Bergamot Aromatic ExperienceThe Oil of Self-Acceptance

Bergamot and the Nervous System

In Ayurveda, Bergamot is one of the most universally supportive oils — beneficial across all seasons and all constitutions. She works on the nervous system at a deep level, helping to clear mental fog, ease anxiety and restore the body’s natural sense of ease. Chosen as the opening oil of the full Aromatic Soul Journey, she offers a gentle opening, preparing the ground for all that follows.

She particularly pacifies Vata and Pitta — calming the nervous system dysregulation that underlies so much modern suffering and cooling the heat of over-efforting, perfectionism and self-criticism. For Kapha, she lifts and clarifies, dissolving the heaviness that can accumulate over time.

Whenever the inner critic speaks too loudly, whenever the nervous system needs resetting, whenever you want to return to yourself, she is there — one of the great all-year-round companions.

• Calms Vata — grounds and steadies an anxious, scattered nervous system
• Cools Pitta — releases self-criticism, perfectionism and inner heat
• Lifts Kapha — dissolves heaviness, fog and emotional stagnation
• Resets the nervous system — one of the great all-year-round oils
• The oil of self-acceptance — returning you to ease, exactly as you are

In this experience you work with the specific points on the body where this oil’s intelligence lands most powerfully — and from there weave it into your own life.