Learning Aromatherapy Massage on our Practitioner Diploma training course is designed to be flexible enough to fit around modern life with weekend teaching dates.
We run our Level 4 Diploma course at a venue in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire and you will also have a tutor that is available for support and advice throughout the week, for the duration of the course.
On our Aromatherapy course, you will learn to:
- Safely make therapeutic blends using 60 individual essential oils and 30 fixed/carrier oils
- Deliver an Aromatherapy full body massage treatment.
- Understand the benefits and contraindications to Aromatherapy Massage, including the hazards and toxicity of essential oils
- Understand the chemistry of both aromatic and carrier/vegetable oils
- Understand the history and origins of Aromatherapy Massage
- Understand how the oils are absorbed by the body and how the sense of smell works
- Appreciate how aromatic plants are cultivated, how essential oils are extracted and how they can subsequently be adulterated
- Understand the pharmacology, pharmacokinetics and therapeutic properties of both essential oils and carrier oils
- Understand the botany and botanical origins of aromatic plants
- Understand the latest research into the effectiveness of both Aromatherapy and Massage
- How to apply essential oils using methods other than massage
- Undertake 60 case study treatments
- Undertake homework in your own time - including assignments, case studies (as above), a Research Project (approx 500 words based on existing research, ie you do not need to conduct your own research trial), a Business Plan and a Reflective Journal. Estimated home study time is 430 hours over the year (this includes A&P)
- Learn how to set up and run a successful business. (We don’t just want you to be a great Aromatherapist, we want you to be a successful Aromatherapist!)
After successful completion of the IFA Aromatherapy Massage Diploma with Rosewood College, you will:
- Be a fully qualified Aromatherapist
- Be entitled to full membership of the IFA, together with the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) and;
- As a graduate of Rosewood College and member of the IFA, be entitled to use the initials GRWC (Aroma) and MIFA after your name.
“If odours may worke satisfaction, they are so soveraigne in plantes and so comfortable that no confection of the apothecaries can equall their excellent virtue.” John Gerarde
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