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Aromatherapy Today Education

Offering excellence in Aromatherapy training, online and in person. Exploring Australian native and distilled oils as the core focus of every class.

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Creating excellent value for our students through our unique style of delivery

collaborative classes

Working either online or in live workshops, each class is approached in a collaborative manner. Students are participating in each class, rather than having information given to them to absorb, allowing for easier learning with results observed in every class

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We ensure all students can access our courses through a variety of payment plans, contact us to discuss your needs

quality courses

All courses on offer are set to follow the highest government and association standards. 

Here is our awesome team

Deby's passion is Australian Clinical Aromatherapy, utilising Australian products where available and promoting small providers of quality products for the industry. Alongside Sandra, she has founded Aromatherapy Today Education. Deby is also the Owner & Editor of Aromatherapy Today International Journal and hosts Aromatica Australia bi-annually, as well as teaching at colleges globally.

Deby Atterby

Founder & lecturer

Yaina is the wonderful social media queen for Aromatherapy Today Education and Journal. Her photography talents are demonstrated on our Facebook and Instagram posts regularly

Yaina Mingo

social media queen

Sandra's passion is a mix of aromatherapy and homeopathy. She brings this unique flavour to her teachings. Alongside Deby, she has founded Aromatherapy Today Educations. Sandra is also the Owner of Sandra Venables Clinic and has been a lecturer in the field of aromatherapy and homeopathy for over 15 years. She also supports Deby in hosting Aromatica Australia bi-annually and provides technical support for the college. 

Sandra Venables

founder & lecturer

Toni's experience in the publishing world is regularly demonstrated in the Aromatherapy Today Journal, and all of the publications undertaken for Aromatherapy Today Education and Aromatica Australia.

Toni Esser

journal 

Lucy's passion is in the field of natural therapies, as well as being an experienced administrator. Lucy understands the needs of students as well as practitioners and supports both with both compassion and understanding. Always feel free to say hello to Lucy when you need to discuss any issues relating to your studies, the Aromatherapy Today Journal or Aromatica Australia.


Lucy Zimmerman

administration

Saskia's passion is in the field of natural therapies, as well as being an experienced administrator. Saskia's extensive knowledge allows her to produce our FREE monthly newsletter

Saskia van hummel

newsletter coordinator

Deby is a wonderful lecturer and trainer, her insight into aromatherapy and massage is second to none. She has a great college and I would recommend her to anyone for any training or related positions.

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Silver Sponsor: Essential Therapeutics

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Established in 1988, Essential Therapeutics is Australia’s first practitioner only Aromatherapy brand.

With an unwavering commitment, Essential Therapeutics continues to provide the highest quality essential oils and related products to qualified practitioners in the complimentary health industry.

What truly sets Essential Therapeutics apart is its broad and extensive range, encompassing a comprehensive selection of aromatherapy and massage oils, as well as raw ingredients and base products. This extensive range can be completely customised for individual clients, while also serving as a foundation for crafting your own natural skincare brand.

Essential Therapeutics maintains its unrivalled position as the premier brand for natural therapy professionals with an unsurpassed and dedicated distribution network across Australia and beyond.

Platinum Sponsor: Perfect Potion

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With values entrenched in environmental sustainability and conservation, our aim, since opening our doors in 1991 in Brisbane, has been to reconnect people with nature through aromatherapy. With a philosophy that harmonises social and environmental concerns, as well as various certifications to support our preparations, we have established a standard to which others can only aspire to. We also proudly attained 3-Star ecoBiz Partnership, an achievement that recognises our commitment to the environment through consistent sustainability practices.

We create and make all of our aromatherapy and skincare preparations in our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility (solar-powered, may we add) in Banyo, Queensland. This means we ensure our sustainably sourced ingredients and products remain of the highest integrity, and offer quality preparations that are palm oil-free, vegan, cruelty-free, certified natural, and in most cases, certified organic.

Our stores are a sanctuary for the senses. They provide a nurturing, relaxing space for our customers, the Green Goddess and God. The Green Goddess and God are socially and environmentally responsible individuals who embody positivity, thoughtfulness and empathy. They look for ways to enhance their health and find balance in their life, while living in harmony with nature.

In 2008, we opened our first store in Kyoto, Japan. Our decision to enter the Japanese market was an easy one after we contemplated our values and vision. The cultural values and ethics of Japan aligned perfectly with our own, as did the aesthetics of Japan’s natural world. Since opening our stores in Japan, we have adapted many Japanese concepts, which are reflected in our current collection, including our Shinrin-yoku (forest bathing) and Sacred Space ranges.

Since 1987, we have offered workshops to assist people on their journey of discovery, providing a nurturing environment to explore ways to incorporate aromatherapy as part of their daily ritual, enhancing their overall wellbeing. We are excited to be rolling out online aromatherapy workshops, which have been designed based on many of Salvatore Battaglia’s internationally acclaimed aromatherapy books and textbooks, including The Complete Guide to Aromatherapy (1st, 2nd & 3rd Editions), Aromatree, and Aromatherapy and Chakras.

Bronze Sponsor: Heritage Oils

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Heritage Oils is a Perth based essential oil company specialising in Australian essential oils and products, selling to the retail and wholesale market, both nationally and internationally.

In addition to our large range of Australian essential oils, Heritage Oils also stocks international essential oils, diffusers, skin and body care products, and our popular and effective 100% natural mosquito repellent products.

Along with our webstore, Heritage Oils has a retail showroom open to the public, home to our unique Aroma Bar where you can experience all of our 100% pure essential oils in person and our ‘One Stop Mozzie Shop’.

Bronze Sponsor: Jennifer Jefferies

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Aromatherapist, Naturopath and Author Jennifer Jefferies, is driven to break new ground. Along with Intuitive Artist Karen Osborn, they created The Aromatherapy Insight Cards. Their mission is to take you on a new journey of discovery into another aspect of Aromatherapy.

The Aromatherapy Insight Cards and Online Course are a powerful tool to help you tap into your intuition, develop your emotional awareness, increase your knowledge base as you learn the subtle uses for aromatherapy, and establish rapport and have an effective consultation with your clients during consultation.

Join us on a new journey of discovery into another aspect of Aromatherapy.

Bronze Sponsor: Tisserand Institute

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The Tisserand Institute offers expert-led online classes– from one-stop webinars to self-paced mini-courses to professional certification courses. Our international team of tutors, led by Robert Tisserand, brings their expertise and knowledge about the effective use of essential oils.

Whichever class you choose, you’ll gain fascinating insights through the most up-to-date, reliable information available. We are known for providing original, evidence-based content through our dedicated learning platform – complete with student forums for feedback and community.

Bronze Sponsor: Nature Nurture

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As an official distributor of Essential Therapeutics, Nature Nurture is your leading supplier of quality, professional aromatherapy and massage supplies.

Essential Therapeutics began in 1988 as the first professional-only range of essential oils and related products, specifically for use by trained complementary therapists and healthcare professionals.

Nature Nurture also supplies related products such as diffusers, disposable massage table supplies, assorted bottles and jars, as well as knowledgeable, helpful and friendly service.

We also offer monthly specials and discounts to all Nature Nurture customers, so sign up to the website today.

Essential Therapeutics – Australia’s most trusted, Practitioner-Grade Aromatherapy Range.

Silver Sponsor: Rayka Education

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Fiona Carr and Elizabeth Rea are practicing Clinical Aromatherapists who, through their enthusiastic and inquisitive natures for all things aromatherapy, founded Rayka Education Pty Ltd Australia.

Their passion for complementary therapies has led them on many a journey overseas to satisfy their insatiable thirst for information pertaining to botanical medicine. They extend their knowledge by attending conferences, advanced clinical aromatherapy studies, and courses in palliative, end-of-life and cancer care both nationally and internationally.

Through collaboration with other therapists, it is their goal to integrate aromatherapy and complementary therapies by developing their own unique courses – inspiring others and our future therapists.

Join them – experience their unique teaching style and commitment to education using their entertaining stories, their extensive knowledge, and your opportunity to Learn with Laughter.

Bronze Sponsor: The Paperbark Co.

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Located in a belt of wetlands near Harvey, Western Australia, The Paperbark Co. property has many beautiful indigenous Melaleuca trees, which have a distinct white papery bark – it is from these trees that The Paperbark Co. derives its name. We are a family owned and operated business and have been established since 1997.

The Paperbark Co. specialises in growing, steam distilling and marketing Australian essential oils and hydrosols. Our beautiful range of natural essential oil products are produced from some of the most unique Western Australian flora.

The Paperbark Co. is distinguished by three unique Western Australian essential oils – Fragonia®, Honey Myrtle, and a High Grade Australian Sandalwood. We are currently the only producer of these oils. We also produce a Standard Grade (ISO standard) Australian Sandalwood Oil, Rosalina Oil and Tea Tree Oil; we also collect and bulk store the hydrosols from each of our distillations.

Bronze Sponsor: Essentially Australia

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Essentially Australia was created in 2012 by Greg Trevena to provide the biggest range of Australian essential oils in the world. Greg saw a clear opportunity to create a concept of an essential oils business which specialises only in pure Australian essential oils.

We aspire to offer premier aromatic and medicinal products for the mind, body and home, all of which are derived from pure Australian native oils.

Essentially Australia presently offers 35 different Australian native essential oils and 2 native Australian carrier oils.

Essentially Australia operates two plantations in the moist, rich, red volcanic hinterland of Byron Bay, growing 12 different essential oil bearing plants. We also support a small range of passionate and committed essential oil farmers and harvesters in other parts of Australia.

We plan to continue to bring out new, unique Australian essential oils grown within our own plantations. We have also involved indigenous culture into our brand, with indigenous artwork on our essential oil gift boxes as well as acknowledging and deeply respecting native plant use by Australia’s indigenous people.

We are very proud and passionate to be so involved with our Australia’s bounty of unique native plants and its amazing array of existing and emerging essential oils.

Rhiannon Lewis

Bio

Rhiannon Lewis is an experienced aromatherapist, author, editor and conference organiser.

She is director of Essential Oil Resource Consultants and host of the International Clinical Aromatherapy Network (ICAN).

Her specialty is clinical aromatherapy – empowering therapists to deliver effective aromatic care to sick patients.
She is passionate about promoting connections and communications between all users of essential oils around the world.

She is host and organiser of the biennial Botanica conferences and the Essence of Clinical Aromatherapy International Seminar series.

Rhiannon lives in the mountains of Provence, France.

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Speaking

10minute round-up on what’s the current aromatherapy landscape in the Philippines

Marika Fleri

Bio

Marika Fleri has been practicing aromatherapy for the past 20 years in Malta. She is specialized in complementary therapy use in oncology, palliative care and with people with life limiting illnesses. 

Marika coordinated The National Cancer Platform which brings together all Maltese non-government organizations working in the field of cancer and she manned a ‘one-stop shop’ concept office at Sir Anthony Mamo Oncology Center for seven years. She was also the clinical aromatherapist in residence at the hospital working with other health care professionals to offer an integrative and holistic approach to treatment. 

She is a VTCT Tutor, Assessor and Internal Quality Assurer. 

Marika is Airmid Institute’s proud Maltese ambassador. 

She now runs AromaHub Malta together with Lorraine Spiteri. AromaHub’s goal and mission is to be there for clients ‘Come rain or shine, In health and in sickness, come what may …. Every step of the way’

Speaking

A wise man once told me that rather than us choosing our jobs, our jobs usually choose us and as I look back on the past ten years of my life I can see the various events that happened that led me from being a holistic aromatherapist having a handful of clients, who I saw in a small treatment room in my house to specializing in complementary therapy use in cancer and palliative care and with people with life limiting illnesses. This led me to then work in an oncology hospital for seven years. Today I run my own business together with my childhood friend Lorraine.

During my presentation I will be highlighting and speaking about the connections built with other health care professionals throughout the years and the way that these professional relationships have enabled me to extend my practice beyond what I would have ever imagined. I will be talking about aromatherapy use with cancer patients during various stages of the cancer journey through projects set up with other health care professionals at the hospital to support patients through their experience from the moment of diagnosis onwards. 

We will be walking with some of my patients through case studies that I will be presenting and we will see how aromatics, love and care made a difference in their experience. 

We will also be seeing how these same connections and the hospital experience are shaping the way we work at our medi-spa and how even when our external circumstances change, we can adapt ourselves to still reach our goals. 

These will include:

  • Deep Shelter Project – A series of workshops for patients to help them narrate their experience through various art modalities
  • Aromatic Hearts Project – A project with the Psychologist in residence at the hospital to help extend treatment outside the therapy room through the use of aromatics
  • Feel Good Friday – AromaHub’s Complementary therapy project for people going through cancer 
  • Share the Love – ArormaHub’s ‘pay it forward’ concept that gives us the possibility to provide treatments for people who cannot afford to pay. 
  • Peripheral neuropathy and mindfulness project with Occupational Therapy Department 
  • TRaC classes at Hospital – Survivorship self-care classes with focal nurses
  • Gozo Project – Offering services at Malta’s sister island hospital

Jirbie Go

Bio

Jirbie (www.couchwasabi.com) is a graduate of The School for Aromatic Studies. She is a current Board of Directors for the Alliance of International Aromatherapists (AIA), functioning as the Media Chair and the Philippine Rep. Jirbie is the Philippine Ambassador for Airmid Institute and a member of the Education Committee. She is also the founder of the Alliance of the Philippine Aromatherapists (APA), the first professional aromatherapy organization in the Philippines, and the first aromatherapy certification school in the country Aromatherapy Institute of the Philippines, in partnership with Jade Shutes. As one of the pioneering Certified aromatherapists in the country, Jirbie has been invited to participate in various public speaking engagements about aromatherapy since 2018 and has been published in various aromatherapy journals. She continues to empower and inspire her aromatherapy students to pursue formal studies in aromatherapy as she believes that proper education can help elevate the current aromatherapy industry in the Philippines.

Speaking

10minute round-up on what’s the current aromatherapy landscape in the Philippines

Tatiana Lustre Dawn

Bio

Tatiana Lustre Dawn aka Twiggy is the owner and manager of Alchemilla Herbals. She is a Mother, Herbalist, Permaculturalist, Geneologist, Lomi Lomi, Reiki and Attunement Therapy Practitioner, Sahumadora, Sacred Song Carrier and Oneironaut. Tatiana is passionate about growing, harvesting and making medicines and also has a keen interest in wild/naturalised medicines.

She has been entranced by plant medicine for as long as she can remember and honours the plants as teachers with deep reverence and respect. Ceremonial work is an important aspect of her life and she works closely with traditional medicine keepers of different lineages. She has a strong calling to learn, carry and teach sacred devotional medicine songs from different cultures. She has have been initiated as a sahumadora and work with fire, smoke and ash for healing, purification and protection.

She believes that with knowledge comes responsibility, so she uses an array of social media platforms and other online spaces to share her experiences and knowledge, as well as regular workshops, classes and an apprenticeship program. Tatiana is a regular guest speaker at many different community events and herbal gatherings around Australia, she writes regular articles for Australian magazines and newsletters, and is currently writing a book about how to grow, harvest/wild harvest and manufacture plant medicine to extract and retain the potency of the herbal constituents.

Tatiana has been the coordinator of the Ravenshoe Community Gardens for over 5 years as a volunteer position. These gardens are a valuable asset to the community and not only are the gardens educational, they also service the local community by providing food for families in crisis.

Tatiana is the founder of The Elder Tree, a not-for-profit organisation which is currently gathering the resources to set up a grassroots herbal education centre on the Atherton Tablelands, Far North QLD. She is also the founder of The Elder Tree podcast which has 4 presenters, each with their own herbal segment.

Speaking

This presentation will be exploring the importance of working with fresh plant medicines. 

We explore the benefit of having a personal connection to the plants that you are working with and also the increased potency and efficacy of freshly harvested medicine.

There will be a tour of the Alchemilla Herbals apothecary, where Tatiana makes all of her own medicinal preparations using locally grown and wild harvested medicines.

Vince Collins

Bio

I was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1960. I grew up working on sheep and cattle stations, interstate transport. I then decided to do a full time course in Agricultural at Dookie Agricultural College in Victoria. I graduated and then travelled the Australian mainland extensively as Tour Leader/Tour guide conducting camping tours for AAT Kings and Australian Pacific Tours. It was during this time that I met my wife and business partner Maryann. We discovered Australian Blue Cypress essential oil, in late 1994. we now trade wholesale and retail as Kakadu Blue.

Speaking

A version of the Australian Blue cypress plantations and the discovery of Australian Blue Cypress, and some of its uses.

Jacqui Stringer

Bio

Jacqui is a Nurse Consultant, in Integrative Oncology. She is head of department for the Complementary Health & Wellbeing services at The Christie NHS Trust; an acute cancer hospital in Manchester, UK. This team of therapists, provide treatments such as acupuncture, hypnotherapy and aromatherapy throughout the Trust. She has a background in haematology & oncology nursing and initiated an aromatherapy service on the transplant unit of The Christie in 1997. She completed a PhD in 2005 looking at the influence of massage and aromatherapy on the stress levels of patients undergoing high dose chemotherapy whilst nursed in isolation. Her clinical focus is the management of patients with complex physiological and / or psychological needs, at all stages of their treatment. The role includes maintaining a clinical case load where essential oil preparations are used in conjunction with standard licensed medications to facilitate maximum healing / symptom support. In addition to her clinical duties, Jacqui leads on the department’s research programme as a central part of her role.

Speaking

During this presentation, Jacqui will share how she uses essential oils within her clinical practice. patients are referred to Jacqui for management of symptoms related to their condition or side-effects of their treatment, when it is clear standard care is not working. The clinical situations she is presented with are often chronic, complex and very challenging. She will use case studies to illustrate different ways of working with this vulnerable patient group.

Wendy Maddocks

Bio

Wendy first trained in aromatherapy in 1991 under Eve Taylor in London, initially to complement her nursing practice at the time. She set up and taught professional aromatherapy courses in Palmerston North, NZ for fifteen years, alongside nursing courses, running a small clinic and completing further study in nursing, herbal medicine, massage and aromatherapy. A highlight was being awarded a prize for research which meant a trip to Provence was possible with Aroma Tours to study under Daniel Penëol and Kurt Schnaubelt in 2005. In 2008 Wendy was awarded a doctorate degree where the clinical use of NZ native oils was explored to alleviate side effects of radiation treatment. For the last four years wendy has worked as a senior academic at the University of Canterbury, teaching post graduate health courses and supporting post graduate research students in their research. In addition, Wendy runs a niche natural skin care business and consultancy service helping people bring their products to market. She has undertaken studies on kānuka oil in conjunction with a microbiologist. Wendy is one of the international judges for the Gattefossé (need to put correct accent over this) Foundation international prize and sits of the Gattefossé foundation advisory board to help enhance the clinical evidence in aromatherapy. Wendy has published widely in aromatherapy and nursing literature and is also an avid amateur nurse historian and cat lover.

Speaking

This presentation will explore the recent developments and advancements in the production of Mānuka oil in New Zealand, further highlighting the chemical diversity and therapeutic potential. The presentation will include some unique images and information about mānuka.

Alana Gall

Bio

Alana is a Pakana (Tasmanian Aboriginal) woman from the north east coast of lutruwita (Tasmania), and more recently, the Bass Strait Islands of Cape Barren and Flinders Island. Alana is passionate about First peoples globally, specifically holistic health and wellbeing. She believes that the wellbeing and identity of First peoples is strongly centred around strong connections to land, culture, spirituality and each other.

She has over eleven years’ experience in research, research translation, community engagement, health education and clinical consultation. She has a background in Nutritional Medicine and completed a Master by Research with a focus on Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine use by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cancer patients and, more specifically, the disclosure of this use to their cancer healthcare professionals, and completed her PhD titled “Exploring Wellbeing from Indigenous Perspectives”. Her work focussed primarily on wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, but also included a focus on the domains of wellbeing for Indigenous peoples in Canada, Aotearoa (New Zealand) and the United States. Alana’s work is grounded in decolonising research approaches, including Indigenist research methods with a strengths-based focus.

Alana is currently a Maurice Blackmore Research Fellow, in the National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine, at Southern Cross University. She is developing a research program that will centre around First Nations Australians traditional medicines and healing practices, aiming to protect and preserve these medicines for future generations, and improve accessibility for all First Nations communities across Australia. In her previous research, Alana found that First Nations peoples tended to use other traditional and complementary medicines when they were not able to access their own, to meet their holistic health and wellbeing needs. Advocating for the respectful inclusion of all these medicines in the Australian health sector, is an important part of addressing the overarching goals of her research program. Indeed, these lands we all live, work and thrive on are, and always will be, First Nations Australians land. The work that NCNM are facilitating by embedding Alana’s research program positions them as allies within this space and shows respect for the Traditional Owners of these lands.

Speaking

Title:

Primum Non Nocere – acknowledgement of Australian First Nations traditional medicines as a minimum standard

General overview:

As holistic healers we adhere to tenets of practice that centre the patient and consider all aspects of their mind, body, spirit and lives. A core tenet, Primum Non Nocere, translated to ‘first do no harm’ is arguably one of the most important. However, when considering Australian First Nations peoples, the original owners and traditional custodians of this country now called Australia, are we considering whether the way in which we practice is causing them harm? First Nations peoples have oral traditions, meaning their knowledges have not been recorded using written methods. Oral forms of knowledge and knowledge transfer are not acknowledged or valued by our Western system of law in Australia, which has led to the non-existent protection of Indigenous knowledges. This opens up avenues for biopiracy and other forms of harm to First Nations peoples. As the custodians of this country for over 60,000 years, not a single plant would even be here for researchers and industry to use and experiment on if we had not protected, nurtured, and ensured their survival until today. Acknowledgement of this is the bare minimum.

Carol Rose

Bio

In patients with life-limiting illness, where the aim of palliation is to optimise their quality-of-life, the challenge arises among healthcare professionals with being able to see the opportunities for healing at a spiritual level, even though a biological cure is no longer possible. It is within these realms of spiritual and emotional care that aromatherapy can arguably make its greatest difference. 

Clinical aromatherapy reframes symptom management in this patient group to allow for greater emotional, social and spiritual expression. The aim being to redress the balance of conventional medical approaches which tend to focus on the physical nature of symptoms and pharmacological management. Such approaches are dependent upon a thorough understanding of the patient’s symptom experience and their priorities of concern. Tailoring interventions to meet the individual’s particular issues, means that patients no longer receive a ‘blanket-approach’ to care but an intervention which considers their individual strengths and specific emotional, spiritual, physical and social capacities. Collectively, these serve to optimise a feeling of well-being. This requires a cohesive interplay between holistic and clinical aromatherapy principles.

This presentation will consider the ways in which we can seamlessly integrate clinical aromatherapy approaches alongside conventional medicine in the palliative care setting.

Speaking

Allergies are said to be on the increase and the reason some suffer is not entirely understood. Often the solution is not as easy as the removal of the offending agent and therefore millions living with allergies often need to reach for remedies to tackle the symptoms and reactions.

This presentation will explore the use of aromatherapy in the treatment of the symptoms of a range of common allergies to help you improve the wellbeing of your clients, friends, family or even yourself! As well as looking chemically at the oils, the most effective application methods will also be explored.

Ildiko Berecz

Bio

Ildiko has 30 years of experience with aromatherapy, starting with home use for tranquility and well-being, continued by a life-changing personal experience of healing from endometriosis, and a decade shifting aromatherapy into alchemy. In the past 10 years Ildiko has been doing field research on Crete, foraging and cultivating aromatic and medicinal plants. Her artisan distillations became a guiding tool on the path less travelled, and a framework of her alchemical teaching platform. Ildiko is an herbalist, aromatherapist, holistic therapist, transformative coach and mentor.

 

Ildiko’s plant alchemy work inspires and empowers people all around the world, and her workshops, field trips, aromatic apprenticeship and consultations are offered on Crete and online. She is also an educator at The School for Aromatic Studies.

 

Ildiko’s aromatic essays and articles got regularly published in Aromatika Magazine where she has been a contributing writer in the past 8 years, and she also served as an editor for a year. Ildiko delivers her field reports, wisdom and musings online, and her aromatic adventures have also been published by other professional journals such as Aromatherapy Today.

 

Ildiko can be followed and contacted at essentialreflections.com

Speaking

Celebrating 10 years of living the inspired life of a modern alchemist, in this presentation Ildiko shares her passion and transformative journeys for developing our relationship with the diversity of nature, its medicine and the distillation of aromatic plants. We will be exploring Cretan aromatic plants in context with their classic global allies, alongside empowering stories of what it means for an aromatherapist to become an aromatic distiller.

Is it destiny? Is it a coincidence? We all have a choice to follow our calling. Whether it’s a necessity or curiosity-driven exploration, we inevitably harvest the gifts by filling the gaps from our studies, class and book-learning. Academic knowledge applied and combined with hands-on nature practices expand our holistic horizons. Ildiko’s encouraging aromatic adventures on Crete, explorations and teachings of the plants serve the evolution, healing and awakening of human beings. 

No magic pill, but to educate ourselves, learn the individual and collective magic of plants and how to co-create with them. Join the (r)evolution of harmonising holistic perspectives based on awareness, authenticity and personal aromatic breakthroughs.

Madeleine Kerkhof

Bio

Madeleine is a former RN, Clinical Aromatherapist, Aromatherapy Educator, Massage Therapist and AquaCare Specialist. 

Madeleine is a highly respected expert and world renowned educator in Clinical Aromatherapy (AromaCare), AquaCare and other complementary therapies, specialised in the care for the frailest patients and elderly, in oncology, in palliative and end of life care. Madeleine is a member and advisor to the Dutch Nurses Society and Palliactief (NL), of the American Holistic Nurse Association, AIA (where she is in the education committee), NAHA (and approved educator), IAAMA, IFPA, EONS, EAPC. 

She is also a Fellow of ICAN, the International Clinical Aromatherapy Network.

Madeleine is the author of many papers and these highly acclaimed books: 

“Complementary Nursing in End of Life Care” (2015)

“CO2 Extracts in Aromatherapy, 50+ Extracts for Clinical Applications” (2018), 

Her new English book “Clinical AromaCare – Aromatherapy for Clinic and Practice” is expected in the spring of 2023.

Madeleine is also the author of Dutch National Guidelines on Aromacare and Aquacare in Palliative and Cancer care (2022).

Madeleine teaches at Kicozo’s campus in The Netherlands where she heads a team of tutors. Kicozo is accredited by the Dutch Board of Nursing Quality. 

She is a guest teacher for some of the best schools for Aromatherapy and Integrative Medicine & Nursing in the world. She travels the world and also offers online programs, offering safe and science based (continuing) education, to train nurses and health care professionals in clinical aromatherapy (AromaCare), and other clinical complementary (nursing) techniques to enhance quality of life for patients and their loved ones.

Speaking

In The Dutch Healthcare setting, including home care, aromacare slowly gains a place in the care offerings. There is an increasing interest in complementary modalities, but there is still much work to be done. Although many health care professionals, such as physicians, nurses, therapists, and especially patients and their loved ones are positive about these development, there is a need for consistency in protocols and back up of evidence based guidelines and practice. Madeleine shares her learning points and hopes to inspire you with the initiatives she has helped to develop in the last 20 years.

Prashanti Lyree

Bio

Prashanti holds a Diploma in Clinical Aromatherapy & Aromatic Medicine, a Diploma in Cosmetic Chemistry & Personal Care Science, and a Diploma of Massage & has trained extensively in Classical Yoga. She has travelled globally to complete Advanced Clinical Aromatherapy programs. With a deep connection to nature and an instinctive, intuitive approach to blending, Prashanti transforms the ingredients she works with into powerfully regenerative, nutrient-rich and exquisite formulations. 

Her advocacy for nature and passion for plants led her to join the Airmid Institute, where, as an Airmid Ambassador, she is diligently working to persuade other creators and manufacturers to move away from endangered and threatened species so that these plants can regenerate, flourish and support humanity for generations to come. 

A highly regarded formulator, Prashanti has created signature products for luxury spas and product brands, both in Australia and internationally.

Speaking

In this workshop, we will create a theoretical formula and research the global compliance databases. We will investigate if the formulation could be safe for the market while using sustainable ingredients and show you the best places to find this information. We also discuss other potential formulation issues like stability & preservative efficacy.

Penny Price

Bio

Penny has been an aromatherapist since 1983 and founded her company including the Penny Price Academy in 2003. The company now has distributorships and academies across the globe and formulates and manufactures bespoke aromatherapy skincare. Penny is a sought-after speaker for professional conferences and has contributed substantially to peer-reviewed journals and academic texts on the use of aromatherapy.

Speaking

Allergies are said to be on the increase and the reason some suffer is not entirely understood. Often the solution is not as easy as the removal of the offending agent and therefore millions living with allergies often need to reach for remedies to tackle the symptoms and reactions.

This presentation will explore the use of aromatherapy in the treatment of the symptoms of a range of common allergies to help you improve the wellbeing of your clients, friends, family or even yourself! As well as looking chemically at the oils, the most effective application methods will also be explored.

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