Curious about the modern alchemy of essential oils and energy healing? Come on a journey with us as we sit down with Adora Winquist, founder of the Seoul Institute and High Vibe Aromatics, at Asheville Mall's 2023 Holiday Pop-Up Market. Adora unravels her story, from her healing journey in the mid-1990s to her contemporary mission of assisting 25 million people in finding, living, and flourishing in their soul purpose. Her vision is gargantuan, paralleled by her dedication to offering accessible, practical, and profound interventions that marry ancient alchemical wisdom with a contemporary twist.
Stay tuned as Adora opens up about her various entrepreneurial ventures, sharing her path of ceaseless creativity and innovation right from her first business in 1998 to her recent brand, High Vibe Aromatics. She also grants us an exclusive look at her forthcoming book, 'The Love Frequency, a Modern Alchemist's Guide to Thriving in Sacred Purpose.' Adora beautifully unifies the scientific and spiritual, using what she terms 'foundational alchemy' as the backbone of her practices. This episode is overflowing with enlightening insights about discovering your sacred intention and leading an abundant life. Get ready for an enlightening conversation that you won't want to miss!
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JPH:
Hello, this is Joanna Patrice Haggerty and I am on location at the 2023 Holiday Pop-Up Market at Asheville Mall, sponsored by WWBC and BizRadious. We have 50 local women-owned entrepreneurs here selling their goods and getting their name out there for folks. Joining me now is Adora Winquest, founder and owner of the Seoul Institute and High Vibe Aromatics.
Adora :
Thanks so much for being here today. Such a pleasure. Joanna, thank you for having me.
JPH:
Absolutely. Can you tell us a little bit about your business, when it started and what you offer?
Adora :
Absolutely so. The Seoul Institute is my latest entrepreneurial endeavor oh, exciting. And it is an educational platform of modern alchemy, so ancient alchemical wisdom but with a modern day twist, to take the essential oils and the crystal healing, vibrational medicine, meditation, of course, the frequency of love, and turn it into interventions that are accessible, simple, practical and yet still profound, because we're all looking for ways to find greater relief, release and to find our true sense of connection and meaningful purpose. So my vision for the Seoul Institute is big, is to help over 25 million people find, live and thrive in their sole purpose, their sacred intention for life. I mean, is that a mic?
JPH:
drop. Are we done with the whole episode? No, how beautiful, and I just I feel the power of that. So can you tell me a little bit about how you ended up doing what you're doing now too? Absolutely.
Adora :
Well, my journey started working with both essential oils and energy healing in the mid-1990s before this was really in vogue, but it came from my own healing journey, looking to heal from childhood trauma, looking to address depression, anxiety, endometriosis, and natural medicine and the essential oils and the herbs are what brought me back to life.
Adora :
And so I thought, well, what would happen if I start to infuse the essential oils with vibrational healing, with energy medicine, just like I were to have a client on my healing table and found that the results are incredible to uplift our emotional well-being right, to enhance our spiritual awakening, to bring balance and vitality back to our physicality. And so, now more than ever, we're called to these natural therapies that can bring us a sense of connection to the earth, to ourselves and each other. So I started a number of brands. I started my first business in 1998, along with my healing practice, and that turned into Opus Gaia, which was really one of the first collections of essential oils energetically infused for chakra balancing and for energy clearing, and I started selling it into Whole Foods and grew that business and then finally rebranded it Adore Therapy, which, if you're local, you may have heard about that company.
Adora :
And so that was a wonderful experience. And then I left that business and, fully exited, to start and write my first book, to go back to my healing practice and then to start the Soul Institute and now my latest essential oil brand that's called High Vibe Aromatics and it is Aroma alchemy that is vibrationally attuned to free your frequency and to really align with your sacred purpose so you can live your most authentic and abundant life. So my new book is coming out in the spring, which is another exciting thing. It's called the love frequency, a modern alchemist guide to thriving in sacred purpose.
JPH:
So what do you not do? I guess is the question right.
Adora :
Well, I'm not skydiving or scuba diving. I love that, yeah, yeah. But what I really love?
JPH:
is is again you talked about you know, before it was in vogue, you were doing these things and now there is Science and data and information to back this up, so I love that that's got to make your work a little easier, where people are excited to step into this work now.
Adora :
It's so true that I like to call the research and science foundational alchemy, because when we look at what I call the five pillars of modern alchemy, essential oils, they are Antioxidant effect, anti-inflammatory, anti-depressant, wonderful aromatics for anxiety, even things like sound healing, the sulfesio frequency and research into 528 Hertz to actually repair human DNA. This is so promising to us that, or you know, we're seeking a different way and to come back to our true path and purpose in this life, which is about coming into connection and healing and community. So I do like to offer a lot of local events. Our next local event is January 13th at Crystal Visions, and it's a divine, feminine, rising circle of healing, but it's open to, of course, men and women, because we all have Inter-aspects of the masculine and feminine and when we can bring them into balance, well then, it affects everything in our world our Relationships, our work, our health and our vitally and, of course, every way that we relate to the world around us.
JPH:
Oh, well, tell us how can people find out about that event, other events, your products, everything you're offering, because we all need this. Thank you so much.
Adora :
Well, if you go to the soul Institute dot co, you'll have everything there for our upcoming events, our products. We have two free meditations every month. We have an alchemy library that has a free tier where you can find out about essential oils, crystals for healing, meditation and Practical formulas that you can make at home for yourself and your loved ones, which is so empowering. So everything is on the website and, of course, free meditations at adora winquist on YouTube, or follow me on Instagram At adora winquist as well.
JPH:
Adora, such a truly pleasure to have you here today and have you a part of our western north Carolina community. Thank you.
Adora :
I'm so grateful to be here, and holiday blessings to everyone.
JPH:
Yes, thank you, and thank you to our listeners. Be sure to check out biz radio dot us for more great conversations around small and mid-sized businesses, leaders and innovators.