.
February 7, 2022
So beautiful 😍
December 24, 2023
Beautiful book 🛀💚♉️🔮🍊🌷🌻🌕🌿
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