Arrrooo fellow pets and humans! Mom is going to school at The Clayton College of Natural Health but this sounds like something else she will have to add to her education belt as a distributor of Young Living Essential Oils -bepaws we LOVE them, WOOF!
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by David Stewart, PhD, RA, DNM

Ever since January 2004, the eligibility rules for taking the Aromatherapy Registration Council (ARC) exam toward becoming a Registered Aromatherapist (RA) have required that you take an extensive and expensive course in aromatherapy approved by NAHA, the National Association of Holistic Aromatherapists. Until recently, the only courses they approved were of the British school of aromatherapy which does not believe in using oils neat or taken orally.

For example, NAHA and the administrators of the ARC exam consider raindrop technique to be dangerous and unprofessional. In fact, most of the oils used in raindrop are outright forbidden by NAHA and most British schools of practice. Hence, if you wanted to become an RA as a Young Living distributor and student of the teachings of Gary Young and the French School of Aromatherapy, you would be forced to spend money taking a course of aromatherapy study with which you could not agree and which you would know was patently in error in many of its teachings.

Thanks to a recent new program, this dilemma is no longer a problem. Young Living distributors who are interested in becoming a RA are no longer forced to take an aromatherapy course that is contradictory to what we know to be true from Gary Young,YLEO, and their own experience.

There is a new program compatible with Young Living philosophy and the French School of aromatherapy that is now also approved by NAHA (National Association of Holistic Aromatherapists). It is specifically intended to prepare you to be eligible and ready to take
the ARC exam. It is the first such school approved by NAHA and, at this time, the only such school.

The program was developed by Linda Smith, RN. Here is the address and contact information:

Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry (HTSM)
PO Box 741239
Arvada, CO 80006
(303) 467-7829 phone
(303) 467-2328 Fax
Staff@HTSpiritualMinistry.com
HT Spiritual Ministry

Ask for a copy of their brochure on becoming a Certified Aromatherapist through HTSM and how that qualifies you to also take and pass the ARC exam. It is the only YLEO-Compatible aromatherapy program available that has also been approved by NAHA. When you take
the ARC exam, be prepared to give the politically correct answers in some cases when, in fact, such answers may be factually wrong and contradictory to what you know, from experience, to be true. The HTSM course will prepare you for giving all the right answers from the NAHA/ARC viewpoint.

When Jacqui Close, RA, and I took and passed the RA exam in 2002, the British School eligibility requirement was not there and we were allowed to take the test without having taken a NAHA approved course. Following our successful passing of the exam, I encouraged hundreds of Young Living distributors to apply for and take the exam. NAHA and ARC
were not pleased. That was why, in 2003, they decided to change the rules in such a way as to prohibit Young Living distributors and others of the French School from taking the exam unless they paid homage to their British way of thinking and took one of their courses.

Their prohibitive rule took effect January 2004. The window of opportunity they closed for Young Living Distributors at that time is now reopened through Linda Smith’s new HTSM program. I encourage you to take the HTSM course in aromatherapy and pass the ARC exam ASAP. Being an RA is a nice thing. In addition to becoming an RA, you will also be a “Certified Aromatherapist” (CA) by authority of HTSM. You can be both an RA and a CA. How about that!

I say go for it while you can.
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Dr. David Stewart PhD, RA, DNM
Raindrop Training
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Have a pawsitively tail waggin’ fragrantly YL day, WOOF!

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