Online Webinars
All listed webinars are exclusively available to IFA-registered members and are provided completely free of charge to support our members’ Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
Recordings of previous webinars are available in the members’ area and typically run for 1–2 hours. Members are encouraged to join live webinars, where they can engage in Q&A sessions with the authors, researchers, and professors themselves. If you are not currently a member of the IFA but would like to access our webinars, you are warmly invited to join us as either a Friend Member (no qualifications required) or as a Practitioner Member, offering enhanced professional recognition, greater credibility, and access to an expanded range of exclusive resources.
Recordings Currently Available in the Members Area:
E.J.BOWLES
Impact of Hedonics on Mood: Essential Oil Effects
In this webinar, E. Joy Bowles, PhD BSc Hons will look at the components of an olfactory experience that can help or hinder an aromatherapy treatment. Joy brings her love of essential oil chemistry and curiosity about how the body-mind-mood connection works to provide a stimulating and entertaining enquiry into how we experience aromas.
SALVATORE BATTAGLIA
The Spiritual Dimension of Scents Webinar
Researchers have always struggled to understand the complex role of scent. In this masterclass, Salvatore explores the role of scent within culture and spiritual practices and how this relates to the way we use essential oils today. It explores the six key factors that contribute to the spiritual dimension of scent: biophilia, awe, sacred space, rituals, myths and neurobiology.
HANA TISSERAND
Inhalation as a Powerful Tool for Aromatherapy: An Evidence-Based Overview of Best Practices
Inhalation is the primary way we experience essential oils and is central to aromatherapy. With many devices available, choosing the safest and most effective method can be challenging. This webinar will explore common therapeutic scenarios, highlighting which inhalation techniques and devices are best suited, helping maximize benefits while minimizing risks in their aromatherapy practice.
ELIZABETH ASHLEY
Blue Lotus (Nymphaea caerulea) Webinar
This webinar explores Blue Lotus from ancient Egypt to modern practice. Elizabeth examines its symbolic and spiritual significance, therapeutic properties and contemporary uses, such as sleep support, dream work, and emotional connection. Offering a practical, evidence-informed approach to incorporating this iconic flower into aromatherapy and sacred practice.
FELICITY WARNER
Sacred Oils – To Heal Spirit and Soul Webinar
This webinar focuses on working one-to-one with the dying in the last days of life to ease the passage and bring relief from fear and suffering. Felicity explains her Gentle Dying method (now called TLC) which offers comfort when medicine has reached its limits. It can be used by anyone, in any care setting, to make death a peaceful and dignified experience.
RACHEL FAIRWEATHER & MEGHAN MARI
12 Steps to Business Success Webinar
Struggling to attract clients, increase income, or transition from a full-time job? Feeling burned out or ready to give up? This webinar features Rachel Fairweather and Meghan Mari sharing practical, actionable strategies to grow and scale your hands-on business, helping you build confidence, increase revenue, and reignite your passion for your practice.
BETH SPINDLER
Facial Freedom: Releasing Stress Stored in the Muscles Webinar
This webinar explores how working with the neglected muscles and nerves of the face and head have a profound impact on the brain and nervous system for better facial balance and muscle tone. It also investigates what Dr. Stephen Porges calls the "social engagement system" and its impact on unresolved trauma, social anxiety, depression and more.
DR NINA KOCEVAR GLAVAC
Cosmetic Preservation Webinar
Cosmetic preservation is essential for water-containing formulations, ensuring microbiological safety while minimising skin reactions. This webinar will cover the need for preservatives, key natural-origin options, and toxicity considerations, providing practical guidance for selecting safe, effective preservatives to create stable, high-quality cosmetic products.
DR JESSIE HAWKINS
The Effect of Aromatherapy on COVID-19-Induced Anxiety Webinar
This webinar, led by Dr Jessie Hawkins, Director of Research at the Franklin Health Research Center, examines the impact of COVID-19 on mental health and reviews emerging research on essential oils that may offer support. Drawing on clinical investigations into botanical and integrative health interventions, the webinar explores safety, efficacy, and practical implications for evidence-informed practice.
MARGARET ANN LEMBO
Essential Oils and Vibrational Matching Gemstones
This hands-on webinar explores working with gemstones and aromatherapy to enhance wellbeing. Participants will learn practical guidance and affirmations for focus, protection, health, relationships, creativity, confidence, and intuition, offering a unique approach to integrating crystals and essential oils into daily practice.
DEANA KASSIM
Natural Product Making Series
This webinar series provides a step-by-step approach to formulating a variety of products, examining each ingredient’s role and selecting essential oils to enhance transdermal absorption, support skin protection, repair, and function, and provide antimicrobial and immune-supportive properties, while also promoting wellbeing through their aromatic profile.
RHONDA PALLAS DOWNEY
The Alchemy of Blending Essential Oils and Flower Essences To Bring Balance Into Your Life
In this presentation, we will explore the vibrational influences of various plants, their aromas and their energetic presence as flower essences for each energy center in your body to help you align with yourself. I will take you on a journey into an introspection of yourself, your life, and your human energy system (chakras). With the support of plant energy medicine integrated with the Voices of Flowers Perfumes with a Purpose, a unique blend of essential oils and flower essences, experience a floral journey. See before you a beautiful flower garden and with each step you take, imagine breathing in the stirring of aromas and the presence of the green world as you feel an excitement of something shift inside of you.
Rhonda PallasDowney has a diploma in Homeopathy from the British Institute of Homeopathy in London, England, and she is a flower essence practitioner. Rhonda has an M.A. in Education from Ohio State University with more than twenty-five years of experience in education and social services, with a dedication to the field of developmental disabilities and mental health. Coupled with her work in social services, Rhonda founded Living Flower Essences and the Center for Plant Studies & Healing Arts, both of which were a driving force for her in the natural health and products industry as a product formulator and manager.
In addition to being the founder and owner of the Center for Plant Studies & Healing Arts in Cottonwood, Arizona, Rhonda is the author of The Healing Power of Flowers: Bridging Herbalism, Homeopathy, Flower Essences, and the Human Energy System and Voices of Flowers: Learning to Use the Essence of Flowers to Heal Ourselves. She also has a CD MP3 called Voices of Flowers: 7 Flowers & Chakra Meditation Sound Bath, and a DVD called A Journey Into Plants & Flowers which was featured in 2014 Sedona Film Festival.
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SUZANNE CATTY
Hydrosols: New Research in Practice Webinar
In this webinar, Suzanne Catty presents the latest research and practical insights into hydrosols, exploring their therapeutic properties, applications, and how they differ from essential oils. Drawing on current studies and her extensive clinical experience, she offers guidance on formulation, safety, and evidence-informed approaches to enhance clinical practice.
DR PETER MEKERETH
Cancer Care: Utilising Aromasticks Webinar
This webinar explores the professional, moral and ethical issues in clinical practice utilising the AROMA and SYMPTOM models in acute cancer and palliative care. Reviewing the rationale for the use of aromasticks, demonstrating an ‘installation' approach for specific concerns i.e. insomnia and anxiety; supported by research/evaluation work and case studies.
LISE (LISALISE) ANDERSEN
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Plants to Make Holistic Products
Creating natural, plant-based products with a stable shelf life is challenging because fresh botanicals can lose or alter their active constituents. By understanding how plants are put together, we can understand how to ‘take them apart’ to capture their full benefits. This approach allows the creation of cosmetics that are both powerfully effective and have a shelf life comparable to commercial products.
DR MARK MOSS
Rosemary Essential Oil and Cognition Research
This webinar examines the inhalation of Rosemary essential oil to enhance cognition, as featured on BBC’s Trust Me, I’m a Doctor. The study, the first to show such effects in children, suggests greater potential than in adults. Findings will be discussed in terms of natural strategies to support academic performance and the underlying mechanisms of cognitive enhancement.
PAM CONRAD
Aromatherapy and Women's Mental Health Webinar
This webinar examines the evidence for aromatherapy in women’s mental health. It highlights Pam’s postpartum depression and anxiety study, which showed significant positive outcomes, and her recent publications, including the Women's Health Aromatherapy Evidence-Based Guidebook for nurses, midwives, and therapists, and Aromatherapy and Women’s Mental Health.
EMMA HOLLY
Scar Massage Webinar
Psychologically, scars can have a powerful impact, a place where they hold emotions relating to a traumatic event. The influence of a problematic scar, or scar adhesions, through the fascial tissue can have far reaching affects. In this webinar we will explore the impact of scars from a massage perspective and the benefit of hands-on treatment.
BEVERLEY DE VALOIS
Understanding Cancer Survivorship: How Traditional, Complementary, and Integrative Medicine can help
Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicines (CTIM) are evidence-based, non-pharmacological options that can be offered to relieve many symptoms suffered by cancer survivors. In this webinar, Beverley explores the challenges facing people post-cancer treatment, and looks at the options that can be used to support them as they adjust to life after cancer.
DR HEATHER HERINGTON
Lingering Psychological Trauma Webinar
Lingering psychological trauma presents itself in almost any condition and disease, the co-morbidities are endless. So how can a health practitioners with little training in PTS or ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) spot this deeper root without having a specific diagnosis? This webinar presents an overview of lingering trauma, what to look for and when to refer.
STEFAN BATORIJS
Wild Life: Shinrin-yoku and The Practice of Healing Through Nature Webinar
This webinar explores our innate belonging to Nature and how it enhances physiological and psychological wellbeing. It examines the origins of Shinrin-yoku in Japan as a response to stress and exhaustion, and considers the science behind its healing effects, including phytoncides. Participants will reflect on re-wilding the psyche, re-inhabiting the senses, and restoring connection with the natural world.
MICHELLE FURY
The Mindfulness of the Five Senses Webinar
The 5-4-3-2-1 mindfulness exercise is used by psychotherapists globally to ground clients in the present moment. This webinar explores its therapeutic rationale, offers a guided experiential practice, and demonstrates how to integrate it into client sessions. Aimed at aromatherapy professionals, it provides practical techniques that can be used to support client self-care.
HELEN PORTSMOUTH
The Pressures of Being Human
This webinar explores the pressures inherent in the human physical condition and strategies for managing them, examining how physical loads, beliefs, and lifestyle factors influence wellbeing. Participants will engage in interactive postural exercises to explore these concepts, so comfortable, moveable clothing is recommended.
Helen is a Sports Therapist and Clinical Rehabilitator. She works with all people with all kinds of physical needs.....some of which can impact on or be impacted by their emotional needs too.
Helen has been a therapist for 20 years and a clinical rehabilitator for 15 years, taught in schools and lectured at university. She loves the effect of exercise and working to be the best version of herself today.
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CARINA COEN
Code of Conduct & Practice: Client Modesty and Towel Management Webinar
You must be respectful and sensitive to a client’s dignity and modesty at all times during a treatment. It is important to note that everyone has different opinions of what it means to respect their privacy. This webinar, recorded on behalf of the IFA for our registrants, demonstrates how to protect a clients modesty, how to avoid any potential misunderstandings and towel draping.
MADELEINE KERKHOF
Dementia Care, Essential Oils and CO2 Oil’s Webinar
Caring for people with dementia is complex, affecting all areas of wellbeing. In this webinar, Madeleine explores how essential oils, including CO2 extracts, can support physical, emotional, and spiritual health. She shares strategies for carers and professionals to integrate aromatics into daily care, enhancing comfort, connection, and quality of life for patients and families.
CAROL ROSE
Integrating Clinical Aromatherapy in Palliative Care
In patients with life-limiting illness, where the focus is on optimizing quality of life, healthcare professionals often face the challenge of recognizing opportunities for healing at a spiritual level, even when biological cure is no longer possible. Aromatherapy can make its greatest impact in these realms of spiritual and emotional care, supporting comfort, connection, and wellbeing.
MELINDA COSS
Six Ways to Earn a Proper Living Using Your Aromatherapy Skills
Many aromatherapists care deeply about helping others but struggle with the challenge of making their business financially sustainable. This webinar will explore practical and creative ways to scale a practice—through digital products, memberships, licensing blends, and partnerships—helping participants build financial strength, expand their reach, and move beyond trading hours for income.
K.G.STYLES
Essential Oils & The Chinese Meridian Clock
In classic Oriental, or Traditional Chinese Medicine, all disease is seen as disordered elements. Restoring balance to the five elements and harmonious flow of Chi is at the heart of Chinese medicine. In this webinar we explore the actions associated with each element, the chakras and essential oils to balance the 5 elements and restore the flow of chi through the organ meridians.
SUSAN PARKER
The Rose Botanical Family Oils Webinar
The plant world offers a wide variety of carrier oils, with some botanical families producing more lipids than others. This webinar focuses on Rosaceae, the Rose family, highlighting 12 oils, including almond, apple, rosehip, and cherry, exploring their unique properties and receive new insights into the applications and benefits of these versatile botanical oils.
DR JANE JOHNSON
What Goes Wrong with the Knee and Why Webinar
In this webinar, physiotherapist Jane Johnson provides a detailed overview of knee anatomy and common pathologies. She guides participants through the key structures of the knee and the conditions that affect them. This webinar is an ideal resource for students, clinicians, or anyone seeking to strengthen or refresh their understanding of knee anatomy and function.
SHAWNEE THORNTON HARDY
Autism, Neurodiversity and Sensory Processing Webinar
Each brain functions uniquely. This webinar explores a somatosensory approach to supporting neurodivergent children and teens navigate the world with greater comfort, curiosity, and connection through yoga and mindfulness practices. Participants will also learn to apply these strategies to enhance their own sensory processing, integration, and self-regulation.
NICK SINGER
Aromasticks – An Application Not To Be Sniffed At
Intranasal aromatherapy delivers concentrated essential oils via nasal sticks for rapid therapeutic effects. This talk reviews Aromastick research, including 12 peer-reviewed studies on stress, cognition, blood oxygenation, allergies, and pain demonstrating measurable benefits in real-world settings. Effectiveness depends on concentration, exposure, and active sniffing.
CLAIRE SNOWDON-DARLING
Improving the Menopause Experience Through Nutrition and Lifestyle
Many women are struggling with menopause, and conventional medical approaches aren’t working for everyone. This webinar explores why menopause may feel more challenging than ever, examines the connections between blood sugar, stress hormones, digestion, and the immune system, and offers practical strategies and interventions that women can use to support their wellbeing and navigate this stage of life more effectively.
JOSIE DONALDSON
Why Do My Muscles Hurt Webinar
This webinar examines the physical and emotional origins of muscle pain. It explores how psychological stress manifests in specific muscles, the mechanisms behind tension and discomfort, and strategies to relieve it. Participants will also learn how essential oils can be selected to support particular psychological or emotional patterns associated with muscular pain.
JIMM HARRISON
Healing of Scent, Phytotherapy & Skin Care Webinar
Skincare is a powerful and ever-growing industry with an increased global interest in the use of botanical, phyto-therapeutic ingredients. This webinar reviews beauty in relation to health. You’ll learn how to combine the science of smell with intention (including verbal cues and branding) as a core element to emotional and physical healing through botanical skin care.
HILARY LEWIN
The Art of N.A.V.E.L Gazing Webinar
This talk introduces the Abdominal Therapy Collective’s massage approach, developed by Dr Rosita Arvigo, focusing on restoring flow through the abdomen to support whole-body balance. By addressing nerves, circulation, energy, and lymph, practitioners aim to improve digestion, pelvic health, and hormonal wellbeing. Participants will explore the foundations of this work, its anatomy, and its empowering self-care component.