Harvard Club of Washington, DC

Essential Oils for Self-Care, with Nancy Illman AB '87

Nancy Illman is a reiki energy healer, musician, artist, vegan, essential-oils expert, and catalyst for self-transformation. Club members will receive samples of all of the six oils discussed in Nancy's multi-sensory presentation.

Nancy Illman is a reiki energy healer, musician, artist, vegan, essential-oils expert, and catalyst for self-transformation.

Nancy’s presentation is intended to inspire and empower people to harness the power of essential oils in their own homes, focusing primarily on three single oils and three proprietary essential-oil blends from doTERRA, the world’s leading manufacturer and distributor of essential oils. Club members attending this event will receive and take home samples of all six of the oils discussed in Nancy's multi-sensory presentation.  

She attended Harvard College in the 1980s and was a member of the Hasty Pudding Club, a frequent diner at Hillel, and a dedicated member of the Bach Society Orchestra. She graduated in 1988 with an honors degree in English and American Language and Literature.

Moving from Cambridge to NYC, Nancy went on to study decorative painting at Parsons School of Design and painted murals and faux finishes around the city before enrolling in Fordham Law School.  After performing just once at Carnegie Hall, Nancy left NYC to start a family in Ohio. There, she published an article on the dangers of attorney-mediated divorce and then rather famously painted her final for Federal Antitrust Law (see Patti Jones,"This Law Student Masters the Fine Art of Avoiding Exams," The National Law Journal, Jul 22, 1996, at A23).  She served as a research assistant for ACLU President Nadine Strossen and then worked briefly at the Legal Aid Society before leaving the practice of law to discover how she might make her greatest contribution to society.

What ensued were two marriages, the birth of three sons, dozens of whimsical murals (see www.magicwandmurals.com), a series of empowerment programs for young and teenage girls, a certificate in plant based nutrition, and lots of opera, orchestral, and chamber music.

In 2013, Nancy moved to Washington, DC. Upon the sudden death of her father, Arnold M Illman MD ’55, Nancy founded a confidential online community dedicated to empowering individuals with the knowledge necessary for the safe and effective usage of essential oils as a natural way to support healthy respiratory function, promote healthy circulation, maintain a healthy gastrointestinal tract, support emotional stability, promote a restful sleep, reduce anxious feelings, soothe occasional skin irritations, minimize the effects of seasonal threats, support healthy immune system function, support a healthy metabolism, support healthy cardiovascular function, alleviate occasional stomach upset, indigestion or motion sickness, improve appearance of skin, hair, teeth and nails, ease feelings of tension, minimize the signs of aging, and help keep families and homes clean and healthy.

In 2014, Nancy became a certified trainer in the AromaTouch Technique, a clinical application of certified pure therapeutic grade essential oils, and she now travels throughout the Midwest and the mid-Atlantic region teaching this natural healing modality. She is dedicated to empowering healers as well as ordinary people all over the United States to harness the beneficial power of essential oils.

Nancy is thrilled to introduce her family’s system of self-care, and of natural home-based wellness-management, to the members and guests of the Harvard Club of Washington, DC.

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