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Lydia is a Clinical Aromatherapist (MIFPA) & Facialist offering Aromatherapy Massage, Holistic Facials & Intra-oral Buccal Massage from the heart of Devon.

Welcome to Botanic & Remedy! Lydia is a Clinical Aromatherapist (MIFPA) who is passionate about sharing her love of aromatherapy through her bespoke treatments, using organic plant based oils and natural remedies. Her aromatherapy massage blends the alchemy of essential oils and holistic massage with her focus on the whole person to improve health and wellbeing of the body and mind as one. She enjoys creating specific blends for your needs whether supporting a clinical condition or to simply allow for relaxation, balance or rejuvenation. Her approach offers clients a safe, holistic space to feel nurtured, which enhances the uplifting and healing nature of the essential oils. Lydia believes in treating the root of the issue and enjoys helping clients to manage their lifestyles using aromatherapy after treatments to continue to feel the benefits. Clinical aromatherapy can be beneficial to treat stress, anxiety, insomnia, depression, autoimmune diseases, joint pain, muscular aches and tension, skin, respiratory and digestive conditions and hormonal imbalances. Lydia was awarded her diploma in Aromatherapy & Essential Oil Science by Neal’s Yard Remedies School of Natural Health in Covent Garden. She is a member of the International Federation of Professional Aromatherapists (IFPA), which ensures the highest standards of professional practice.

20/10/2025

Classes coming to Kennford from November!
Spaces are going fast, please message me if you’d like to come along 🙏🌗

24/09/2025

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Introducing…✨‘The Rituals’✨

2 rejuvenating and restorative 90 minute treatments that combine therapeutic aromatherapy massage and holistic facials. Created to release tension, revive your skin’s natural radiance and restore balance in your body and mind.

To embrace the change in seasons and help you ease into autumn, I’m giving you £10 off your first ritual treatment when you book in for October and November.

In both rituals you will experience uplifting aromatic essential oils, warming towels and natural products including the beautiful Devon made .skincare to help soothe your senses and nourish your skin.

90 minutes gives you that extra precious time to let your breath deepen and allows for your mind and body to relax, let go of tension, helping you to feel rebalanced and grounded.

Which one would you pick?
The Radiance Ritual or The Restorative Ritual?

Let me know which one you’d like to book and look forward to some restorative time out 😌

11/09/2025

Earlier this year I trained as a yoga teacher after feeling the call to dive deeper into a world I felt I had only really scratched the surface of.

Rewind to January 2024 where the seed was planted at a wonderful yoga retreat in Nashik, India with one of my wonderful teachers Helen . I partly cringed and laughed off her generous comment “Oh, you’ll be back here to do your teacher training one day!”…but her words landed somewhere in me and subconsciously started to grow.

Yoga has taught me to accept myself wherever I am and to let go of and release some of the ties that life has bound. Yoga is for everyone and is not a religion, more a philosophy that can support our physical, emotional, spiritual and energetic being.

Looking back, I didn’t think that I would necessarily ever teach because of many of my own insecurities and self doubts.
However, after many wobbles (that I have slowly learned to embrace ☺️) I qualified as a teacher this summer and taught my first village class last night.

It was pure joy to teach 7 lovely souls to breathe deeply and move mindfully, as the sun went down with the cool, end of summer breeze on our skin.

With a very full heart, I’m feeling grateful and thankful to all my yoga teachers over the years (I think my first class was over 20 years ago!!) and to my yogi friends and my family for their support and belief in me, especially when I couldn’t see it. It means a lot. The yoga community is a rather special one and it’s lovely to have been welcomed in with open arms 💛

It’s still sinking in that I can now add this beautiful string to my bow and hopefully share more classes and 1:1s with my lovely clients and whoever wants to try yoga!
It’s truly saved me from the inside out, helped to realign my body and mind and I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who feels a bit stuck, overwhelmed, stressed or tired.

Huge thanks to my teacher Lisa Roberts & Co for the full fat training that I’m sure I will still be digesting for many years to come! 💛✨

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Estuary Clinic, 19 Fore Street, Topsham
Exeter
EX30HE

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Monday	10am - 6pm
Wednesday	9am - 6pm
Friday	9am - 6pm

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http://www.botanicandremedy.co.uk/

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I’m Lydia, a Clinical Aromatherapist (MIFPA), Massage Therapist and Holistic Facialist. I offer Aromatherapy Massage and many more restorative treatments at Neal’s Yard Remedies in Exeter, Devon. I am passionate about sharing my love of Aromatherapy with the aim of helping people to feel more relaxed and to feel well in body and mind.

What is Aromatherapy? Aromatherapy is the ‘art and science’ of blending natural aromatic plant extracts known as essential oils. The oils have many therapeutic properties which can help to improve physical and emotional wellbeing in a natural and holistic way. This practice has been used for thousands of years and has become one of the most popular complementary therapies to treat and prevent disease, focusing on the ‘whole person’ - in mind, body and spirit.

Aromatherapy Massage Aromatherapy massage combines the use of healing essential oils with massage to help relieve stress, muscular tension and to restore our body’s natural balance. When this is achieved, the body and mind can work more effectively together, which promotes increased energy levels, a resilient immune system, improved health and a positive state of mind.

In the therapy rooms, I offer a safe and private space to feel calm and nurtured which further enhances the uplifting and healing nature of the essential oils. An in-depth and confidential consultation will be taken to understand your health history, any concerns you may have and so I can select the most beneficial essential oils to be used in your massage. You will then be invited to relax onto the massage couch, drift away and enjoy. Further advice may be given to you on how to manage your lifestyle and help you continue to feel the benefits after your treatments.

How it Works Tiny molecules are absorbed by the skin, inhaled through the nose and into the lungs and enter the bloodstream and nervous system where they take therapeutic effect. Once inhaled into our nose, the tiny droplets drift up to a place called the olfactory bulb, part of the limbic system which can detect smells. This is where our clever brains have learnt to associate certain smells with signals and emotion. For example perhaps as a child your favourite granny wore a ‘Rose’ perfume and now smelling Roses makes you feel comforted and reassured? Scent associations can also work in the opposite way as a form of self protection against things that aren’t good for us or that may pose as a threat. Many essential oils are ‘nervines’ and ‘calmatives’ which mean they actually change our body’s chemistry and allow us to feel better when we breathe them in, so there doesn’t even have to be an association with each scent for it to take effect. I like to call this the ‘alchemy of aromatherapy’ as it has the power to transform how we feel, which is why I believe it to be the ultimate feel good therapy!

How Can it Help Me? Clinical aromatherapy can be beneficial to treat stress, anxiety, insomnia, depression, autoimmune diseases, joint pain, muscular aches and tension and many other conditions including; skin, digestive, respiratory, vascular conditions and hormonal imbalances. I enjoy creating specific blends for your needs whether supporting a clinical condition or to simply encourage relaxation.

Essential oils can be inhaled, diffused, added to baths, creams, ointments and applied to the skin in an Aromatherapy Massage and can be used to support mild to treating chronic conditions. Bespoke home remedies are available on request. I am a member of the International Federation of Professional Aromatherapists (IFPA), which ensures the highest standards of safety and professional practice.

Appointments:

Wednesday & Friday: 9.30am - 5.30pm at Neal’s Yard Remedies, Exeter.

To make a booking or to find out more, please get in touch. Thanks for stopping by!

Lydia

Email: Lydia@botanicandremedy.co.uk Call: 07507 787 377