Reflexology - Release Your Sole Exercise

e hello how's it going okay I guess this is working okay I just wanted to show you a quick little ball exercise here um take my socks off and in another video that I did um I was talking about all the different uh balls that you can use and this was the clear winner which is a a um lacrosse ball right so there you go there it's nice and firm and I really like this um so I'll show you a really quick exercise uh to do and it's good to have this ball or if you don't have a lacrosse ball it's you can use any one that will that you have really but these ones are ideal um a little timer is always good so I'm going to set this for one minute and um what we're going to be doing is rolling up and down the foot okay so vertical lines and what you want to do is avoid the heel okay so you don't need to work on the the heel here okay but everywhere else everywhere else is fair game okay and it all you're going to do is simply roll um if you are a reflexologist and you understand the zones so on the big toe here you have Zone one and then you have zone two and zone three and zone four and then zone five right which is the pinky toe so what we're going to do is roll the ball up and down um vertically there to get all the Zone really worked but again you don't need to work on the heel um you want to apply enough pressure that it's like uh that it's almost uncomfortable right tolerance so an uncomfortable tolerance that's what you want to do okay and then we're just going to be rolling up this way and if you're um feet are really sensitive or you have kind of like a little you're not sure a little bit uh don't have great balance um you can hold on to something so right now I actually have a desk that I can hold on to so I have a standing desk that's what I'm uh doing right now so we can just go and roll up and down this way so we're going to do that for one minute um and then we're going to switch the timer and then we're going to go horizontal okay so let's do the vertical line first on both feet okay so let's set the timer for 1 minute which it is down there um I'll push start and then we will roll I'll show you how um we work it okay let's do it there we go oh that's the wrong way wrong button okay there we go so we just roll I like to start with Zone one here and we just roll all the way down I'll go over to zone two so the second toe there and all the way down again I'm stopping at my heel you don't need to work the heel and I am applying my body weight okay and I'm listening to my body and feeling how much pressure I can put okay zone four there and zone five right so I'll just go a little bit quicker now so I'm looking for a really good footwork out here right make sure that you work the entire all that area as much as you can up and down all around basically back and forth okay that's one foot and we come over to the other foot and there we go so doesn't matter you can start however you want and you will also notice that one foot is going to be a lot um maybe more balance so I'm already noticing that I don't have enough or the same amount of control that I had on my right foot just rolling up and down for the full minute right back and forth and we just keep going here up and down avoiding the heel so yeah this is my first uh live I'm just doing an experiment here to see if um it works there we go there's our minute so yeah the plan would be to actually go live more often because it might be easier than editing videos all the time and things like that and then I can also connect with more people right so that's that's that's the plan so I'm glad that uh you're wanting me to go live more often yay okay cool okay so the next one so that was number one where we worked vertical right vertical lines all the way up now I want to work um horizontal lines again um you're going to not work on the heel uh but you work all the rest and what I like to do is actually I'm going to start with my um I'll start with my right foot again um a good thing to do with this one is to plant the heel down and then you roll right so if the ball's not there you can kind of just see you can pivot on your heel and then you can work all the way to your toes and everything like that right so let's do again one minute the other way so there we go there with the start and then we just roll this way and so this one you want to try and get your toes even engaged and work all the way along the ball of the foot here all the way down to just be low just to the heel right and again I'm just pivoting back and forth like this and I'm putting as much pressure as I can I've done this quite a few times so my feet are quite used to it I can actually take my whole body weight onto the ball um not recommended if this is something that you haven't really done um before but yeah uh this is also really good sort of like hold on to something to get good balance um yeah back and forth like this so I'm putting a lot of my body weight on it right I I'll actually show you there's my whole body weight right there right oh minut it's up so yeah the minute goes by really quick then we go to the other foot okay same thing and we do a minute and I'll call this horizontally across your foot right just working all the way around as much of the foot as possible but again avoiding the heel because the heel is going to be a bit more sensitive and it's not really going to do anything anyway and again I notice this is my left foot and I'm noticing some weaknesses it's harder to kind of control the movement right to kind of grab the ball and hold it it's really kind of difficult right but once you do this more in theory you should be opening up all the tendons and muscles bones everything all the joints and it'll become easier and your feet will be a lot better right so there you go there and so that's both feet now so we did one minute vers vertical on each foot and then we did um horizontal right uh for 1 minute so the the whole prescription here is basically um 222 so meaning um two minutes per foot for um two times a day for two weeks and you'll notice a massive difference um in your feet like right now when I'm just sitting here I can notice that they're kind of like buzzing right they feel really great cuz I was quite you know massaging them really well and all the the movements and stuff that you get from um from using this ball is quite amazing right so um yeah uh that is really good as well yes so this is something that I do um quite often and now that I have a a standing desk I can actually um do some while I'm checking an email or something like that I can kind of just play with a ball right and that also helps me with my balance and helps me get my feet connected to my body again because you know throughout our day and stuff we walk on flat surfaces we put our you know feet in our shoes and we don't really feel the world like we use that we would if we were you know walking around Barefoot on you know different textures and and different things like that so this is a great um little exercise it's really simple and the more you do it the better um your feet will be uh and they will be really happy for you right um and yeah this because the toes are in reflexology are related to the head right and the neck um you will probably notice some kind of um opening of your mind your perception and things like that too right so relates to your fingers as well fingers and toes and stuff really do relate so if you think about your like shoes in in in general right if you're always stuffing your feet in shoes that's basically like holding you down right holding your thoughts and your ideas and all that kind of stuff um into a find box right and so allowing our toes to open up and um you know stuff like the ball or I I even have this little mat here I can show it to you I guess I like orange everything's matching um I picked this up in Japan this is a really ouchy uh mat and it looks pretty terrifying actually if you were to run across these but yeah you got to be really careful with it but you know stuff like this just really allows the feet to get some some different stimulation than flat surfaces right that we're so used to now so anyway that's a couple things but I just wanted to try and jump on here and do a live um stream because I've never done that before and I wanted to see if I could get everything working um so yeah so those of you who join me today awesome thanks and yeah I'll see if I can do some more lives and if this was useful for you um let me know um you can comment in the on the little live chat there I am reading them so that's kind of cool um and if there's other topics that you'd like to hear about this might be a kind of casual way to tackle those instead of formally making a video and spending time editing and all that stuff so this will maybe be a different way to kind of connect and and uh share um aome reflexology stuff so yeah so thanks for uh hanging out with me for a bit um I will sign off and um I will talk to you later remember to keep those feet happy right awesome okay take it easy byebye