Aromatic Mystery School Presents
Luminous
Garments
Learn to See & Heal Your Own Aura
"The angels love humans and their luminous garments"
— Hildegard of Bingen
The name of the course "Luminous Garments" comes from a quote by Hildegard of Bingen that "The angels love humans and their luminous garments" and also appears in first century religious document called Pistis Sophia.
The Aura Comprises
Seven Distinct Bodies
Each etheric body serves a purpose
function with its own patterns of colour
'The aura', 'the etheric body', and 'the biofield' are all terms to describe the light body that surrounds and pervades the physical body. In gnostic teachings, it is rather beautifully expressed as “the luminous garment”.
A barometer for the emotions, the aura changes colour according to one’s personality and mood and is a profound receptacle of knowledge.
Concealed within the fibres of the garment lies the biography of a person’s soul, their lifetime's emotional interactions, their thoughts and ideas, traumas, sensitivities, issues with regards to identity and connections to the divine. (This is far from an exhaustive list.)
Acting as a filter for the conscious mind, the aura relays information between the physical body and the collective conscious. There are some who believe the etheric field might indeed be consciousness itself.
The possibilities of ways one can engage with the light body are limitless. Indeed mystery cults and ancient religious have long maintained that mastery of the light body bestows the power to transcend death. Saliently, for this course however, dis-ease of the spirit is often the first seed of physical disease. This exhibits itself in the aura to portray illness' manifestation.
Certainly, health and what I would term as un-health, can be perceived in the etheric body.
Auric specialists can interact with influence the field using a variety of mediums, including essential oils For my own part, I see this through a very similar lens to the 12th century abbess and doctor of the Church, Hildegard von Bingen. Her declaration that “the angels love humans in their luminous garments" was the inspiration for this course. In her eyes, health was viriditas, a kind of greening of the spirit which could be imbued using plant medicines, music and beauty.
Transcending mere chemistry of a plant, imagine viriditas as being kissed by divinity, the shockwaves of which drown the etheric body in brightness, shifting wellness into the light.
These perpetually change, in response to mood, personality and health. They might also vary according to which "You" is currently dominant.
A person's work aura often changes radically when they leave the office to engage with family, for example.Similarly, colours and textures alter to reflect health.
Understanding how etheric bodies respond and interact gives
unprecedented insights into both the self and into others.
Luminous Garments
Learn to See & Heal Your Own Aura
Master aura color reading and personal energy healing
Learn:
What the biofield is, and its relationship with emotional, mental and physical dis-ease
How to percieve the colours of the aura and what they mean in each etheric body
How to physically discern the aura with your hands, to discover rips and tears which can negatively affect health, and how to use them
How thoughts and emotions move through the aura, (or indeed cling and take root in the the etheric bodies) to "muddy the waters.
How cultural identity, gender and neurodivergency evolve as reflections of self in the blue print
How the biofield interacts with the more spiritual questions of the soul.
How to use aromatherapy as a vibrational healing modality to affect field resonance
How to work with plants to restore viriditas and impact emotional, mental, spiritual and phyical health and to map changes in the aura for feedback
Long-term self-care and energetic maintenance
Practitioner Applications
Use aura reading as a healing technology with clients
Advanced training for healing professionals.
You’ll Learn:
How to assess and interpret your client's aura
Integration of aura work into your existing healing practices
How to engage with memories stored within the etheric field in a trauma informed way
Opportunities and threats of using a "diagnostic tool", and the importance of not diagnosing
Ethical frameworks and scope of practice
Business applications and service packaging
Ideal for:
Aromatherapists
Massage therapists
Counsellors
Energy healers
Any healing practitioner wanting deeper energetic insight
Additional Materials:
Practitioner assessment frameworks
Advanced interpretation guides
Client communication tools
Live Interactive Classes
Training is done as an online group which meets for six classes
Classes are spread two weeks apart.
Online community
Course price £697
Can be paid in 3 monthly
payments of £249 (Save £97)
Or 6 monthly payments of £150 each
Early Enrollment Opportunity
Register before March 31th 2026
Course Price £597
Offer expires 11.59pm GMT
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Learn to See The Aura & Its Changing Colors
While some people can see the aura psychically, learning to "see the colours" is actually very simple.
Learn How To
Discern aura colours, shapes, textures and damage using pendulum dowsing
Map colours, inconsistencies and tears in the etheric field
Draw your own energy field, and that of others to and discern what is happening from the colours and vitality of the field
Once you can see and interpret aura colors, you have a base from which to heal.
Essential Oils for Aura Healing
Learn How To:
Choose essential oils for the aura
Cleanse, protect and reinforce the field to restore viriditas and wellbeing
Guage the health of the aura health prior to and after oils interactions to measure therapeutic change
A Unique Enhancement:
Ancient Wisdom for Modern Healing
The aura work stands on its own - but this course goes further.
I inherited this body of work from my mother, Jill Bruce. An internationally renouned aromatherapist, clairvoyante and astrology, mom spent forty years studying people's auras. Each client she saw, she drew their aura and was able to compare what she could see there with feedback from their readings, and then after aromatherapy too.
For me, working with the aura is aromatherapy 101. Holistic aromatherapy treats the mind, body and the spirit, and all three aspects are found in the aura.
But, Luminous Garments originally emerged from a rabbit-hole question which, one day, just popped into my mind.
If halos can be explained as the aura, why couldn't you find them in the Bible?
What followed was a decades long fascination with the visions of medieval Christian mystics, about how many of them spoke of "light bodies" and indeed, some, spoke of how plants seemed to bring about healing by interacting with these bodies. The most famous of these would be Hildegard of Bingen's Viriditas, a greening of the spirit through music, nature and beauty and specifically through certain plants.
From that emerged "Luminessence", simple protocols of inhaling essential oils with contemplations of mantra's like Julian of Norwich's "All shall be well", and watching how that vibrational shift makes changes to the colour, structure and the coherence of the energetic field.
Julian of Norwich’s “All shall be well” + certain oils = clarity in the mental body
These “Luminessence Meditations” are what make this training unlike anything else.
About Elizabeth Ashley
I was about 8 years old when another child at school asked me "Why do you always painted rainbows around people's heads."
Bewildered, my reply was, "Why don't you?"
That was the first inkling I'd ever had that these colours might be less obvious to other people than, let's say, the colour of their hair. I can't tell you how very odd that felt!
About four years later, mom began studying essential oils and I was blown away by these glorious fragrances and songs that emerged from the bottles housed on her shelves. I loved taking the lids of to enjoy the aromatic melodies each one had and loved how you could know which song you would get, just as easily as choosing a son on an LP (Thats a music album, for the babes among you!)
Again over time, it became clear that this was a relationship of difference that no-one else had. Subsequently it has been scientifically explained by a pheneomenon called synesthesia, resultant from a cross wiring between scent and sound in my brain. I see this as the super power that helps to "sense" energetic field coherences that might otherwise not be revealed to some some people.
In 1994, I completed my Diploma in Aromatherapy, a clinical qualification with the mind body spirit medicine front and centre of the syllabus. This encompassed not only the aura, the chakras and meridians as well as medical astrology.
In 2015, I was made the UK Director for the National Association of Holistic Aromatherapy. I have written 24 books about aromatherapy, including Meeting the Melissae, a book about how my studies in Melissa officinalis (Lemon Balm) would lead to my discovery of a lost cult of priestesses from ancient Greece.
I am a practicing Melissa priestess, and plant shaman.
Early Enrollment Opportunity
Register before March 31th 2026 and save:
Course Price £597
Offer expires 11.59pm GMT
TESTIMONIALS
What Students Discover
“I’ve been working with essential oils for years but never knew what they were actually doing energetically. Seeing my mental body shift from muddy brown to clear yellow after working with rosemary was incredible validation.”
— Sarah M., Clinical Aromatherapist
“Learning to dowse my aura colors explained so many patterns I’d never understood. The holes in my etheric template explained my chronic fatigue. The tools I learned changed my life.”
— Michael R.
STILL GOT QUESTIONS?
Frequently Asked Questions
Can anyone learn to see aura colors?
Yes. Dowsing makes it accessible to everyone - no special psychic ability required.
What if I’m skeptical?
Skepticism is not merely welcome but positively invited. Practitioners with open minds see the best results.
Skepticism is welcome. The changes you’ll track in your energy field are measurable and real.
Do I need dowsing experience?
No. Dowsing is simple to learn and develops through practice. Neither does it require expensive crystals (although they are lovely!). I learnt to dowse with a bath plug in a morning. It is one of the most satisfying skills you can learn.
No. You’ll learn everything from scratch. You’ll need a pendulum, colored pencils, and some essential oils.
Are the spiritual practices religious?
No.
The mystics we engage with are all women, several went on to become Doctors of the Church and many were canonised as saints. They are Mary Magdalene, Hildegard of Bingen, Julian of Norwich, Teresa of Avila, Catherine of Sienna & Mathilde of Magdeburg. Additionally we also think about the Hindu saint, Mirabai
We contemplate these figures through historical stories that help frame certain mystical experiences as examples of things we might see in the outer bodies of the aura. Things we would probably not see in every day "ordinary practice."
Likewise we will do meditations to help shift our awareness but again these are not religious.
No. They’re contemplative tools drawn from Christian mystics but are universally applicable.
Course Opens: March 2026
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