Plant Power: Aromatherapy, Neuro-Chemistry, Essential Oils and Healing Diversity with Amy Anthony

In this episode, Magic Barclay interviews Amy Anthony, a certified clinical aromatherapist and host of the Essential Aromatica podcast. Amy shares her expertise in the benefits of aromatherapy, emphasizing the healing power of connecting with nature. The discussion covers the multilayered effects of essential oils, their ability to cross the blood-brain barrier, and the correct usage and selection of quality oils. Amy also addresses common misconceptions about essential oils, including the dangers of using synthetic or low-quality products. Additionally, Amy provides practical tips for incorporating aromatherapy into daily life and highlights the importance of self-awareness in health and wellness.

Connect with Amy on her website https://nycaromatica.com/

Transcript

Amy Anthony: 0:01

When we talk about aromatherapy and essential oil benefits, we have to talk about like a layered cake or something layered or taking the veils off or peeling the onion, because many people hear about aroma and scent. And many people I feel can't get their head around like when I'm breathing that in, it's entering my body.

Magic Barclay: 1:03

Welcome back to a magical life. I'm your host, Magic Barclay. And today we're joined by Amy Anthony. Amy is a certified clinical aromatherapist, an aromatic gardener who left her career in marketing research to pursue what is closest to her heart, working with plants. As a certified aromatherapist, aromatherapy educator, herbalist, gardener. Certified master composter and artisanal distiller. Amy is one of New York city's top aromatherapy practitioners, host of the essential aromatica podcast. Amy also tends her own aromatic garden on the North fork of Long Island, where she distills her unique products listed as one of America's most influential aromatherapists. Amy Anthony is currently the New York state. Representative for the Alliance of International Aromatherapists and has her private practice called NYC Aromatica, which includes one on one customized aromatherapy sessions, online class offerings, corporate consulting, and article writing. Welcome Amy.

Amy Anthony: 2:18

Hello, Magic. Thanks for having me. It's

Magic Barclay: 2:20

Oh, I am so excited. You're here just off air. We were just having a little bit of, uh, chat about essential oils and how people really don't comprehend how powerful plants can be and the oils that come from them. And I really want to explore that later, but for now I ask all of my guests the same three questions and everyone gives me different answers, which Is amazing. So here comes your first one. What can your expertise do to accelerate health, not just physical, but also emotional and spiritual.

Amy Anthony: 2:58

Oh, my expertise. I think, well, I know my, my message about aroma therapy is connecting with nature, which is healing in its own right. So to be by the power of the tree, a plant, the ocean, the mountains, it's It's, it's that

Magic Barclay: 3:15

but I want to explore that a bit more. We've become so detached, you know, we sit in our office or we sit in our car or we sit in our lounge room and we've really become detached from the power of nature's healing properties. I know for myself, you know, if I'm ever feeling down, I'll go for a walk or I'll even just go out into my garden barefoot with not a whole lot of clothes on and just sit. You know, next to my veggie planters or under a tree, something like that, and just watch what's going on. And I think we've lost that art. So what are some easy steps for people to reconnect to nature and really get that healing power?

Amy Anthony: 3:59

Well, I think, uh, I know you just touched on something super important. And, uh, this is part of my path in life is self awareness. So actually having the internal power just to realize like, wait a second, I've been sitting for five, like four hours. I really need to get up. And the more we do that. And like you said, you go outside, stretch your legs, get some fresh air, maybe here in New York city, walk to a park. it's kicking yourself and having that reminder. And I know many experts you'll read about the same, like set a reminder, get a walking buddy, but starting with that self awareness is important. So smelling a bottle of essential oils at your desk is great, but like you're saying, it's even better. Go outside. Try to be by something.

Magic Barclay: 4:50

And I often talk about this on podcasts that I'm a guest on and on this podcast. When you lack that self awareness, when you lack that sense of self, that self connectedness, that's when illness can present. And that's when you're really opening the door for pathogenic action and neurotransmitter imbalance and you know, the whole kit and caboodle basically.

Amy Anthony: 5:16

Yeah. So, this is interesting. Who knew, who knew we would go here? Like when, when I teach and I meet people, often people find this path because of some detachment or like they confronted something, there is a collision, there is a tragedy. And there is that wake up call, not saying you hit rock bottom, but it's just like, wow, I'm miserable or this X happened. And then people are, they are seekers. And some of it could be aromatherapy. Some of it could be diet change or studying something. But it, it, unfortunately takes that detachment, that falling down to find the path. Whatever that path is.

Magic Barclay: 5:54

Exactly. It certainly does. Standard question. Number two is about wealth and that is, you know, people think wealth is just financial, but it can be personal and emotional wealth as well. So what are your top three tips to creating wealth?

Amy Anthony: 6:12

I always think of my friend, Jani. She just opened an art gallery in Hoboken, New Jersey, if anyone wants to check her out. Abundance. She talks about abundance from, um, when you have nothing, you can still live an abundant life. So, going out into nature, looking up at the sky, noticing the birds chirping, and that's wealth. Like that's free nature is free and those of us not everyone's lucky to have easy access to nature, you know, if you live in a inner city or finding those bright spots, looking at the moon, looking at the stars and finding that sense of abundance. So that that's one form of wealth. I'd say finding time is a really important thing. And I don't do this for myself all the time at walk and be like, Amy, you're taking a bath tonight, like a luxurious bath. And then I don't do it, but you could be just have that abundance of finding and carving out time to do things you love. Even, uh, if it's smelling an essential oil for three minutes to change your mindset, that could be a big gift. Or let's. Say you don't even have to buy the oil. You can go in your kitchen and make yourself a really nice aromatic tea out of like today. I just have to share this. I made a fresh tea of schizandra berry, cinnamon stick, cardamom, coriander, and fresh ginger. Oh my gosh. You just took the lid off that. And that was like, that is gorgeousness in a pot. I owe you a third one, I have to think about that, but I'm thinking about myself and what I like to do. So, you know what, I have a third because today I volunteer every Thursday for over 10 years I volunteered at a nearby. We don't call it a soup kitchen. But surrounding yourself with awesome people. If you find someone you connect with, ideally in person, and just having, that, like finding, finding really solid people that come from a good place in their heart.

Magic Barclay: 8:29

There you go. I love that. That's great. And that is really authentic. I love that.

Amy Anthony: 8:35

And literally like that was today as I made the tea, I shared it with the people I volunteer with. I often share it with guests, but it's. It could be so simple, right? Like it's all really simple on paper.

Magic Barclay: 8:46

Do you know what? It's simple in life too, if we don't overthink it. And I think we've just fallen into that trap of life has to be difficult.

Amy Anthony: 8:54

Yeah. Yeah. And like the trap of look at me, I'm so busy. You know, like we got ourselves in the U S definitely the United States, like I'm so busy, therefore I'm important. You know, it's It's really what we need

Magic Barclay: 9:12

100 percent yes. And that takes us to our final standard question. And that is really around weight. Many people battle with their weight. So have you ever battled your weight? If so, how did you win the war? And what can you offer the listeners who might be on this journey, particularly around this stress? Because we know that can be a major cause in this issue.

Amy Anthony: 9:38

So personally. Um, I, this is tough because, uh, we could go down a personal journey here, but growing up, I had it instilled in me culturally and through my family. It's like, Oh, you're look how thin you are. Look how thin you are. It became this thing of like, always trying to maintain that weight. So it's like, Oh, if you suddenly gained a few pounds, you're just like, Oh no, what's happening. So I've, you know, Reflected on that, you know, in my life and saw patterns. I'm like, that's interesting. So it was back to that self awareness. Um, but something I know that's important in my whole life and is important to this day is like you touched upon before movement, when we can find the gap in our life to move from the desk, uh, we often live in car cultures, like I'm grateful I live in New York city. So I'm walking everywhere. So what could we do to move? And I hate the word exercise. It's it's just makes you think of barbells and things like that. It's like, if we could just move and when we move, we feel great. I know it from personal experience. If I don't get to move a lot, I start to feel cranky. but I can start going into essential oils and, uh, motivation, but you asked about like stress. And one thing that aromatherapy and I appreciate in my training as a holistic aromatherapist is we can't make medical claims and do that kind of diagnosis and things like that, especially in the United States with our legislation here. We always focus on stress. How are you feeling? Let's talk about your life stressors and let's help you feel good and come up with a blend to help you. Feel motivated or empowered. And we start to work gently that way to help somebody without being like, I could cure your anxiety. but let me pause. I feel like I can babble on.

Magic Barclay: 11:35

I love listening to you babble. So I was letting you go. You see listeners podcasts are fun, especially when we're talking about essential oils, because I know my desk currently is covered with little brown bottles and my diffuse is off because otherwise the listeners get to listen to it diffusing, but it's going on again in a minute. And I'm sure yours is fairly similar, Amy.

Amy Anthony: 12:01

I work from home and you, you and I, I, with you at my desk with my pallet of oils, many of them near me, and I have two diffusers over on one of my shelves and yeah, we're surrounded by this stuff.

Magic Barclay: 12:14

And so that gets me to the open part of. This chat, we know how powerful essential oils are, and I'm sure some of the listeners do as well, but something I certainly come up against a lot in, you know, my day to day, because I have essential oil blends that are functional health. Blends is, you know, I get a lot of questions, how can essential oils do so many things and why do you use them? And don't you think, you know, some oils are a bit expensive. Like I get a plethora of questions and they're great questions. I would like you, Amy, to explain to the listeners, the power of essential oils, the power of plants in a nutshell, you know, When they're buying something that might be a little bit more expensive, why is it a little bit more expensive?

Amy Anthony: 13:15

Oh, yeah. It's a, we could have like a course work on this and that's why we study this stuff, right? Is, but essential oils are secondary metabolites produced by a plant. And in that intelligence of that plant responding to its environment, to its surroundings, it's, it's life. It creates these. Secondary metabolites. One of those being the terpenes. And that's the pathway, the origin of the essential oils. And we shared this pathway, by the way, with plants. So we could say we biorecognize them, but essential oils. When you take a bottle of lavender, let's say most people are familiar with lavender or peppermint or rosemary, you're looking at a complex chemistry Of its chemistry, and it's multivalent. So that plant is sitting there. It's a photo autotrophic can't move. So it needs to create this basically communication chemistry immunological protective cocktail to help it adapt to different bacteria, different viruses of different predators attract certain insects. So that is what we're getting in that bottle. Like, you could look at, we could look at some GCMS reports, uh, the, you know, analysis of the oils for their chemistry makeup, but you can look at like lavender and it's at least over 50 chemical components, at least going on in there. So that's why lavender can help with pain inflammation. It can help you go to sleep, calm the nervous system, yada, yada, yada. So there's more to say, but I want to pause.

Magic Barclay: 14:58

There is more to say now, many people I know with my own lens, many people think, well, how can this oil be antimicrobial? And, you know, what people don't get, maybe they're not gardeners, maybe they are, and they haven't thought deeply about what the plants themselves can do, but a lot of plants certainly have ways of inhibiting pests, inhibiting pathogens, or turning pests and pathogens into beneficial factors. And, you know, that continues with. Once the, the plants are essential oils and so they become antimicrobial and have a lot of healing properties. And you know, people really struggle with that. What is your theory on the way plants can neutralize threats and how that can help us?

Amy Anthony: 15:59

It's a really cool question. There's a lot of great science behind it because like the essential oils in particular in the secondary metabolites, they interact with. Lipids, so cell structures. So when you're taking this oil, this lipid loving thing, that's why they're called essential oils, they're oil loving, they can attach to cell membrane. So let's say there's a bacteria or a pathogen near presenting to a human or the plant that chemistry, that molecule can dock onto that membrane and start to penetrate that membrane and weaken it. So then you start to disrupt the cell membrane of a bacteria. Some components can work with the viral protein envelopes of a virus. And also on that essential oils in their fundamental nature are antioxidant. So there's electron exchange that happens and it has its own magic in that kind of protective way for us in the plants. So it really gets down to the fundamental nature of essential oils. They're, they're incredibly small and volatile, very mobile, right? That's why we can smell them. And they work beautifully with fat, with lipids. So that's why they can dock onto and go into, um, through our lungs and the alveolar ducts and go into the bloodstream and float in the blood and dock on, receptor sites in the body on the skin. it's pretty cool.

Magic Barclay: 17:31

It is pretty cool. Now. We've covered quite a few things in a very short space of time here. And now I just want to open the floor to you, Amy. What is it that people need to know about aromatherapy?

Amy Anthony: 17:48

I really appreciate that question because I, as an educator, since 2015, I've been teaching and I'm always trying to find ways to package something so it's interesting and relatable. And recently it occurred to me that. When we talk about aromatherapy and essential oil benefits, we have to talk about like a layered cake or something layered or taking the veils off or peeling the onion, because many people hear about aroma and scent. And many people I feel can't get their head around like when I'm breathing that in, it's entering my body. And you touched on this before. So part of this layered cake view is that when we're smelling an oil or it's in the air. We are getting that immediate. Ooh. Oh, I love that. Or, oh, I hate that. That smells gross. And in line with that, we're getting, you mentioned this. Oh my gosh, that smells like what's that? Oh, it reminds me of the time I was, uh, in Croatia and there was the helichrysum growing, or that reminds me of a great memory that makes me feel good. So there's the placebo effect of, good memory that changes my neurochemistry. Great. And that's already happening. And then we're actually having the, the inhalation part where the physiological benefits are happening like you and I just covered the antimicrobial nature of them, the antioxidant nature of them, this ability for some components like, uh, the sleepy guys like lavender and chamomile and even a little vetiver and valerian, they can help work with the rest and digest system, the parasympathetic to really chill out and go down in there. And there is research that essential oils are working with serotonin. In this case, it's a G. A. B. A. oxytocin. There's research that Roman chamomile works with oxytocin receptors, um, um, So, and then on the flip side, you could say, you're looking at like the peppermints and rosemary and there's things that are working with clarity and I'm not done yet. I have to continue on this path because when we're working with these volatile chemicals that love the lipids in our body, there's olfactive absorption. So when you're smelling something, you get scent recognition, that's going to the hippocampus, your memory center of memory formation and retention. And then there's absorption. That works that way, but it's also through the olfactory tract and mucosa. And you're, you're like so close to cortical tissue that some components are small enough to penetrate the blood brain barrier. And that's wild. And then there's also you, when you're inhaling, it's going into the lungs and into the, you know, the alveolar ducts and all that and through the bloodstream. So there's a lot going on. When you're quote, just smelling an oil,

Magic Barclay: 20:52

there is, and I'm glad you mentioned that they cross the blood brain barrier. There's actually very few things that are so small, so microscopic that they can do that. And essential oils are one of those things that the properties of them can. Be of use to people that have, you know, brain inflammation or any kind of neurotransmitter or immune response that affects the brain.

Amy Anthony: 21:24

Yeah, it's. Really, really cool. And there was a time I was really seeking out research for, there's more promising research and people are getting more interested in nasal delivery of drugs. We know it exists, but it's a challenge because a lot of things are water based and to go through that mucosa and all the goodness up in our heads, it's, you need to be small and oily. And that's what essential oils are. And I just can't wait for more and more research to be done where people aren't thinking of this beauty, this chemistry as woo woo, because it's not. It's real plant intelligence. It's

Magic Barclay: 22:02

It is. I just love it. It's so exciting. Now, something that, you know, I've certainly found is, okay. You mentioned lavender before and lavender is such an all rounder. And something I found is people say, how can one essential oil do so many things? Can you just explain? Particularly around lavender. Why it is such a universal oil.

Amy Anthony: 22:32

That's interesting because it's, there's cultural aspects to that. lavender has been so dispersed because people love it so much. So it's traveled well, just like ginger and lavender. Genuine lavender is soothing, it's friendly, it's pretty to look at, and it's, it's nature is to be, dare I say it's a yin, I don't like to say feminine, it's a yin, calming, cooling nature in its chemistry that it's just soothing, and it's like when you blend with lavender, if you're blending for something, lavender is one of the ways that you can bridge a blend to actually work with lavender to make it harmonious to the nose. to perception and like odor perception and liking and disliking it. Again, it goes back to that chemistry, like there's such a complexity to it. But because of some of its chemistry, like the esters and alcohols in it, it's it's very soothing and gentle. I mean, the, the story of lavender modern aromatherapy was started as we know it because of Rene Marie Scott Fossey in France. who was a perfumer and chemist that was studying the therapeutics of essential oils. And there's the famous story of his lavender, his burn, where he started to apply lavender oil to it. And he noticed that his gangrenous skin was healing. You know, that's the gist of the myth, uh, the origin story.

Magic Barclay: 23:59

You know, that, that brings up another point I really want to explore. And that is people think essential oils may be dangerous. Now you said, no, the properties of lavender were found or researched because someone put them on the skin for a burn. And you know, what I say to people is. Try the oil, try diffusing it, try, you know, putting it on topically with a carrier and see how you feel. And a lot of people go, Oh, but isn't that dangerous? Um, no, it's distilled from a plant and the plant grows readily around you and you have it, as you said, you know, like lavender, it's pretty, it's ornamental in your garden. If it was dangerous, you wouldn't be doing that. So. You know, for the people out there that think maybe if I try using essential oils, it may do some harm, what can you say to that point?

Amy Anthony: 25:03

It's a very good point. And it's, I'd say it's controversial because there's essential oils have become so big, right? You know, 40 years ago, I think only perfumers and yogis were talking about this stuff, you know, in a way. I think the way to look at that is the concentrated nature of the plant. That's why it could be scary to people. This is why we know, like you said, we can diffuse it responsibly with an intention. We could take the oils and blend them into a gorgeous. body oil, but responsibly dilute them because we honor that concentrated nature. I always like to share this and I, I still use pounds and ounces. I'm from the U S, but it takes generally speaking to get one pound of oil. We're taking 250 to 300 pounds of flowering lavender tops to get a pound of oil. So that's super concentrated. So I think that's the fear factor is when people don't know how to work with the concentrated nature, that becomes scary. And then you start to see things on social media, The key is really communicating that you don't need a lot of the oil for there to be a change.

Magic Barclay: 26:19

Very much so in a 15 mil bottle of oil, you have. You know, thousands of applications and a very little goes a very, very long way. now that gets me to the next point, you get what you pay for. Now we know essential oils are found everywhere all over the world, but there's oils and then there's oils. Can you explain what you're looking for with, you know, therapeutic blends Fillers and, you know, mass produced, whatever. And, how can people get their heads around the fact that, you know, you mentioned Roman chamomile before that five mils of that can nearly need a bank loan to be taken out.

Amy Anthony: 27:08

Yes. Or Helichrysum. You know what, I love that you brought that up because to start answering or pondering this, just a few weeks ago, I went into one of the terrible big box stores. I don't like to go to Walmart here. I just, I don't feel good about going there, but you can call me snobby fine, but I saw on the rack a bottle of heli chrism oil. It must've been 10 mil. And I think the price point was 25 or 30 in my spouse. He knows me, but I'm like, you got to be kidding me. There's no way that's heli chrism. There's no way that's like really, that should be 150 us dollars or more. For that size. So I have to acknowledge that my studies, I had access to great teachers that shared good reputable companies with me. So to the uninitiated, you're presented with a bunch of crap. And I'm going to be really blunt, you know, don't buy stuff off of Amazon, don't buy stuff off of Etsy here in the US. I don't know if you have Etsy in Australia, I think it's a global company.

Magic Barclay: 28:14

No, we

Amy Anthony: 28:14

do. Yeah.

Magic Barclay: 28:15

Yeah.

Amy Anthony: 28:16

So, I want to say there's a few things I want to point like to share and remind us that essential oils, if you can afford it, go and buy one from Etsy, go and buy one from a reputable company, like there's a shoddy I'm thinking in the UK flurry Hannah. in France. I'm not sure of any Australian companies. I should, I apologize for that. There's some Prana, Rome. There's several companies and I don't advocate. Any of them, like I'm not a brand ambassador for any of them, but buy an oil from one of those buy an oil from like Walmart or your local drugstore and smell and compare generally the cheap ones. smell flat. I always say they smell metallic. A real oil should smell like a poem. It should have a dry down. It should change. It should move you. It shouldn't give you a headache. And it should change you. It shouldn't, again, give you a headache. I've had some interesting experiences. Like you can often tell if something's, you think it's adulterated, like It just has a flat quality, when I smell an artisanal oil, like oils that I've smelled from, I know these folks, Phoebe Aromatics in Arizona, or, uh, this wonderful aromatherapist named Kathy Skipper. When I've smelled some artisanal oils, I see visions. Of like maybe where it grew I've cried, you know, that's how deeply it touched without me thinking about it. So that's an essential oil, you know, not just you get it on the shelf. You're like, it smells like peppermint, but there's this depth that we're looking for. And on the website, there should be. Clarity about contents, genuine and authentic one plant species, one plant, you should know the Latin name. You should know where it's from. There should be a lot number, you know, you should be able to trace where it's from. So I want to pause. I was just like closing my eyes and like totally getting into that.

Magic Barclay: 30:25

Oh, good. I actually, when you just mentioned Helichrism dropped my pen. So, yeah, if, if you're finding Helichrism for 10. Walk away, definitely walk away. that kind of brings me to something that I experienced around sense. I have multiple chemical sensitivity after numerous years of chronic illness. I'm now turning that around. And the one thing that has never left me with. MCS is walking past fragrances and if they're fake or synthetic, I instantly start sneezing. So I can go to the cheap shop, walk past, you know, the fragrances that they call essential oils there. And all of a sudden I'm sneezing my head off and I know they're synthetic.

Amy Anthony: 31:18

Yeah. That's, that's the thing too. I find it. Yeah. I'll use the word annoying. I could be really blunt when someone's like, oh, I could use some aromatherapy and I want a scented candle. It's like, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That is not aromatherapy. We're working with genuine, authentic essential oils that ideally come from a place where the plants were loved and respected, and there is no synthetic component in there. And like you're saying, you can tell, like a synthetic is flat, it doesn't change, it doesn't disappear. And on that note, it's not disappearing, it's going in your body and like finding places to like your body has to deal with that, but

Magic Barclay: 32:00

totally. And you mentioned candles. The other thing I get here a lot is, what oil burner do you suggest for my oils? And I go, hang on, you shouldn't be burning oils. They shouldn't be heated up. Over a flame in some water. That's no, they need to be diffused. They need to be respected. They need to be allowed to open up their atomic structure to release the scent. We don't burn oils.

Amy Anthony: 32:31

Yeah. You know, what's really interesting. I get that a lot. Like just yesterday I was involved in a community workshop in Brooklyn, New York. It was a really, really amazing experience with sound healing, aromatherapy. Many practitioners and two people came up and they use the burn oil thing. I'm like, uh, like, where did that come from? I know traditionally people would use the candle warmers, but like you're saying, heat destroys, and we don't want to do that. And I've learned recently, it made sense. Uh, is it, I heard from a class with Gabriel Mojay, uh, and one of his mentors and a really amazing aromatherapist, Rhiannon Lewis. There's research that shows that like the diffuser, the nebulizing diffuser, when you can vaporize the oils, they can go deep into the lungs. So if you're looking at clinical aromatherapy with bronchitis, deep respiratory issues, the superficial diffusing or quote burning like the candle diffuser, that that's just working just in quotes. Um, you know, that really superficial, but important emotional level, if you want to get the molecules in, you need to get them in and the smaller they are, the more dispersive they are, the more you can harness their dispersive nature to be anti microbial, antioxidant, et cetera, et cetera.

Magic Barclay: 33:57

Well said. And just for the listeners, Amy and I might sound like oil snobs. We are, let's face it. We are. But the reason we're bringing these things up is not to make fun or poke fun at people, but to educate. And, you know, if you're sitting there going, Oh, well, I always thought they could be burned. Um, they can't, they shouldn't be, they can, but they shouldn't be. Uh, so the whole, I guess, basis for this discussion is not to make fun or poke fun, but to let you know that You know, not all oils are oils, not all ways of using oils are correct. And we want you to get the most of your oils. We want you to get the most benefit from them. And the only way we can do that is by lightheartedly pointing out what needs to be done. So don't think listeners that we're picking on anyone or being, you know, snobby, oily people.

Amy Anthony: 34:59

Yeah. I appreciate you saying that because yes, that's not where I'm coming from, but It is about sharing awareness and talking and honestly, like, I'm not sure if you've seen the old school, like ring diffusers you put in a lamp that used to be a practice in aromatherapy on an incandescent light bulb, you put a like a ceramic ring diffuser put drops of oil. And I don't see those anymore. I think there's a shift literally where people thought warming oils would be great and it's like I think we're shifting away from that.

Magic Barclay: 35:29

haven't seen that one.

Amy Anthony: 35:31

It's old school, but, yeah,

Magic Barclay: 35:34

I love that. now we love freebies here. What can you offer the listeners and where can they find it? Obviously you have a fantastic podcast. So maybe tell us a bit about that.

Amy Anthony: 35:46

Oh, thank you. essential aromatica is it's a pet project where I get to Talk with an interview people I've met on my aromatherapy journey, but also one thing I'm excited to share is this year. I'm resurrecting my Luna aroma series where I've Oh, in 2020 2021. I was. looking at lunar themes and writing meditations and observing nature around me and pairing that with an essential oil. And one of my passions, I hope it's coming through is I do want to be lightheartedly educational and practical and share information. So I offer every new moon this year, a lunar aroma time. So I just looked at the February time here in winter in the United States. In the East Coast, I look at juniper berry and the themes in February and how to be, I hope inspire you to work with the oil and I guide you through a meditation. So it's a very personal project that I am excited to share with the world as a way of connecting with essential oils in nature. So that's my first, something I'm really passionate about.

Magic Barclay: 36:57

That sounds really exciting. Thank

Amy Anthony: 36:59

you. Oh, I just want to share. I have a bunch of free and pay what you wish classes on my website. So if you're looking, if you're, if you vibe with my style, like my presentation style, which I think you get, I have a lot of content and it's, I think it's pretty buttoned up. You know, I have a corporate background, I have video, I have PowerPoints. I try to look at, like, evidence and practicality, practical application of, essential oils. So the content is there.

Magic Barclay: 37:25

Brilliant. Now people can find you on Instagram at NYC aromatica and your website is nycaromatica. com. Amy thank you so much for joining me on a magical life, health, wealth, and weight loss. I know we could talk for hours, but we need to keep this bite size for the listeners parting words for the listeners regarding essential oils.

Amy Anthony: 37:52

so like you and I were chatting about less is more. I think if you could, if you have a bottle of oil and you want to really connect with it, I don't care how cheesy that sounds. It's true. We connect. These are molecules of communication. Take a drop and put it on a cotton round or a cotton pad, and then put that cotton pad under your nose in a quiet space with no distractions and sit quietly for, give yourself three minutes. And that I hope will help you to get the messages of the oil because maybe your breathing will change your nose might clear up. Maybe you feel a little clearer. Maybe you feel a little, uh, sleepier. I don't know. What's the oil. So please do that.

Magic Barclay: 38:37

Agreed. As I just put my, breathing blend over to the side, yes, listeners, I have been sniffing the oils all the way through this chat.

Amy Anthony: 38:48

I love it. I have rosary. I agreed

Magic Barclay: 38:50

it.

Amy Anthony: 38:51

Yes, well, magic. I thank you so much. It's really cool connecting with you. And, uh, I hope that this is a beneficial to your listeners.

Magic Barclay: 39:01

Thank you. And thank you so much for your time listeners. Of course. Thank you for your time. I always appreciate it. Please go ahead and leave reviews on Apple and Spotify and wherever else that you find us. We do appreciate your time for now. Grab those good quality essential oils and go forth and create your magical life.