Inner Calm, holistic therapy and beauty studio

03/02/2026

☯️ Inner Calm ☯️ is celebrating 25yrs.
Sending much love and gratitude to my beautiful clients for your continued support 🙏💖

19/04/2025

LOW BACK PAIN
As this is a condition commonly encountered by reflexology practitioners, it would be helpful to provide a condensed overview of facts regarding the treatment of low back pain (LBP) that I have gathered over my many years in practice.
* Low back pain impacts various areas of the body beyond the lower back.

* Unless a direct injury to the lower back is the cause, concentrating only on the relative lumbar reflexes typically holds little value.

* Due to the influence of the fascia, a low back condition can impact other areas, such as the shoulders, upper back, and neck. All of these areas should be considered and receive reflexology accordingly.

* A deep and thorough massage of the feet, ankles, calves, and toes will alleviate some discomfort and can often effectively resolve the condition.
The primary cause of lower back pain (LBP) originates in the hips and pelvis, putting stress on the lower back, which results in secondary symptoms in that area.
* For those not qualified in massage, a general reflexology treatment can be of benefit.
LBP must be considered a condition affecting many other areas of the body.

Therefore, Treat what you find and not what you are looking for.

I shall cover this subject again in a future webinar, so follow for news.

My Best Wishes

Tony Porter

www.artreflex.com

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17/04/2024

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02/01/2024

Wishing everyone a year filled with good health, peace, joy and laughter
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24/12/2023

🎄Wishing everyone a magical Christmas🎄

03/08/2023

HYPERSENSITIVE FEET PT. 2
Do we conclude that the person displaying this type of foot has a serious health problem? Of course not.
However, there are physiological causes of hypersensitive feet (also known as peripheral neuropathy) that need to be considered. Other causes include diabetes, compression or damage to the lower spine, and lack of vitamin B12. Also, people undergoing chemotherapy will often suffer from hypersensitive feet.

The sensitivity I am referring to are people without these conditions, and where many of the reflexes are highly sensitive to the touch, such as those of the kidney/ adrenal.

People whose feet display this sensitivity can be hyper-energetic in nature and can also suffer from allergies such as hay fever and asthma, and therefore will have high histamine levels, which cause elevated nerve sensitivity.

In this case, STATIC contact should be applied to the hypersensitive reflexes. This type of contact can be maintained for 20-30 seconds. Each of the most hyper- reflexes can be contacted in this way in sequential order.

Generally, after three, static contact sessions during each treatment the hypersensitive reflex will be more normal. This will be accompanied by a general feeling of well-being of the patient.

08/10/2022

21/09/2022

It’s all in the 👣

DAY 3 of WORLD REFLEXOLOGY WEEK 2022

So, what is Reflexology?

Reflexology is a complementary therapy based on the principle that all the systems of the body are mapped out in reflex points on the feet, hands, face and ears. 👣

This is how foot reflexology works ...

Stimulation of the approximately 7,500 nerve endings in the feet helps to open up the natural pathways your body uses to nourish and heal itself. Tender or ‘gritty’ points indicate congestion in the corresponding area of the body. ☹️

Reflexologists have studied to follow a ‘map’ of the body as reflected on to the surfaces of both feet.👣

During a reflexology session a state of deep relaxation is induced in the body, providing the ideal environment for the body to tap in to its own innate healing capacity and facilitate potential restoration of balance to the body and its systems where there is imbalance. 😴

Reflexology is a well established holistic complimentary therapy, which treats the mind and body as a whole to achieve a state of general well-being. 💙

Now you know a little more about this amazing therapy on the feet that us reflexologists love to do so much! 😉

19/09/2022

Relax. Rebalance. Renew