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Workshops

DISCOVER LIVING LIFE AS NATURE INTENDED.

Knots Elementals is first and foremost an educational force. We consider the sharing of knowledge about effective and safe use of essential oils and herbal preparations the first step. The enjoyment and satisfaction of preparing and using quality preparations follows on naturally from that. Our workshops are intensive, half-day accelerated learning tutorials which cover the basics in detail with room to practice blending skills and gain valuable knowledge and familiarity with the products. Bespoke recipes are identified for each person to create individual blends.

Knots Elementals: Workshops

Workshops list:
  • Alternative Medicine Cabinet Workshop
    Alternative Medicine Cabinet Workshop
    • properties of 9 herbal plants
    • how to use them
    • key essential oils & formulae
    • quality and safety - organic?
    • measurement guidelines
    • use with plain bases
    • alternative first aid
    • common ailments
    • blending demonstration
    • make your own herbal cream
    • reference library

    cost £50 per person
  • Bespoke Skincare Workshop
    Bespoke Skincare Workshop
    • properties of 12 essential oils
    • use with plain vegetable bases
    • blending guidelines
    • facials, massage, body care
    • quality and safety
    • how to shop
    • natural fragrances
    • blend your own scent
    • your thumbprint session
    • bespoke recipes
    • reference library

    cost £50 per person
  • Equine and Canine Workshop
    Equine and Canine Workshop
    • what is an essential oil?
    • why horses & dogs respond
    • properties of key essential oils
    • how to use them
    • application
    • quality and safety
    • day to day stable use
    • alternative first aid
    • kinesiology demonstration
    • your bespoke shampoo test
    • reference library

    cost £50 per person
  • Reiki Healing
    Reiki Healing
    Tibetan/Usui tradition of natural healing. Reiki is simply a Japanese name for the universal life force energy that exists all around us in the universe and animates to this life force energy in three levels. Each level is a day workshop.
  • Bach Flower Therapy
    Bach Flower Therapy
    Learn how these flower remedies work on the deep disharmony within and how they can pave the way to recovery from physical symptoms and enable us to live our lives to the full. The 38 remedies and the first aid, emergency rescue remedy are covered in two halfday workshops.

The workshops take place at our office, led by myself, Barbara Sargent and run throughout the month on weekdays and on weekends. Morning sessions are usually from 10 am to 2 pm, afternoon sessions 1 pm to 5 pm. We accommodate up to 10 people at a time. They have to be pre-booked and paid for in advance. Gift vouchers are available to treat a friend. We offer light refreshments and a 10% discount on all products bought on the day. A to Z reference: G5 page 103. Ample parking.

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Ring +44 (0)20 8941 0759 or e-mail mailorder@knotselementals.com to check current Workshop dates.

Barbara

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Editorial

KNOTS ELEMENTALS BESPOKE SKINCARE WORKSHOP, TEDDINGTON


"As you sit arround her kitchen table, Barbara Sargent, founder of Knots Elementals, talks you through the properties of various base and essential oils. After an hour of concentrated note-talking, I attempted mixing a few drops of neroli, lemon and jojoba, and manage to create a divine-smelling shampoo. My fellow students are less smug: "Mine smells like stuffing", complains one, who has overdone the rosemary.

Indeed, home blends are fallible, but as each dose can be mixed individually, the cost of getting it wrong is tiny. Next, we are taught how to mix body moisturisers, along with all aspects of aromatherapy, such as how to create a mood or banish a skin problem. Sargent's enthusiasm is infectious, but as I trundle home with my exfoliating scrub, hand cream and few oils - all for about £21 - I wonder if I will still be mixing my own body scrub in a fortnight. However, it takes only 20 seconds to mix, so maybe I will manage.

A few weeks later, my main dilemma, apart from which oils to use, turns out to be what to do with the half-empty bottles of shop-bought products that still line my bathroom shelves.

Best bit: Sargent is a former operations director at Penhaligon's, so you are guaranteed good insider tips. And then there are the very cute glass mixing pots."

Beatrice Aidin, THE SUNDAY TIMES [JANUARY 13, 2002]
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