What is world reflexology week?
World Reflexology Week takes place annually during the last full week in September. This year world reflexology week runs from 19th – 25th September.
World reflexology week aims to promotes reflexology and raise awareness of reflexology on a global level.
What is reflexology?
Reflexology is a complementary therapy based on the long established principle that different areas of your feet, hands and ears relate to corresponding parts of your body, including your organs and systems.
Your reflexologist will usually begin your session with some relaxing massage before using precise techniques to work the points and areas that relate to your body’s organs and systems noting any areas of imbalance.
Reflexology is an established complementary therapy that dates back to ancient Egypt and China. In fact, there is Egyptian tomb art, dating from around 2000 BC, that depicts people giving and receiving foot massage
Reflexology is very calming and relaxing, bringing about balance to your body and encouraging your body’s own healing by improving circulation, inducing relaxation, easing tension, reducing stress and restoring homeostasis.
Why not watch this informative video What is reflexology by the Association of Reflexologists.
What are the benefits of reflexology?
Reflexology has been shown to have many benefits including:
- Improvement of nerve function
- Your feet have over 7000 nerve endings. Reflexology stimulates your neural pathways facilitating nerve function in your body.
- Improvement of brain power
- Stimulating your nerves and neural pathways can help information flow faster and more effectively to your brain, possibly boosting your memory.
- Increased blood circulation
- Possibly the best known benefit of reflexology is increased blood circulation which can help optimise the function of your body’s organs and systems.
- Elimination of toxins
- As well as improving blood circulation, reflexology works the urinary and digestive systems, promoting balance and thereby optimising the function of these thereby improving elimination of toxins.
- Boosting metabolism and energy levels
- Reflexology can help improve the functionality of the systems and organs in your body which can result in an improved metabolism that in turn can create more energy.
- Speed up healing process
- Boosting your circulation and metabolism and helping bring balance to your central nervous system allows oxygen and nutrients to be delivered more quickly which can assist in faster healing and regrowth of damaged cells.
- Relaxation
- Time on the treatment couch is relaxing. Reflexology works on your parasympathetic nervous system helping reduce stress and encourage homeostasis.
How can reflexology help me?
Reflexology is great for relaxation and valuable me-time.
Reflexologists can not claim to cure any ailments, nor should they diagnose any conditions, however,
reflexology is believed to bring relief from a wide range of chronic and acute conditions; in fact, many health care professionals acknowledge reflexology as a respected and effective complementary therapy.
Reflexology is an holistic treatment that can help you physically, mentally, and emotionally, facilitating your body’s own healing system ~ helping, your mind, body and spirit.
Some of the conditions reflexology can be used to treat include:
- Anxiety
- Asthma
- Back pain
- Bladder problems
- Cancer – helping ease symptoms including stress, nausea, fatigue
- Chemotherapy – easing of side effects
- Circulatory issues
- Depression
- Digestive issues
- headache
- IBS
- Insomnia
- Menopausal issues and symptoms*
- Menstrual conditions
- Migraine
- Period pain
- Respiratory issues
- Stress
Reflexology Lymphatic Drainage
At Lorraine’s Treatment Room you can also experience Reflexology for Lymphatic Drainage (RLD). This unique treatment was developed by Sally Kay when working in cancer care.
Developed initially to treat those who had breast cancer and help sufferers of lymphoedema, RLD was found to also have a positive effect on the following conditions.
- Aches and pains
- Arthritis
- Asthma
- Chronic fatigue
- Eczema
- Fibromyalgia
- Headaches
- Long covid – early indications indicate reflexology can help relieve symptoms
- ME
- Migraines
- Muscular tension
- Premenstrual syndrome
- Sinus problems.
Reflexology for Menopause
I have also been fortunate to complete advanced training with Sally Earlam. This informative course taught additional reflexology techniques as well as lifestyle ideas to help support my female clients through the transition of peri/menopause.
What happens at my treatment
After booking your treatment, new clients will be sent a client consultation form.
This form takes your health history and ensures that there are no contra-indications to treatment.
A copy of this form is sent to the email address you provide, and another to my secure, cloud based storage facility.
When you arrive for your reflexology session, you will be requested to remove footwear and settled comfortably on the massage table. The room will be tranquil and soft music will be playing.
You will remain fully clothed with only your lower legs and feet exposed. After cleansing and assessing your feet, I will carry out some gentle relaxation movements on your feet and lower legs before commencing your reflexology treatment.
Reflexology works holistically and, rather than just a massage working on your feet, every aspect of you ~physical, emotional, and spiritual ~ is worked through your feet.
Your feet are ‘walked’ and reflex areas, which correspond to areas of your body, stimulated with specialised reflexology movements and pressure circles. Pressing on specific points of your feet induces reflex responses in the area of the body to which they relate thereby aiding promoting your body to heal itself.
During your treatment you might experience some tenderness on your foot as pressure is applied. Tenderness is extremely rare, however, if you do experience any discomfort, please do let me know as this indicates there is a corresponding imbalance in your body and allows me to focus on this. Similarly, your feet may feel hard or tight to the touch, or I might feel ‘crystals’; these too help me pinpoint imbalances and tailor your treatment to ensure you get the very best from your reflexology session.
My aim, during your treatment, is to stimulate your body’s own healing process to ensure that you maintain, or return to a state of homeostasis; this relaxing, rebalancing, enjoyable treatment manipulates your feet to bring balance to your body.
Your treatment concludes with relaxation techniques and/or energy linking to further enhance your treatment.
Sounds great! What reflexology treatments do you offer and where can I book?
