Burning Instructions

There are two main methods for burning incense. Some incense such as dried herbs can be burned in many different ways and others such as resins require indirect burning as the resins themselves are not combustible. Here are instructions on the two main methods—Bundle Burning and Charcoal Disc Burning.

Bundle Burning

1. Open a door or window

2. Set your intentions for your smoke cleansing session
3. Hold your bundle upside down at a 45-degree angle
4. Hold a flame to the bundle until it catches on fire

Allow this to burn for a few seconds before gently blowing on it to extinguish. At this point you should only see embers.

5. That’s it! You can now begin cleansing your space.

If you are having issues with getting your bundle to light, it is likely tied too tight. To remedy this you can loosen the string and try again.

**As always when you are working with fire exercise extreme caution. Please ensure that whatever you are burning is COMPLETELY extinguished before leaving it unsupervised.**  

Charcoal Disc Burning

We recommend these charcoal discs as they contain potassium nitrate which facilitates ignition.

1. Open a door or window

This step serves a dual function. First you need ventilation and second unwanted energies need somewhere to escape.  

2. Set your intentions for your smoke cleansing session
3. Fill a heat proof incense bowl or censer with at least 2" of sand, or salt.

It is extremely important that you have this sand or salt in your vessel as it will insulate the heat produced from the charcoal disc.

4. Place you charcoal disc with the concave indentation facing up.
5. Hold a flame to the edge of you charcoal disc.

You will see sparks as the charcoal disc begins to ignite.

6. Allow this to burn until the charcoal is glowing red hot and is covered with ash.
7. Place your incense (e.g. resin, dried herbs, etc.) of choice directly on top of the smoldering charcoal.
8. That’s it! You can now begin cleansing your space.

Be mindful of the amount of incense you place onto the charcoal disc at a time as too much can smother the charcoal disc. If you wish to have a cleansing session that last for the duration of the charcoal disc (1 hour) you can continually add small amounts of incense as the smoke begins to thin out.

**As always when you are working with fire exercise extreme caution. Please ensure that whatever you are burning is COMPLETELY extinguished before leaving it unsupervised.**