Essential Oil Blending and Herbal Tea & Tincture Formulation - January 26

Essential Oil Blending and Herbal Tea & Tincture Formulation 
with Herbal Elder Blaine Andrusek

Sunday, January 26th, 2025
2:30 - 5:30pm MST

Join Online or In-Person

In this session, you will learn how to begin to masterfully blend essential oils and create your own herbal formulations for teas, tinctures, salves and more. 

If you have ever wondered what should go into a herbal formulation? If so, then this is the class for you!

Learn from a Master Herbalist who has decades of personal, clinical, and commercial experience creating custom blends and formulations. Whether you are looking to add to your own expertise as a product formulator or simply to gain the skills to craft up incredible herbal recipes at home, this session will be a perfect place to start and build upon your abilities.

For home herbalists and even those studying to practice, there are some many questions when it comes to formulating like, where do you even start? and what types of herbs should be included? What herbs shouldn't go together? Is it possible to put two "wrong herbs" in a formula that may cancel out the benefits?

We'll answer those questions and so much more.

You will learn about various models and theories regarding blending including the idea behind notes, key and supportive herbs, and the layers that can make up a formula.

By the end of the session, you will understand how to craft a functional blend for most physical ailments relative to the actions and chemistry of the plants you are working with and for what purpose.

If you are an aspiring herbalist or simply someone with the desire to elevate your skills and confidence with herbs then you are invited to attend.

Register now and learn from a pro so you can blend like a pro!

Join this session live in-person or online. Everyone who is registered will receive details to join the class including a zoom link if you are attending online. A recording of the session plus any notes will be sent out to all registrants after the class. 

About the Instructor:

Blaine "the Herb man" Andrusek grew up in north central Saskatchewan where he spent a good deal of time in his beloved Boreal forest. By the age of 14, Blaine was regularly hunting and trapping and had a keen interest in native traditions and all that the forest had to offer. At 18, Blaine ran off with a few provisions and adequate gear to survive minus 27 and five feet of snow and ended up spending nearly four months living mostly off the land. Although he didn’t understand the concept of ‘totems’ at that time, Blaine had many experiences with Owl, who told him that his mission, this time, was to never stop learning and to teach. When Blaine returned to Calgary a few years later, he met Terry Willard, who had just started his practice and founded the Wild Rose College of Natural Healing. Blaine was one of the earliest graduates of the Master Herbalist program, and by the Spring of 1981 began teaching. Although mostly a hobby interest at first, ten years later, Blaine gave up other interests in favour of becoming a full-time teacher, public speaker, and practitioner. A focus on essential oils captured his interest, and Blaine was soon formulating and supplying fellow herbalists, aestheticians, and massage therapists from coast to coast, and speaking to eight to ten audiences a week. From children’s summer camps to Elder Hostel, numerous massage schools, television work, and eventually keynoting national and international conferences, Blaine has had an extremely diverse and rewarding career and has been honoured as an herbal Elder. He is the creator of and namesake behind Blaine Andrusek Phytotherapeutics, a line of high-quality essential oils.