Beginning of a Reflexology Session – Technique

okay cool so basically what we're gonna be doing is we are going to be running through the beginning part of the routine now this starts with the solar plexus an adrenal which we've talked about before then we go to the hotel wrapping and then we go to the relaxation techniques so the solar plexus reflex is right on the diaphragm guide line which is just below the ball of the foot yeah so just a little bit south of the distal heads of the metatarsals on that diaphragm guide line and it's in line with the third toe we're gonna take two thumbs slightly bend them to protect that joint and then just hook into those two ditches we'd hold that for 30 seconds okay so that's our first point then after that 30 seconds we're gonna move to the adrenals the adrenals are a little bit more complicated to map I know you can see it really sinking yeah good stuff well that's that's all grace grace did that with the rob already got work done today so with the adrenal gland adrenal gland requires a little bit more intricate mapping so we're gonna take that same diaphragm guide line then we're gonna find the proximal head of the fifth metatarsal which is our waistline guideline which if you need you can always check on the the foot map and then in between the first and second toe in between that first and second metatarsal halfway in between those two guidelines okay you're just medial to that thick plantar tendon and again your feeling for that nice little dip to just hold into and that's our adrenal reflex and we're gonna hold that for 30 seconds so those are our two points we start and end the session with those two points very much like taking the pulse of a client before and after the work okay after those first two points we're gonna do our hot towels these are dry but we're gonna imagine that they're piping hot and we'll get the hot ones and in just a second let me go through it all together and then a dry towel we have our fleece underneath to help keep in the heat and we're gonna take our first mel-min we're gonna take our first hot towel open it up let it dry just a little bit and cool down you don't want to scold the person then we're gonna place it a little bit on one side a lot on the other side and a two inch flap for the toes okay that way we can hold the foot take all the excess swipe it underneath wrap the toes and tuck over if you did it right it should stay stay it should stay without you needing to hold it okay it'll be a lot easier with the wet towel and then immediately the fleece goes over under pressin wrap over creating this nice little bootie and then we press we just want to get all that heat into the foot and the fleece helps us do that if we didn't have something covering the hot towel it would get twice as cold twice as fast we go to our other side do the exact same thing open up the hot towel cool it off a little bit unless you don't like rob and then we're gonna put a lot on one side a little bit on the other and then two inch flap for the toes bring the excess underneath tuck the toes and wrap over again yeah if it's tight it shouldn't move then immediately with the fleece over under press and wrap over creating that nice little bootie and press okay back to the other foot press again again any opportunity to really get the last bits of heat into the tissues that's what the hot towels are for they're not just feel good stuff they're therapeutically beneficial they bring circulation as well as if the client has a little bit of gnarliness on their feet gets all that scrubbed off then we discard that hot towel take our dry towel and wrap the foot exactly like we did with the hot towel a little bit on one side a lot on the other side two inch flat for the toes underneath tuck the toes wrap over then we're gonna shimmy the foot dry three times just a really nice vigorous back-and-forth getting any last bits of moisture off the foot because that's really what we want to make sure is that the foot isn't wet we're cold okay then this side of the towel is now wet but the other side is now dry so we get to use the other side of the towel for the next foot over to that left foot press last bits of heat in unwrap the fleece press again get any last bits of heat also feel for where the towel went cold that'll give you an idea of where the wrapping wasn't tight enough discard then a little bit on one side lot on the other side two-inch flap the toast under tuck wrap over shimmy dry giving any last bits of moisture off the feet okay then to start our routine we're going to do the entire routine on the right side so we're going to leave the dry towel on the left side and rewrap the fleece over it okay so it stays nice and warm and dry and cozy while we do the entire routine on the right foot now we go to our relaxation techniques the relaxation techniques we put in other videos you have lots of experience with this Cody's going to shift to get a better angle and we're gonna start with our sloppy susan's so hole in the center of the hands and the palm of the hand goes to each bunion area on either side fingers stay nice and loose and we're gonna vigorously not necessarily slap but love tap the foot back and forth get a lot of wiggling you can see it's going all the way up the hip into the neck getting a lot of nice jostling throughout the body that's sloppy Susan's going down to military-trained we're gonna address the maleo line and the talus so that same openness in the palm of the hands we're gonna suction cup to the medial and lateral malleoli get a nice grip and then we're basically rotating the talus so we want to go one hand forward one hand back direct the ankle would myself pop there and just speed it up military-trained again you can see the entire body is vibrating these relaxation techniques aren't just for the feet following that we do our calf massage all the way to the back of the knee squeeze pull release squeeze po release squeeze pull release all the way down just one pass about ten seconds nothing too fancy if you don't they spontaneously combusts marry after calf massage then we do push pull push pull we're gonna take our outside hands so the hand that's on the outside of the foot outside hand will shift when we're on the other side so always remember outside hands makes a fist to the ball of the foot that's our battering ram and then the inside hand comes below the bunion area to catch that momentum we're gonna lean in and pull back push Paul nice wave-like motion then move the fists down a couple pumps and down a couple of times that's our push Paul so nice movement all throughout the metatarsal area then we're gonna warm up the heel with our heel rotation outside hands scoops underneath the heel really keep that heel nice and steady and then we're gonna take a little bit of cream gloss the plantar surface of the heels make a fist thumbs up thump oints just out inside rather of that big toe then we're gonna push and twist again you can see how the entire body is moving with the technique this will also soften and circulate that really rough and thick heel tissue last relaxation technique we're going to address the spinal reflexes which is the first area that we walk with our thumb walking so we're gonna end our relaxation techniques by warming up the first area that we're gonna apply our thumb walk to outside hands just cradles the lateral side of the foot for leverage inside hand makes a fist depending on how thick the arch is you want to either choose the sharp knuckles or the flat part of the knuckles if they have a lot of really thick muscle tissue a lot of fluid through here then feel free to use the sharp knuckles to rock into that arch but if they don't really have a lot of meat then you don't want to go bone on bone so use that flat part of the knuckles too then from the pelvic guideline from the to the diaphragm guideline rock into spinal reflexes or about 10 seconds I normally get about three passes in all the way and then reset okay and those are relaxation techniques then we would start spine toes dorsal and perceived through the routine that way so let's do all of that in real time okay so this is a client's that I'm seeing there on the table they're all ready and let's go through the entire kind of first part of the routine together so solar plexus literally just counting in my head 1 2 3 4 all the way to 30 okay then adrenal reflux once you get good you don't really have to measure you just want to feel for that ditch and then sink right into it 30 seconds [Laughter] now we do hot towels so I'm going to reach over Kody beautifully first he'll open a little bit on one side a lot on the other underneath tuck the toes a little bit faster just to make sure that the heat doesn't escape and press it's also part of that press I'm kind of tucking in any loose ends from that rap just to make sure that it's all nice and solid okay this one actually got a little bit cold on me so we're gonna immediately rap right into that foot the police comes over under pressing rap over press thanks back to the effort press squeezing out any last bits of heat into the foot unwrap press again this one stayed nice and warm throat uh grace almost Jodi almost a three okay shimmy dry I did I did you know to quiet back there I get worried when you're too quiet one more time just okay wet underneath is dry so we're just gonna keep that dry press press drei Lise comes on top left foot is complete it can now rest then we start with our relaxation techniques on the right foot sloppy Susans military training calf massage push-pull he'll rotation little bit of cream push and twist and knuckle roll all the way up the arch three and that is the beginning of our routine then we would move into walking that right foot wrap the right foot after we're done we do the relaxation techniques afterwards as well then we would do the entire routine on the left foot finish with the hot towels then solar plexus adrenal and done okay hope you guys like that