香沏 專業芳香療法雜誌

剛開始接觸精油的時候，以為這是一種香水，後來認識了多一點，覺得是一種藥物，認識得深入一點，覺得它是一群知自己甚詳的朋友..

香水畢竟要香，但精油可不媚俗，挺有自己個性與想法，有時還不見得搭理你…..凡藥三分毒，能不用就不用，精油卻是可以天天相伴，只要劑量合適，選擇正確……精油更像是朋友，一群不同個性卻都愛著你的朋友….有的互補、有的相異，但都可以在我們人生中不同階段帶來不同的火花與感動，它靜靜的守候著我們，當需要的時候，就好像心有靈犀，在他們之中總有幾個會特別瞭解我們的缺乏、軟弱、渴望，就會自動來到面前。活生生，在精油香氛裡面上演真實的人生…

本期我們選擇了歐薄荷做為我們主題的精油，除了因為它是我們的文化、成長背景中，隨手可得的一種沏味，在紛擾的生活中，它更使我們得到洗滌與解放，我們也針對醫學背景與口服精油兩個不同的議題，與歐美幾個重要的學者、校長，做了一些有去的採訪與座談，取得他們第一手的經驗與分享，希望能夠讓讀者更能貼近國際上更為多元的芳療文化。

我們每期也會針對SPA、產業相關管理的議題，邀請知名機構的專業經理人一起加入討論，讓讀者更能瞭解產業經營的思維。

我們都很興奮的期待，與你們分享。

編輯室

Sylla Sheppard-Hanger 是註冊芳療師、自然療法師，Atlantic Institute of Aromatherapy芳療學校的創辦人及校長，也是NAHA美國國家芳療協會的安全委員會主席。

Sylla Sheppard-Hanger www.atlanticinstitute.com has thirty-some years experience and personal research into bodywork and essential oils as a Natural Health Care Practitioner, licensed Massage Therapist, Aromatherapist, and licensed Cosmetologist. Her fascination with aromatherapy has led her to study with the most knowledgeable people in the field of aromatic and medicinal plants, essential oil research, herbology. In 1993, she completed the Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Program, Purdue University, Indiana, and continued to complete the International Training in Essential Oils: Advanced Studies - Parts 1 & 2 (1996-7). She was a founding member of the American Aromatherapy Association (1988) and served two terms on the Board of Directors. Sylla is an active participant in the National Association of Holistic Aromatherapy (NAHA), as Chair of the Safety Committee. She is the Founder and Director of the Atlantic Institute of Aromatherapy (Tampa, Florida) www.AtlanticInstitute.com and author of The Aromatic Spa Book (2007), The Aromatic Mind Book (2008), The Aromatic Child Book (2008). The Aromatherapy Practitioner Correspondence Course (revised 2000), and the Aromatherapy Practitioner Reference Manual (1995), a complete reference book of over 350 aromatic plant extracts, with phytochemical, clinical and botanical indexes. Sylla founded and directed the volunteer team for the United Aromatherapy Effort, Inc. (UAE) a non-profit charity whose mission is collection and dissemination of donated aromatherapy products and chair massage to those affected during critical incidents and emergency work and to soldiers in Afghanistan. Since 1996, Sylla has been involved with Dr.Trevor Stokes of the University of South Florida in an on-going research project titled Psychosocial Aromatherapy Research Project (PARP) using aroma in children with autism and other disorders. Sylla is Certified from the graduate program learning Structural Energetic Therapy - rehabilitative massage for acute and chronic pain relief. She also maintains a private Aromatherapy practice (as a licensed massage therapist and cosmetologist) in Tampa, Florida, where she resides with her husband, and two cats.

Sharon Falsetto是註冊芳療師，Sedona Aromatherapie芳療學校的校長，也是NAHA在Arizona州的區域會長。

website: www.sedonaaromatherapie.com

blog: http://sedonaaromatherapie.com/blog

Sharon Falsetto is a UK certified clinical aromatherapist who founded the aromatherapy business, Sedona Aromatherapie, in 2007, located in Sedona, Arizona.  She creates custom aromatherapy blends for therapists, spas, individuals and weddings, in addition to tutoring professional aromatherapy courses online and via distance learning.  She has written many articles for aromatherapy publications, both on and offline.  More information is available about Sharon at her website: www.sedonaaromatherapie.com

擁有藝術、神學及教育學位的Penny Price從事芳香療法將近30年，在英國與海外教授芳香療法。她創立了Penny Price芳香療法和Penny Price芳療學院，並擔任IFPA委員，在2012年6月的IFPA的年度大會上她被選為IFPA委員會主席。

My life in Aromatherapy

Penny Price (with Shirley Price)

My journey into the wonderful world of aromatherapy began when I was about 12 years old. My
mother Shirley Price was a trained teacher but had also trained to be a hairdresser and beauty
therapist, which she practiced first in a small village shop. When we moved to Hinckley, the town
where we both still live now, she opened a larger salon and began to look into making her own
therapeutic skincare. She was also interested in helping my Grannie, her mother, with her terrible
arthritis. Grannie was in constant pain and had trouble moving around. She was, at that time on over
30 different tablets a day just to keep going! Mum began to explore complementary medicines for
Grannie and the skincare, and found aromatherapy.

At that time there were very few courses in Aromatherapy in the UK. In those days, it was usually
a weekend course teaching massage with an aromatic, pre-blended massage oil. On one course
she attended there were 30 delegates using tables for massage with one tutor! Undeterred, mum
started practising aromatherapy as it was then - in 1974.

However, feeling restricted by the use of the oils, she then went to France to try and discover the
healing properties of the oils for herself rather than relying on other people’s blends. This was partly
so that she could understand the oils better and also so that she could help others. I remember
mum coming home full of enthusiasm and trying out all her new-found knowledge on her mother –
she had also learned how to speak French! She’s like that!

As my grandmother responded to the oils, so my mother’s confidence grew and she also began to
have the confidence to blend her own skin care for her beauty salon. People came from all over
our small town to buy face creams and potions for all manner of ailments from sinus congestion
to menstrual tension. What a wonderful idea to put oils for complaints in the moisture cream that
nourished your skin every day as well as having a therapeutic action.

Soon my brother and I were drafted into the business. This started at one night a week, when my
mother would get out her Kenwood Chef and blend creams and oils together. My job was to put the
cream into jars and bottles. My brother had to clean the bottles and put the lids on, and my father
hand-drew every single label and stuck them on. After a very short space of time, we were working
almost every night of the week and my parents realised they were going to have to employ staff to
help them so that my school work did not suffer!

The popularity of the products grew and grew – much to the chagrin of some of the less-well known
people who had taught mum ‘English aromatherapy’. In those days, the blends were supplied by the
people who taught the courses and mixing and blending them yourself was a definite no-no! The
blends had to remain shrouded in mystery and were only available from their original creators. But
in our part of the world, aromatherapy products blended for the individual were becoming more and
more popular.

Eventually, we had to move from the small beauty salon to larger premises to accommodate all the
stock we needed, and of course by that time, people were asking if they could learn aromatherapy
and especially, how to blend. We were the first people to teach aromatherapists how to blend for
an individual client – something that we take for granted now. So aromatherapy in England became
slightly better, because instead of using ready blended oils, we could now use our own knowledge
to create blends for clients. My father, a very intelligent man, had studied organic chemistry and
in particular the chemistry of essential oils. We also became the first school to teach the chemical
properties of popular oils to our students.

I trained as an aromatherapist in 1983, having been involved with the family business since it had
begun, and soon afterwards took a teacher training course so that I would be able to teach the
wonderful art of aromatherapy to others. I remember well my son Edward sitting in his bouncy chair
while I was training – such a good little fellow!

The aromatherapy profession grew in the UK, and professional associations were formed,
notably the IFA and then the ISPA (now the IFPA). Shirley Price was instrumental in both of these
organisations, founding the ISPA herself as a clinical association rather than a profession based in

beauty therapy.

When Mum sold her business in 1998, I worked for the new owners for a while, but it was not the
same as working for my parents and I left shortly afterwards to take a research degree with Oxford
University. I had, by this time, trained over 600 aromatherapists as mum had stopped training as
soon as I was able to take over the role to run her business (which became the largest aromatherapy
business in the world). After I had gained my degree, I went to teach at the local YMCA, but I so
missed my aromatherapy. I felt lost, and out of place and so my lovely husband Bob encouraged
me to open my own business in aromatherapy modelled on everything I had known and enjoyed
so much for so many years. And so Penny Price Aromatherapy and the Penny Price Academy of
Aromatherapy were opened in May 2003. My parents were so happy that I had gone back into
the ‘family’ business and have been a great support ever since, acting as consultants and more over
the last 10 years. I remember 2 very great examples of their help: one was when I did a mail-out of 7
different items to 4000 people! The great Shirley Price and her husband Len sat on the floor stuffing
envelopes for 2 whole days. The other time, we have received a huge order for nearly 10,000 bottles
of product. Again the parents came up trumps, filling bottles, putting on the lids, packing into boxes
every day until the last one was done. I can honestly say that they were both 80 at the time, an
amazing example of love and support. They are very dear to me as you can tell.

Just before mum had retired, we were becoming more and more interested in Gattefosse’s original
method of healing – that is intensive application of essential oils rather than a superficial massage
technique that was relaxing but not intensively healing in one treatment. We wondered why the
training for aromatherapy was restricted to external use, when it wasvery obvious that all essential
oils are able to cross through the skin, and therefore all aroma treatments become internal. Added
to that, therapists were starting to use pessaries and suppositories, gargles and mouthwashes and
even making aromatic teas to drink. We were starting to return to the French ideal of aromatherapy
on a very small scale.

It became clear to me that we should not omit internal and intensive uses of essential oils from
training just because it was unknown or alien to us. After all if one were training to be a chef, the
tutor would not miss out the frying element of cooking because it is more dangerous than baking!
We would not learn to use butter knives to cut steak because it was too dangerous to use steak
knives!

Why then not find out how essential oils properly affect and effect the body and learn about the
complete therapy? The discerning therapist can then choose how they would prefer to use the oils.
It might not be appropriate to massage someone if all they need is a compress over the area using a
slightly more concentrated blend of oils.

But, in England, this aspect of aromatherapy has been given a separate and distinct name of its own
– aromatology! How much better it would be to include the whole spectrum of aromatic practice to
one word – aromatherapy – the art of healing using aromas!

As we attempted some definition of aromatology as distinct from aromatherapy we realised that
the division was, of course, both false and forced. Aromatology is a type of aromatherapy, properly
understood. Because aromatherapy in England has become massage with essential oils the whole
meaning is obscured. Aromatherapy should embrace all methods of using essential oils. So where
once again, my mother had led, I followed into this amazing world of actually helping people to heal
and develop.

Just last year I was asked to treat an open wound with MRSA. The client had had the condition for
2 years following an amputation of his foot. 2 more amputations later and he was left with no leg
below the knee. As the condition was not clearing, even after maggot treatment, he was faced with
losing the whole leg. I know this sounds miraculous (and it was) but within one month, the MRSA
was declared gone from his tests and how he has a prosthetic lower leg, enabling him to lead a
perfectly normal life. This is the stuff I love, proper aromatherapy, proper results, proper illnesses to
treat!

It is my 10th Anniversary this year, on May 25th. Ten years since I took the leap and it was the best
thing I have ever done. We will celebrate with a big Open Day at our local golf club, with guest
speakers and lots of workshops. I know I had a great start in life, being able to follow in my parent’s
footsteps and being taught by them every step of the way, but now I am forging ahead on my own
steam, and that is something too priceless for words (no pun intended). My husband and children
have always been supportive and in the years to come I hope to continue to grow my lovely business
and also to grow as a person too, so that I can better help those who need it.

Lisa M. Browder反射治療師、註冊的芳香治療師、美國拉斯維加斯南森安德森安寧療護院（Nathan Andelson Hospice）的輔助治療法負責人、NAHA美國國家整體芳療協會內華達分會的會長、芳療機構Scentsibility的創辦人。

Kelly Holland Azzaro是註冊認證芳療師，認證花精治療師、靈氣治療師，也是NAHA美國國家芳療協會的前任會長。

Kelly Holland Azzaro, RA, CCAP, CBFP, LMT, is a Registered Aromatherapist, Certified Clinical Aromatherapy Practitioner, Certified Bach Flower Practitioner, Licensed Massage Therapist, Reiki Practitioner, Past Vice President (NAHA) and Current Past President of NAHA (National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy).

Kelly has over 20 years professional experience and educational training in Canine and Equine Acupressure-Massage Therapies, Intuitive Animal Communication, Crystal-Gemstone Therapy, Reiki, Aromatherapy and Flower Essence Therapy for people and their animal friends. Kelly has also created ‘Ashi Aromatics Blends’, an all natural botanical product line for both people and pets.

Kelly has authored articles that have been published in the Aromatherapy Journal and Massage Magazine. She has presented tele-conferences for NAHA, Equine Penzance, and The Health Mastery Systems and has been a guest speaker for the radio show: Un-Break Your Health. She has been interviewed for article content for many media publications which include: Body and Soul Magazine, Health Magazine, Holistic Dog Magazine, Natural Health Magazine, Good Housekeeping Magazine, Massage Magazine, Reader’s Digest and Carolina Mountain Living Magazine along with numerous internet web publications and blogs. Additional articles can also be found on her Blog-‘Flower Power for Pets’(sm).

Kelly, and her husband Marco a Licensed Acupuncturist and Qigong Practitioner work together as a team to educate and empower others.

Kelly Holland Azzaro is approved by the National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a Continuing Education Approved Provider.

Jade Shutes是現任NAHA美國國家芳療協會的會長， East West School for Herbal & Aromatic Studies的校長，著有Aromatherapy for Bodyworkers （Prentice-Hall, September 2007)

Jade has been practicing and studying forms of natural healing for nearly two decades, and was one of the vanguard of professionals who helped introduce aromatherapy to the US. She has been an aromatherapy educator for over 20 years, opening her first aromatherapy school, The Institute for Dynamic Aromatherapy (IDA), in the New England area in 1990. In 2003, the IDA changed its name to: The East-West School for Herbal and Aromatic Studies (www.theida.com) in order to acknowledge the growing interest in both herbal and aromatic remedies and our love for the healing philosophies of the east and the west.  She has traveled extensively throughout Canada, the United States, England, and Japan exploring aromatherapy practices and businesses.

Jade has played an active role in the setting of standards for aromatherapy education in North America and authored published articles on this and other aromatherapy issues.  Her first textbook “Aromatherapy for Bodyworkers” was released by Prentice-Hall in September of 2007. She currently serves as President of the National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy.  To contact: jadeshutes@embarqmail.com   www.theida.com

Dr. Joie Power 是一名神經心理學家。她是前喬治亞醫學院的神經外科助理教授，在門診及住院擁有超過20年的臨床經驗。她也是一個國際知名的芳香療法講師。Dr. Power是Aromatherapy Quick Study Guide的作者（Barcharts， Inc publish）、NAHA專業會員及NAHA 心理神經免疫學和芳香療法的主講人。