2010 Plant Language Seminars Overview
Essential Oil Journeys and Immersions
The Exercises and the Information:
1) FEELING AN ESSENTIAL OIL
• Using Lavender in the shower
Benefits:
• Understand the intricacies of Lavender: Lavandin, Clonal Lavender, Population Lavender and Wild Lavender (Lavander sauvage)
• Experience the subtle yet obvious differences in the therapeutic qualities of these oils
• Become familiarized with the immediate sensation and the health benefits of applying essential oils to the skin
• Emotional balance, strengthened immune system, protection from airborne pathogenes, maintenance of the skin (aging, herpes, fungi, excema, inflammation and many more)
2) UNDERSTANDING AND EXCLUDING POTENTIAL HAZARDS
• Replace potentially risky essential oils with their benign relatives
Benefits:
• Learn the essential oil components that might cause problems to skin, kidneys, liver or nervous system
• Comprehend the role authenticity of essential oils plays in the topic of toxicity
• Learn safe forms of application for essential oils with potential toxicity
3) INGESTING ESSENTIAL OILS I
• Ingestion of Lemon oil for inhibition of Phase I and II liver detoxification enzymes
Benefits:
• Healthier liver and skin
4) Helichrysum on the Skin
• Understand the differences between Corsican and Bosnian Everlast oils
• Experience the incomparable regenerative properties of Everlast (Cuts, burns, bruises, wrinkles)
5) Thyme: Understanding the different qualities of chemotypes
• Experience the phenomenon of the various chemotypes of Thymus vulgaris
• Thyme plants grown in different locations develop different therapeutic potential
• Understand the differences and the similarities of the various chemotypes
• Learn the vast spectrum of effectiveness of Thyme, for example bacterial infections, arthritis, STD’s and many more
6) Steam distillation versus CO2 Extraction
• Understand the difference in the extraction process and the resulting difference in composition
• Experience the differences with the examples of Ginger and Frankincense
7) Solvent Extraction: Absolutes vs. Essential Oils
• Study the theoretical and practical differences between Rose essential oil (Rose Otto) and Rose absolute
8) Essential Oil Authenticity
• Study the topic of purity with Eucalyptus samples:
1 year old Eucalyptus globulus, Eucalyptus radiata and dives, commercial, standardized Eucalyptus cineole
9) Plant Expressions: Identical components - different properties
• Understand when essential oil can be replaced with another one of similar composition
• Learn similarities and differences and the respective preventive and curative qualities of Ravintsara and Niaouli
• Gain an understanding that a plant is not merely a factory of molecules
10) Anti-Inflammative Qualities
• Understand the many types of inflammation and their potential causes: Processed food, lack of movement, et cetera
• Experience essential oils which inhibit the so-called inflammation cascade (a sequence of different physiological processes which ultimately result in inflammation) or simply calm inflamed tissue
11) Ingesting Revisited: Oils for the Liver
• Essential oils for support of the liver and reduction of pathologically elevated liver enzymes
• Therapeutic possibilities for Hepatitis treatments.
12) Oils from the Tropics
• Cinnamon and Clove - Therapeutic benefits and potential hazards
13) The aromatic language of Corsica
• The fascinating combinations of mild character with powerful physiological activity of Corsican oils
• Exploration of the well known and the more unusual (thyroid, prostate) qualities of Corsican essential oils
14) The Bitter Orange Tree
• The Bitter Orange as an example of one plant being able to providing three very different therapeutically extremely valuable essential oils.
• Effectiveness of the oils on body, mind and nervous system
15) Specialties from around the World
• Unique oils such as Monarda fistulosa
• Treatments for many common conditions
• Recipes and suggestions for daily uses
Plant Language integrates the long neglected aspects of biology with the known facts of pharmacology. It explores essentialoils as an expression of the living plant organism, as opposed to a mere mixture of molecules.
Essential Oil Journeys - Immersion encourages you to experience essential oils on your body in order to learn their effects in a way never possible by theoretical study alone. Exercises and recipes are presented that let you treat many common ailments safely and successfully.
Plant Language explores essential oils as an expression of the properties of the living plant organism. The scientific basis for all of this is not found in chemistry or pharmacology (which only deal with the very limited properties of single substances). Instead it is found in biology, which concerns itself with life and living organisms. Especially the disciplines of cellular and evolutionary biology allow to understand how so-called secondary plant metabolites have developed over millions of years to be physiologically active. From the viewpoint of biology we understand that secondary metabolites are present in the plant, have evolved, only because their physiological activity confers an advantage to its parent organism. This means plant secondary metabolites are physiologically active by definition, if they would not be active, they would not be there in the first place. A far cry from the conventional view that these substances are present in the plant as random (waste) products, which are inactive or potentially toxic and that only scientific exploration can find the rare exception which might hold some medicinal promise. A perspective that limits physiological activity to the rare component in the midst of an infinite sea of inactive substances fails to recognize many of the most important healing properties present in complex plant extracts.
Advance registrations fees vaild through August 31st.
Registration fee for San Francisco / Larkspur & New York will be: $345 before September 30th; and $395 as of October 1st
Registration fee for Monterey will be: $125 before September 30th; and $145 as of October 1st
Reserve your seat today!
San Francisco / Larkspur, CA : Oct. 9 - 10
Lead by: Kurt Schnaubelt & Monika Haas
before Aug 31 - $295
before Sept 30 - $345
after Sept 30 - $395
Monterey, CA : Oct. 23
Lead by: Monika Haas
(EO Journeys - Immersion only)
before Aug 31 - $95
before Sept 30 - $125
after Sept 30 - $145
New York, NY : Oct. 30 - 31
Lead by: Kurt Schnaubelt
before Aug 31 - $295
before Sept 30 - $345
after Sept 30 - $395
Aromatherapy Correspondence Course
The Classic Study of French Style Aromatherapy
The longest standing educational program in the US
Thousands of students have graduated since 1985 For detailed description please click on the "Courses" button.
Plant Language Home Study Course and Kit
Innovative Ways for Better Health for the Whole Family
Plant Language is a
A Health Plan for the Whole Family
it teaches how to build resilience and immunity
how to treat many common conditions
and how to help others in need
The Plant Langauage Course and Kit:
Everything you need to create better health for yourself and your family. Naturally!
Step 1: The Reader presents an incredible expansion of the science supporting the spectrum of therapeutic efficacy of essential oils.
As helpful as conventional medicine often is, it also has become a business, which advances its own synthetic drugs and simultaneously obscures/marginalizes/suppresses/covers up the true power of natural extracts. The Plant Language Reader reveals the true power of natural medicine. It shows how pharmacology can only understand how single substances work and why the complex mixtures of most natural extracts are beyond its scope. Plant Language explores uncharted territory as it reveals the true spectrum of healing powers of essential oils (and natural extracts in general) through evolutionary biology.
Step 2: Protocol and Recipes presents specific instructions for applications of essential oils that so far have been considered far beyond the scope of aromatherapy.
Protocols focuses on recipes and issues which have not been repeatedly discussed in the aromatherapy literature. For instance for ingesting or undiluted application of essential oils. It replaces nebulous statements about professional guidance by specifying exactly which oils are suited for these applications.
Protocols and Recipes also draws on the experience of the most accomplished aromatherapy clinicians. Dr. Pamela Taylor gives simple general recipes for safe and quick remedies for many conditions. The recipes are designed so that they can be easily modified to respond not to one specific condition, but to many common complaints.
From the work of Dr. Giraud-Robert come extensive and precise guidelines to help cancer patients to reduce the side effects of conventional treatments with essential oil remedies. The guidelines are specific for the side effects of different types of treatments (chemo therapy, radiation, interferon, etc.), as well as for the organ systems treated.
Step 3: Essential Oil Journeys suggests entirely new ways to personally experience essential oils, without the need for chemsitry.
“Journeys” is a unique feature of Plant Language. It suggests simple exercises for the student to explore the sensations and effects truly authentic oils have on the body. It teaches a personal and intensive experience, for instance to viscerally learn the differences between the effects and the feel of Lavandin, population Lavender and wild Lavender oil. It encourages the student to experience the subtle ways of detoxification and of restoring perfect health to ones liver. It teaches which oils regenerate the skin most gently and more generally how we can enter a into a relation with authentic oils that will improve our overall health and immunity.
Step 4: The Collection: Most radiant, effective essential oils, selected to let the user treat a very wide range of conditions.
The Collection is a center piece of the Plant Language Kit. Instead of reading the theory and then having to go and figure out which oils to buy, the Plant Language Collections literally put the most precious authentic essential oils right in front of you, allowing you to start trying the unbelievable radiance and softness of truly authentic oils the moment you open the package.
To harness the full spectrum of benefits essential oils offer they have to be authentic, which means unmodified, unstandardized, unadulterated steam distillates from the plant. Only the authentic oil contains the combination of components that evolutionary modelling and natural selection have engineered for the plant’s survival. Only the unique composition of an authentic oil captures the plant’s ability to survive and transfers its ability to thrive in harmony to our own body and soul.
Assembling authentic oils which address the broad therapeutic variety / spectrum (many issues) represented in the collection requires direct contact to many producers all over the world. The essential oils in the Plant Language Collection are all 100% authentic and have been selected to give its owner and user the broadest possible range of conditions to treat (from the Common Cold to the side effects of Interferone) and also the most specific selection to improve overall health and immunity. The Collection of authentic essential oils is the treasure trove at the core of the Plant Language Kit. Assembling these pristine oils one by one would represent a value that in and of itself pays for the Plant Language Kit.
Step 5: Start playing with oils and making your own blends as you unpack the Kit.
The Plant Language Kit inclusdes a Toolbox with empty bottles, a funnel and a measuring cylinder, pipettes and small strips, so you can enjoy you oils only minutes after you unpack the box.
Plant Language Correspondence Course:
The full course consists of three books, 30 essential oils and tools such as pipettes, bottles, smell strips etc.
We only have 5 more of the first 60 Plant Language Course Packages left!
If you order in January, you can receive either the Oil Collection 2 or the Presentation CD Package for FREE, with purchase of the Plant Language Course Package.
Plant Language Oil Collection 2 - $375.00
Plant Language Presentation CD - $375.00
Plant Language Seminars 2010
Live Intro to the Most Innovative cConcepts in Aromatherapy
The Plant Language Seminars
The Plant Language Seminars are designed to offer the student a sweeping overview over the new scientific concepts which finally recognize the full spectrum of the therapeutic activity of essential oils. In the past many outstanding effects of essential oils were not recognized by conventional pharmacology because these effects could not be documented with the methods of single substance pharmacology. Essential oils and other natural extracts are, however, complex mixtures of many substances, which require different methods to adequately recognize and describe them. The recognition of the universal importance and unrivaled healing powers of non-specific effects of multicomponent mixtures through the perspective of evolutionary biology puts a whole range of possibilities into the hands of lay persons workig with essential oils that were previously considered impossible.
The seminars give the student an easy to grasp explanation of the new concepts behind the healing powers of essential oils. They also introduce representative new applications such as remedies for the side effects of cancer treatments, helpful mixtures for Hepatits B and C and similar new fields of application.
The seminars will also reference the new ways to gather personal experiences with essential ols and also detail the many factors by which authentic oils are therapeutically much more useful than standardized oils.
In short, the seminars will familiarize the student with all the new content and concepts presented in the Plant Language Kit!
For more info please call PIA at 415 479 9121
Conference Proceedings 2009
San Francisco, February 20 - 22, 2009
Proceedings of the 7th Aromatherapy Conference are now available!
Below are summaries of two plenary presentations:
Anne-Marie Giraud-Robert
Essential Oils for Cancer Patients
Dr. Anne-Marie Giraud-Robert discusses using aromatherapy along side conventional cancer treatments such as surgery, radiation or chemotherapy to reduce the debilitating side effects. Her study also shows that essential oils reduce the toxicity of conventional treatments, stimulate the organism’s own defenses and drain toxins from liver and kidneys. Essential oils can prevent and treat infections during chemotherapy and protect the skin during radiation therapy. Essential oils also manage many symptoms after completion of conventional treatments, such as fatigue, blisters, nausea, epistaxis and lymphedema.
Dr. Giraud-Robert study summarizes complementary use of essential oils in over 1700 clinical cases, including ovarian, lung, prostate and other cancers, observing increased efficacy of the conventional treatment, improved quality of life and dramatically increased average survival rates.
Michael Wink
Scientific Basis for Essential Oil Efficacy
In the perspective of conventional medicine, medicinal plant extracts are generally considered to be of low efficacy. Prof. Wink makes the point that this is due the difficulty, conventional pharmacology has, to correctly assess the activity of natural multicomponent mixtures.
Plants cannot run away when attacked by herbivores nor do they have an immune system to fight infection. Instead they have developed biologically active secondary metabolites to serve as their defense.
Prof. Wink will present the molecular mechanisms by which secondary plant metabolites induce physiological effects and also how natural multicomponent mixtures such as essential oils have evolved to become highly effective and how they outperform mono substances.
Jeffrey Yuen
Essential Oils for Degenerative Disease
Jeffrey Yuen has pioneered the application of essential oils according to the principles of Chinese Medicine. Mr. Yuen draws from unparalleled knowledge of the traditions of Chinese medicine. He has fascinated aromatherapy enthusiasts everywhere as he unifies time tested tradition with contemporary aromatherapy.
According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, degenerative disease develops when we no longer regenerate sufficiently because our ability to derive energy and nutrients from the food we eat has become impaired. A fist step to reversing degenerative processes is to use essential oils according to the individual constitution of a patient so that nutrients are properly digested and absorbed and waste materials are eliminated.
For an overview of all topics and presenters please download the brochure pdf. The book can also be ordered by going to the Books and Media section!
To print the brochure please click on the pdf links below.
Chinese Medical Aromatherapy Jeffrey Yuen Seminar Recordings on CD
Recordings from Jeffrey Yuens seminar on Chinese Medical Aromatherapy San Francisco, February 11 & 12, 2006 available on CD
The use of essential oils in the tradition of Classic Chinese Medicine and specific therapeutic strategies. An exciting approch to Advanced Medical Aromatherapy.
$119.75
The Flu of the Moment: An Aromatherapy Perspective
Essential Oils as Antiviral Agents
This proceedings volume contains the scientific and aromatherapy presentations given at the 2005 PIA International Conference - $55
Natural essential oils are effective against viral pathogens such as Herpes, Shingles or Flu viruses. There is a fair amount of research that proves it and it is well established through the collective experience of the aromatherapy community. However, rather than recommending a blend of oils and pretending it would be a magical cure, we believe that some education about the antiviral effects of essential oils is most useful for the treatment of viruses. The following thoughts are directed to everyone who wonders what could be done preventatively and for treatment (if needed) within the realm of aromatherapy or alternative medicinal approaches.
While this is not the place to critique specific drugs such as Tamiflu, there are some general thoughts about the efficacy of this class of antiviral drug. Oseltamivir is a neuraminidase inhibitor. Neuraminidase is the enzyme that allows the viral progenie to move out of the infected cell. The approach to inhibit this enzme is a typical pharmacological strategy - to find a single target and inhibit it. As the virus evolves the enzyme evolves and, sooner or later, it will escape the action of the drug!
Essential oils, on the contrary, act in “pleiotropic” fashion. Their antiviral activity does not arise from inhibiting a single target feature in the virus or its replication process. Instead, secondary plant metabolites have evolved to defend against viruses by attacking multiple physiological mechanisms. Essential oils modulate proteins and change membrane fluidity and functionality all at the same time, attacking all viral pathogens in the body.
The efficacy of essential oils against viral pathogens is best demonstrated in the treatment of herpes. Since the oils can be applied to the affected tissue, the results are quick and convincing. Try Our Herpes Blend
Essential oil can be utilized in whichever way one is most comfortable with. The idea is to use oils which are as mild as possible so that their repeated use does not cause aversion or irritation. We recommend several types of oils for antiviral therapies (Click on any of the oils to purchase them or find out more about them):
Palmarosa and various Eucalyptus oils (Eucalyptus radiata) lend themselves perfectly to diffusing (and thereby reducing) microorganism and viral count in room air.
Another entirely underestimated option is to use Propolis. Approximately ten percent by weight of Propolis is essential oil components. The bee resin will take these components into the small intestine where they display extraordinary antiviral power. In addition, most individuals do not have problems ingesting Propolis as it is sold in pill form in the supplement section.
From an aromatherapy perspective, the combination of Propolis and essential oils would be the most effective, natural method to prevent and treat viruses such as Herpes, Shingles or dreaded influenza viruses.
Instructor's Supplement
"this is aromatherapy"
PPT presentation $275
The PIA Masters Collection $375
An entirely new way to present aromatherapy. Over 200 slides representing the content of PIA Masters series Vol.: 1 - 3. Give your audience what they want the most: Treatment protocols and structure energy diagrams for many essential oils (from Aromatherapy Lifestyle).
Whenever the need arises back it up with the science from "Chemistry of Essential Oils" and "Biology of Essential Oils."
Select the slides for your audience and arrange them for your own individual presentation. The "this is aromatherapy" collection of presentation slides gives you maximum flexibility and lets you create a presentation taylored precisely to the needs of your audience. From a simple collection of treatment protocols to a sophisticated display of the science behind it.
