The Designer Gardens

Get back to basics and let nature nourish you. In this workshop, you’ll learn how you can live cleaner, greener and healthier. Nature has the answers, and working with powerful aromatherapy essential oils extracted from plants can nurture you thoroughly — body and soul.

You can soothe conditions, boost wellness, care for your face and body, create throughtful gifts, plus clean and disinfect your environment while having fun with uplifting, wonderful aromatics. Aromatherapy essential oils touch every sense, while providing you with powerful building blocks for well-being.

In this workshop, we’ll cover eight essential oils, including Lavender, Lemon, Eucalyptus, Geranium, Chamomile, Clary Sage, Rosemary, and Spruce. A materials fee of $25 is collected in class from each student and pays for a starter kit (2 ml each) of the discussed essential oils.

You’ll have fun sampling the essential oils and testing them in various ways while also learning pertinent scientific/chemical facts. You’ll also be shown practical and safe ways to incorporate aromamedicine into your everyday life. We discuss best sources, contraindications and extraction methods, plus dispel some important myths.

This introductory workshop, taught by an internationally certified aromatherapist, is designed to teach you all you need to know to get started with aromatherapy.

Rosemary “Dezi” DeSiervi received her international certification in aromatherapy from Dr. Kurt Schnaubelt of the Pacific Institute of Aromatherapy in June of 2001, and also studied at the Shirley Price Institute in the U.K. She continues to study with Dr. Kurt, attending his international conferences on aromatherapy where research papers are presented from leading industry professionals. She recently began developing her own aromatherapy products and markets them online at . Dezi is a holistic health educator and practitioner and has been teaching a semester-length aromatherapy course at West Valley College in Saratoga, CA, since 2003.

ALL CLASSES REQUIRE ADVANCE REGISTRATION, EVEN FOR GIFT CERTIFICATE HOLDERS.

February 11, 2012 (Saturday) Noon – 4:00 p.m. $75

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