Farida Irani on Aromatherapy

Aromatic oils and their healing properties go back to very ancient times: Mary Magdalene’s anointing of the feet of the Christ, the Greek physician Dioscorides’s De Materia Medica, written in the first century, the Persian scholar Ibn Sing’s distillation of the rose essence, Hildegard of Bingen’s usage of lavender oil for medicinal treatments, and so on.

Farida Irani is a Holistic Health Practitioner, qualified in Ayurveda, clinical Aromatherapy & Aromatic Medicine, Bowen Therapy, Remedial Therapy and Reflexology. She is also the founder of the Subtle Energies’s clinic, skincare and wellness solutions in Australia.

Mainly, she is another living example of the power of plants and aromatic materials to improve and transform lives.

Her own personal journey, rooted in Iran, India and then Australia carries the wisdom and spiritual unfolding of her work as a practitioner and plant alchemist. 

It is during her many trips to India, in the early 90s that she came across essential oils not heard of in Western Aromatherapy nor used anymore by Ayurveda Doctors. With these unique oils and an introduction to many artisan distillers across India, came her research into what is now termed Ayurveda Aromatherapy.

Meeting Farida feels like traveling through places and stories from One Thousand and One Nights, surrounded by the intelligence of the plants and the light connecting us all.

In this conversation, we discussed anything “aromatherapy”. She shared about the “aromatic dressing” as well as the healing treasures she received from her Dad as a little girl.