Level 1 Certification
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July 10 - August 31, 2025
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Thursday evenings, beginning July 10, at 6pm PDT (schedule may be adjusted based on participant needs). Additional dates available for private study.
Description:
Take a transformational journey beyond common aromatherapy and tune into the wisdom of the earth and the cosmos. Gain greater self-awareness, to heal your body, mind, and spirit. The plants & trees are here with their ancient wisdom to help support us in navigating the great shifts of our time. The alchemic process necessary to produce essential oil acts as a guide to help us bridge our physical and spiritual selves. Experience these pure essences and learn how to work with them to facilitate your own healing; physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Bring a deeper connection to any professional healing modality, or use for your personal growth. This multi-week class structure gives you the opportunity to integrate what you have experienced each week into your daily life, and come back fresh with new questions and observations to continue to deepen your work and understanding. We will unravel common myths, learn about treating the physical, emotional, and spiritual body, and understand how tuning into the rhythms of our bodies starts with understanding our interconnectedness with the Earth. Experience deep meditations with sacred anointments and breathwork. Learn how to tune into spiritual guidance by hearing the voices of plants and trees to enhance your intuitive abilities.
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September 11 - September 12, 2025
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Thursday, 9am-6pm - Friday, 9am-6pm
Description:
Learn aromatherapy from Master Aromatherapists Audre Gutierrez (Owner) and Cynthia Olivera (Education Director). In this certification course, we empower our students to take responsibility for their health physically, emotionally, and spiritually. We use over 80 different essences, conscious thoughts, meditations, ceremonies, applications, stories, and tips and techniques for healing on all levels. This course enables you to support yourself and your loved ones with confidence.
During this two-day immersion, you will experience the vibration and frequency of this incredible life-changing practice.
Learn to use the highest quality essential oils to connect you to the language and healing properties of the plant kingdom.
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June 20 - June 22, 2025
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September 12 - September 14, 2025
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Friday, 3:00 - 6:00 pm, Saturday - Sunday, 9:00 am - 6:00 pm BOTH DAYS
Description:
We invite you to the magic of Blue Star Resort & Retreat Center in northwest Montana to experience a plant initiation and medicinal aromatherapy level one certification. The plants love us so much they just want us to be whole. Join Velvet and Jen for three full days of education, connection, sound meditation and self empowerment embraced by the Rocky Mountains of Glacier National Park. This level one course is the first step in certification to become a WOTE Medicinal Aromatherapist.
You will experience over 100 essential oils and learn practical information to integrate into your own life or practice. Velvet and Jen have combined over 45 years of experience working with plants, essential oils and energy systems.
Blue Star Retreat is a center of wellness and healing; mind, body and soul. On our over 20 acres of forested grounds we have a Finnish Sauna Village and the only Finnish Peat Sauna in North America which utilizes WOTE essential oils in the traditional practice of Finnish sauna therapy.
Come relax, realign and retreat with all of us here in Montana with Wisdom of the Earth essential essences!
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DATE:
September 26 - September 28, 2025
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Friday, September 26, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm. Saturday, September 27, 10:00 am - 6:30 pm; Sunday, September 28, 10:00 am - 6:30 pm.
Description:
Join John Odlum, one of Wisdom of the Earth’s most senior teachers of this amazing course, for a truly life-changing and powerful experience! John has been honored to teach and certify hundreds of students in the Art of Medicinal Aromatherapy over the past 15+ years. This course will help you connect with the consciousness of the plants, trees, and flowers to experience greater joy, health, and balance. With the assistance of pure plant essences of the highest quality, you will learn the scope and depth of healing they can provide in all areas of your life. Learn the truth behind common "toxicity myths" and correct common conditions such as hormonal imbalance, pain, digestion, anxiety, stress, candida, substance and emotional dependency, and much more. Essential oils enhance ALL other healing modalities. Learn a spiritual approach to aromatherapy that will help you trust your senses, intuition, and inner guidance and lead you back home to your most authentic self. Learn a spiritual approach to aromatherapy that will help you trust your senses, intuition, and inner guidance and lead you back home to your most authentic self. I’m excited to be your guide into their world to learn how to receive and listen to their wisdom! This is a beautifully immersive in-person experience. You will be working with over 100 oils and will be experiencing them directly in a very intimate setting.
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October 10 - October 12, 2025
Time:
Friday 2 pm – 8 pm, Saturday 9 – 6 pm, Sunday 9 am – 4 pm
Description:
Whether you want to expand your knowledge about working with essential oils for your career or you are simply passionate about essential oils for your own personal growth and family use, this is a perfect way to learn and experience so much in a short three days. This is a full immersion, heart filled, and spiritual experience to restore communion with and re-ignite our connection with plants as the original medicine for all dis-ease on the planet. This certification intensive is an opportunity to dive deep into feeling the power of the essences. We will learn about how essences are made and what they truly are, as well as learn about what makes Wisdom of the Earth essences so unique and special. We will learn about the many myths about working with essential oils, and learn and practice using many different application techniques. We will explore approximately 100 essences throughout the weekend, learning about the physical, emotional and spiritual healing properties of each. This will be far beyond a classroom experience, learning about each essence through smell, touch, taste and experience. When you layer that many essences on in a short time and in an intentional and sacred space, be prepared for the unexpected. Time will be built in for personal reflection, meditation and sound healing with the crystal bowls as well. It will be an opportunity for personal breakthroughs and transformation. Come prepared to spend some time with our feet outside on the earth with whatever the Colorado weather brings - sun or snow! Working with the essences is all about connecting to our own integration living in human form on this beautiful planet Earth. If time allows and if everyone in the group is up for it, we might even take a field trip into the foothills of beautiful Boulder. Please reserve your retreat weekend as a sacred transformational retreat for yourself. Snacks and tea and included with tuition. Food will be organic and nourishing, and will be custom designed to accommodate any special dietary needs.