"aroma"	meaning a pleasant scent
"therapy"	meaning a treatment that aims to treat a physical or emotional state.

Essential Oil Treatments: when you need some time out for relaxation and an increased sense of wellbeing. Essential Oil Treatments are the application of essential oils to the body using safe and comfortable massage techniques. They effectively relieve stress and discomfort without being overly intense. Essential oils are chosen by a trained aromatherapist to create a blend for your specific needs. This is a time for you to come apart from the demands of your daily life to be nurtured and cared for.

We have five main senses that assist in telling us about the world around us ~ sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste.  These senses give us pleasure as well as warn us of dangers.  For many of us, our sense of smell has not been used in a conscious manner, even though we are bombarded constantly with scents.  Often the negative scents of modern industrialization overpower the enjoyment of everyday sensory pleasures. Consider the smell of a simmering meal; a fresh ocean breeze; or the scent of a forest.  How do these make you feel?  When we enjoy a scent our bodies relax and our emotions become lighter.  One key aspect of aromatherapy is that it aids us in a return to becoming more conscious of our sense of smell and its direct effect on our personal well-being.

The old saying, "stop and smell the roses" really is a two-fold process.  Stopping in itself is essential to our mental peace and physical rejuvenation.  And, smelling the roses is truly therapeutic. You may have noticed many times in your day-to-day activities how scent really does affect you emotionally.  Pleasant scents can be calming; unpleasant scents may leave you agitated.

Aromatherapy uses the highly concentrated essences of a wide variety of flowers, plants and trees.  These liquid essences (or, essential oils) contain the aromatic properties of the various plant matter.  Although essential oils affect us most obviously through our sense of smell, the chemical make up of these complex aromatic essences can be experienced through all of our senses and can be enjoyed on all sensory levels

Nature speaks to us, offering its healing powers, through all of our senses.  Aromatherapy is one way of capturing this offering for our daily use at home.

"I have visited Karen Murtagh on several occasions and have found the atmosphere very welcoming and professional. Karen Murtagh is extremely knowledgeable in the area of Aromatherapy and very talented with massage treatment. I immediately felt comfortable with Karen and found myself not wanting to leave by the end of the appointment!" C. Sharp, Elora, Ontario