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Sulis Aromatherapy is located in Barwell, near Hinckley, Leicestershire.

We offer a range of aromatherapy services for your body and mind, plus hand made herbal infusions and aromatherapy face and body products made with our organically-grown herbs and plant infusions, hand made by Emily with love.

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Emily’s Herbal She Shed and the bottom of the garden

It’s been a mild start to winter this year, even in December there are buds on the trees, shoots growing and in Leicestershire we are waiting for the first frost, despite the early flurry of show we have had.

I have been studying hard, attending full day (remote) clinics, writing countless essays for year two of my degree in Herbalism but there is still time to carve out for preparing Christmas candles, making huge batches of herbal aromatherapy oils, creating gift sets, picking and saving the best of my home-grown medicinal herbs and using them to make tinctures, teas and tonics.

While the salon remains closed to in-person service, my regular aromatherapy massage customers are starting to learn how to use their massage oils to bridge the gap between their last treatment and the time at which I can re-open again. I have made a short demo video for anyone who is a regular client, a customer of the website or a subscriber to my emails that you can view – just pop me a message and I will send you a private link so you can learn how to give self-massage at this busy time of year!

Winter Solstice Blessings


How we are using the garden for Christmas celebrations

I’m planning to make full use of my outdoor space this winter and have worked out so many ways to stay warm whilst being outside. Not only does the outdoors in winter give me immune system boosting vitamin D and free me from the desk, but it improves my other health conditions, but it means I can stay more closely connected to the environment and the passion I have for the herbs I use in all of my work.

We built a real fire pit complete with hanging A frame over the top so that we could stay warm while working in the garden and have hot mulled apple juice (find the recipe below!) with our vegan mince pies! I got Lee to put a plug-in camping stove in the bar so we can warm our soup while we’re working. And of course the soup is made using some of the veg I’ve grown in the veg patch we put in this year.

My medicinal garden has given me St John’s Wort and a huge bounty of Camomile and Calendula so I have dried the flowers in the herb shed and they will be ready in the New Year to create remedies from. 

And we have decorated the garden for Christmas so that when my sister and her partner visit we can host them outdoors. They love this because my sister is an expert in horticulture and next year we have big plans for the new venture we’re starting – but more to come on that when the weather warms!

What are you doing to stay connected to the environment and boost your wellbeing and health over winter?

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