The Complete Smudging Handbook: 67 Herbs, Woods, and Resins for Clearing and Emotional Balance
By (Author) Markus Schirner
Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Earthdancer Books
28th October 2025
United States
General
Non Fiction
Mind, body, spirit: meditation and visualization
Paperback
176
Width 165mm, Height 235mm
186g
A comprehensive guide to smudging with full-color illustrations
Describes 34 spiritual and physical smudging protocols for divination, grounding, improving health, confidence, and dreaming
Offers smudging methods for ritual practice and explains how to properly collect, store, and prepare smudging ingredients
Includes an AZ catalog of 67 herbs, resins, and woods for smudging, exploring their history and traditional as well as contemporary uses
Explore smudging with this comprehensive illustrated guide that offers new and traditional ways to approach this ancient practice.
While this book examines the common uses of smudging for protection and energetic cleansing with mainstays like sage, sweetgrass, and frankincense, it also offers unfamiliar and surprising ingredients and applications. The author explains how to smudge with rose petals for acceptance or elder to connect with ancestors. Learn how to ritually prepare mixtures of herbs, resins, and woods for various purposes such as divination, grounding, and approaching new beginnings. Markus details 34 physical and spiritual protocols for smudging rituals to improve overall health, courage and self-confidence, clarity, and lucid dreaming. This guide book will teach you how to prepare for a smudging ritual, choose the appropriate method, and select the right ingredients. Markus also shows how to properly collect, store, and prepare your ingredients in bundles and cones to smudge for yourself or others. With a comprehensive AZ catalog featuring full color illustrated portraits of 67 herbs, resins, and woods, this book also offers a detailed history of these smudging materials.
The Complete Smudging Handbook offers a modern interpretation of smudging and incense burning that will anchor and deepen any readers approach to this ancient practice. Immerse yourself in the world of smudging and open up to plant wisdom for improved physical health and emotional wellbeing.
Markus Schirner is a kinesiology and Touch for Health teacher, a Movement Facilitator with Brain Gym, and massage therapist. His other areas of specialization include aromatherapy and herbalism, meditation and breathing therapy, and Buddhist philosophy. He is the founder of Schirner Verlag, one of the best known spiritual publishing houses in Germany.