Thank you for bringing us into your lives this year & being part of creating a softer, more sensory world.
What we remember defines who we are. Our memories shape our relationships with ourselves, others, and our emotions.
Welcome to Scent Club - the Exploration Edition N°1. Step outside your daily life & into our BODHA Studio to experience the mysteriously powerful world of scent.
The names alone make me smile — wild heliotrope, lemon blossoms, night-blooming jasmine. These are just a few things in bloom right now in L.A., and I never want them to end!
We know the invisibility of scent can make it difficult to imagine what something might smell like, so we've been amusing ourselves by translating our formulas into visually accurate color maps inspired by the 1902 book Color Problems.
We are all atmospheres, a weather system of feelings & experiences bumping up against one another & the world. While we can't necessarily change the prevailing winds, we can shape our personal ambiance.
Most of us feel like we’re 'always' thinking, but in reality much of our mental life happens in the subconscious. Even if you’re setting goals and making plans it’s often the thoughts you don’t know you’re having that run your life.
All of us, no matter what age or culture, share a sense of physical beauty. That's because the human perception of what makes something beautiful is hardwired.
Year in & year out out at the beginning of practice my Ashtanga yoga teacher would point to his heart & say 'here sits a box & in this box sits Åtman (consciousness), turn your attention here.'
This is us! At its heart therapeutic perfumery is the art of creating scents that help you feel better. Or, as French Vogue described us we're 'the meeting point between aromatherapy & perfumery'
Our senses create our best experiences, bring us into our bodies & form our deepest memories. These are my current sensory faves - what's yours?
I recently took a three-week scent and artificial intelligence course, partly out of fear - will AI wipe out perfumery? - and partly out of curiosity about the latest scent technology for health.
I've never met a citrus I don't like, from the pithy bitterness of a grapefruit rind to the orange blossomy magic of petitgrain. Citruses speak to something bright and sparkly in us all.
Two years ago Cathay Pacific Airlines approached us with the idea to create something to ease the rigours of traveling for their frequent fliers.
We can't believe we're already half-way through the year & I'm sure you feel the same! Before we move forward we wanted to pause for a moment and reflect on the new rituals we've made space for - the things we're doing on a dail
This five minute evening ritual is a simple way to build a foundation of joy in your life. With two simple steps your subconscious will learn to scan for the beautiful moments in your day & you'll become finely tuned to the tiniest of pleasures.
We all love to travel but what about travel as pilgrimage? Stepping outside of time & daily life and going to an unknown place in search of new or expanded meaning? This is the definition of a pilgrimage, a journey in, rather than a journey to.
' By keeping on being what we most intimately are, we can continually redefine ourselves, so that we become what we have not been able to be. If we live this way, we surprise ourselves.'
Beauty, like every human emotion, is a form of energy. We feel it in our bodies and it affects us at a cellular level.
With a fresh new year just around the corner we wanted to give you a few ideas to make it your best yet.
When we started Bodha I was full of hope, fear & so many questions 'will this ever work?, who do I think I am to do this?, will anyone like it?'. Four years on and we're excited & grateful to share our next evolution…
I came across this idea somewhere last year, and it's stuck with me. We all have a list of things we'd like to achieve in 2024, a personal concept of success. But if getting there comes at the expense of feeling good, is it worth it?
City living often feels like a necessary evil, but what if cities are actually an important instrument for our evolution?
The ceremony of the seasons is nature's pause. Honoring this in your own way helps you reconnect with yourself & the fundamental flows of life. Lauren Trend, founder of Self Practice share's her seasonal reset for self-reflection & inspired action.
Anxiety & stress manifest physically in the form of sore muscles, tightness & pain. And the longer we hold them in our body the more they wear on our immune system. Now more than ever we need to move & release.
Scent's invisibility means we often don't think about its role in environmental sustainability. But given we use fragranced products around 20 to 30 times a day it's helpful to understand the basics of the life-cycle of scent.
Wearing a natural perfume is a little different from the synthetics you might be used to. Sure you still spritz or dab, but to enjoy a natural perfume to its full potential requires some education.
Sensory ecology is a relatively new field of scientific study looking at how different species experience the world based on their unique sensory systems.
I've been back in the studio this week, working on new scents, and it's got me thinking about why I do what I do.
Creative activities help us process what we’ve been through while deeply nurturing the mind/body connection. They also address our shared human need to bring beauty into the world in whatever form we can.
The science shows us that small physical acts done regularly with awareness imprint on our subconscious creating positive feedback loops and new neural pathways.
Citrus is one of our favorite ways to scent everything from perfume to dessert so we wanted to share a few ideas to bring it into your day.
For the past few weeks we’ve been going through the arduous task of tasting & testing single origin chocolates in the quest to find the perfect one for a new Bodha treat.
A year ago we started imagining how we could better bring to life the 'come back to yourself' feeling. And today, after five years in business, we'd like to welcome to you to the result, our new Bodha look.
01.28.21 Hi from us, Emily & Fred, founders & creators of Bodha. If you know us already - happy (belated) New Year, and if you’re new - welcome!
Things to help you reflect and even find some moments of clarity and inspiration in difficult times. Journalling with the Moon Lists and our favorite gratitude journal. Workshops with Self Practice and The Broad Place
Your enjoyment of life is directly correlated to your relationship with your senses. Studies of sensory perception show we are losing touch with our senses and it's affecting not only our enjoyment of life but also our deeper feelings of meaning, purpose
We're all craving a sense of space in our lives, a gap in the daily routine to recalibrate & tap into something bigger, but how do you do it?
When we first started Bodha I had big ideas about what I wanted to create, but not much patience for the amount of failing I’d have to go through.
Rituals for morning, calming and sleep to help cultivate your inner world with a sense of ceremony & appreciation for everyday. Incense and tea, meditation and scented baths, warm drinks and stretching.
Your enjoyment of life is directly correlated to your relationship with your senses. Studies of sensory perception show we are losing touch with our senses and it's affecting not only our enjoyment of life but also our deeper feelings of meaning, purpose
Citrus is one of our favorite ways to scent everything from perfume to dessert so we wanted to share a few ideas to bring it into your day.
Scent's invisibility means we often don't think about its role in environmental sustainability. But given we use fragranced products around 20 to 30 times a day it's helpful to understand the basics of the life-cycle of scent.
Most of us feel like we’re 'always' thinking, but in reality much of our mental life happens in the subconscious. Even if you’re setting goals and making plans it’s often the thoughts you don’t know you’re having that run your life.
