Foot Massage Therapy

Here is your step-by-step reflexology foot massage therapy guide.

I've provided diagrams to help you.

I've broken down the routine into four sections.

This is the second section, treating the heart, lungs, and shoulders.

Sections one, three, and four can be easily found as you scroll down.

Foot Massage Therapy Routine

Blue -- head, brain, sinus, thyroid, stating and ending points of five meridians
Green -- heart
Orange -- right lung and bronchioles
Yellow -- shoulder, including joint, muscles and ligaments

Check for contraindications.
Warm up the foot and ankle with basic Swedish stokes: gliding, kneading, and movement.
Perform gentle squeezes, twists, pulls, and brushing of the toes [detailed in section one below]
Do thumb opposition gliding and gentle compressions with circular movements all over the area's colored in
thumb walk the heart
trough through the bronchioles and the lungs
perform the lung pump: your soft left fist placed onto the lung area, your right hand clasping the foot and your left thumb.
Gently push the ankle into dorsi-flexion, then gently pull the ankle into plantar-flexion.
Repeat twenty one times.
Squeeze and knead the outside edge of the foot, just below the little toe [shoulder]
end this section with pinpoint-and-flex techniques all along the diaphragm map-line.
Repeat on the other foot, noting that the heart zone is much smaller on the right foot.

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Design Your Own Charts

It's fun!

Blank piece of white paper, a pencil, a foot or hand.

Lightly draw around the foot. Do several different sizes of feet and hands.

Experiment with lots of different colors.

And, take advantage of the online reflexology charts here at

www.reflexology-education-now.com

Each page has different illustrations and step-by-step instructions.

Draw them. Practice the techniques that go along with that zone of the foot or hand using your own charts.

Complete Reflexology Foot Massage Therapy Routine

Here's an introductory, step-by-step routine for reflexology foot massage therapy of the plantar surface of the feet.

Toes -- head, brain, sinus, thyroid, starting and ending points of five meridians
Balls of Feet -- heart, lungs, bronchioles, shoulder muscles, joint, and ligaments
Middle of Foot -- stomach, spleen, pancreas, adrenal glands, liver, gall bladder, intestines, urinary bladder, kidney
Heel -- pelvic bones, joints, and muscles, including the sciatic nerves

Check for contraindications before starting your reflexology foot massage: fungus, cuts, bruises, recent surgery, ingrown toe nails, swelling, redness, etc.

Using your oil of choice, warm up the foot and ankle with basic Swedish stokes: gliding, kneading, and gentle stretches.
Take each toe in turn, gently squeeze, twist, and pull.
Perform toe brushing: softly brushing the tips of the toes with your palm.
On the top, bottoms, and sides of the toes, perform thumb and finger walking. Small "inch worm" movements from tip of the toe to the base.
Gently stretch the toes. Stretch and knead the calf muscles and Achilles tendon.
Perform thumb gliding and gentle compressions with circular movements all over the balls of the foot.
Thumb-walk the heart zone, and trough through the bronchioles and the lungs
Perform the lung-pump: place your soft fist onto the balls of the foot, the lungs. With the other hand, hold the foot and gently push the ankle into dorsi-flexion, then gently pull the ankle into plantar-flexion. Repeat twenty one times.
Squeeze and knead the outside edge of the foot, just below the small toe. Helps to relax the shoulders.
Perform gentle, light compressions throughout middle of the foot and the arch.
Thumb-walk the stomach and spleen on the left foot, and the liver and gall bladder on the right.
Use the simple Hook-in-and-back-up technique on the adrenal glands, roughly center of the arch of the foot: softly compress with your thumb, drag it down a quarter of an inch, release. Repeat this technique ten times.
Circular movements and thumb glides all over this area of the foot.
Rub the spine. The whole medial, or inside edge of the foot is the spinal column, muscles, and vertebrae. Briskly rub back and forth along this edge, using your palm, starting at the top of the big to to the end of the heel.
Perform spinal twists, gentle movements of the foot, not the ankle.
Squeeze and knead the outside edge of the foot to effect all joints of the body. Great foot massage therapy technique to stimulate synovial fluid release.
Perform gentle, light compressions with fingers or thumbs on the heel.
Do thumb opposition glides across the heel to the middle of the foot. Use a bit more pressure here.
Knuckle heel: using your knuckles, or a reflexology tool, compress, do circular movements, and rubbing of the heel.
Milk heel: grasp the heel with your whole hand, squeeze and glide down and off the heel. Repeat ten times.
Thumb-walk the sciatic nerve, found running horizontally across the center of the heel. Repeat several times.
Perform Hook-in-and-back-up and compressions with circular motions on the urinary bladder.
Repeat Thumb-walking the whole area.
Squeeze and knead all along the outside edge of the foot.
Thumb glide all along the diaphragm map lines.
Cover this foot with a towel, and repeat the above steps on the other foot.
End the whole reflexology foot massage therapy routine by placing your palms on the soles of the feet for one minute.

Therapeutic Reflexology
These reflexology techniques have the reputation for helping in certain disorders and illnesses.
They are never a substitute for medical attention, though they may aid in the correction of some disorders.

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