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![SHIITAKE / The 'Elixir Of Life'](http://lepaar.com/cdn/shop/articles/SHIITAKE_BLOG.jpg?v=1718717274&width=1080)
I love plant medicine that reaches us from ancient times, passed through the intuitive hands of a thousand healers. Administered to millions of people. Observed, tested and revered for millennia. Botanical knowledge is humankind's greatest, most important legacy – and mushrooms are the connective thread...
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![HIGH ON A BED OF ROSES / ‘The Hippies Were Right: It’s All About Vibrations, Man!’](http://lepaar.com/cdn/shop/articles/ROSES_BLOG_PIC.jpg?v=1718155099&width=1080)
The Rose holds a vibration at 320MHz – higher than any other plant or gemstone on the planet. And this high vibe energy has the power to raise our own frequency through the law of entrainment — a life force inherent to Nature, that synchronises two or more vibrating bodies into one harmonious rhythm.
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![CULTIVATING YOUR BREATH / For health, wellbeing and stress release](http://lepaar.com/cdn/shop/articles/Breath_BLOG_PIC_copy.jpg?v=1718156889&width=1080)
Oxygen is a wonderful antidote to stress. Unless I’m in poor air, I am cultivating my breath to reach deep within my body. Breath is health, life-force, and awareness of self in place. In the ancient Chinese practice of Chi Gong, there are six qualities of the breath that we nurture with every inhale and every exhale: Long. Slow. Deep. Fine. Even. Tranquil.
![ATMOSPHERIC SKINCARE / Rain walking for dewy skin](http://lepaar.com/cdn/shop/articles/Rain_walking_BLOG_PIC_copy.jpg?v=1718155156&width=1080)
Letting our face be washed by atmospheric water, like rain, fog, mist, snow etc, every now and then gives our skin a break from hard tap water, which I believe plays a major role in disrupting barrier function.
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![CITRUS + SUN SENSITIVITY / A guide to which citrus is and isn’t phototoxic](http://lepaar.com/cdn/shop/articles/Oranges_BLOG_PIC.jpg?v=1718154757&width=1080)
When it comes to Sun sensitivity, Citrus are an inconsistent bunch — some are, some are a little, some not all, sometimes it’s the rind, other times it’s the leaves... but never the flowers.
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