Botanika Herbals

🎉 Last Chance for 10% Off! 🎉

🌿 Our new website has launched, and we’re in the final hours of our special 10% off offer! As we celebrate this exciting new chapter, we want to thank you for being part of our journey. This is your last opportunity to enjoy 10% off your entire order—just use code FULLMOON10 at checkout. Explore our expanded range of herbal remedies, crafted to bring balance, vitality, and a bit of magic to your everyday life. ✨ Don’t miss out—let’s step into this new era together! 🔗 Shop Now

🌿 Join Us in the Celebration of Connection! 🌿

🌿 At Botanika, we believe in the power of Connection. Our new website reflects our commitment to building a vibrant community where everyone can share their experiences and wisdom. ✨ We invite you to connect with us! Follow us for exciting updates, wellness tips, and behind-the-scenes glimpses into our herbal adventures. What does connection mean to you? Share your thoughts below! 🔗 Join the Community

The new website is important to me because I believe we all have a birthright to access the ancient wisdom of plants. I’ve been constantly inspired by witnessing the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual growth within myself and our community after a decade of serving elixirs both within Australia and internationally. In these times, I believe it’s necessary to work with the plant allies to help us stay calm, regulated, energized, and focused in a world that constantly pulls our attention in different directions. Their influence helps us maintain presence and stay centered through uncertain times.

It’s vital that we keep evolving, and as an Initiator, I have a role to play in continuing to support individual and collective transformation by offering the connection to these very special gifts of nature.

Through this website expansion, we are strengthening our foundations and building a network of custodians passionate about sharing their stories. This will help spread our incredible message further across Australia, lighting up the hearts of our community and beyond, intentionally aligning with their passions and living a more vibrant, wholesome life on Earth—connected to what truly matters and serving from the most joyful place naturally within them.

We are leading each other into a whole new era on Earth, and these tools are here to support that journey.

Love,
Venus - Botanika Creative Visionary & Initiatrix

🌿 Celebrate the Beauty of Life 🌿

🌿 Life is a continuous Celebration, and at Botanika, we believe every day offers us a reason to rejoice! Let’s honour the simple pleasures and the profound moments that fill our hearts with joy. ✨ Join us in sharing what you celebrate—whether it’s a small victory, a moment of gratitude, or simply the beauty of nature around you. How do you bring celebration into your everyday life? www.botanikaherbals.com.au launching 17.10.24

🌿 Community at the Heart of Botanika 🌿

🌿 In this beautiful tapestry of life, Community is the thread that binds us together. At Botanika, we’re all about fostering connections that uplift and inspire. We want to hear your stories, your experiences, and how nature has woven itself into your journey. ✨ Let’s cultivate a space where everyone feels like they belong—sharing wisdom, celebrating milestones, and supporting each other in our growth. How has your community enriched your life?

🌿 A New Era of Botanika is Emerging… 🌿

Something magical is unfolding. Botanika Herbals is evolving into a vibrant, collective space—co-created by a group of beautiful humans, all working together to share the wisdom of the plants in fresh, creative ways. This isn’t just about remedies; it’s an adventure, an alignment with the archetypal forces that flow through each of us. Think of it as a deeper attunement to alchemical wisdom, inviting you to explore, play, and connect.
At the heart of this new journey are our Majik Boxes—designed to guide you through your own path of healing, empowerment, and transformation. Each box is an invitation to explore a blend of potent botanicals, perfectly aligned with planetary energies, to support whatever phase of life you’re in. Whether you’re seeking emotional balance, creativity, or vitality, we’ve got you covered.
✨ Ready to choose your own adventure? Build your own Majik Box or discover which one calls to you when you visit our new site—coming soon!
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Looking forward to welcoming you all to our Apothecary & Elixir Bar “Return to nature Collective” collaboration between & . So good to reunite with my dear brother. Proud of him, of us & our beautiful crew for bringing this into creation for you all to enJOY. Come have a brew & a yarn, create your own adventure, go on a majikal journey at Woodford🌱🌅🎉🐬 Photos:

Life has really slowed down, here in Hopey I rest before another grand venture. These sunsets are a daily blessing & I feel safe here on boodja amongst the burnt banksias & white tipped black cockatoos / old peoples. After the fires came through I have been patiently waiting for the regrowth, now the rains have come Im witnessing the native grasses birth through & its giving me faith for what is yet to come...

Anyone affected by the crisis I am here for you from afar & holding you all in my hearts - I have free Botanika packs to get out so pls msg me if you know of someone who really needs in in this. I am beyond sadness & feeling you all so deeply. I am also here for counselling if anyone needs to have a yarn & I can offer my organisation experience if you need support navigating the rebuild of your life. Please just reach out its the least I can do. Love you all my northern rivers family 🙏

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New Years giveaway!
New year is here and we all need some extra immunity support right now. I have partnered up with beautiful 𝔹𝕠𝕥𝕒𝕟𝕚𝕜𝕒 ℕ𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝔸𝕡𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕔𝕒𝕣𝕪]] for some nutrient dense hi potency bushfoods extracts 🌿 Vallued at 144$

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VITALITY: (Muntries, propolis, gumbi gumbi)
•immune tonic, immune system modulation
•prevention of colds/flus
•anti viral / antibacterial
•Anti microbial for parasites, draws toxins out
•anti cancer
•high amounts of vitamin c, iron & fibre, vitamin b1,b2, b6
•gumbi gumbi used in traditional healing as tea blend for healing stomach cancer
•treatment of fungal infections
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•in particular this one is very strong for staying clear of viruses & will boost immunity high
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1 x 500g Organic ceremonial cacao from Herbs and Steam

1 x 150g Immunity organic tea from Herbs and Steam

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For two weeks now we have we have been holding strong. We have rejected Adani’s unlawful attempts to remove us and are asserting our human rights on our land practicing ceremony. Now we are inviting everyone man and woman to join us at Waddananggu.
Tune into a special webinar next Tuesday night to hear directly from Coedie with all the on ground updates and learn how you can join us on Country. Register for the video link: https://bit.ly/WaddanangguWebinar

See u 6.30pm Tues 🙏 webinar in post

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“I am asking every man and woman to come to my homelands to join me and my family at Waddananggu – ‘The Talking’. Waddananggu is an evolving and multifaceted ceremony.

We have set up a stone Bora ring and ceremonial ground opposite Adani’s mine and are asserting our human rights as Wangan and Jagalingou people to practice culture.

Come to witness Waddananggu – ‘the talking’ – and stand with us to protect our human rights to practice ceremony and culture, and protect our homelands.

ngali yinda banna, yumbaba-gi. We need you, to be heard."

Join Coedie at Waddananggu: https://bit.ly/waddananggu

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Donate & Share far & wide with all your networks however you can show up 🙏

This colonial invasion corruption & deceit needs to stop. Its against natural lore to cause harm to the land especially sacred water ways & rainbow serpent power sites. Adani have no respect for culture its gone way too far.

Why is it all other religions are recognised & respected but Aboriginal spirituality is brushed aside so cruelly? Come on now.Lets rise together Love Venus 🧡

Welcome to Djilba – Growing season, or the season of conception in Noongar Boodja ☀️

This is a transitional time of the year roughly coinciding with August-September, with some very cold and clear days combining with warmer, rainy and windy days and the occasional sunny day or two. And some days, you’ll get a little bit of everything!

Djilba heralds the beginning of the flower explosion that occurs across Nyungar boodja each year and in particular, a time to look for yellow and cream flowers on mass.

This starts with yellow flowering plants, most notably our many wattle (Acacia) species. Just to name a few, you will see bright masses of mindalleny (prickley moses) and cujong (golden wreath wattle or Acacia saligna) blossom in the jarrah forest and coastal areas, while mungart (jam wattle) is prolific further inland.

The wannang (peppermint or Agonis flexuosa) also bursts into full flower, with cascades of beautiful, tiny, creamy-white flowers covering its weeping branches. This this signals that it’s time to go fishing for the blue-swimmer crab near the coast and estuaries.

There are also still some vivid and striking blues, like the kummock (Australian bluebell creeper or Billardiera heterophylla formerly Sollya heterophylla), which will fruit later in the year.

Traditionally, the main food sources at this time of year included many of the land dwelling animals as in the season before, like the yonga (grey kangaroo), waitj (emu) and koomal (brush-tailed possum).

As the days start to warm up, we start to see and hear the first of the newborns with their proud parents out and about providing them food, guiding them through foraging tasks and protecting them. The woodland birds will still be nest bound, hence the protective swooping behaviour of the koolbardi (magpie) starts to ramp up and if watched closely, so to do the djidi djidi (willy-wag-tails) and the chuck-a-luck (wattle birds) to name a couple of others.

Thankyou for the info - all referenced from Kooyar Wongi 🧡
📸 taken by me outside Karijini national park, Banyjima, Yinhawangka + Kurrama country

And so the solo vision quest begins in the Botanika bus around Noongar Boodjar & up through the guts to Karajini.

This journey means a lot to me. It is the end of many cycles. Of losing my father, my beloved sent home to his lands, coming deeper into the parts of myself that have been hidden by layers of trauma.

It is about not only honoring my grieving space but seeking wisdom within for this next chapter of my life & how / where I can be in service to humanity. Along this journey I will be offering botanika libations to the country I pass through to pay respect to the Ancestors & aligned with this years Naidoc theme ‘heal country’.

I will also be offering song & drum to the areas where the missions were & following the Rabbit proof fence. I will be laying my fathers ashes back in his birth country Wiluna. I fully open to give & receive wonderfull blessings along the journey & connect with soul mob & give back medicines to mob. My heart is open, I feel wild as I expand into the unknown. With love, Venus 🌹🧡

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Reconcilation - what does it look like?

It looks like no separation,
Recognising we are a world culture
That the land doesnt own us, and we dont own it. Remembering that we are apart of it & here to work in synergy with the cycles as caretakers & custodians we all are.

Breaking through the illusions, the hierachy & the powers that attempt to create a negative polarity in the world & turn us all against eachother.

For me it is about cultural acknowledgment & respect of the traditional custodians who are & always will be.

Its about giving Aboriginal people a voice on all platforms.

Its about the world & particularly Australia looking to the originals with respect & non judgement.

Its about people as individuals doing the healing work on self so they can stop judging themselves & therefore their external environment.

Choosing to creating unity & coming together to celebrate Aboriginal culture.

Its about participating in active listening, learning, observing & realising how we can work together in these spaces to honour traditional ways by sitting with the Elders.

In Australia there has been alot of negative conditioning instilled in us through falsities, lies & indoctrination which has unfortunately lead to major division.

It is about innerstanding there are cycles of generational trauma playing out through the devastating effects of colonisation which unfortunately continue still to this day.

So now is the time to live in the new way now. The only way out is to rise above. Decolonise. To break these patterns & realise how we can change on a personal level so we can truly heal as a collective & reconcile. To rebuild the rainbow bridge.

Its never about forgetting the past, but about paving the way forward for more respect, equality & empowerment of Aboriginal culture in all of its multidimensional richness. We have so much to learn from our beautiful extended friends & family.

From my heart I acknowledge the past, present & emerging Elders of all nations across Australia & it is my prayer that we may reach unity through channeling the above words into thoughtful kind & loving actions. With love, Venus 🙏

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When we passed through Uluru on our way south, we made sure that we offered our songs and sonics. Singing up the land is a vital component of our role as humans. It is what makes the land sing. It is its enchantment. You can tell a land that has been sung by how it feels when you are in it. And so using your voice, or a medicine drum, or both, and harmonising your sonic with the sonic of the land allows the land to resonate and vibrate with love by care and attention. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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In the wake of past and ongoing colonisation of this land, it can often be despairing for those who do not follow the mainstream narrative and wish to offer some form of giving back to country and peoples. When we crossed into Kalkadoon country in Outback QLD, we stopped to pay our respects with libation, prayers and song. Through offering our tonics to the land, we are honouring tradition of paying respects, which serves to keep the ancestors and spirits of the land in reverence and respect. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Ochre. Ochre has always been cherished by our ancestors across many different lands and cosmologies. Although the ways of seeing differ according to belief, we find common linkages within ritual and ceremony of earthly reverence. And so what is a common material that unites all of humanity in its companionship? Clay and ochre. Clay is known throughout many cultures as being the medium with which humans are moulded by universal forces.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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