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Brief Description:

Join me to explore the ABC Wellness Kit, specifically designed to address increased stress levels in current times. Learn new Wellness tools in each session to address stress, relax, build emotional resilience, and bounce back! 

You can use all these tools straight away to manage your stress levels day by day!  

Session A: Aromatherapy for Stress Relief  

In this first session we find out how to harness the amazing properties of Aromatherapy essential oils at home & work to relax, de-stress and improve concentration. This is a brief introduction to Aromatherapy, methods of safe and convenient use of essential oils are taking center stage. There is a guided hand massage routine for relaxation. 

Session B: Better Sleep 

Sleepless nights undermine our wellbeing.  

A good night’s sleep allows you to tackle anything – we explore the importance of a sleep routine, including winding down, electric interference, light pollution, ventilation, the importance of food and more. We also look at the use of Aromatherapy essential oils to encourage refreshing sleep. There is a guided Relaxation Technique to help you wind down at night. 

Session C: Coping Strategies for Stress 

This session teaches a variety of tools to ease everyday stress levels, aid relaxation, increase motivation, and address your mood and emotions. 

We look at the role of Aromatic Interventions, Breathing Techniques, Morning Pages and Gratitude Journals. You also discover the Self-Havening Technique, a fantastic tool using the latest findings in Neuroscience, developed by the Ruden brothers in the US. Self-Havening helps you to increase resilience to stress, increase motivation and enables you to change your moods.  

Previous Experience and Knowledge Needed?  

No prior knowledge necessary. This class is suitable for female and male participants. 

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the course, you will have the opportunity to:

• Know how to use Aromatherapy essential oils in a safe and effective manner to relax, de-stress and improve concentration.  

• Apply the Relaxation and Massage techniques you learned during the course at home. 

• Understand how your sleep routine affects quality of sleep. 

• Use the Self-Havening Technique daily to build emotional and mental resilience. 

• Take some control to manage your stress levels by applying the information you have been given. 

Extra costs on the course for example textbook, materials or equipment:

None  I will provide some hand cream or aromatherapy blend for the hand massages in session 1 and 2. Perhaps you can reimburse me for this please.  The amount depends on the class size. 

For the first session you will need to bring:

 Nothing.

On completion of this course, what might your next steps be?   

You may want to delve deeper into Aromatherapy or other complementary therapies to help you further to reduce stress levels. 

Brief Description:

Join me to explore the ABC Wellness Kit, specifically designed to address increased stress levels in current times. Learn new Wellness tools in each session to address stress, relax, build emotional resilience, and bounce back! 

You can use all these tools straight away to manage your stress levels day by day!  

Session A: Aromatherapy for Stress Relief  

In this first session we find out how to harness the amazing properties of Aromatherapy essential oils at home & work to relax, de-stress and improve concentration. This is a brief introduction to Aromatherapy, methods of safe and convenient use of essential oils are taking center stage. There is a guided hand massage routine for relaxation. 

Session B: Better Sleep 

Sleepless nights undermine our wellbeing.  

A good night’s sleep allows you to tackle anything – we explore the importance of a sleep routine, including winding down, electric interference, light pollution, ventilation, the importance of food and more. We also look at the use of Aromatherapy essential oils to encourage refreshing sleep. There is a guided Relaxation Technique to help you wind down at night. 

Session C: Coping Strategies for Stress 

This session teaches a variety of tools to ease everyday stress levels, aid relaxation, increase motivation, and address your mood and emotions. 

We look at the role of Aromatic Interventions, Breathing Techniques, Morning Pages and Gratitude Journals. You also discover the Self-Havening Technique, a fantastic tool using the latest findings in Neuroscience, developed by the Ruden brothers in the US. Self-Havening helps you to increase resilience to stress, increase motivation and enables you to change your moods.  

Previous Experience and Knowledge Needed?  

No prior knowledge necessary. This class is suitable for female and male participants. 

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the course, you will have the opportunity to:

• Know how to use Aromatherapy essential oils in a safe and effective manner to relax, de-stress and improve concentration.  

• Apply the Relaxation and Massage techniques you learned during the course at home. 

• Understand how your sleep routine affects quality of sleep. 

• Use the Self-Havening Technique daily to build emotional and mental resilience. 

• Take some control to manage your stress levels by applying the information you have been given. 

Extra costs on the course for example textbook, materials or equipment:

None  I will provide some hand cream or aromatherapy blend for the hand massages in session 1 and 2. Perhaps you can reimburse me for this please.  The amount depends on the class size. 

For the first session you will need to bring:

 Nothing.

On completion of this course, what might your next steps be?   

You may want to delve deeper into Aromatherapy or other complementary therapies to help you further to reduce stress levels. 

Brief Description:

Welcome to this wonderfully fragrant Well Women Workshop! Learn how to enhance your wellbeing with the use of simple, but effective Aromatherapy remedies you can use at home. Explore how Aromatherapy can help to ease health problems caused by women’s hormonal imbalances, we will cover a wide range of issues affecting women of different ages. Examples are skin and hair issues, digestive issues, water retention, difficulty sleeping, fuzzy heads, hot flashes, and more.

There will be plenty of opportunities to sample essential oils and oils blends and you’ll learn how to prepare safe and effective aromatic remedies for home use. There will be a relaxation exercise and a guided hand massage to address some of the issues covered in this workshop. A fragrant jar of hand cream is yours to take home.

Hand outs will be provided.

Previous Experience and Knowledge Needed?

No previous knowledge needed.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the course, you will have the opportunity to:

• Know how you can use Aromatherapy essential oils safely in the home setting for yourself.
• Know which essential oils can be used to help with women’s hormonal imbalances.
• Know how to use essential oils for a range of health issues affecting women.
• Create simple aromatic home remedies to alleviate some health issues caused by an imbalance in hormones.
• Use a relaxation technique to tackle stress and tension.
• Apply a hand massage using an aromatic cream to help with some common women’s health issues

Extra costs on the course for example textbook, materials or equipment:

There is a cost in the fee to cover any materials for the course.

For the session you will need to bring:

Yourself

On completion of this course, what might your next steps be?

You may wish to explore further Aromatherapy courses.

You may wish to learn more about other forms of complementary therapies useful for Women’s Hormonal problems.

The Adult Learn and Train team is also able to give course information or search for alternative courses for you. Adult Learn and Train offer courses through-out the year.
Try similar courses or maybe look at learning something completely new.
You will find provision on some Saturdays and Sundays; you will also find courses available in the day and evening at different venues in Cambridge. Courses vary in length from one-off sessions to 10 weeks or more.

Question and answer:

Q= I am taking HRT. Are there any contra-indications to using essential oils for me?

A= There are no contra-indications per se to using essential oils while using HRT,  however, essential oils can be hormone balancers. Your symptoms may change, in which case you may want to review your prescription with your GP.

In a case where someone has a hormone dependent tumour and uses HRT, the topical use of hormone balancing oils needs to be avoided, as is the case with any hormone dependent cancers.  Professional Aromatherapists in the UK do not advocate internal use of essential oils.  Where there are hormone balancing essential oils diffused into a public space, the risk is minimal. This is because the absorption rate through the lungs and nose is unlikely to affect you physically.  Diffused essential oils affect your mental and emotional being by being absorbed via the limbic system, i.e. inhaled through the nose.  However, in your own home it would be sensible to avoid using hormone balancing altogether.. 

So, hormone dependent cancers mean some essential oils cannot be used, HRT itself is not a contra-indication for essential oils.