Charting the feet in Reflexology Part 2

really well for you okay so let's jump into this checklist so just so you know um in the description below there'll be a link where you can actually get this so it's everything that we're talking about in this video today so charging the feet and then you have your checklist okay so there's two parts to this checklist one is visual so when you take off the socks you get some feet in front of you what do you see right where are we gonna look what is important information to start the chart um in part two it's more of when you're actually moving the feet around what do you feel right and then you chart that as well so I broke it up into that way but as you get more familiar with um charting the feet you're gonna do your own method like for example I don't even use a chart sometimes right on the very first client I will use a chart on maybe on the following depending on what is what's important to chart and if I need the outline of the feet as an indicator then I will use my chart but if not I will use maybe the back right for session two of just a blank sheet so there's no real way a right wrong way to do this right again it's really up to you so let's get into the checklist really quick here [Music] so first one is we're going to look at the overall um view of the feed okay so first you want to check if the feet look similar to each other okay so does the left foot and the right foot look similar because sometimes you're going to get feet that are maybe the left side is really skinny the other one looks swollen right for example like that you also want to always relate this to the person you're working with right so if they have you know if they're really slender build and they have these swollen sort of stocky looking feet and it's there's something not working there right so that's something to indicate right like these feet don't match the person and that you know you might not want to tell the client that but it's just information right like something there's there's a disconnect there right so you can kind of just keep that as information and a lot of these things that you're going to be marking down you might not know what the answer is and that's totally fine right and maybe you shouldn't even know it right it's just information at this point okay so you go over how's the left with the right do they look similar to each other if they do cool move on to the next one if they don't write down how they look different okay um check the shape of the feet right so what are the shape of the feet does something stick out differently and as you get more used to doing this you're going to notice more and more feet and you'll notice that you know some people are a certain way but again related to the body right if they're if they have you know if they're round person and they have rounder looking feet then yeah perfect right so you don't really need to indicate if there's a something that sticks out as far as their shape but just look at their shape right some people have wider here to the heel there some people are you know their toes are all squished into high heels for example and they get more here and they have bunions and things like that show up so just indicate the overall shape of the feet right and again always compare right with left then you're going to look at the angle of the feet so do the Ang when they're relaxed right so make sure that they're relaxed does one sort of flop over this way or in this way or forward or backwards so you can just sort of indicate that way right I get very common to be kind of like this right so one's leading a little bit forward and the other one's sitting that way or another one is out like this and in like that right again we don't have to know what that means just it's information write it down then we're going to look at the texture of the skin right does it look smooth does it look um oily does it look sweaty does it look wrinkly it does you know are there little certain pockets of dry skin versus you know really smooth skin right so these are all things to just write down textually what you see right so at this point we're not touching the feet so we can't indicate that but it's really good to start writing down the texture and then check where calluses are right like do you see calluses over here do you see calluses up here over there around the heel right at this point we haven't been touching but we'll we'll check that out in part two but just overall check for calluses right do we have calluses in here do we have anything any other odd calluses on the toes right so again when you're doing this um check all over the feet but for this little section we're just checking the main sort of overall look of um Chuck where lines are right any type of indication of where lines are I don't know if you can see on these feet but for example I would see these lines here as being important um this is a line here there's actually a cut here so uh if this was somebody's foot I would definitely indicate that so any type of um lines right any type of weird sort of unfamiliar lines that show up right anything that jumps out at you and then we can go down into smaller detail and that means checking out the toes going down sort of from the out focus going zooming in checking out all the toes right so size of the toes right in between each other so you know some people might have a really big round big toe and then all the rest are kind of small so indicate that right maybe they're all kind of puffy um toes write that down maybe they're pointy maybe they are you know there's calluses on certain things like that so just write down all that information then you want to check out the angle of the toes right so the shapes are one thing but the angles where are they pointing right you get some Toes that overlap right so you'd indicate little arrows or something like that whatever you think would be good some toes are forward some toes are sticking up not touching the ground so up in the air like that right so again the challenge with charting is that we're dealing with a three-dimensional um foot here and the chart is two-dimensional so any type of indication of how you can draw that or indicate that is really important right so which way they're pointing um can give you lots of information but again you don't have to know this know what they mean just indicate it write it down right move on check out the nails right condition of the nails that can give you some information as well right some people have little tiny fungus or things like that in their nails or they don't maybe they look real look after their nails really well this is all information for you right you know maybe there's lots of ridges in their nails uh horizontal or vertically right so just just to check out the condition of their nails right we'll give you some more information to work with there and then you want to check out any type of unique qualities right so do they have any cool moles anywhere do they have a tattoo that they've put in on their foot right um this can give lots of information as far as their choices that they make in their life right as far as you know right and left they those feet mean something different to certain people right so um putting a tattoo in a specific spot took some time and planning and a decision right to put something there so what does that mean right you probably don't know but it's nice to chart it right um any moles any type of uh other maybe some kind of birthmark or things that you see something some bruising some different coloration something that's kind of like unique to their feet right like I mentioned here before there was not it was a line but it's also maybe a cut so indicate that right something unique something that's different right so that is a lot of stuff to just check over but you want to do it quite quick right you don't want to just sit there and spend you know half an hour on just looking at the feet right you might when you're first learning and that's totally fine but you want to get this process really quick and snappy so that you can find out information quick right write it down later on you can figure out what it actually means right with discussion with clients and stuff but you you'll notice as the sessions go some of this information might start revealing itself so that's really where it becomes quite cool foreign to actually physically