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With values entrenched in environmental sustainability and conservation, our aim, since opening our doors in 1991 in Brisbane, has been to reconnect people with nature through aromatherapy. With a philosophy that harmonises social and environmental concerns, as well as various certifications to support our preparations, we have established a standard to which others can only aspire to. We also proudly attained 3-Star ecoBiz Partnership, an achievement that recognises our commitment to the environment through consistent sustainability practices.

We create and make all of our aromatherapy and skincare preparations in our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility (solar-powered, may we add) in Banyo, Queensland. This means we ensure our sustainably sourced ingredients and products remain of the highest integrity, and offer quality preparations that are palm oil-free, vegan, cruelty-free, certified natural, and in most cases, certified organic.

Our stores are a sanctuary for the senses. They provide a nurturing, relaxing space for our customers, the Green Goddess and God. The Green Goddess and God are socially and environmentally responsible individuals who embody positivity, thoughtfulness and empathy. They look for ways to enhance their health and find balance in their life, while living in harmony with nature.

In 2008, we opened our first store in Kyoto, Japan. Our decision to enter the Japanese market was an easy one after we contemplated our values and vision. The cultural values and ethics of Japan aligned perfectly with our own, as did the aesthetics of Japan’s natural world. Since opening our stores in Japan, we have adapted many Japanese concepts, which are reflected in our current collection, including our Shinrin-yoku (forest bathing) and Sacred Space ranges.

Since 1987, we have offered workshops to assist people on their journey of discovery, providing a nurturing environment to explore ways to incorporate aromatherapy as part of their daily ritual, enhancing their overall wellbeing. We are excited to be rolling out online aromatherapy workshops, which have been designed based on many of Salvatore Battaglia’s internationally acclaimed aromatherapy books and textbooks, including The Complete Guide to Aromatherapy (1st, 2nd & 3rd Editions), Aromatree, and Aromatherapy and Chakras.

Marika Fleri

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Marika Fleri has been practicing aromatherapy for the past 20 years in Malta. She is specialized in complementary therapy use in oncology, palliative care and with people with life limiting illnesses.

Marika coordinated The National Cancer Platform which brings together all Maltese non-government organizations working in the field of cancer and she manned a ‘one-stop shop’ concept office at Sir Anthony Mamo Oncology Center for seven years. She was also the clinical aromatherapist in residence at the hospital working with other health care professionals to offer an integrative and holistic approach to treatment.

She is a VTCT Tutor, Assessor and Internal Quality Assurer.

Marika is Airmid Institute’s proud Maltese ambassador.

She now runs AromaHub Malta together with Lorraine Spiteri. AromaHub’s goal and mission is to be there for clients ‘Come rain or shine, In health and in sickness, come what may …. Every step of the way’

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A wise man once told me that rather than us choosing our jobs, our jobs usually choose us and as I look back on the past ten years of my life I can see the various events that happened that led me from being a holistic aromatherapist having a handful of clients, who I saw in a small treatment room in my house to specializing in complementary therapy use in cancer and palliative care and with people with life limiting illnesses. This led me to then work in an oncology hospital for seven years. Today I run my own business together with my childhood friend Lorraine.

During my presentation I will be highlighting and speaking about the connections built with other health care professionals throughout the years and the way that these professional relationships have enabled me to extend my practice beyond what I would have ever imagined. I will be talking about aromatherapy use with cancer patients during various stages of the cancer journey through projects set up with other health care professionals at the hospital to support patients through their experience from the moment of diagnosis onwards.

We will be walking with some of my patients through case studies that I will be presenting and we will see how aromatics, love and care made a difference in their experience.

We will also be seeing how these same connections and the hospital experience are shaping the way we work at our medi-spa and how even when our external circumstances change, we can adapt ourselves to still reach our goals.

These will include:

Deep Shelter Project – A series of workshops for patients to help them narrate their experience through various art modalities
Aromatic Hearts Project – A project with the Psychologist in residence at the hospital to help extend treatment outside the therapy room through the use of aromatics
Feel Good Friday – AromaHub’s Complementary therapy project for people going through cancer
Share the Love – ArormaHub’s ‘pay it forward’ concept that gives us the possibility to provide treatments for people who cannot afford to pay.
Peripheral neuropathy and mindfulness project with Occupational Therapy Department
TRaC classes at Hospital – Survivorship self-care classes with focal nurses
Gozo Project – Offering services at Malta’s sister island hospital

Tatiana Lustre Dawn

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Tatiana Lustre Dawn aka Twiggy is the owner and manager of Alchemilla Herbals. She is a Mother, Herbalist, Permaculturalist, Geneologist, Lomi Lomi, Reiki and Attunement Therapy Practitioner, Sahumadora, Sacred Song Carrier and Oneironaut. Tatiana is passionate about growing, harvesting and making medicines and also has a keen interest in wild/naturalised medicines.

She has been entranced by plant medicine for as long as she can remember and honours the plants as teachers with deep reverence and respect. Ceremonial work is an important aspect of her life and she works closely with traditional medicine keepers of different lineages. She has a strong calling to learn, carry and teach sacred devotional medicine songs from different cultures. She has have been initiated as a sahumadora and work with fire, smoke and ash for healing, purification and protection.

She believes that with knowledge comes responsibility, so she uses an array of social media platforms and other online spaces to share her experiences and knowledge, as well as regular workshops, classes and an apprenticeship program. Tatiana is a regular guest speaker at many different community events and herbal gatherings around Australia, she writes regular articles for Australian magazines and newsletters, and is currently writing a book about how to grow, harvest/wild harvest and manufacture plant medicine to extract and retain the potency of the herbal constituents.

Tatiana has been the coordinator of the Ravenshoe Community Gardens for over 5 years as a volunteer position. These gardens are a valuable asset to the community and not only are the gardens educational, they also service the local community by providing food for families in crisis.

Tatiana is the founder of The Elder Tree, a not-for-profit organisation which is currently gathering the resources to set up a grassroots herbal education centre on the Atherton Tablelands, Far North QLD. She is also the founder of The Elder Tree podcast which has 4 presenters, each with their own herbal segment.

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This presentation will be exploring the importance of working with fresh plant medicines.

We explore the benefit of having a personal connection to the plants that you are working with and also the increased potency and efficacy of freshly harvested medicine.

There will be a tour of the Alchemilla Herbals apothecary, where Tatiana makes all of her own medicinal preparations using locally grown and wild harvested medicines.

Alana Gall

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Alana is a Pakana (Tasmanian Aboriginal) woman from the north east coast of lutruwita (Tasmania), and more recently, the Bass Strait Islands of Cape Barren and Flinders Island. Alana is passionate about First peoples globally, specifically holistic health and wellbeing. She believes that the wellbeing and identity of First peoples is strongly centred around strong connections to land, culture, spirituality and each other.

She has over eleven years’ experience in research, research translation, community engagement, health education and clinical consultation. She has a background in Nutritional Medicine and completed a Master by Research with a focus on Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine use by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cancer patients and, more specifically, the disclosure of this use to their cancer healthcare professionals, and completed her PhD titled “Exploring Wellbeing from Indigenous Perspectives”. Her work focussed primarily on wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, but also included a focus on the domains of wellbeing for Indigenous peoples in Canada, Aotearoa (New Zealand) and the United States. Alana’s work is grounded in decolonising research approaches, including Indigenist research methods with a strengths-based focus.

Alana is currently a Maurice Blackmore Research Fellow, in the National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine, at Southern Cross University. She is developing a research program that will centre around First Nations Australians traditional medicines and healing practices, aiming to protect and preserve these medicines for future generations, and improve accessibility for all First Nations communities across Australia. In her previous research, Alana found that First Nations peoples tended to use other traditional and complementary medicines when they were not able to access their own, to meet their holistic health and wellbeing needs. Advocating for the respectful inclusion of all these medicines in the Australian health sector, is an important part of addressing the overarching goals of her research program. Indeed, these lands we all live, work and thrive on are, and always will be, First Nations Australians land. The work that NCNM are facilitating by embedding Alana’s research program positions them as allies within this space and shows respect for the Traditional Owners of these lands.

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Primum Non Nocere – acknowledgement of Australian First Nations traditional medicines as a minimum standard

General overview:

As holistic healers we adhere to tenets of practice that centre the patient and consider all aspects of their mind, body, spirit and lives. A core tenet, Primum Non Nocere, translated to ‘first do no harm’ is arguably one of the most important. However, when considering Australian First Nations peoples, the original owners and traditional custodians of this country now called Australia, are we considering whether the way in which we practice is causing them harm? First Nations peoples have oral traditions, meaning their knowledges have not been recorded using written methods. Oral forms of knowledge and knowledge transfer are not acknowledged or valued by our Western system of law in Australia, which has led to the non-existent protection of Indigenous knowledges. This opens up avenues for biopiracy and other forms of harm to First Nations peoples. As the custodians of this country for over 60,000 years, not a single plant would even be here for researchers and industry to use and experiment on if we had not protected, nurtured, and ensured their survival until today. Acknowledgement of this is the bare minimum.

Ildiko Berecz

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Ildiko has 30 years of experience with aromatherapy, starting with home use for tranquility and well-being, continued by a life-changing personal experience of healing from endometriosis, and a decade shifting aromatherapy into alchemy. In the past 10 years Ildiko has been doing field research on Crete, foraging and cultivating aromatic and medicinal plants. Her artisan distillations became a guiding tool on the path less travelled, and a framework of her alchemical teaching platform. Ildiko is an herbalist, aromatherapist, holistic therapist, transformative coach and mentor.

Ildiko’s plant alchemy work inspires and empowers people all around the world, and her workshops, field trips, aromatic apprenticeship and consultations are offered on Crete and online. She is also an educator at The School for Aromatic Studies.

Ildiko’s aromatic essays and articles got regularly published in Aromatika Magazine where she has been a contributing writer in the past 8 years, and she also served as an editor for a year. Ildiko delivers her field reports, wisdom and musings online, and her aromatic adventures have also been published by other professional journals such as Aromatherapy Today.

Ildiko can be followed and contacted at essentialreflections.com

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Celebrating 10 years of living the inspired life of a modern alchemist, in this presentation Ildiko shares her passion and transformative journeys for developing our relationship with the diversity of nature, its medicine and the distillation of aromatic plants. We will be exploring Cretan aromatic plants in context with their classic global allies, alongside empowering stories of what it means for an aromatherapist to become an aromatic distiller.

Is it destiny? Is it a coincidence? We all have a choice to follow our calling. Whether it’s a necessity or curiosity-driven exploration, we inevitably harvest the gifts by filling the gaps from our studies, class and book-learning. Academic knowledge applied and combined with hands-on nature practices expand our holistic horizons. Ildiko’s encouraging aromatic adventures on Crete, explorations and teachings of the plants serve the evolution, healing and awakening of human beings.

No magic pill, but to educate ourselves, learn the individual and collective magic of plants and how to co-create with them. Join the (r)evolution of harmonising holistic perspectives based on awareness, authenticity and personal aromatic breakthroughs.

Madeleine Kerkhof

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Madeleine is a former RN, Clinical Aromatherapist, Aromatherapy Educator, Massage Therapist and AquaCare Specialist.

Madeleine is a highly respected expert and world renowned educator in Clinical Aromatherapy (AromaCare), AquaCare and other complementary therapies, specialised in the care for the frailest patients and elderly, in oncology, in palliative and end of life care. Madeleine is a member and advisor to the Dutch Nurses Society and Palliactief (NL), of the American Holistic Nurse Association, AIA (where she is in the education committee), NAHA (and approved educator), IAAMA, IFPA, EONS, EAPC.

She is also a Fellow of ICAN, the International Clinical Aromatherapy Network.

Madeleine is the author of many papers and these highly acclaimed books:

“Complementary Nursing in End of Life Care” (2015)

“CO2 Extracts in Aromatherapy, 50+ Extracts for Clinical Applications” (2018),

Her new English book “Clinical AromaCare – Aromatherapy for Clinic and Practice” is expected in the spring of 2023.

Madeleine is also the author of Dutch National Guidelines on Aromacare and Aquacare in Palliative and Cancer care (2022).

Madeleine teaches at Kicozo’s campus in The Netherlands where she heads a team of tutors. Kicozo is accredited by the Dutch Board of Nursing Quality.

She is a guest teacher for some of the best schools for Aromatherapy and Integrative Medicine & Nursing in the world. She travels the world and also offers online programs, offering safe and science based (continuing) education, to train nurses and health care professionals in clinical aromatherapy (AromaCare), and other clinical complementary (nursing) techniques to enhance quality of life for patients and their loved ones.

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In The Dutch Healthcare setting, including home care, aromacare slowly gains a place in the care offerings. There is an increasing interest in complementary modalities, but there is still much work to be done. Although many health care professionals, such as physicians, nurses, therapists, and especially patients and their loved ones are positive about these development, there is a need for consistency in protocols and back up of evidence based guidelines and practice. Madeleine shares her learning points and hopes to inspire you with the initiatives she has helped to develop in the last 20 years.

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