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Bali Incense Making Workshop: Create incense from scratch!

Ages 7+ | 90 Mins

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What you’ll do

  • Learn the History

    Discover the fascinating Global History of Incense, tracing its roots across ancient civilizations and spiritual practices.

  • Incense and Balinese Culture

    Learn firsthand how Incense Shaped Balinese Hindu Culture, understanding its role in daily offerings (canang sari) and ceremonies. This is a truly cultural experience.

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    Learn the Formula

    Discover the sacred Scent Pyramid behind every beautiful, long-lasting incense scent.

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    Smell Before You Make

    Smell the aromatic powders before you choose—crafting a unique scent that reflects your taste.

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    Customize Your Incense's Heart Scent

    Select the beautiful, lasting fragrance that sits at the emotional core of your incense.

  • Customize Your Incense's Wood Base

    Select the aromatic wood Base note—the deep foundation and soul of your custom incense stick.

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    Add Essential Oils and Intention

    Incense is highly spiritual, in our experience we will explain how this became a sacred smoke, and you’ll choose organic essential oil to customize the intention.

  • Hand-Roll Your Own Incense Sticks

    Master this ancient craft as you learn the traditional technique to hand-roll your mixture into incense sticks. We will show you two hand-rolling techniques, the beginner and pro way!

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    Create Incense Cones

    Optionally, learn how to make incense cones as well.

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    Hands-on Incense Making

    Using your hands, mix all the ingredients together. No tools needed, just your hands and intention to mix the raw aromatic ingredients.

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    Personalize an Incense Burner

    Paint a Beautiful Ceramic Incense Burner to complete your take-home kit with a personalized art piece.

  • Chocolate edible insect larvae and sticks on green banana leaf.

    Free! Take Home Kit

    Your experience continues at home! Take Home a DIY Incense Kit For Free so you can continue to practice the craft long after the workshop ends.

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Take Home

  • 🎁 Take-home DIY Incense Kit: Make more at home!

  • 🎍Your hand-made Incense Sticks (1+ hour burn time each)

  • 📜 DIY Incense Instructions Card

  • ⚱️Customized Ceramic Incense Burner

  • 📚 A Deeper Understanding of this Ancient Craft

  • 📖 All the Knowledge to do it yourself!

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Why this workshop?

  • 🏆 Full Immersion, Real Confidence: This is more than just a fun activity; it's a full cultural and skill immersion. We are so confident you'll master this ancient craft that we include a full take-home DIY kit and instructions with your enrollment!

  • Deep Cultural Immersion: The Balinese did not invent Incense, but you'll gain a profound understanding of how this sacred craft changed Balinese Hindu culture and became a daily necessity.

  • The Authentic "From Scratch" Method: This is a genuine artisanal skill workshop. You use traditional techniques to authentically mix, knead, and hand-roll your sticks and cones from raw, organic powders. It's the real craft, not a simple assembly.

  • Personalized, Quality Ingredients: Customization is key. You get to choose your own 100% Natural Incense ingredients. First you’ll pick an aromatic base, then you’ll choose the heart note, and finally, the essential oil to fully personalize the scent.

  • A Relaxed, Inspiring Setting: Enjoy a fun, hands-on session right here in the inspiring atmosphere of our cooled studio in the heart of Ubud.

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