The Orenna Journal is a yoga and wellbeing journal exploring yoga practice, philosophy, history, rest and the wider ideas that shape how yoga is understood and experienced.
Through considered writing, it offers space to look beyond the surface of practice and explore its traditions, contexts and contemporary interpretations with greater depth and curiosity.
The Orenna Journal brings together considered writing on yoga, philosophy, history, wellbeing and place. Articles move between tradition and contemporary understanding, exploring not only how practices are approached, but where they come from, how they have developed and how their meanings can differ across contexts.
Rather than offering quick answers, the Journal creates space for thoughtful enquiry, evidence-informed discussion and a more nuanced understanding of yoga and wellbeing.
Discover the Journal through four interconnected areas. Each offers a different way into the wider conversation around yoga, rest, wellbeing and the relationship between practice, evidence and place.
Explore yoga practices, philosophies, texts and traditions, from their historical contexts to the ways they are understood and practised today.
Consider restorative practice, meditation, stillness and the different ways attention and awareness are approached within yoga.
Find contemporary wellbeing through an evidence-informed lens, distinguishing emerging research from established knowledge and examining claims with appropriate context.
Writing shaped by landscape, seasonality and the quieter observations that connect practice with everyday experience.
Written & curated by Orenna Wellness
Thoughtful writing exploring yoga, philosophy, wellbeing, evidence and place.
The Orenna Journal brings together considered writing on yoga, philosophy, history, wellbeing and place. A space for thoughtful enquiry, it looks beyond quick explanations to explore where practices come from, how they have developed, what evidence can tell us and why meanings often change across traditions, cultures and contexts.
Does aromatherapy really work? Research has explored essential oils and aromatic interventions for anxiety, sleep, pain, nausea and other outcomes, but the evidence is more nuanced than either enthusiastic claims or simple dismissal suggest. Explore what studies can tell us, what they cannot, and why scent, context and personal experience still matter.
Essential oils may come from plants, but natural does not automatically mean harmless. Explore aromatherapy safety through concentration, dilution, skin exposure, diffusion, oxidation, phototoxicity, storage and individual sensitivity — and discover why responsible aromatic practice begins with knowing what is actually in the bottle.
A familiar scent can seem to return us instantly to another place or time. Explore the relationship between scent and memory, how the brain processes odours, why aromas can become emotionally meaningful, and why the same fragrance can feel comforting to one person and unpleasant to another.
Discover the latest articles from The Orenna Journal, with new writing across yoga practice, philosophy, history, rest, wellbeing, evidence and place.
