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Make Your Own Aromatherapy Tea Lights!
By The Untamed Alchemist® (Kristina Bauer)
When and where
Date and time
Saturday, December 13, 2014 · 2 - 5pm PST
Location
Five Element Farm Sagle, ID 83860
Refund Policy
Contact the organizer to request a refund.
Description
Join the Untamed Alchemist for this 3-hour workshop making aromatherapy tea light candles, perfect for stuffing stockings and sharing as hostess gifts! You'll be creating aromatherapy candles to take home and enjoy or give away as gifts/sticking stuffers. There will be four pure essential oil blends to pair with corresponding colored beeswax (white, ivory, red, or green). You can choose to make five of each or mix and match.
We'll begin by discussing the essential oil blends available for your use in this workshop as well as some other perfect choices for aromatic candles. We'll talk briefly about each blend's aromatic profile and subtle energy before we give you a chance to experience each blend's fragrance (sniffing! hurray!). Blends for candles will include a Spice Blend including Sweet Orange, Cinnamon Bark, Clove Bud, and Nutmeg (red candles) and a Winter Woods Blend with conifers, pines, and Cedarwood (green candles).
If we get the time, we'll throw in a Candy Cane Blend--pure Peppermint.... yum! (white candles)
There will also be a few surprises to make your candles and candle-making experience exceptional!
Before you create your aromatherapy candles, we'll talk briefly about candle-making in general. Then, we'll melt and color the wax and add the corresponding aromatherapy fragrance blend. Combined, they'll make an aromatic beeswax for you to pour into your tea light cups!
This workshop provides a very basic introduction to aromatherapy and candle-making. We'll provide all of the supplies including the wax, pre-tabbed tealight wicks, candle dyes, tealight cups, and premium essential oil already blended in holiday appropriate scents. You'll come away with approximately 20 aromatic tea candles and a basic understanding of the subtle energies associated with the oils and blend(s) you selected. We'll also provide printed recipes, a resource/shopping list, and basic candle-making information for takeaway so you can continue to create more candles after the workshop.
Registration must be made in advance so we can plan for supplies and set-up. There's no need to print or bring a paper ticket--we'll confirm with registrants and provide further details (including directions) prior to the workshop.
We will refund cancellations in full up to 48 hours prior to the workshop. With less than 48 hours notice, cancellations will only be refunded at 50% to cover our supply purchases.
NOTE: To allow that the candles may completely cool and set properly, participants may have to leave their candles at the workshop location overnight; in that case, they will be available for pick-up the following day or thereafter.
About the organizer
Organized by
The Untamed Alchemist® (Kristina Bauer)The Untamed Alchemist is Kristina Bauer, an inspired storyteller and passionate facilitator with over 25 years experience engaging and educating others in relationship with aromatics, herbs, oils, food, nature, magic, archetypes and alchemy. The love she has for plant medicine, folklore, slow food, and hand-crafted, nature-based creation came early in the abundant gardens, bustling kitchens, rich cellars, wild corners, and cozy armchairs of Danish farms.
Kristina's fascination with the mythology, magic, folk medicine, and faery tales that colored her childhood led her to pursue a unique, diverse, and lifelong education in Mother Earth chemistry, folklore, mythology, women’s studies, religion, and ritual, all of which inform her work as a teacher and writer.
Kristina holds a Bachelor of Arts in Women’s Studies and Religion from the University of Redlands' Johnston Center where she was able to craft a personalized major: Empowering Women through Nature, Knowledge, Ritual, and Divination. The unique education that resulted gave Kristina breadth and depth in a combination of women’s studies, religion and spirituality along with express emphasis on the occult, Mother Earth chemistry, folklore, mythology, liberation theology, and symbology.
In addition to her Bachelor's Degree, Kristina has committed many, many hours to online and in-person education in aromatherapy, herbalism, distillation, massage therapy, and ancient alchemy. After her foundation was laid and applied meaningfully in her own work, Kristina also invested in teacher training as an aromatherapy educator through Aromahead Institute and a facilitator of the alchemical framework associated with AromaGnosis. With over 20 years experience as a trainer for non-profit and corporate entities and considerable leadership training under her belt, Kristina creates powerful, engaging, dynamic, empowering, and inspired learning experiences to her workshop participants and online students.
Ever eager to continue her own learning, Kristina balances her teaching with her own continuing education in courses by noted industry experts including Robert Tisserand, Gabriel Mojay, Ann Harman, Cathy Skipper, Florian Birkmayer, and Juliet Blankespoor. As Executive Producer and writer of the forthcoming essential oil documentary Uncommon Scents, Kristina engaged with over 60 of the leading independent voices in the field of aromatherapy which has brought her a unique perspective on essential oils, aromatherapy, and engagement with plant medicine for wellness.
Kristina lives with her husband and a menagerie of critters at their homestead, Five Element Farm, in North Idaho. She delights in celebrating the magic and inspiration found in science, nature, symbology, and lore in her life, her work, her products, and her classroom.