ESERCIZIARIO BOTANICO

Plants support us in our emotional expression, we just need to listen to them to train our sensitivity in recording the vibrations they can give us.
A small 4-hands written ‘recipes’ book: Evita in the search for poems that could introduce the 4 mixtures designed by you for 4 vital spheres (elevation, balance, union and creativity), PADMA, crafted by the hands of Prisca, in describing plants as characters according to their technical characteristics.

INSTRUCTIONS
Environmental diffusion: the number of drops indicated in the recipes refers to a room of about 15/20m2.
Use in spray or oil: the reported doses are diluted in 30ml of oil or alcohol and water.

ELEVATION

“Above the lakes, above the vales,
The mountains and the woods, the clouds, the seas,
Beyond the sun, beyond the ether, beyond the confines of the starry spheres,
My soul, you move with ease”
(Elevation, Charles Baudelaire)

To free your thoughts, do somersaults with your mind, see beyond.
Frankincense (Boswellia Carterii) 6 + Lemongrass (Cymbopogon Flexuosus) 3

She walked for hours, he was the one he loved to do most. Long walks that led to physical tiredness to leave room only for thought. Before leaving, she wrapped a small bottle with a geometric shape in a small straw flap: inside, in its citrus note, there was Lemongrass.
Lemongrass is a cure, it accompanies you with its freshness on the way to concentration.
She would only stop if her mind was captured by something brighter than the final destination.
The colours hit her, the shadows managed to wrap her, the sounds made her dance, but only a perfume could stop her. She slowed down in front of the green of those plants, the melodic sound of the wind between the leaves, the shadows that met the clear sky.
She decides to open her bottle, at that moment a different smell from above joined his fellow scent, Incense. It stopped. Incense is vision, spirituality, contact with our research.

EQUILIBRIUM

“Nothing in the world is single,
All things by a law devine
In one another’s being mingle”
( Love’s Philosophy, Percy-Bysshe-Shelley)

To remind us that we are perfect balance, light and shadow, sun and moon, yin and yang.
Frankincense (Boswellia Carterii) 4 + Myrrh (Commiphora Molmol) 4

She was looking for him in the night. She always looked for him at that moment of the day, when silence envelops the city, when the mind sat down. When in one breath sleep united them. It was in that portion of the day that she spoke to him. It was Incense, ready to burn, divine, wealth of exchange as in the ancient Arab land. He, the day, the sun.

She was looking for her in the day. Bitter as its semantic root, mrr.
Ready to heal her wounds, like her healing action, but full of that essence of fear of letting the boyish away. It was Myrrh, in balance between the spiritual and material world, ready to welcome love, afraid of giving. She, the night, the Moon.

Incense and Myrrh, like a royal gift: a daytime sky that gives you the view of the Moon, a night panorama that is coloured with a Moon on fire.

UNION

“I hide myself within my flower,
That wearing on your breast,
You, unsuspecting, wear me too”
(I hide myself within my flower, Emily Dickinson)

To let it flow, relax, wrap yourself in beauty and sensuality.
Sandalwood (Santalum Austrocaledonicum) 4 + Ylang Ylang (Canaga Odorata) 2

<< Where do you want to take me? Where do you push me? In your arms? >>.
You are Sandalwood. Masculine, enveloping.

I look at the sky to look for you: among the clouds, in the shining rays, among the tall palms that try to distract me. You guide me in you. I sit on the Chariot of the Sun, crafted in your wood, a sensory, sensual essence. I am ready to reach you beyond the leafs.
With my eyes, listening to you, with my lips, blooming you.

Your Sandalwood perfume intoxicates me, unites me, makes us rare, brings us to the “flower of flowers”: Ylang Ylang.

CREATIVITY

“Like an immense fire in the wind;
Like the waltz of a sleeping lake- under the stroke of rocks;
Like grey, thick clouds- in the crisis of storm”
(Unison, Forough-Farrokhzad)

To ignite a spark, activate the mind, sink into ideas.
Cocoa (Theobroma Cacao) 3 + Cinnamon (Cinnamomum Verum) 1

I imagine you like this Creativity: a row of trees in which to take refuge to observe, where to start savouring your light. You have the flavour of cocoa: you nourish, amuse, let me play.
Let me play with thoughts, oh Creativity, with the desire to overcome that path to get to admire your fire.

I’m coming Creativity, I feel the warmest light, the lips warm up, the skin pulls, I feel that you are caressing me, the eyes begin to narrow in front of your light. Let’s meet, listen, wake up because in your valley everything will seem in shadow except your profile. What will it be like after meeting you?

A stroke of charcoal on a rough sheet, a brushstroke of watercolour. A sentence rushed on the smartphone. The hands in the clay, a cut from a newspaper, an impulse on a music sheet. Water that joins flour. A saved image, a walk following a different path. It will be alive, passionate, on fire. It will be as hot as your woody note, Cinnamon.

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Images courtesy of Padma & Evita Onofri

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