Aromatherapy: Combining with Spiritual Healing

Spiritual healing focuses on restoring balance to the energy fields around and inside you, the subtle energy body. The exterior energy is known as the aura, an ever-changing energy field surrounding the body, while systems such as the Chakras and Chinese meridians give detailed maps of the energy flow inside the body. Fragrance is combined … Read moreAromatherapy: Combining with Spiritual Healing

Aromatherapy: Working with Meditation

Fragrances have been used in religious ceremonies for as long as there has been religion. The connection between fragrances and their ability to affect the mood of those smelling them was made a very long time ago. The sense of smell is a strong stimulant to brain activity and as a result essential oils have … Read moreAromatherapy: Working with Meditation

Aromatherapy: Learning to Make your Own Blends

Although you can use essential oils singly, aromatherapists like to blend two, three or more oils together to make a closer match to the person’s physical and emotional needs. The blend can include aromas particularly liked. For example, whilst a medicinal-smelling oil may work well as an antiseptic it helps if the aroma is pleasing … Read moreAromatherapy: Learning to Make your Own Blends

Energy: Basic Overview of the Chakra Centres

Working with Chakras Many alternative therapies include an understanding of the Chakras, particularly crystal healing and reiki. As a reflexologist and an aromatherapist, I work directly on balancing the Chakras by making essential oils and focusing on particular subtle energy pathways or ‘meridians’. Meditations and visualisations using colour are important tools in Chakra balancing and … Read moreEnergy: Basic Overview of the Chakra Centres

Energy: Understanding the Chakra System

The Chakras are energy centres in your ‘subtle body’, that is the energy structures of the self that interact with and extend beyond the physical body. The word Chakra is Sanskrit and means ‘wheel’ or ‘disc’, referring to the idea that our Chakras each spin at a particular frequency. The Different Chakras There are many … Read moreEnergy: Understanding the Chakra System

Aromatherapy: Understanding Fragrance Notes

Aromatherapy is all about smell and with practice you will learn to recognise a fragrance even if you can’t pick which plant the oil is from. For instance, you will be able to tell a citrus aroma from a floral one, a woody fragrance from a minty one. The smell is determined by the chemicals … Read moreAromatherapy: Understanding Fragrance Notes