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Fiona Lander

Herbal cleanse/wash
     (Baño Sagrado)

A herbal wash, or baño sagrado, is a sacred cleansing ritual using water infused with medicinal healing plants.

Rooted in traditions from the Amazon and Andes, the baño is a form of plant bathing — a spiritual and energetic cleansing that helps to lift heavy energies, restore clarity, and reconnect the client with their essence.In this ceremony, water is not simply water. It is a carrier of memory, of medicine, of song. The plants are not simply herbs - they are intelligent allies to bless and renew the body and soul. 


 
When I prepare a herbs, I commune with the plants - often gathered from the organic  garden and land where I live. Plants are chosen intuitively; then infused in water, warmed up and always prayed over.

During the session, the client is seated. The herbal water is poured over their body - over the crown, the heart, the back, and around the auric field. This removes stuck energy whilst I sing a sacred medicine song.
[The client wears swimwear for this ceremony].

I pray as I  cleanse, calling on the spirit of the plants, upon the wisdom of the elements, and upon your own inner light to release what is ready to go and call in what wishes to arrive.The wash may be part of a larger healing session or it may stand alone, as a gentle rite of renewal.

The baño helps to:
 

  • Remove energetic residue from emotional release or trauma

  • Restore harmony to the field after energetic entanglements or interference

  • Bless and anchor new intentions

  • Cleanse the energy body between ceremonial passages

  • Invite beauty, softness, and grace back into the body

  • Connect the client to the spirit of the plants, the element of water, and the song of their own soul

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A Prayer with Plants and Water

In offering a herbal wash, I do not work alone, I cleanse with the plants, with the waters of the Earth, and the sacred elements. I invite the client to open to the sacred in a way that is gentle, sensory, and real. In Kichwa traditions a baño is a deep blessing.

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