Vetiver Aromatic ExperienceThe oil of rooting and descent

Vetiver and the Nervous System

In Ayurveda, Vetiver is one of the most important oils for Vata — and for the Vata imbalances so common in modern life: anxiety, scattering, insomnia, the inability to be still. She is cooling, grounding, nourishing and deeply settling for an overactive nervous system.

She is powerfully supportive for Pitta too — cooling the heat of overdoing and over-efforting and helping the body remember that rest is not weakness. For Kapha, used with intention, she deepens presence and a felt sense of being earthed.

Vetiver can be used in any season, though she is particularly powerful in late autumn and winter, when the natural world calls us downward and inward. One of the great companions for the dark half of the year.

• Deeply calms Vata — grounds scattering, anxiety and sleeplessness
• Cools Pitta — releases the heat of overdoing and over-efforting
• Grounds and settles — the deep taproot, drawing energy downward
• Restores stillness — helping the body remember that rest is not weakness
• The oil of rooting and descent — a return to centre, into the body

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.