Born from lava · Rooted in rain
Ancient wisdom
for the road within
Tools for inner exploration, ritual, and the slow journey back to yourself. Curated by Lorena — a seeker, just like you.
Lorena · Las Palmas, 1987
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria → Zoetermeer, NL
Meet Lorena.
She's still finding her way too.
At 38, Lorena left a pharma career she was good at but no longer believed in. She didn't have a plan — she had her grandmother's notebook of plant remedies and a growing sense that the life she'd built in the Netherlands wasn't the life she was meant for.
“I’m an introvert with social anxiety, determined to explore the world outside while I heal myself within.”
Every product at Lore & Latch is something Lorena found on her path. Something that helped. Something that made the grey mornings more bearable, the inner work more possible, the slow journey home feel less far away.
The collections
Everything Lorena
keeps close
Collection I
The Ritual Latch
Incense, altar pieces, soy candles, smudging kits. The tools of daily ceremony.
Collection II
The Wanderer's Lore
For the road. Tools that travel as light as you do.
Collection III
The Earth's Cabinet
Crystals, botanicals, herbal jewellery. Objects with memory.
Collection IV
The Inner Work
Journals, teas, adaptogens, breathwork tools. For the path that turns inward.
Why Lore & Latch
Not a shop.
A practice.
Lore is what your grandmother knew. Latch is the clasp that holds it close. We don't sell wellness — we find the things that actually help, and we put them in one place so you don't have to spend your already-thin energy searching.
Curated by lived experience
Every product lives in Lorena's apartment first. If it doesn't earn its place on the shelf, it doesn't earn a place in the store.
Honest about the journey
We're not selling arrival. We're companions on the path — which means we talk about the hard days as much as the beautiful ones.
Rooted in plant wisdom
From Canary Islands ruda to European mugwort — we trust what grows from the earth over what comes from a lab.
Built for the between-worlds
For the ones who feel neither fully here nor fully there. Who are rethinking everything. Who are, slowly, finding their way.
From the store
Things Lorena
won't travel without
Ritual Latch
Palo Santo Bundle
Sustainably sourced. Burns slow, cleanses deep.
€ 14.90
Earth's Cabinet
Raw Amethyst Point
For the nightstand. Calms the noise before sleep.
€ 22.00
Inner Work
Mugwort Dream Tea
Her grandmother's herb. For vivid dreams and deep rest.
€ 18.50
Inner Work
Shadow Work Journal
Guided prompts for the parts of yourself you haven't met yet.
€ 26.00
Lorena's journal
Notes from
the path
Plant medicine
What my grandmother's notebook taught me about mugwort — and about grief
She kept it in the kitchen drawer. A small notebook, water-stained on the corners, written in a hand I had to slow down to read...
Ritual living
How I built a sanctuary in a Dutch apartment on a budget
Nobody tells you that the hardest part of building a slow life isn't the big decisions.
Inner work
One year after my first ayahuasca ceremony — what actually changed
I expected to come back transformed. I came back confused, tender, and somehow more myself.