Workshops

The power of scent in your daily life

A day in which you learn to smell differently and perceive more deeply.
For those who wish to experience and understand the world of scent.

You will be introduced to essential oils, hydrosols and carrier oils, and learn how to use them in a practical way, combining knowledge, sensory experience and deeper understanding.

You will work with essential oils, hydrosols and carrier oils. You explore the art of blending and experience what scent does on a physical, mental and emotional level. You discover which oils resonate with you personally.

You will go home with new insights and a personal scent treatment

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Scents play an important role in our lives. They influence our mood, energy, and the atmosphere in spaces. Use essential oils and experience the power of Mother Nature.

Bring your system into balance with essential oils

From tension to relaxation, calm and energy.

A deepening day in which you work with scents from Mother Nature on a deeper level.

You gain insight into the effects of scent on the nervous system and learn to recognise and understand your own signals. You discover how to use essential oils in moments of overstimulation, stress or fatigue, and how to align this with what your system needs at that moment.

You create personal scent anchors and rituals that support inner calm, better sleep, and the restoration of your energy.

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The experience of plants through scent is a connection from soul to soul. With an open heart, we may receive the fragrance and listen to its “story”, discovering what it has to offer us.

Capturing scents – Distilling plant material

Harvesting, distilling and creating.

This outdoor workshop is all about observing, experimenting, and discovering the impact of scent on your senses.

Together, we will distil plant material in my copper still. Water, fire, air, and earth come together to bring forth the fifth element – ether, the essence.

Open all your senses and experience the power of fragrance. See

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Distillation is nothing more than separating the pure from the impure, without making it any more beautiful than it already is in essence.

Perfume Workshop – Create your own scent

In this workshop, you will discover how and why fragrances touch you, evoke memories, and influence your emotions.

Step by step, I guide you in “listening” to scents and learning how to blend them, working with pure plant extracts and essential oils.

Between blending, I share stories, knowledge, and experiences. You will explore your own scent palette and fragrance personality, gradually bringing your unique perfume to life – each drop telling a story, and the composition as a whole evoking a special feeling.

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A perfume is enchanting and gives you wings. It enhances your personality when it subtly floats through the air.

Specialisations

Essential oils in professional practice

For therapists, masseurs, coaches and healthcare professionals
who wish to integrate aromatherapy into their work.

Based on professional knowledge, the language of plants, practical experience, application, and professional responsibility.

From the perspective of scent psychology, you explore the effects of essential oils on the brain and nervous system and learn how to apply them in relation to themes such as recovery, regulation, emotional imbalance, focus, fatigue, and sleep.

You learn how to make appropriate choices for a client, how to integrate aromatherapy into your own way of working, and how to work within safe and ethical frameworks.

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Smelling, remembering, and responding — all happens in a single breath.

Scent Psychology in Hypnosis

For hypnotherapists, there is the HBO-accredited specialisation where you learn to professionally integrate scent psychology with essential oils during hypnotherapy sessions. In hypnosis, scent can offer a unique entry point: it directly touches the emotional brain, providing a valuable deepening in guiding your clients.

Here you will find the full programme

This specialisation Ie offer at the HypnoseMentor training institute.

Fragrance touches, reminds and heals. A guide through the language of scent, experience the power of fragrances from Mother Nature.

Chakra Balancing – Essence of Wellbeing

For all healthcare professionals, whether in conventional or complementary care, there is the HBO-accredited specialisation Essence of Wellbeing: Chakra Balancing.

For all healthcare professionals, conventional or complementary, there is the HBO-accredited specialisation Essence of Wellbeing: Chakra Balancing. This course combines universal human needs, as described in Maslow’s famous hierarchy, with the ancient wisdom of the energy system.

Discover how scent psychology and essential oils can support wellbeing. Read all about this specialisation for healthcare providers.

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Chakra balancing is the restoration of the natural flow of energy, allowing you to move once again in harmony with the rhythm of the day.

Masterclasses

Masterclass all about lavender

In a beautiful natural area in the north of the Netherlands, we will harvest lavender together and distil it into essential oil and hydrosol in my traditional copper still.

You will be fully immersed in a world where lavender is more than just a plant. Discover and experience moments of serenity in everyday life, and connect with the simplicity and beauty of Mother Nature.

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Lavender, with its blue-purple flowers, gently awakens all your senses. The essential oil and hydrosol are here to enrich your body, mind, and soul.