About Sordoe
Spiritual bath is a misnomer. In many mystical traditions, it is a botanical water, blended to a recipe and splashed over the body as a spiritual cleansing. For thousands of years, shamans and mystical teachers across Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas and Asia have used them to clear away negative energy, to mystically protect, to open pathways to abundance, and to ground a person at the liminal moments of a life: an initiation, a loss, the start of something new. The water carries something away, or it draws something in. And the words spoken over it matter as much as what goes into it.
That is a spiritual bath. Many people have never experienced one.
Sordoe Intention Water is one, made so you can use it yourself, at home. Frankincense and myrrh were sacred long before they were fragrance, and both are in this bottle.
I'm Wilma Mae Basta. My mother was Shakmah Winddrum, and she founded a contacted mystery school.
Mystery schools are ancient. Greece had them. Egypt had them. They exist to pass on mystical knowledge, the kind that arrives through experience rather than study, and it moves in person, one step at a time, from a teacher to the people who commit to it. Contacted means the teaching came from spirit. My mother received it directly, and she taught what she was given.
Baths were central to her work. She made them for herself, for her initiates, and for the people who came to her for guidance. Each one had the same purpose: to help the person get clear about what they were calling in, and to put their own energy behind it. The water was a tool. The power belonged to the person holding it.
I was given my first spiritual bath at 18.
Sordoe is her recipe. You can do the ritual yourself now, on an ordinary morning, in your own bathroom. It's a ritual splash: milky, soft on the skin, and the scent stays close to you. I built the formula with Michelle Gagnon, a master bio-alchemist, from botanicals including vetiver from Haiti, sandalwood from Australia, muña from the high Andes and bay from Jamaica. Every ingredient is printed on the box.
How you use it
Every ritual has three parts: an opening, the work itself, and a close.
OpenStand at the mirror. Open the bottle and breathe it in. Decide what you're calling in today, and know the words you'll say. Keep them short. One word is enough. A sentence at most.
The ritualPour a little into your hand and apply it to your body, working upward from your feet to the top of your head. Say your intention out loud as you go. Seven times, softly.
CloseTap the top of your head three times and give thanks. The ritual is closed.
Seven is the number of finishing in the traditions this bath comes from. The words have always been part of the bath. Say yours out loud.
Do it in the morning to set the day, or in the evening to close it. Do it before something that matters: a meeting, a hard conversation, a beginning. The full ritual, and the way I do it, is here.
Why it's called intention water
Every practice that calls in abundance starts in the same place. You get clear on what you want, and you say it out loud. Manifesting does it. Intention work does it. Prayer does it. My mother's baths did it.
I named the water after that step, because that is the step it serves.
I use the word intention because of what it carries for me. Intention is direction. Where I put my energy, on purpose, today and the day after that. Which way I face is the part I control.
Use it however your practice works. Manifest with it. Set intentions with it. Pray with it. The work is the same either way: get clear on what you're calling in, and put your own energy behind it.
It has done more for my contentment than anything else in my practice.
The ritual is yours. I created the water.
You're more powerful than you think.