Lyn Belisle is an amazing San Antonio artist and aromatherapist.
When I recently asked her how she became interested in aromatherapy, she told me, “When I was a child, my father, who was an Air Force officer, was stationed in England. I was fascinated by the cottage herb gardens there and the medicinal properties of traditional plants. This became a lifelong interest.
“I heard about how those plants were used for essential oils in Aromatherapy from a woman named Jeanne Rose in the 1980’s and ended up with an Aromatherapist certification from the Pacific Institute of Aromatherapy in 1989. Workshops in Aromatherapy were rare in Texas at that time, but I started teaching about the practical uses of essential plant oils and people responded enthusiastically.
