Reflexology

From ancient texts, various artifacts and illustrations the Chinese, Russians, Egyptians and Japanese worked on the feet to activate the healing powers of the body.

The techniques which the ancients employed and the modern scientific method now known as "Reflexology" are united by the belief that there are energy zones that run throughout the body and reflex areas in the feet that correspond to all the major organs, glands and body parts.

Systems such as acupuncture, shiatsu and reflexology agree that the energy flows in zones or meridians. This energy can be strengthened and brought into balance by these therapies.

Reflexologists believe that there are ten zones that run the length of the body from head to toes, five on each side of the body ending in each foot and running down the arms into the tips of the fingers. Parts of the body and organs, lie along these zones.

It was Eunice Ingham in the 1930s that mapped the entire body onto the feet and she concluded that the feet, being extremely sensitive, were the most responsive area for working the zones.

Reflexology calms the nervous system, circulation improves and all the cells are oxygenated. All the systems of the body function in a more effective and cohesive way cleansing the body through the lymphatic excretory and integumentary systems, of toxins.

The immune system is strengthened and the body revitalized by opening up energy pathways.

The feet are a microcosm of the whole body laid out in the same arrangement. All body parts, glands and organs are represented within this order. Reflexology is a fascinating and highly beneficial therapy.