Here Marie uses her hands to stimulate reflex areas on your feet (or hands). These areas correspond to and have an effect in various parts of your body. She usually begin a session with Standing Reflexology where she kneels down and you stand up while she spends about 5 minutes giving you a quick, dynamic whole body work out. (How can you feel this relaxed without falling over?) And then you get to lie down while she work all the reflexes again, but this time more slowly, allowing a feeling of deep relaxation and peace to develop.
This is a relatively new way of working with the body’s reflexes and was pioneered by Lynne Booth. (She calls it Vertical Reflex Therapy)
Marie works with you either standing or sitting with some weight being taken by the foot – or if you can’t bear to have your feet touched she can work with your hands!
She accesses the reflexes through the top and sides of your feet, sometimes working both feet together, at other times alternating from one foot to the other.
It is a very powerful therapy and Marie believes that it is particularly effective because you, and the energies we are working with, are “earthed”. For this reason Standing Reflexology needs only to last for a few minutes.
It can even be used on its own – very useful in an emergency! However it is often combined with “lying down” reflexology, or a half body Finger Pressure Massage.