Two new holistic therapists graduate |04 April 2022
Vanessa Camille and Samantha Dufrene on their graduation
Two new holistic therapists have graduated at the Wishing Well Clinic in Anse Des Genets opposite our International Airport at Pointe Larue as part of the tenth cohort of Seychellois holistic therapists who have graduated at the academy and clinic and who are ready to deliver first class wellness treatments to clients.
For Samantha Dufrene and Vanessa Camille this will be the day in their life they will never forget. It has been a long and hard training semester which called for sacrifices to be made by both of them due to the intensity of the course.
The course involved the use of a fast tract hypno-learning modality in which the student’s mind can store a great deal of information and recall the information at a fast rate.
Once this process has been mastered by a student then learning becomes easy and fun. The contents of this course include, inter alia, a complete understanding of the human anatomy and physiology, the holistic aspects of the human body, how the human mind functions, choosing and blending the right aromatherapy essential oils for massage to suit each illness and disorder.
In this tenth cohort of holistic therapists we have included in the curriculum, clinical hypnotherapy to address certain ailments and disorders that are mind related which no conventional drugs can address.
In today’s medical environment there is room for both conventional and alternative medicines to co-exist and complement each other. One does not and will never take the place of the other.
Transform-therapies Wellness Clinic in Anse Des Genets, Pointe Larue has been treating clients suffering from a number of ailments and disorders since 2007 and the Academy of High Performance is a tertiary college licensed by the Ministry of Education and has trained several cohorts of students each year (before the arrival of Covid-19) in the various management disciplines, customer relations, improve your English and have held several outward bound (off location) training courses for the top companies and the government of Seychelles since 2007.
The two institutions have developed a hypno-learning modality of assimilating information which is used extensively during the training sessions to store and recall information at an amazing speed and accuracy.
Interestingly enough, several people have asked me to explain the difference between a masseur and a holistic therapist. Well, they are two different types of jobs requiring different training regimes to deliver each one. A good masseur is trained in one or more massage techniques and disciplines such as Swedish massage, deep tissue massage, hot stone massage, bamboo massage, Thai massage, Shiatsu massage (Japanese) all of which are highly effective and can bring about a great deal of relaxation, comfort and satisfaction.
In the old days and still in some Spa today, coconut oil is the preferred massage oil however of late a variety of different fragrances of massage oils have entered the market to suit the client’s taste and preferences.
A holistic therapist on the other hand utilises Swedish massage techniques to gently administer carefully blended aromatherapy essential oils on the client’s body. Aromatherapy essential oils cannot be used for example for deep tissue massage because the generated heat due to the friction on the body will alter the properties of the essential oils. Carefully blended aromatherapy essential oils are applied to the client’s body utilising Swedish massage strokes and the blended essential oils travel through the pores of the skin into the blood stream and to the heart and the heart pumps the blended essential oils throughout the body and when the blended oils arrive at the location in the body where relief is required, absorption takes place and healing occurs. This is not magic, this is science and a well-trained holistic therapist can bring a great deal of relief from pain and sufferings.
Different aromatherapy essential oils can treat different ailments and disorders for example lavender and clary sage essential oils are good for insomnia, stress, menstrual problems, high blood pressure, hormone imbalance while eucalyptus essential oil is good for relief of respiratory problems such as asthma and difficulty in breathing. Tea Tree essential oil, found in abundance along streams and rivers in Australia, is good for treating acne and skin diseases while Ylang Ylang essential oil is good for treating sexual dysfunctions and restoring lost sexual drive. The knowledge of which essential oil to blend with another is the crux of the successful training hammered home into the sub-conscious mind of a holistic therapist.
There are in the region of over 100 aromatherapy essential oils and some have been in use by our elders for generations as local herbs which our herbalist will tell you can bring about much needed comfort from ailments and disorders. Some are very expensive because to produce for example the Rose essential oil requires a huge quantity of rose petals from which a small amount of Rose essential oil is defused. Defusing and producing aromatherapy essential oil is an art in itself and there are good and poor quality essential oils being sold in the shops and on-line, so be careful.
Ladies who enjoy an aromatherapy facial treatment swear that they look more beautiful and feel much healthier and a series of good facial aromatherapy treatments can delay the onset of ageing and protect the delicate facial skin from the poisons in our polluted atmosphere and environment. Avocado base oil blended with sandalwood and a low toxicity chamomile German essential oils are carefully blended to produce a magical encounter for the ladies when they visit a Spa or Wellness Clinic for facial treatments.
As if the above is not enough now entertain in your mind if you will, that the holistic therapist is now going to introduce clinical hypnotherapy in the arsenal of treatment tools that he/she carries in his/her toolbox, which is his/her mind. Some people have the wrong idea about hypnosis because old films depict unscrupulous hypnotists hypnotising someone to do wrong and evils. Believe me after 20 years of delivering hypnotherapy treatments I have never been able to hypnotise anyone to do anything that person does not want to do, cadit quaestio. The human mind is divided into two parts – the conscious mind which is responsible for carrying out instructions and it goes to sleep at night and the sub-conscious mind that is in charge of everything and never goes to sleep. If your sub-conscious mind goes to sleep then you are clinically dead. For hypnotherapy to work the client must be willing to carry out the instructions given by the holistic therapist. Any conflict and the client’s sub-conscious mind will reject the instructions. During clinical hypnotherapy treatment sessions the sub-conscious mind will validate and verify, if acceptable will store the information which is then passed on to the conscious mind to execute when it is appropriate to do so.
Now, when a holistic therapist uses carefully blended aromatherapy essential oils to deliver massage strokes on the body then applies clinical hypnotherapy to the client’s mind, it is like taking two hammers to crack one nut and guess what? Success prevails and relief is brought to bear on the ailment or disorder being treated and presto the client can physically recover from the ailment or disorder he/she has come to the holistic therapist to treat in the first place. In the old days herbalists relied on herbs and other concoctions to supplement emerging modern medicines but today we have gone past that stage and we can successfully merge aromatherapy with clinical hypnotherapy to deliver a very effective healing solution on the par with modern medicines. On many occasions where modern medicines have failed alternative medicines such as massage based and hypnosis based treatments have succeeded in bringing relief from certain ailments and disorders which appear to be incurable but can in fact be cured.
Our congratulations go to Samantha and Vanessa and may their hard work of study now bring some healing reliefs to their clients and a great deal of satisfactions to both of them.
A new course is being planned to create more Holistic Therapists and if you are interested call Barry Laine on 2515616.
Contributed by:
Barry Laine FCIM, FInst SMM, MCMI, MBSCH
Founder and Principal
Academy of High Performance Ltd
Transform-therapies (Sey) Ltd
The Wishing Well, Anse Des Genets
Mahe, Seychelles
Email: barrylaine@hpcgroup.sc
Web site: www.academyofhighperformance.sc
Samples of aromatherapy essential oils