There is a date change to April 30 same time Join Jane Lawson and myself on the free lecture series. She will be discussing her new book This is where you sign up. https://www.rbkaromatherapy.com/contact.html If you are already osigned up you will see an email from me today

I appreciate several of my courses can involve hands on training. A couple of these can be done over zoom. Also, several more require me to send out things like nasal inhalers/sniffy sticks as part of your course material. I do have a personal gripe that Classroom is set up in such a way that you are left to your own devices with no direct interaction with myself, (for example homeworks), to move you to the next module. Instead, you complete a module and "tick the box", with no direct interaction with myself. Hence the reason I set up the "Classes" tab to work round this. But there seems to be a lack of interest in courses and classes I offer. So, I have to question whether I am "over target" with why you are here and what you want and your expectations. 1. Are you here because it is in part like a Facebook "group" where you can read posts and like and comment, but that's it? 2. What would you like to see that you would engage with more other than a tick and the odd comment? 3. Do you engage to gain "points" so you can access the "rewards" in classroom? If not, why not? 4. What is it you would like to see when you come to our wee tribe? Please comment below or send me a message via chat.

Let's show our ages with this one. Who remembers using or are still using these little beauties, lol

Whilst I was looking for the screenshots to reply to @Matthew Sulpizi post about Sal's Aromatree book, https://www.skool.com/maverick-aromatherapy-3200/the-aroma-tree I stumbled across a wee video I had made a few years back, on all the books/training manuals available to my students, plus The Natural Approach to Essential Oils and My Journey with Essential Oils which are available to anyone. I am currently reviewing and double checking that the training manuals are up to date for my diploma students. I will also be looking into seeing if I can change the cover for the Essential Oil Practitioner Diploma, as I still haven't done that since I did the video! 😂 Finally, I have to make the decision now to collate all the Clinical level EO's into one book based on the same model as my original Natural Approach to Essential Oils book, 54 EO profiles. However, I'm pretty sure that I wont be able to get a further 70 EO's into one book because of the page number restrictions for a print run. I might have to split them into 5 seperate books to cover each "aspect" of your garden as set out in the model for The Natural Approach to Essential Oils, we shall see. Please note also, that the printing costs have gone up since I did this video, so the price of the books will also have to be reviewed. But at least the video explains each of the books.

Have you ever heard of the Aroma Tree? There are many different systems and ways in which one can begin to learn the subtle yet therapeutic science of Aromatherapy, and the Aroma Tree model is one of them. This model classifies essential oils according to the different parts of the plant from which the essential oil is extracted, with each part representing certain therapeutic, psychological, and energetic properties. The Aroma Tree is an introduction to Aromatherapy, a way to understand essential oils in a more simplified yet profound way. It is based on the concept of the Doctorine of Signatures, however unlike the Doctrine of Signatures which focuses primairly on the physical appearance of a plant and its associations with the human body based on appearance (example heart shaped flowers are remedies for the heart, a walnut looks like the brain, so is a remedy for the head/mind, etc), the Aroma Tree model is more complex and it helps to 'recognise the many patterns and relationships between the physical wualities, aroma, phgarmacology, chemistry of essential oils and the part of the plant it comes from.' This wall poster, shown in the picture, is a beautiful image of the Aroma Tree showing: - Roots - Rhizomes - Wood - Resin - Fruit - Seeds - Leaves - Flowers A QUICK (not exhaustive) summary of each of these parts of the plant and therefore the 'energy' behind the essential oil which comes from said plant part: - Roots: calming, cooling, mystery, grounding, nourishing. - Rhizomes: courage, digestion, stimulating, warming - Wood: balance, calm, courage, insight, protection, relaxing, strength, wisdom. - Resin: incense, meditation, purification, sacred, spiritual, wound healing - Fruit: creativity, detoxifying, digestion, hepatoprotective, positivity, uplifting, vitality. - Seeds: creativity, detoxifying, digestion, growth, hepatoprotective, spicy, vitality. - Leaves: analgesic, antimicrobial, breathing, cephalic, confidence, digestion, energy, focus, metabolism - Flowers: compassion, confidence, relaxing, reproductive system, sensuality, sexuality, skincare, uplifting