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Erin Oberlander is a Doctor of Musical Arts, a Certified Holistic Aromatherapist, Herbalist, and trained Sound Practitioner. She is a Level 2 NAHA Certified Professional Aromatherapist and has been working with essential oils for the past 20 years as owner of her company Prairie Soap House & Apothecary. Her online school, The Arcadia Empowerment Collective, helps to educate and inspire folks in all matters related to holistic health and lifestyle including seasonal living, Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese medicine, & aromatherapy. She offers an online sound baths and holistic lifestyle on-demand subscription and online aromatherapy consultations. Her primary teachers are Virginia Sublett and Doreen Hutchings for voice, David Crow and Gabriel Mojay for aromatherapy, Rosemary Gladstar and David Crow for herbalism, and Zacciah Blackburn and Dorothy Stone for sound and consciousness work. Erin’s writing has been published in the NATS Journal of Singing, Project Light & Love, The Countryside Network, the High Plains Reader and upcoming in the International Journal of Professional Holistic Aromatherapy. Learn more about her work at www.herbsoilsandsound.com or email her at erin@arcadiaholisticschool.com.

03/22/2026

Last chance to join us for today’s Virtual Circadian Foundations class (or receive the recording).

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03/21/2026

An herb or supplement or protocol is not coming to save you, but circadian realignment just might.

Why? Because it’s working with the body’s language—that of signaling from sunlight and electricity. It’s using the body’s inherent operating system which is run by the sun. ☀️

For years as a practitioner myself, herbalist, aromatherapist, holistic health coach and mentor, I really thought this wasn’t that big of a deal. I could sleep in, stay up late, and I thought it didn’t impact my well-being significantly.

That was, until I saw my own body resolve ongoing issues quickly within a few weeks of getting up for morning sunrise.

I still didn’t believe it, but then I had clients and apprentices also begin realigning their bodies back to the rhythms of the sun and the seasons.

The results have been jaw dropping—with special emphasis put on improved digestion and sleep as well as immune resiliency.

Sometimes the obvious is hard to see—and that obvious thing we are all missing is how crucial our relationship to the light is—it’s the first language our brain understands. It’s how our body organizes and puts out our hormones, neurotransmitters, and electrical signaling and optimizes our functions.

In short, it’s honestly how we unf**k ourselves as we are dealing with the mayhem of artificial lighting, non-native EMF’s and wifi, and confusing signaling from frankenfoods.

I am teaching the deeper science of this (it just doesn’t translate well to a tile or caption) in my Circadian Foundations class SUNDAY at 4 pm MST. Register here:
https://www.herbsoilsandsound.com/circadian-foundations-virtual-masterclass-march-22nd

03/20/2026

TOMORROW (Saturday, March 21st) I am hosting my free seasonal All-School Sound Gathering.

During this virtual gathering you can expect:
🌷teaching from me on the purpose of spring from an Eastern medicine standpoint, and what we need to do to keep the body balanced during this season
📓time for connection, reflection, and gratitude—journal prompts provided to help you refocus your energy for the coming season
⚛️ we will end with an energizing sound bath as we enter this more active time of the year.

This gathering is free and open to all of my followers as well as past and present students, clients, and apprentices. Comment “equinox” below if you would like the zoom link sent to your inbox! Or, if you can’t make it live and would like the recording, please send your preferred email to my DM’s.

And don’t forget that Sunday, March 22nd (in two days) is our virtual Circadian Foundations class ($47). If you are looking to truly find a sense of grounding and balance in your body, you need to understand our physical relationship to light and how to work with it. This is a very science-based course that has lots of practical tips for daily application so you can feel more at home in your body-temple.
Register here: https://www.herbsoilsandsound.com/circadian-foundations-virtual-masterclass-march-22nd

03/18/2026

Note: this is not medical advice—just sharing my experience.

The desperation that comes from mold illness/chronic inflammatory response syndrome is real—the physical struggle is deep and misunderstood and all-encompassing. I have lived it.

And so I also understand and have myself spent tons of time and money on detoxes, protocols, and supplements—many of which were helpful, but none of which had fully resolved my issues.

The thing I wish I knew: we need to fix our relationship to the light. The rising sunlight gets our whole hormonal processes started for the day, but pertinent to mold illness, the UVA rise about an hour after sunrise causes the release of POMC which makes alpha-MSH, the compound that is so depleted in mold illness folks like myself.

When I realized this, I was full in on realigning my circadian rhythms, and I will not lie—because of my symptoms at the time—it was not easy. But it has been absolutely worth it.

Eliminating artificial light, grounding my body to the earth, regulating my nervous system, living seasonally, and being mindful of non-native EMF’s have also all been part of this process which has been restoring my health in surprising ways.

I am teaching a Circadian Foundations class this coming Sunday, March 22nd where I am going to be teaching these principles. This is not a cure, but helping your body return to the way it is has been designed to function for over 300,000 years of human history.

So if you are looking for a better answer, and a much easier and basically free one at that—please try exposing your naked eyes and skin to that potent morning sunlight, and if you want to learn more about what this can do for you in terms of getting your body and life back—please join me for class.

https://www.herbsoilsandsound.com/circadian-foundations-virtual-masterclass-march-22nd

03/17/2026

Human bodies have been signaled solely by sunlight and electromagnetism in almost our entire history as humanity. It is only been within the last several hundred years with artificial lighting, artificial heating, nonseasonal, and non-local foods, processed water, and lack of alignment to natural cycles has been a part of the human bodies experience whatsoever.

And we have told ourselves that this isn’t a big deal. But that is not what the science is starting to show. Circadian misalignment is implicated and literally every modern condition and disease that we have. And there’s over 2500 studies now showing the health damages caused by things like Wi-Fi and non-native electromagnetic frequencies.

And this should not surprise us because we do not just get our energy from food as humans, we also get it from sunlight and from direct contact with the ground. This is not woo hoo. This is hard science. And not only that, but our hormonal signals also come from these places and we’ve become completely disconnected from them and become chaotically regulated by the influence of our devices and different types of unnatural lighting.

So what is the way out of this? There is a way to live within a modern lifestyle that also honors what your body truly needs for signaling and this is what I’m going to be teaching in my circadian foundations classes this coming weekend. Join us on Sunday to learn how to get your body back in sync and start to feel better.

https://www.herbsoilsandsound.com/circadian-foundations-virtual-masterclass-march-22nd

Local class March 21st: https://www.herbsoilsandsound.com/circadian-basics-masterclass-live-in-person-march-21st

03/15/2026

What if the real key to deeper healing, peak performance, and effortless movement has been hiding in plain sight all along?

❌Not your brain. Not your muscles.

⚛️Your fascia.

That silvery, web-like connective tissue you’ve probably barely thought about.

But here’s the wild part: fascia isn’t just “glue” holding you together.
It’s a full-body liquid crystal network — like nature’s own fiber-optic superconductor — lined with structured water in honeycomb geometry. It conducts charge and information at speeds that defy normal physics.

It reaches from your skin to your bones to the inside of your cells (hello, microtubules). It communicates faster than your muscles can even contract. It shuttles nutrients, electrons, and hydration exactly where needed.

Some cutting-edge views even link it to consciousness and our subtle energy body.

Modern life (trauma, artificial light, no sun/grounding, poor circadian rhythms) locks it up — stiff, dehydrated, silent.

The unlock?
* Compression + bouncing + dynamic movement → hydrates it
* Sunlight + warmth → melts restrictions
* Breathwork, safety cues, minerals → unfolds it

Build a circadian-aligned lifestyle that feeds your fascia electrons, protons, and natural rhythms → magic unwinding happens. Efficiency returns. Pain eases. Movement feels alive again.

Want the full foundation?
I’m teaching it all in my Circadian Foundations class on March 22nd — spots are limited!
And for the deep dive: join my Quantum Reset Group mentorship.
Comment “quantum” below for details + how to grab your spot TODAY.
Your body is waiting to glide and sing again. Who’s ready? ✨

03/14/2026

I am teaching a virtual Circadian Foundations class this coming Sunday, March 22nd.

Why come to this class?

⚡️Because you are an electric being who is not getting charged on a regular basis.

See, the thing is that we think we get our energy from food (or caffeine!), but our body gets electrons and protons from lots of other places that we have lost touch with, namely, natural sunlight, true darkness, direct contact with the earth, and more.

Not only that, but we have lost touch with how to work with the charge—how to keep our body’s liquid crystalline fiber optic system in perfect quantum communication with itself.

In short, we are looking in all the wrong places to solve our physical problems, when what we really need is to get our body back aligned with Nature—because that’s a language our body understands that provides abundant energy our body is designed to use.

Cost for this class is $47 to come live or receive the recording. Class starts at 4 pm mountain time on Sunday, March 22nd.

This is a fantastic way to start your spring and wake your body up as we move back into the more active parts of the year.

Join us! https://www.herbsoilsandsound.com/circadian-foundations-virtual-masterclass-march-22nd

03/11/2026

At any given point, only a very small percentage of people are truly ready to make a change with their own well-being.

I tend to think that this is because taking a hard look at ourselves is difficult and can even be triggering, alarming, and scary.

But, as much as we want to rage against external authority, and we should where there is corruption and lack of good governance, we miss out on the real power in our individual situations when we refuse to look at and be willing to change the things we DO have control over.

And honestly, it’s more addictive and gratifying to be angry and everything around you, and much harder to die to your own ego and admit where you need to change, right?

Maybe the problem is that we don’t believe in our own power. We have given into our self-limiting beliefs so long we no longer think things are possible for us. And everything around us is reinforcing that narrative.

That’s why it’s critical to surround yourself, in some part of your life, with people who are also doing the hard inner work. To be with those who value health and positive lifestyle change. To be around people that aren’t just going to tell you that you’re okay even when you have habits that are genuinely destructive to the temple that is your body.

If you need support with this, this is one of the things we work on in my Rewild + Untame community. Join us! https://www.herbsoilsandsound.com/rewild-untame

Circadian Foundations virtual class March 22nd: https://www.herbsoilsandsound.com/circadian-foundations-virtual-masterclass-march-22nd

03/09/2026

Seriously, we HAVE to stop changing the time twice a year. Not only is it ridiculous, it also causes mayhem in our bodies and even increases serious medical incidents like cardiac events within the weeks following the shift.

If your kids are hanging off the walls today, your eye lids are drooping, and you are having trouble focusing at work, you are not alone.

WE ARE LIGHT SIGNALED BEINGS. Nearly every single one of our genes has a “clock gene” in front of it that tells that gene what to do when from…you guessed it…the sunlight (and sometimes from darkness).

Our hormonal cascade depends on our body’s interaction with the light. Our digestion, nervous system regulation, immune system, and repair functions in our body depend on our daily routines with respect to waking and sleeping times and light to stay steady AND to be informed by the rising sun.

My circadian foundations masterclass can help you create ongoing resiliency in your body with respect to all of these things, yes, even with time changes. Light, magnetism, water, when we eat, when we work out, and the sounds and frequencies all around can become tools we use to give our body the right messaging for better and optimal functioning. And it isn’t hard once you know a few simple principles. So join us for my Circadian Foundations Masterclass on March 22nd: https://www.herbsoilsandsound.com/circadian-foundations-virtual-masterclass-march-22nd

🙏🏻And for the next few days—some simple things that can help are 1) turning our lights down very low or off after the sun goes down and avoiding devices (or wearing blue blockers), 2) getting the rising sun into your naked eyes OUTSIDE, 3) time outdoors in direct contact with the ground is regulating to the nervous system and can help the body with homeostasis, fatigue, and moods. And be gentle on yourself as you work your way back to normal after this twice-a-year irritation.

03/08/2026

Reframing habit change from a shame-based way of thinking to a “get to” mindset is huge when it comes to rewiring our brain.

If you are telling yourself you “should” do something, be aware that “should” is a shame word—it originates from the emotion of shame.

And shame is a very bad motivator for long-term healthy habit change.

What is a motivator for healthy habit change is choosing to look at it with a bit of a sense of adventure, discovery, and what I call “get to.” How blessed are we that we have the whole internet at our fingertips for research? That we can order nutraceuticals and supplements? That we can create potions and tinctures and teas?

And while we are doing this reframing process, we also want to take a look at anything that might be creating what I call “energetic drag.” This often takes the form of some kind of toxicity. This might be from people or relationships, but more often than not, it is from unseen toxicity within your home!

Toxicity changes our biology. It raises our stress response and dysregulates our immune system and digestion. It unsettles our thinking patterns and emotions. It causes our body to be more exhausted from having to work so hard to deal with ongoing exposures.

And that all is a cocktail for failure when it comes to habit change.

I am talking about ALL this tomorrow, sharing with the Rewild + Untame community the exact process I have used to do a whole home detox. Members are also getting early access to my new and improved, comprehensive Untamed Biohacking Low-Tox Living Guide which has clickable links to make healthy swaps a lot easier.

Join us here: https://www.herbsoilsandsound.com/rewild-untame

03/07/2026

If you get excited about learning and you love to dive into a topic that is pulling you, and that topic is herbalism, likely you have gone wide rather than deep.

And there’s no judgement from me for that—I did the same thing when I was first learning. I equated a home apothecary filled with formulas and potions and a million different herbs with “success.”

But what I found over time is that depth is better. Depth in building a relationship with the plants as individuals is what will help you to know HOW them work, WHEN to use them, HOW to use them as medicine, WHAT type of person they would work best for, WHICH SEASON they would be the most beneficial.

And after all of that, it will also help you to know who their best friends in a formula might be for any given situation.

And do you know what ultimately comes out of depth? Confidence. Confidence in your abilities as a maker of natural remedies. Confidence as a medicine woman. Confidence as the healer in your home or your community. Confidence to honor the plants well, and in so doing, support clients more effectively.

That’s why in my community and my apprenticeship, we focus on one herb or one holistic health topic at a time and allow that to bloom—to grow—to expand, and then, to go deep.

This means we are embodying this knowledge rather than holding it only in our head. It means that the intuition has taken over rather than the ego.

If you want to go deep, I invite you to join us in the Rewild + Untame community where we do just that.
https://www.herbsoilsandsound.com/rewild-untame

03/03/2026

🌺When you start to deepen your journey with herbs, essential oils, flower essences, energy work, and other healing modalities, and as you learn more of the science behind some of these things (and beyond), you will likely be confronted with questioning your own world view and beliefs.

This is a normal part of the growth process that I feel almost no one talks about, and it’s part of the process that can stop us in our tracks if we don’t have the right spiritual direction and mentorship.

In my spaces, I don’t expect you to reach the same conclusions or have the same beliefs as myself. We emphasize head knowledge + heart knowledge + physical embodiment. And we work towards discernment (very important and often missing) + curiosity (also missing, especially depending on your background).

But I will also share with you in the context of my containers ideas and frameworks that have worked well for me and have proven fruitful as I have stayed within a Christian tradition, albeit it a mystical Christian tradition, even while being within the healing space.

Shout out to the OG, Hildegard of Bingen, who continues to inspire me on the daily with how she practiced her faith and her healing practices in seemingly perfect seamlessness. And shout out to my second year apprentices in Sovereign Harvest who are currently doing this deep work of plumbing their own depths of belief.

Are you looking for a space like this? The starting point is my Rewild + Untame community where we take one topic each month and both learn and begin to embody it within the holistic health space.

https://www.herbsoilsandsound.com/rewild-untame

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Prairie Soap House started in 2006 as I began my journey toward more natural means of existence. Having become tired of all of the synthetic components of cosmetic, body care, cleaning, and household products, I began researching more natural, intuitive, and ancient ways of body and skin care. I began making soaps and lotions, using mostly organic, often wild-crafted ingredients. Over the course of many years, I have continued to hone my skills and educate myself more deeply about natural living, incorporating this knowledge into the products I create for my family and yours. Recently I have expanded the business through the acquisition of an alembic still that I use to distill hydrosols and essential oils from plant material gathered from my farm. My products never contain synthetic ingredients, chemicals, preservatives, or unnatural colorants. They always include a bit of alchemy--taking the best of the land and my own intentions--and hopefully crafting a product whose whole is greater than the sum of its parts and which will enhance your life and your health. Thus, I have now added "Apothecary" to the business name as I continue to explore and incorporate elements of herbalism and aromatherapy as well as aspects of wildness and the land into all I am producing, including educational videos and materials. The apothecary continues to expand its reach, as I now have nutritional solutions for weight loss, energy, healthy aging, and athletic performance available along with a wide range of supplementation options. In addition, I now offer various types of in-person and online training. Learn more at www.intuitiveseason.com and www.prairiearomatherapy.com