Reflexology

Reflexology is based on the principle that areas, or Reflex Zones, on the feet and hands, correspond to each organ, gland and structure within the body.

Foot Massage

By working on the feet with gentle pressure massage, each reflex is stimulated, helping to clear blockages and imbalances caused by stress and tension, injury and disease.

Reflexology can be performed in the massage room, outside, at a fund raiser, at a remote location or in the water.

History of Reflexology

No one really knows how old reflexology is, although there is substantial information to suggest it may have been used as long ago as 5,000 years, both in China and Egypt.

According to one text on the subject ("The Art of Reflexology" by Inge Dougans), modern reflexology springs from the research of Sir Henry Head of London, back in the 1890's. The Russian emphasis, with regard to reflexology, was from a psychological point of view. From the Germans, around that same time period, came "reflex massage". In American circles, Dr. William Fitzgerald is credited as founder of "Zone Therapy", which is based on dividing the body into 5 zones on each side.

The work of Eunice Ingham, whose work also dealt with "zone therapy" but with particular emphasis on working with the zones through the reflexes located in the feet.