B O - T A N I C S

Chakra Garden
A herbal apothecary app for your seven energy centres, with a new tending every month.
Opens this equinox, on the App Store and Google Play.

I N T R O D U C T I O N

Come into the garden

Chakra Garden is two things held together.

It is a daily practice. You open it, see where the moon and the season are actually standing tonight, and take a moment to notice how you are. It takes half a minute.

And it is an apothecary. Herbs, essential oils, flower essences and crystals, each one filed under the energy centre it belongs to, with its traditional uses, its safety notes and how to take it.

Every month the garden offers four things drawn from a single centre: a herb, an oil, a flower essence and a crystal. One set a month, moving with the season and the moon.

No account. No ads. Nothing tracked. Just come in.

53 herbs . 47 essential oils . 38 flower essences . 64 crystals - 200+ entries

ENERGY CENTRES

This month in the garden

September sits with the root. It's the centre of ground and safety, the one that asks whether you're actually held, and the first to go when you've been stretched too thin for too long.

Spirulina,
the herb
Vetiver,
the oil
Olive. the flower essence
Bloodstone, the crystal

Deep green, mineral rich, quietly rebuilding. The kind of nourishment that works underneath everything else.

Distilled from root, and it smells like it: dark, earthy, steadying. The one to reach for when you can't settle.

For the exhaustion that arrives after a long stretch of holding it all together, when there's nothing left in reserve.

Grounding, and old as courage. Keep it in a pocket and forget about it.

Each one arrives with what it does, how to take it, what to be careful of, and why it belongs to this centre.

The garden opens on the equinox, at the point where the year tips towards dark. Starting at the root is not an accident.

R E S O N A N C E

Something you can hold

Most days the thing that needs attention isn't a number. It's the tightness that sits across your shoulders by mid afternoon. The restlessness you can't quite place. The fog that won't lift, or the words that won't come.

The garden doesn't ask you to log any of that. It asks where you're feeling it, and then it puts something real in your hands. A herb to brew. An essential oil to breathe in. A flower essence to take on the tongue, a stone to keep in your pocket through the day.

Nothing abstract. Things you can hold.

I N T R O D U C T I O N

A garden has always been the way in

Every plant here has a home in one of the seven chakras, the way every plant in a real garden has a bed it belongs to. That is the whole of the navigation.

You don't need to know your Manipura from your Muladhara to walk in. You need to know where it hurts, or where it's stuck, or where something is finally starting to open.

The garden takes you from there.

No account. No ads. Nothing tracked. Just come in.

The 7 Chakras

Root Mūlādhāra
Sacral Svādhiṣṭhāna
Solar plexus Maṇipūra
Heart Anāhata
Throat Viśhuddha
Third eye Ājñā
Crown Sahasrāra

The wider connection.

Voice and truth.

Seeing clearly, intuitive clarity.

Compassion, love and grief.

Creativity, feeling and flow.

Personal power, will and confidence.

Stability, grounded and safe.

H I G H L I G H T S

What’s growing here

Garden

Tend

Apothecary

Learn

Where you arrive. The moon as it is tonight and the season as it is this week, with a quiet place to note how you're doing. The garden shifts with the hour, so it looks like morning in the morning and like night at night.

One selection a month. A herb, an oil, a flower essence and a crystal, all drawn from the same centre, chosen for where the year is standing. A new one arrives with each new month.

The whole shelf, searchable and arranged by centre. Traditional uses, safety notes, how to prepare it, what it sits well with. Keep your own notes against anything you try.

Plain language writing on the seven centres. What each one governs, how it shows up in the body, why these particular plants belong to it. Written for someone starting from the beginning.

Four ways in, and you can use as much or as little of it as you like. Some people open the garden every morning. Some come only when something's gone out of kilter and they want to know what to reach for. Both are the right way to use it.

H I G H L I G H T S

The small things matter

  • Built for both hemispheres. Tell the garden where you are and the tendings follow your season, not somebody else's. If it's spring where you're standing, the garden knows.

  • Works with no signal. Once it's on your phone, the whole apothecary is yours whether or not you have a connection. Useful in a field, a plane, or a house with bad reception.

  • Moon and season, as they actually are. Not decorative. The garden reads tonight's phase and this week's point in the year, and the tendings are chosen around them.

  • Nothing leaves your phone. No account, no sign up, no analytics, no advertising. Your notes are yours and stay where you wrote them.

  • Written by a herbalist. Every safety note and preparation method is the one Bo gives her own clients.

D A I L Y P R A C T I C E

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Arrive

Tend

Reach for it

Open the garden. See the moon, notice how you are. Half a minute is enough.

Meet this month's four: a herb, an oil, a flower essence and a crystal, with what to do with each.

Brew the tea. Inhale the oil. Take the flower essence and hold the stone. Real things, on the days you need them.

Three steps to simple daily tending

"I've spent years putting the right herb in the right hands. This is that, in your pocket. I built the garden I needed on the days I couldn't get to my own."

Bo, herbalist and Reiki Master

I'm Bo. I'm a qualified herbalist and a Reiki master, working from Portugal, and I've spent years in practice putting the right plant into the right hands across a consulting room table.

Everything in this garden has come through my hands first. The safety notes are the ones I give my own clients. The plants are the ones I actually reach for.

I hope it gives you some ground under your feet, and something useful to hold on the days you need it.

bo with a bindi in India
bo with a bindi in India

P R I C IN G

Simple, honest access

Pricing is provisional for launch. Everyone who joins before the equinox keeps the founding price.

Seedling

  • This month's tending in full: the herb, the oil, the flower essence and the stone

  • One centre opened to you, chosen by how you answer the check in, so it's the one that most needs tending

  • A lead herb and a lead oil from that centre, with preparation and safety

  • The seven centre guides, all of them

  • Yours to keep. No card, no trial that runs out

Full Garden

  • All seven chakra centres, open from the start

  • The whole apothecary: 53 herbs, 47 oils, 38 flower essences, 64 crystals

  • Over 200 entries corresponding to each chakra

  • Every monthly tending as it arrives

  • Your notes kept against anything you try

  • Your price stays put for as long as you're with me

  • All of it works without a signal

Monthly €4.99
Annually €39.99
Always Free

O P E N S T H I S E Q U I N O X

Be the first in the Chakra Garden

Join now and you're in first, at a price that won't move again once you're in. Between now and the equinox I'll send you the odd small tending note, so the garden is already a little familiar by the time you arrive.

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W E L C O M E T O T H E G A R D E N

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