Certificate Course in

Aromatherapy Study Day at Kew Gardens:
Rediscovering aromatic plants and their essential oils

with Dr Vivienne Anthony BSc(Hons),PhD,MSM,MIFPA

Aromatherapy essential oils each have a unique therapeutic profile encompassing emotional and physiological healing properties. Massage carrier oils also have a range of therapeutic and emollient characteristics. With over 150 oils commercially readily available, the array of options for us to use them individually and in blends is very broad.

Do you tend to select your favourite oils or sometimes find it difficult to remember the full range of their properties?

By using your senses and linking visualization of the mother plants, their natural energy, how they grow, what they are like to touch and smell provides an excellent method to learn quickly. This is also a powerful way to trigger your memory and knowledge about oils and their therapeutic uses. This technique will be explained and used throughout the day to assist your learning. Practical demonstrations will include comparing the scent of essential oils with the aromatic portions of the plants producing them, and linking their healing properties with traditional knowledge and modern scientific research.

COURSE COMPONENTS

• Therapeutic properties of key essential oils and their profiles.
• Learning sensing and visualization techniques to aid knowledge assimilation, memory and recall about aromatic plants and oils .
• Major botanical and anatomical features of aromatherapy plants and their parts used to produce essential and carrier oils.
• Identification and comparison of characteristic features of plant families.
• Ecological adaptation strategies for survival and the evolutionary benefits of essential oils to plants.
• Ideas and discussion on how to use plants to vitalise your aromatherapy business.
• Opportunity to energise with plants and take photographs.

Entry Requirement
Entry onto this course does not require a prior qualification.

An Institute Certificate is issued on completion.

Dr Vivienne Anthony BSc(Hons),PhD,MSM,MIFPA
Course Instructor

Viv trained as a botanist and plant disease specialist, and has worked for over 20 years in Plant Science Research and Development for a major international agribusiness.

Following her interest in the healing properties of plants, Viv qualified in Aromatherapy and Essential Oil Science at Neal’s Yard Remedies, London. For the last three years she has had an aromatherapy practice in Switzerland. She has also studied at the Institute of Stress Management. She now specialises in aromatherapy for stress management and is an advisor to industry on occupational health and wellness programmes.

Viv combines her work in aromatherapy with plant science consulting on plant biodiversity, and her interest in field botany, and alpine and medicinal plants. In summer months she is an alpine flower guide in the Swiss Alps and Italian Dolomites.

Together with aromatherapist Harriet Robinson, Viv recently published four articles in IFPA’s professional journal, In Essence, on leading aromatherapy gardens, including An Aromatic Walk at Kew (Summer 2008 issue).

LOCATIONS, DATES AND FEES

Location: The Royal Botanic Kew Gardens, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB.
Dates: Saturday, June 8, 2013 (1 day).
Times: 10 am to 4 pm.
Course Fee: £95 incl VAT, payable on booking.
Payments made on booking are non-refundable, but are transferable to any subsequent course.
Tel: 020 7708 2626 or 0798 501 2565 for further info.

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