Natural Approach School & Therapies

08/12/2025

People often think of Essential Oils as antiviral. However there are a slew of them whose main 'anti' is bacterial rather than viral, some impressively so.
A few years ago, I put together The Scourge as I named it, both as a perfectly safe blend for children and adults and I also made up another version with slightly different oils whose only contraindications is to High Blood Pressure, Pregnancy and Epilepsy.
Here they are, sniffy's and hand spray's at the ready to go out to clients.
These oils are prophylactics (preventatives) as well as treatment if used at the first sign of an infection. They should of course not be used instead of antibiotics if your doctor deems it necessary to prescribe them.
These sniffy's and hand sanitisers are going out as prophylactics.
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01/12/2025

Pays to get up at 5am!
That's all the student reports done for 2025!
Now to prep for tonight's class! :)

29/11/2025

Some of you might remember Ewa from a couple of months ago when she won my Student Achievement Award 2025.
At that time she had passed her Reflexology practical examinations and it set her bar, and my confidence in her, that she would pass her 2 written exams.
Last month she passed her written Reflexology exam with flying colours. Yesterday she passed her Aromatherapy written exam, and like her written Reflexology exam, it was exemplary.
Ewa is Polish, and a dental hygenist, and we often had giggles having to translate technical terms!
Now, she is a fully qualified Reflexologist and Aromatherapist (Essential Oil Practitioner).
Believe me when I say this lady is going to go far and will leave her mark in the field of Complementary Therapy in the years to come.
Ewa, I am so looking forward to next year when we start working on your clinical qualifications, long may our giggles continue!

24/11/2025

After taking a bit of an extended sabbatical from her studies, I'm delighted that Faye passed her final Aromatherapy Diploma exam yesterday. I knew she would, even though she was wracked with self doubt. Now you know you can Faye, your beaming smile says it all!
The only way is up now young lady! I'm looking forward to the next steps of your journey and helping you achieve your ultimate and unique dream, it will be magical. x

22/11/2025

That's the first training kit for Aromatic Alchemy for Your Soul, starting on the 21st January, ready to wing its way across the Atlantic to a student in the US!
This is a 5 part CPD certificated course, where we will be exploring the vibrational and energetic connections between 26 lesser known essential oils and our souls, our very being, our authentic selves. This will be a very relaxing and intuitive experience. There will be no 'right or wrong', only your personal experience.
So, what are the essential oils you ask. They are, in no particular order: Buddha's Hand, Cocoa (Cacao), Pink Lotus, Dittany, Ghandi Root, Honeysuckle, Blue Anemone, Emerald Seagrass, Osmanthus, Ledum (Labrador Tea), Oakmoss, Weeping Cypress (Cedarwood Himalayan, missnomer in my view), Coffee, Eaglewood, Eucalyptus Red River Gum, Combava (Kaffir Lime), Frangipani, Asunaro, Gardenia, Spanish Marjoram, Geranium Bourbone, Geranium Rosat, Wisteria, Leleshwa and White Camphor.
Full details of dates, what the monthly course will involve and payment plan at the link:
https://www.facebook.com/events/923907003180924
Please contact me direct to register your place at your earliest convenience as class places are limited to ensure thorough delivery on an individual basis.

20/11/2025

I first posted this 8 years ago..........
So, we know animals have feelings, although there are some people out there that don't believe they are sentient beings. But plants talk and communicate too.
When I teach about Essential Oils, I encourage my students to familiarise themselves with as many of them as they can in their plant form (mostly herbs in the UK). By familiarising, I don't mean the botany, I mean the plants energy. Because it's not all about their chemical compounds, it's about their energy, their life force, their very soul...... in this case, their nervous system.
Please watch this film to the end, it will give you some idea of the potency of Essential Oils and why they have so much more to tell us than just their aroma............
As part of Clinical Aromtherapists diploma studies, we have a symposium where we investigate the correlation between plant's anatomy, physiology and pathology compared to our human A&P&P, thus giving us a better understanding of why and what part of a plant is used to obtain EO's from, and therefore which systems of the human body they benefit. For example: Cistus ladaniferus gives us 2 EO's commonly known as Rock Rose from the flowers and leaves and Labdanum from the leaves and twigs. You can also have Juniper Berry EO and Juniper Leaf EO, both have similar but also different healing properties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvBlSFVmoaw&t=559s

Neuroscientist Greg Gage takes sophisticated equipment used to study the brain out of graduate-level labs and brings them to middle- and high-school classroo...