Essential Oils and Meditation
Both yoga and meditation alone provide a range of health benefits. However, combining regular yoga and meditation with essential oils can optimize your experience, helping you get more out of each session. Help feel relaxed and at peace in a meditative state with MONQ’s personal diffuser, Zen.
The ten best essential oils to supplement relaxation during your yoga and meditation sessions are highlighted below.
Frankincense Essential Oil
This particular essential oil is well known for its ability to help promote peace and calm. Because of this, it is well-regarded as one of the most spiritually-charged oils that could prove beneficial in a meditation session.
Not only does its aroma offer both stimulation and elevation for the mind, but it can really help promote a better sense of center, which can help with the spiritual connection. Individuals who may experience difficulty focusing or centering themselves during yoga or meditation might benefit from incorporating frankincense into these sessions.
Achieving the best results from meditation sessions requires not only deep breathing and concentration but also a sense of peace and calm that allows for greater grounding and focus.1
Rose Essential Oil
Rose oil is another excellent essential oil for improving the quality of yoga and meditation sessions. It is particularly helpful for individuals interested in boosting self-confidence and self-worth. Rose oil is known as the fragrance of love and can really help open up the heart to the connection.2
Lavender Essential Oil
Lavender essential oil is a common oil used in a variety of settings. For individuals who practice yoga and meditation, it is particularly helpful because of the relaxation it provides. This is particularly useful for individuals who are just getting started with either yoga or meditation.
The ability to relax is key for getting the most out of each yoga or meditation session. Therefore, this is commonly referred to as a “starter oil” for individuals looking to get into either practice.3
Ylang-Ylang Essential Oil
This is another beneficial essential oil that can be used to effectively promote better yoga or meditation sessions. Ylang-ylang is well-known for reducing tension in the body.
This is key for reaping the benefits of yoga or meditation sessions, as well as improving flexibility. In fact, research shows that ylang-ylang essential oil can help an individual release various negative emotions that result in an inability to concentrate and effectively mediate, such as anger or frustration.4
Sandalwood Essential Oil
Sandalwood is an essential oil that is typically used by those who practice yoga or meditation for relaxation purposes because it has a unique ability to help an individual relax. This alone can make it an effective essential oil for improving both focus and concentration.
By promoting relaxation, sandalwood essential oil allows those stressors to fade away, promoting concentration for the yoga or meditation session.5
Peppermint Essential Oil
Another way that peppermint essential oil can help with your sessions is by providing the body with natural properties that can help with muscle recovery after a grueling yoga session.
While yoga might not look too difficult, it can definitely leave your muscles sore the next day. The amount of strength and energy required to perform some yoga exercises and poses cannot be understated.6
Therefore, having an essential oil on hand that can help your muscles recover after a yoga session proves beneficial.
Orange Essential Oil
One of the main reasons orange oil is an effective essential oil to use for yoga and meditation is because of its ability to provide an uplifting effect on the user. It can also help boost clear thinking, in addition to reducing the body’s natural response to stressors.7
Clary Sage Essential Oil
Clary sage essential oil can make for a great addition to a yoga or meditation session because it can increase inner peace, one of the key goals of these sessions.8
Lemon Essential Oil
This is another effective essential oil for providing a jolt of energy and an increased level of self-esteem, both of which can promote increased concentration throughout your sessions. Having more energy will help you get the most out of your sessions because you won’t be lethargic or lazy.
Cedarwood Essential Oil
This particular essential oil is well-known for having the ability to enhance the mind and body connection. Cedarwood essential oil can help you feel more connected to the earth through its scent alone. It is a great essential oil to help ground yourself during your sessions.
How To Use Essential Oils For Yoga And Meditation
Essential oils can be used in a variety of ways when you are looking to maximize the benefits of meditation or yoga sessions. One of the most effective ways is aromatically through a room diffuser or a personal aromatherapy diffuser like Happy or Zen MONQ. Alternatively, try diluting essential oils with a carrier oil or lotion and apply them before a meditation session.
Keep in mind that there are plenty of essential oils that provide uplifting effects or relaxing effects for a yoga or meditation session, including, but not limited to the oils listed above.
By incorporating the right essential oils into your sessions based on your individual circumstances, mood, stress levels, and more you can optimize each session to receive maximum health benefits.