UPDATED: June 24, 2024
Learn Something New Today from Mom’s Favorite Educators
I am a perpetual learner and for many years I’ve made it a personal goal to learn something new everyday!
I’ve taken at least a few courses from each of the educators below. Most of them offer lifetime access. This is something I really appreciate, since it seems that each time I login for a refresher, I learn something that I missed the first time around! Some are affiliates, some are not. Either way, I hope you’ll take advantage of their knowledge share.
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Learn Something New with:
- Aromahead Institute
- FREE Reduce Allergies Naturally Webinar
- DIY Skin Care Business with Christine Glaser, CA
- Formula Botanica with Lorraine Dallmeier
- Herbal Academy
- Tincture Making 101 Mini Course (Closing Soon)
- 3 Summer Fun workshops!
- Kami McBride
- Learning Herbs with John Gallagher
- Lipid Oils Academy with Susan M Parker
- Northwest School of Aromatic Medicine with Evan Sylliaasen
I’ll update this page on a regular basis as new workshops, masterclasses, and courses become available. And also whenever I find a new educator I love! So, anytime you want to learn something new, check out what’s going on here, first.
Aromahead Institute
Aromahead Institute is one of the world’s leaders in Aromatherapy and essential oil education. They offer classes ranging from an introduction to Natural Living all the way to Level 3 Aromatherapy Certification. They also offer a whole slew of 1-3 hour workshops where they focus on one particular issue or plant.
I have personally taken nearly every course Aromahead has to offer and this is where I received my Aromatherapy Certification.
🔆FREE Reduce Allergies Naturally Webinar
Presented by Aromahead founder, Andrea Butje, the Reduce Allergies Naturally webinar is appropriate at this time every year! It covers 5 essential oils that help reduce allergy symptoms.
During the 80-minute webinar, Andrea will walk you through crafting 5 different essential oil blends to help you manage your allergies:
- A Peaceful Sleep linen spray,
- A Lavender & Sweet Orange hand-cleansing gel,
- A Best Smelling green cleaning spray,
- A Morning Shower blend, and
- An I Need Relief Now essential oil inhaler.
Most importantly, though, you will learn WHY to use these essential oils! That means when you leave the webinar you know HOW to create your own blends from these 5 essential oils to help support your vital energy and reduce the load on your immune system!
Learn how to reduce your allergies today! Watch Now!
🔆FREE Class: Regardless of where you are in life, it’s never too late to learn how essential oils can benefit your health and well-being. Register for the FREE Webinar today and learn How to Become a Certified Aromatherapist.
DIY Skin Care Business
Certified Aromatherapist, Natural Skin Care Formulator, and fellow Aromahead Institute graduate, Christine Glaser has been formulating and selling her natural skin care products online for the past decade.
As an e-commerce coach, Christine brings together all the knowledge she’s gained through working with numerous selling platforms into a variety of easy to follow workbooks and courses. With lifetime access, each of her offerings paves the way for other natural skin care formulators to follow their dream path more easily.
If you dream of marketing your own natural skin care line, check out these great resources:
- Skin Care Business Branding Course (7 hours of video content, all skill levels)
- Celebrate Your Wins Calendar (undated, positive mindset, goal setting planner)
- Etsy SEO and SSO Guide (packed with guidance for selling effectively on Etsy)
Formula Botanica
Formula Botanica is one the world’s leading online schools for Organic Cosmetic Formulation. They have taught over 20,000 students in 190 countries the art and science of natural skin care formulation.
Learn something new about natural skin care formulation at Formula Botanica’s FREE Cosmetic Formulation Foundations class. Click here to register today (not an affiliate link).
Herbal Academy
Herbal Academy provides herbal enthusiasts the groundwork they need to pursue whatever herbalism avenue they wish, from family herbalist to clinical herbalist. From absolute beginner to advanced courses their goal is to provide affordable education that represents a broad spectrum of herbal viewpoints and respects Nature.
They also offer some really fun short courses on botanical skin care, perfumery, herbal stress management, botanical drawing, and making herbal tinctures. And all of Herbal Academy’s courses have lifetime access. Click here to check out the entire Herbal Academy catalog.
🔆Tincture Making 101 Mini Course (Closing Soon)
Have you ever wondered how easy it is to make an herbal tincture? It is easy, by the way…once you know how!
The Herbal Academy’s Herbal Tincture Making 101 Mini Course is open for enrollment once a year. The doors close for the 2024 Cohort on June 28th.
This mini course comes with LIFETIME ACCESS and includes:
- What tinctures are
- How to choose the right herbs & solvent
- How to make tinctures, including alcohol-free
- How to create tincture formulas
- How to trouble-shoot your tinctures
- And some tested tincture recipes.
After this class you’ll be able to make your own herbal tinctures to support your and your entire family’s health and wellness! Save My Spot!
🔆Summer Fun Activities for the Whole Family!
Here are two really fun workshops that the whole family can participate in:
- Flower Pressing
- Botanical Dyes
- Online Nature Camp
And don’t miss the add-ons—they’re worth it!
Flower Pressing Workshop (Register)
Remember pressing flowers between two sheets of wax paper when you were a kid? The 4-part Flower Pressing summer workshop from Herbal Academy is so much more than that!!
In this Summer Fun class, you’ll learn
- About the tools that make the best pressed botanicals
- How to press fresh flowers and leaves from your yard (even some complex flowers, like bee balm!)
- How you can use your pressed botanicals to further your herbal studies
- How to use these botanical beauties for decoration and crafting—think ahead for holiday gift-giving!
Add-on: Handcrafted Botanical Press with multiple layers—if you don’t have the supplies to DIY a press, this is a must-have add-on!
This is marketed for herbalists, but the whole family can have fun collecting, pressing, and crafting! Begin Flower Pressing now!
Botanical Dyes Workshop (Register)
Herbal Academy’s laid-back Botanical Dye workshop is so much fun! Learn how to tie-dye and bundle dye with natural dyes. You’ll also learn how to use botanical extracts to dye paper, wood, playdough, and eggs.
All with flower, leaves, roots, and even mushrooms and lichen!
Add-on: Botanical Dye Kit, includes step-by-step instructions—Enroll by July 2nd with the Botanical Dye Kit and Herbal Academy will also provide a FREE Botanical Dye Plants Poster!
This class will take your family’s Summer Fun Tie-Dye Weekend to a new level! Enroll today!
Online Nature Camp (Register)
Did you ever make mud pies as a kid, decorating them with flowers, leaves, and seeds? Remember the fun you had connecting with Nature? Share that experience with a youngster in your life during Herbal Academy’s Summer Nature Camp!
They’ve made learning about Nature fun with scavenger hunts, gardening and crafting activities, and exploring Nature’s pollinators and garden insects. Then make some refreshing natural treats in the kitchen to share on hot Summer days. And wrap up with an early introduction to natural self care by crafting herbal dream pillows, herbal bath blends, and simple skin care.
Remember to save and print all the downloadables. Step away from the computer and into the Garden this Summer! Start the Day Camp!
Kami McBride
Kami McBride is the ultimate Kitchen Herbalist and will teach you her secrets for creating the most potent herbal oil infusions!
Kami’s online Healing Herbal Oils course, taught from her California kitchen and garden, will absolutely make a valuable addition to your knowledge bank. I recommend Kami whenever anyone expresses an interest in learning how to make herbal oils.
🔆Learn Something New: FREE Make Lavender Herbal Oil Workshop
In this FREE workshop Kami will walk you through her secret for crafting a potent, long-lasting, fragrant Lavender Herbal Oil—a technique she’s been refining for the past 30+ years! Learn how you can take your herbal oils from good to fabulous! Watch the FREE Lavender Oil class on-demand today!
LearningHerbs
Inspiration abounds in the Evergreen Pacific Northwest where John and Kimberly Gallagher grew LearningHerbs alongside their growing family.
Filled with inspirational mini courses from guest speakers, an introduction to herbs, learning about wild harvesting, and cultivating an herbal garden, LearningHerbs is an excellent place to start an herbal education.
They also have one of my favorite subscription programs: Herb Mentor. By enrolling (either monthly or annually) you will have access to all of the LearningHerbs courses along with a huge growing database of herbal monographs!
Click here to learn something new at LearningHerbs (not an affiliate link).
The Lipid Oils Academy
For years Susan Parker has researched and worked with lipid “carrier” oils. When so much focus is on essential oils, Susan has made it her goal to put some of that limelight on these beautiful and skin-nourishing plant oils.
I consider her The Lipid Oil Expert and recommend her book Power of the Seed and her courses whenever I can.
Power of the Seed is available on Amazon. (Read Mom’s Review.)
With consumers becoming more aware of the impact synthetics can have on their skin, there’s a definite move towards waterless skin care products. Now’s the time to learn about the lipid oils and focus on incorporating them into your skin care.
Success with Carrier Oils course has closed its doors for the 2024 cohort. Please check back for the next Lipid Oils Academy course with Susan Parker coming soon!
The Northwest School of Aromatic Medicine
From his studio on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, Evan Sylliaasen shares his knowledge about traditional forms of aromatic medicine, specifically incense.
I’ve taken almost every course offered by The Northwest School of Aromatic Medicine. Each of the courses has lifetime access and will enhance the way you work with aromatics in your wellness practices.
The 2024 Botanical Gums & Resins cohort is closed. Please check back later for the 2024 Incense Crafting cohort and new free workshops.
Chris P | Writer, Certified Aromatherapist, Natural Skin Care Formulator
Chris (“Mom”) enjoys formulating bespoke aromatherapy, skin care, and herbal products to support her family, pets, friends, and clients. She also loves experimenting with recipes in the kitchen. An avid reader, writer, and lifetime learner, Chris enthusiastically explores research rabbit holes and then writes about her discoveries.💚 (Learn more >>)
