By Christina Polnyj
This month I give thanks for a year of abundant learning and for the inspiration I receive from people all over the world. One of the great joys of studying aromatherapy and plant medicine is traveling to conferences to meet like-minded individuals who are passionate in their work. In September I travelled to Dublin, Ireland to attend Botanica, 2014, an international conference organized by Rhiannon Lewis. Botanica promotes the safe, effective and ethical use of essential oils and plant extracts. Rhiannon has worked passionately for years to bring this conference to fruition. Be on the lookout for Botanica, 2016!
The conference was held at Trinity College, where I had the privilege to meet Kailash Dixit and his wife Deepa, who travelled all the way from Nepal. Kailash is a distiller of essential oils who has inspired me for years. It was a great joy to finally meet face to face. His business is called Aarya Aroma.
Nepal’s rich biodiversity offers abundant medicinal and aromatic plants. Kailash has actively taken part in the cultivation, processing, and sales of these extraordinary gifts of Mother Nature. Kailash and Deepa also have formed a farmer’s cooperative where local and indigenous people participate and, as a result, the community has significantly raised their socio-economic status. As a responsible organization, Aarya Aroma is assisting the less privileged farmers and indigenous people with cultivation and production of their plants and has guaranteed a market for the raw materials.
Passion is what Kailash embodies in his work and it truly shows in their oils which are absolutely spectacular. For years I have followed his German Chamomile Project. This plant produces an amazing therapeutic essential oil useful in healing muscle, tendon or ligament injuries. It is a powerful anti-inflammatory and calming to the nervous system.
Here is link to the chamomile farm. I particularly like photo of the footprints in the dirt from the planting of the seeds.
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You can purchase this beautiful oil through the Florida School of Massage Bookstore or online at aromaticsinternational.com.
Join Christina for her popular “Therapeutic Use of Essential Oils” January 17-18, 2015. Find more information here or visit Christina’s website at www.essentialeducationinternational.com.
