Reflexology works with Ingrid Wareman

[music] [music] >> Hello everybody and welcome to Wednesday's Reflexology Wisdom. I am particularly delighted to introduce to everybody a really good friend of mine, Ingrid Waeber. She is the co-chair of the Reflexology in Europe, RIAN. And it's a delight to have you on Wednesday's Reflexology Wisdom, Ingrid. Thank you so much for coming in. Thank [cheering] you. THANK [applause] YOU FOR HAVING ME, DAVID. Thank you very much. So we're we're we're carrying on with our series of Reflexology Works. And different reflexologists are telling us about their experiences of how Reflexology works. Ingrid, tell me what's your story? What are you wanting to share with everybody? Oh, my story. Oh my god. Do you have an hour or two? Oh my word, go for it. No. >> [laughter] >> So I I thought about your question and I made some notes for for myself. And I thought, do I have a story in particular with a client? And I noticed for myself, no, I don't have. Okay. But it it isn't there there are no successes. Because every session in my work I demand success for myself. Yes. >> So when a client visits me and for example, the neck hurts or a shoulder is frozen or something, at the end of the session every time there has to be mobility. Perfect. So what you're This is brilliant. This is brilliant. I know I'm cutting in. What you're saying is I've asked for a story and you've said me you don't have a story. What you're saying is every treatment is a success. Yes, it has to be. >> [laughter] >> And if a client comes back [snorts] to me in two or three sessions and there is no progression, I always say to the client, I get very aggressive. I get very angry. So I'm not angry with the patient or the client, but I'm angry with myself because I think, okay, there's something I miss. I have to look better. I have to see what's mobilizing. So I start with the the help question. Yeah. I have my intake formula and I see what's happening. Yeah. But when there's no progress, I look further and I look more particular. And I get like this like what's going on? Really searching, really really looking for what's >> searching and looking and when there's no movement, life is about movement. Yes, it is. >> So when the problem starts, we we are not on the right spot for the movement. So this is very important for me and I as I said, I demand the movement and I was at the the University of Rotterdam where the professor and he said the nicest thing to me. He said surgeons, they cut the body and they can look into it. But your work is more difficult because you have to do the same thing from the outside. Oh wow, what a brilliant expression. >> Yes. >> [laughter] >> And he said, the only thing you do and we do as a surgeon is taking care of the environment for the self-healing ability. So when he said that to me, people ask me, what do you do? And I say, I only take care for the environment so your body can heal. Yes. Your body can recover itself. And when I work, I work with the total body. I work on the ears, the hands, also on the the problem area itself. >> Yeah. I always close with the feet because that's where our roots are. Yes. And when I work, I I notice how the the body reacts to me. So when there's a shoulder problem for example, I know the clavicular, the scapula and the upper arm has to move with each other. Yes. And they have to move separately from the thorax. Yes. It's very much stick together. And first of all, I start with moving the arm. And I see what does the clavicular, what does the scapula, how do they react to the movement? And when there's movement, then I go on. I always take the ear Yes. >> in it, the areas around, but also working on the central nervous system. >> Mhm. Um the back, the the the skull and the first um the the atlas? The atlas and the axis, yes. The C1 and the C2. >> Yes. >> [laughter] >> And the This is my way to work around. Perfect. Now, can I just clarify? Yes, you can. >> you're working on the ear, you are working on the reflexes of the ear, auricular reflexology? Yes, and I feel when there is something hard, Mhm. this is where I work in particular because there's no the the blood flows doesn't work. And I work from the ear right to the brain. Right. >> So I also take the sensor sensibility and the mobility Yeah. areas of the brain. Yeah. Perfect. Connections everywhere. Perfect. That's brilliant. Taking the limbic system. And so what you do then when you've got this mobility in the shoulder, Yeah. >> you then get really focused on that area for where you're working on the reflexes as well as also doing a holistic treatment as well. Yeah. Is that the way it works for you? This is the way it works for me and the difference between what a masseuse does and the reflexology on the body is I always look in where goes the what's the reflex? What's the response of the body to my pulling or pressure? Yeah. And as when I did massage therapy, I only learned to look at the muscles. Mhm. And I didn't get to look at the whole area and the whole segment. Yes. And didn't have didn't learn to look and to work with the brain. Yes. So this is basically incorporating the messages from the body to the area of the body, making sure that the area of the body sends messages back to the brain so that we've got optimal communication within the body. Yeah. Yes? Yeah. And then we're being focused on this area, yes? >> Yeah. And then you're also adding auricular reflexology points as well into the treatment. Yes, auricular, also on the hand. There was today a a woman who visits my practice as she called me and she spoke to her surgeon. It's about an issue on her hand. Yeah. And I treated her last week and in Holland this is the the pulse. Yes. Um and we have a saying you always are pulsing. You are always looking if everything is okay. Okay. So this is what we spoke about and we spoke about the younger her in herself and the lady she is now. Mhm. Oh, from the pain in her under arm. >> In her arm, yes. And I spoke to her today. They wanted to to operate her. Oh. They want to do surgery on her hand. And she said, well, I have first have to speak to Ingrid. And when I had to had her on the phone, I said to her, I have an interview later. Can you tell me what is the success Mhm. of our working together? And she said, well, Ingrid, you were the first one to break through my neck issues. The doctors in the hospital, but the the pain poly, the neurologists, they didn't have any success and you broke through with your work. So I say to everybody, when you're in pain, you have to revisit Ingrid and I make from Ingrid a reflexologist. So Wow. we look further than we can. I love This is amazing. We love our job. We do love our job, absolutely. Do you know what? Thank you so much. This is brilliant and it's just so lovely to see the passion that you have got for reflexology. It really really is. And that that's that's just brilliant. A story about yourself, the way that you knew demand of yourself to get a success. And you learn so much. Do you know what? I Would you agree with me? We learn so much more when things don't work because we then have to search harder. We have to look and look and look and look. Have to Yeah, we do. And then and then lovely to hear that brilliant story of your lady with the pain. That's just fabulous. Ingrid, thank you so much for coming on to Wednesday's Reflexology Wisdom and sharing these stories with us. Thank you for asking. You are amazing. You really really are. I absolutely love you loads. >> [laughter] >> My heart's on the wrong side of the story. It's all over here. >> [laughter] >> Thank you, David. >> Thank you very very much. Thank you. And guys, thank you so much for watching. Um stay well, stay safe. And if you have a story that you would like to share, do please get in touch with me in the comments or send me a message on either Instagram or Facebook. And maybe we'll get you in on Wednesday's Reflexology Wisdom about the stories that you have to share as well cuz I think it's so important we start to put a positive message out there about reflexology. I really really do. Yeah, it's great. It's I love the job and I love doing it every day. Brilliant. So, on behalf of me and Ingrid, thank you very much for watching. Bye-bye. Bye. Love you. >> [music]