Reflexology Techniques

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Here's an introductory, step-by-step routine, and reflexology techniques 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 techniques: fungus, cuts, bruises, recent surgery, ingrown toe nails, swelling, redness, etc.

1. Using your oil of choice, warm up the foot and ankle with basic Swedish stokes: gliding, kneading, and gentle stretches.

2. Take each toe in turn, gently squeeze, twist, and pull.

3. Perform toe brushing: softly brushing the tips of the toes with your palm.

4. 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.

5. Gently stretch the toes. Stretch and knead the calf muscles and Achilles tendon.

6. Perform thumb gliding and gentle compressions with circular movements all over the balls of the foot.

7. Thumb-walk the heart zone, and trough through the bronchioles and the lungs

8. 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.

9. Squeeze and knead the outside edge of the foot, just below the small toe. Helps to relax the shoulders.

10. Perform gentle, light compressions throughout middle of the foot and the arch.

11. Thumb-walk the stomach and spleen on the left foot, and the liver and gall bladder on the right.

12. 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.

13. Circular movements and thumb glides all over this area of the foot.

14. 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.

15. Perform spinal twists, gentle movements of the foot, not the ankle.

16. Squeeze and knead the outside edge of the foot to effect all joints of the body, and to stimulate synovial fluid release.

17. Perform gentle, light compressions with fingers or thumbs on the heel.

18. Do thumb opposition glides across the heel to the middle of the foot. Use a bit more pressure here.

19. Knuckle heel: using your knuckles, or a reflexology tool, compress, do circular movements, and rubbing of the heel.

20. Milk heel: grasp the heel with your whole hand, squeeze and glide down and off the heel. Repeat ten times.

21. Thumb-walk the sciatic nerve, found running horizontally across the center of the heel. Repeat several times.

22. Perform Hook-in-and-back-up and compressions with circular motions on the urinary bladder.

23. Repeat Thumb-walking the whole area.

24. Squeeze and knead all along the outside edge of the foot.

25. Thumb glide all along the diaphragm map lines.

26. Cover this foot with a towel, and repeat the above steps on the other foot.

27. End your reflexology techniques routine by placing your palms on the soles of the feet for one minute.

    
    

    Complete Reflexology Hand Massage Routine

    Here's an introductory, step-by-step routine, and reflexology techniques of the palm of the hands.

    • Fingers and Thumb -- head, neck, brain, sinus, pituitary, thyroid, eyes, ears, and shoulder muscles. Beginning and ending points of six meridians

    • Palm -- bronchioles, lungs, spleen, liver, gall bladder, kidney, pancreas, shoulder and arm joints, muscles, and ligaments

    • Thenar Eminence -- heart, adrenal glands. Along with the outside of the thumb, represents the spinal column

    • Wrist -- pelvic bones, joints, and muscles, including the sciatic nerves

    Check for contraindications before starting your reflexology hand massage: fungus, cuts, bruises, recent surgery, pain, swelling, redness, etc.

    1. Using your oil of choice, warm up the hand and wrist with basic Swedish stokes: gliding, kneading, and squeezing.

    2. Gently squeeze, twist, and pull the thumb and each finger.

    3. Perform "inch-worm" Thumb-walking technique down each finger and the thumb, on all sides. Energizes the meridians.

    4. Brain Roll: taking the pads of your fingers and thumb, rock gently back and forth on the tips of their fingers and thumb.

    5. Stretch the fingers and thumb, opening up the palm by gliding from the center outward.

    6. Finger brushing: taking your palms and softly brushing the tops of their fingers, back and forth.

    7. Pinpoint-and-flex: place your thumb onto the area where their palm easily bends. This is the diaphragm map line. With your other hand bend their palm over your thumb. Do this all along the map line.

    8. Thumb glides, rotations, and gentle compressions all over the palm down to the wrist.

    9. Trough between the metacarpals using your thumbs. Start at the wrist and glide up to the base of the fingers.

    10. Perform Thumb-walking technique all over the palm and thenar eminence. Spend some time and repeat in many directions.

    11. The reflex zone for the heart: compress, hold, and perform gentle circular motions into the fleshy area of the palm, under the thumb - thenar eminence.

    12. Adrenals: also found on the thenar eminence, specifically, halfway from base of thumb and wrist. Compress, glide, and utilize Hook-in-back-up technique.

    13. Rub, knead, and squeeze the thumb side of the hand, stimulating spinal nerve and cerebral spinal fluid function.

    14. Knead the outside edge of the hand, the little finger side, to give relief to the shoulders, neck, and stimulate the spleen.

    15. Focus on the base of the palm and wrist - intestines, pelvic organs and muscles. Perform thumb glides in all directions.

    16. Wrist Boogie: jostle the wrist, moving it in a cycle of abduction and adduction.

    17. Repeat the reflexology hand massage routine on the other hand.

    
    

    Reflexology Techniques

    These 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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