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.
Hydrosols are aromatic waters produced through botanical distillation, but they are more than simply diluted essential oils. Explore how hydrosols are made, why their chemistry differs from essential oils, what terms such as floral water and flower water really mean, and what to consider when choosing, storing and using them.
Essential oils are concentrated aromatic materials obtained from plants, but they are often misunderstood. Explore what essential oils actually are, where they occur in plants, how distillation and expression work, why quality and composition vary, and how essential oils differ from hydrosols, carrier oils, infused oils, absolutes and fragrance oils.
The history of aromatherapy reaches much further than the modern word itself. Explore how humans used aromatic plants, resins, perfumes and distilled botanical materials across different cultures, and how these traditions eventually contributed to the development of modern aromatherapy in the twentieth century.
Aromatherapy surrounds essential oils with an extensive language of calm, energy, sleep, mood and well-being. Explore what aromatherapy actually is, how aromatic materials are produced and used, where modern practice came from, and how traditional use, sensory experience and scientific evidence differ.
Discover the latest articles from The Orenna Journal, with new writing across yoga practice, philosophy, history, rest, wellbeing, evidence and place.
