The School

The Studio! WE HAVE MOVED TO A NEW VENUE

We have moved to the West End and all courses are now held in a beautiful historical building in the heart of the West End and within easy walking distance close to Oxford Circus, Regent's Park and Great Portland Street.

• Classes are held in spacious studio with good natural light.
• The atmosphere in the classes is kept relaxed and fairly unformal to promote better learning.
• Massage couches are provided for all students while in class.
• However, it is a course requirement that students acquire their own massage couch before the course begins for home practice.
• High quality essential oils are also provided during tuition and practice on the course.
• Facilites, there is a cafeteria facility and plenty of easily accessible cafes in the area

The teaching venue can ONLY be visited by APPOINTMENTS, if you would like to visit the facilities please ring to make an appointment. Please telephone Nicole Perez (0) 20 7 284 1315.

How to get there by Underground:

- Oxford Circus (Central, Victoria and Bakerloo lines)

- Regent's Park (Bakerloo line)

- Great Portland Street (Circle and Metropolitan lines) and Warren Street (Northern Line) tube stations.

Buses 88, 453 and C2 come closest to the venue and buses travelling along Oxford Street, Euston Road and Marylebone Road are also covenient and within a 10 minutes walk.

There are metered parking bays in Regent Park (outside the congestion charge).

The Teachers

Nicole Perez, Fellow IFA, School Principal Teacher & Founder

  I am responsible for the overall teaching of the courses with the help of

  Marageret Karlinska.  The course work for the correspondence course and

  theory section of the Diploma course is supervised by Margaret Karlinska. 

   Throughout the course, my focus is on helping the students gain a deeper

   understanding of healing. My aim is also to communicate some of my

   personal  experience and knowledge of the special qualities essential

   oils have on mind, body and soul.   

   My second aim is to help students develop a holistic, 'client-centred'

   approach while maintaining  a gentle, professional manner. All the courses

   provides methodology  and structure that will help the future practitioner make assessments of clients' health, choose a suitable course of treatments and monitor results. All classes are backed up by a substential number of courses notes and handouts.

Students are also taught the bodywork/massage routine that I have developped over twenty years of working in the field. This involves working at a deep level with the aim of easing physical and mental tension. It will also help induce a relaxed and peaceful state in clients more conducive to self-healing.

As a way to  maintain their own good health while treating others, students are taught how to develop the correct body posture and mental attitude necessary while giving a massage treatment.

Margaret Karlinska, MIFA & IFA Tutor

Registered with the NHS and the AC

I graduated from The Chemistry Department of Warsaw University in Poland. During my studies I became aware of both the convenience and the dangers of chemical substances. I realized that not only the food we eat and the air we breathe, but also the products we put on our skin affects our health. Always fascinated by Nature and its power, I slowly turned towards natural products, foods and remedies.

In summer 1999 I qualified as a professional aromatherapist from The School of Holistic Aromatherapy in London. After successfully completing the course, Nicole Perez invited me to make contributions to her book 'The Aromatherapy Workshop' - by putting together various tables on chemical constituents of essential oils. The book was published in 2000 and is a very useful help for students taking the IFA Diploma course.

I take great pleasure in helping and healing people, and I will continue to update my skills to benefit them even more. Committed to a life long policy of learning, I have already added Indian Head Massage and Bach Flower Remedies to my qualifications and have plans for future studies.

Teaching has always been an important and much enjoyed part of my life – I was a chemistry teacher in Poland . In 2002, I became an IFA teacher at the School of Holistic Aromatherapy. In the last two years I have been helping Nicole Perez develop the correspondence program and have been teaching at the School of Holistic Aromatherapy while working as an aromatherapist in my own private practice. For more information you can visit my website at: http://www.aromaessence.co.uk