Course Contents:

Course Part 1
   
  • Holistic Aromatherapy Guiding Philosophy
  • Aromatherapy Schools of Thought
  • History of Aromatherapy
  • Aromatherapy and Spirituality
  • Assignment 1
  • The 12 Chakras and essential oils
  • Assignment 2
  • Carrier Oils, butters, macerates
  • Assignment 3
  • Essential Oil Botany, Ecology and Production Processes
  • Distillation (Water, Steam, Hydrodiffusion, Attars)
  • Distillate Processing (Redistillation, Rectification etc.)
  • Extraction (Maceration, Enfleurage, Solvent, CO2)
  • Expression
  • Assignment 4

Course Part 2

  • What are EOs?
  • Essential oil characteristics
  • Shared functions of EOs, plant sources, relationships to health
  • Pysiological, Behavioral Roles of Aromas
  • Assignment 5
  • Essential Oils: 1-10
  • Assignment 6
  • Therapeutic focus and blending instruction
  • Assignment 7
  • The Five Chemical Senses
  • The field of sensory perception and evaluation
  • The processes of Adaptation and Habituation
  • Assignment 8
  • Chemistry of Essential Oils
  • Assignment 9
  • Sensitization and Tolerance: case studies
  • Peppermint chronobiology Study
  • Essential Oils: 11-20
  • Assignment 10

Course Part 3:

  • The physiological bodily systems
  • The Limbic system, neurobiology and essential oils
  • The Stress Response and Immunoendocrinology balancing with essential oils
  • The subtle bodies
  • Morphogenetic fields
  • The Aura and aura purification w/essential oils
  • Body/Mind/Spirit healing with essential oils
  • Assignment 11
  • The biological clock: chronobiology and chronotherapy
  • Assignment 12
  • Overview of aromatherapy vocations and resources for aromatherapist

Appendices

What is included in your course kit?

  • Binder with the Home Study course manual
  • 20 essential oils (10%)
  • Pipettes (plastic reusable droppers)
  • Vials with carrier oil samples
  • 1oz bottle with Refined Coconut Oil for blending
  • Emerald green glass blending bottles with caps
  • 1 clear glass vial for maceration (oil infusion)
  • One empty mini-vial for mailing your macerate sample
  • Six empty mini-vials attached to cards for mailing your macerate and blend samples & formulas
  • Sheet of labels
  • Scent paper strips
 

See the course outline for a look at the richness of the course and topics covered:

Course Outline

Sample Pages from the Home Study Course

Olfaction

Chakras

These pages are excellent examples of the in-depth coverage of course topics 
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