FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION
Brian and Jenna at a Geranium farm in Swaziland
MEDICINAL QUALITY ESSENTIAL OILS
QUALITY ASSURANCE
While music and aroma can be meticulously charted on paper, the quality of music is best experienced by listening and the quality of aroma is best experienced by smelling. In “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”, Robert Pirsig is asked to define quality? Are there ways to measure quality objectively, or is it just what you like? He discovered that his students could reliably agree on which of their peers' writing was high quality, but they could not precisely define why. Quality is real, but difficult, impossible really, to measure or define apart from the actual thing. Quality has both a subjective and objective aspect. It takes practice and ultimately those who care deeply can sense the highest quality. Choosing to purchase and use essential oils that you can trust is an important decision. I personally select each essential oil for Imani Natural Products. My intimate sense of essential oil quality is borne from working with them on a daily basis since 1993. They are the oils that we use with our family and provide to naturopathic clinics, holistic chiropractors, body workers and others who desire to maintain responsibility for their health care decisions. Imani oils are individually hand poured, allowing for a continual assessment of quality from batch to batch and year to year. The skill and art of evaluating essential oils, coupled with the intent of using them personally, creates an exceptional continuity of quality that is our service to you. |
It is often stated that treatment comes from the outside, but healing comes from within. Perhaps the most important thing to understand in natural healing is that our immune system is intelligently designed. It works to keep us healthy, in spite of the abuse that our bodies endure from daily stress, lack of good nutrition and toxicity.
It is less vital to specifically test and diagnose an ailment, because the natural approach to healing is to strengthen the immune system by optimizing nutrition, reducing toxicity and managing stress. Paradoxically, this simple solution is far from a "one size fits all" approach since every individual has a unique combination of nutritional, toxicity and stress factors. Essential oils can be an important facet of natural healing with their well documented history of fighting infection and reducing inflammation in harmony with, rather than fighting against, our immune system. Essential oils are not a replacement for a pharmaceutical medication. We would not say "take this instead of that"; however, if by supporting your immune system your body becomes stronger, you and your doctor can determine if your need for a particular medication may be reduced. We believe that God has blessed us with a host of beneficial botanicals whose intelligence and complexity is unmatched in a laboratory. We have personally experienced the benefits of essential oils and use them everyday. We encourage you to maintain personal control and responsibility for your health. No one should be more interested in your health than you. 
Jenna, Stacey and Brian
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IMANI MEANS FAITH
Our mission is to be a vessel through which God can work to provide medicinal quality essential oils to those who seek them.
Our ambition is to lead a quiet life, to work with our hands, to do good and help others who are in need.
Our mission is to be a vessel through which God can work to provide medicinal quality essential oils to those who seek them.
Our ambition is to lead a quiet life, to work with our hands, to do good and help others who are in need.
Brian, Stacey, Jenna, Marshal in Swaziland - 2015
We are happy to serve you!
HISTORY by Brian Skinness
My work with essential oils began after reading Magister Ludi: The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse. Hesse referred to a game played with beads that could represent the relationship of many different things, such as, a mathematical equation and a fugue by Bach. These relationships are based on the deeper patterns common to a wide variety of disciplines.
As a musician, my thoughts went to the intervals of harmony and dissonance in musical tones. I surmised this pattern continued beyond the hearing, into light (color) then, like a "smack on the nose", it hit me...AROMA!
Imagining the potential synergy of sound, light and aroma, I coined the term "Aromatic Omnivision". I realized that both sound and color could be duplicated with far more precision than aroma and the doors began to open for a new venture.
I quit my job as a Market Research and Strategic Planning Manager for Schwan's Sales Enterprise in Marshall MN and moved to my wife, Stacey's, home state of Arkansas. It was here, in 1993, that we began working with essential oils full time, creating the first full mail order catalog for the Oshadhi brand.
For several years, I answered the phone "Oshadhi, this is Brian"; however, in 1997 a young woman, named Tamara, was in a bible bookstore and saw a bookmark with the name IMANI on it. When she gave it to me, she said "I thought of you right away and knew I needed to buy it for you". When I saw it I said, "I've been thinking about a name for our own essential oils and this is it!"
IMANI is a name to live up to. It inspired us to become entirely focused on Medicinal Quality Essential Oils from Organic and Wildcrafted sources. I began working with a Doctor from France who had grown up with the oils and used them extensively in his practice. The network of farms providing medicinal quality oils for practitioners in France is the foundation of IMANI oils.
In 1999 we relocated from Arkansas to Minnesota and soon after established the present location of Terrapin Station in Nevis MN as the home of Imani Natural Products. For music lovers, you may recognize Terrapin Station as a song and album by the Grateful Dead. In addition to the manufacturing and warehouse space for Imani Natural Products, we have a soundstage and band called "Terrapin Brothers" who play every week. We also have space for yoga and massage in the facility.
My work with essential oils began after reading Magister Ludi: The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse. Hesse referred to a game played with beads that could represent the relationship of many different things, such as, a mathematical equation and a fugue by Bach. These relationships are based on the deeper patterns common to a wide variety of disciplines.
As a musician, my thoughts went to the intervals of harmony and dissonance in musical tones. I surmised this pattern continued beyond the hearing, into light (color) then, like a "smack on the nose", it hit me...AROMA!
Imagining the potential synergy of sound, light and aroma, I coined the term "Aromatic Omnivision". I realized that both sound and color could be duplicated with far more precision than aroma and the doors began to open for a new venture.
I quit my job as a Market Research and Strategic Planning Manager for Schwan's Sales Enterprise in Marshall MN and moved to my wife, Stacey's, home state of Arkansas. It was here, in 1993, that we began working with essential oils full time, creating the first full mail order catalog for the Oshadhi brand.
For several years, I answered the phone "Oshadhi, this is Brian"; however, in 1997 a young woman, named Tamara, was in a bible bookstore and saw a bookmark with the name IMANI on it. When she gave it to me, she said "I thought of you right away and knew I needed to buy it for you". When I saw it I said, "I've been thinking about a name for our own essential oils and this is it!"
IMANI is a name to live up to. It inspired us to become entirely focused on Medicinal Quality Essential Oils from Organic and Wildcrafted sources. I began working with a Doctor from France who had grown up with the oils and used them extensively in his practice. The network of farms providing medicinal quality oils for practitioners in France is the foundation of IMANI oils.
In 1999 we relocated from Arkansas to Minnesota and soon after established the present location of Terrapin Station in Nevis MN as the home of Imani Natural Products. For music lovers, you may recognize Terrapin Station as a song and album by the Grateful Dead. In addition to the manufacturing and warehouse space for Imani Natural Products, we have a soundstage and band called "Terrapin Brothers" who play every week. We also have space for yoga and massage in the facility.
My Sisters and Brothers - Charles Johnson
I wanna say to my sisters and my brothers
Keep the faith
When the storm flies and the wind blows
Go on at a steady pace
When the battle is fought and the victory's won
We can all shout together we have overcome
We'll talk to the Father and the Son
When we make it to the promised land
If we walk together little children
We don't ever have to worry
Through this world of trouble
We gotta love one another
Let us take our fellow man by the hand
Try to help him to understand
We can all be together forever and ever
When we make it to the promised land
Our bible reads
Thou shall not be afraid
Of the terror by night
Nor the arrow that flies by day
Nor for the pestilence
That waiteth in the darkness
Nor for the destruction
That waiteth in the noon-day hour
If we walk together little children
We don't ever have to worry
Through this world of trouble
We gotta love one another
Let us take our fellow man by the hand
Try to help him to understand
We can all be together forever and ever
When we make it to the promised land
This world is not our home
We're only passing through
Our trail is all made up
Way beyond the blue
Let us do the very best that we can
While we're travelin' through this land
We can all be together shakin' a hand
When we make it to the promised land
If we walk together little children
We don't ever have to worry
Through this world of trouble
We gotta love one another
Let us take our fellow man by the hand
Try to help him to understand
We can all be together forever and ever
When we make it to the promised land
I wanna say to my sisters and my brothers
Keep the faith
When the storm flies and the wind blows
Go on at a steady pace
When the battle is fought and the victory's won
We can all shout together we have overcome
We'll talk to the Father and the Son
When we make it to the promised land
If we walk together little children
We don't ever have to worry
Through this world of trouble
We gotta love one another
Let us take our fellow man by the hand
Try to help him to understand
We can all be together forever and ever
When we make it to the promised land
Our bible reads
Thou shall not be afraid
Of the terror by night
Nor the arrow that flies by day
Nor for the pestilence
That waiteth in the darkness
Nor for the destruction
That waiteth in the noon-day hour
If we walk together little children
We don't ever have to worry
Through this world of trouble
We gotta love one another
Let us take our fellow man by the hand
Try to help him to understand
We can all be together forever and ever
When we make it to the promised land
This world is not our home
We're only passing through
Our trail is all made up
Way beyond the blue
Let us do the very best that we can
While we're travelin' through this land
We can all be together shakin' a hand
When we make it to the promised land
If we walk together little children
We don't ever have to worry
Through this world of trouble
We gotta love one another
Let us take our fellow man by the hand
Try to help him to understand
We can all be together forever and ever
When we make it to the promised land