Functional Reflex Therapy

19/09/2025

✨ Wow! What a week! ✨

Reflecting on the first week of the FRT Project 2025 we’re switching off our alarms for a lay-in 😴 (we need it when school starts at 7! 🤣)

Through the nurturing touch of the FRT Rainbow Relaxation Programme, we’ve continued to raise awareness of reflexology while sharing wellbeing skills, smiles, and moments of calm.

This week we’ve had the privilege of being supported by Elizabeth Mwansa (thank you Elizabeth) and welcomed by:
🌈Multisensory International School, staff, learners and parents at a joyful workshop
🌈Children’s University Training Hospital, with the Principal Nursing Officer, the lovely Speech and Language Therapist, the paediatric centre of excellence, physiotherapy department, audiology students, and parents, experiencing the power of positive touch and learning new skills to support wellbeing
🌈The Mulenga Autism Foundation as we returned for a second year, refreshing skills and delighting in how the programme is being used.
🌈Inspire Leadership School, Chiwiledi School & UNZA Special School, where we’ll return on Monday for classroom support with FRT.
Aaaah….. so many smiles, joyful sighs, thoughtful questions and shared moments of calm! Thank you everyone 🙏

And buying equipment at GrossCare Zambia International for St Mulumba Special School thanks to your donations 🫂

Here’s to more rainbow moments next week! 🌈✨

10/09/2025

🌍✈️ The FRT team are so excited!

Today we head off once again ‘to our home from home’ in Zambia to share the Functional Reflex Therapy Rainbow Relaxation Programme with staff, young people in special and inclusive schools, parents, and families in local communities. 💛💚💙 see you all soon 😍

🙏🥰Thank you to everyone, for believing in our work and for supporting our fundraising efforts. Not only through generous donations, but also through your words of encouragement 🙏. It’s been a tough year! There are so many worthy causes, but your kindness has helped us provide FRT toolkits, training resources, and education equipment, making it possible for this project to go ahead for a 7th visit 🫂

It's still not too late to get involved. Enjoy a visit to view short project videos to see a flavour of our work and meet the team.
https://www.functionalreflextherapy.co.uk/global-projects/
We will make sure anything donated now will support local suppliers in Lusaka of educational & visual impairment resources for St Mulumba Special School. https://gofund.me/d67dccb45

Together, we’re sharing skills, spreading calm, and building connection through simple reflexology as we continue to ‘follow the rainbow’. 💫

✨ Watch this space for our updates from Zambia! We appreciate all your messages and any shares🥰 Posted with grateful thanks to the world of reflexology and education.🙏

12/08/2025

!!! South Wales Schools!!! here is the wonderful Helen Mayers from Becalm Relax an FRT approved trainer for schools.

Drop her a message to find out how she can support you with the Functional Reflex Therapy Rainbow Relaxation Programme supporting pupil and staff wellbeing with a super in-person training day. Leaving you with valuable resources for your classroom and an ongoing support visit booked in.

Helen is a qualified reflexologist and member of the FRT Network.

If anyone would like to ask about training for your school, new support or refresher workshops whereever you may be based in the UK drop me a message, to find out more. 🤔
E info@functionalreflextherapy.co.uk

19/07/2025

Today (19th July 2025), our founder Sir Jack Petchey CBE would have been 100 years old.

Though he sadly passed away in June 2024, his mission will continue through the Jack Petchey Foundation and the work we to do to empower young people.

Head to this link to read Sir Jack’s story and how the Jack Petchey Foundation came to be: https://www.jackpetcheyfoundation.org.uk/about-us/who-is-sir-jack-petchey/

Each day this week we will be celebrating his memory and the lasting legacy he continues to make to young people across London and Essex.

23/06/2025

🌈 World Wellbeing Week is here, June 24th to 30th 2025! 🌎
It’s a chance to reflect on how we care for ourselves and others, mentally, physically, emotionally, and socially.

❗️But let’s be honest…........... wellbeing isn’t just for one week❗️ It’s a minute-by-minute commitment, care, kindness + respect 💛

There are many different ways to support wellbeing, and everyone responds in different ways and has differing needs. The FRT programme is just one of those ways! It's good and right that we embrace a variety.

Last week, I had the absolute privilege of talking to a school’s senior management team ahead of their training with the Functional Reflex Therapy Rainbow Relaxation Programme later this year.

😍The best part? ……. They’ve booked a whole school INSET day, yes, the entire staff! 🙌

This commitment to staff AND pupil wellbeing deserves a huge shout out 👏👏and the knock-on effect is staff also go home with the skills to use this nurturing activity with their own family 🥰

They loved the leaflet, ( aaaaah those pictures bring back some memories and smiles) I’d love your help sharing it far and wide.

Let’s make the FRT Rainbow Relaxation Programme visible to more schools and settings! 🌈💆‍♀️💙 and now that the FRT network has more FRT Reflexologists Approved trainers for Schools we can bring the programme to more schools and local communities.

Training for schools is available for a minimum of 6 members of staff from the same school (for important reasons) but there is no maximum! Drop me your messages for 2025-2026 inset days and bookings have also been taken for 2026 - 2027 training and support the wellbeing of your staff and pupils.

01/05/2025

😍I’m delighted to have been invited by Tracey Hale The Federation of Holistic Therapists Area Group Organiser for Cheshire, to chat with members next Thursday evening May 8th.



And ...... super excited to be in the area on my travels for Functional Reflex Therapy, which means we can meet up in-person and run a little zoom alongside so everyone can be included.

If you like the agenda below, we’d love you to join us. We start at 7 with registration. Please drop Tracey a message for all the details and bring lots of questions. E tracyhale790@gmail.com
(Yes the email is tracy without an e)

Introduction: My journey from special education to developing Functional Reflex Therapy (FRT), blending teaching and reflexology.
Naming FRT: Why the title was chosen and its role in supporting reflexologists and education. The value of delivery methods and the idea of “more + less = more.”
Framework Benefits: Why structure matters and how deeper connections go beyond touch.
Origins of the FRT Rainbow
Overview of the FRT Global Project what’s happening in 2025
Your turn with a Live Q&A session

In the meantime please do pop to the website and sign up to the FRT Seasonal Newsletter. Next one is due out at the end of Spring 😊 www.functionalreflextherapy.co.uk

Hope to see you next week 🙂 in person, or on zoom 🙂

Functional Reflex Therapy, a nurturing concept of reflexology created by Lorraine Senior supports children and adults with additional, complex and diverse needs.

16/04/2025

First Order of 2025.

Delighted to collect these from hashtagprintee and send them on their way to FRT Reflexologists.

09/04/2025

🥰 I was delighted to submit my book Reflexology for Schools to the Business Book Awards and to see it sit alongside so many amazing publications...there were over 270 books entered.

Well done to everyone!

My book didn't make the shortlist! But.....🥳 I am super proud of putting my 'pen to paper' and super, super proud of the young people who share their stories and reflexologists and headteachers who contributed. I feel like a winner to be using the title a published author. ( I still need to pinch myself) 🥳

I hope it will continue to be read, enjoyed and shared far and wide 🌍🌎🤞

If you are a reflexologist this book will help you to consider the value your therapy can bring to support emotional wellbeing during the school day 💖

If you are a headteacher this book will help you to consider the value a well qualified reflexology therapist using the FRT Framework can bring to the emotional wellbeing of the young people in your school being part of your multi disciplinary team and the support they can offer staff and parents 💖

If you are a parent interested to know more about the many benefits of reflexology therapy during the school day and its many pathways of support consider reading the book.

If anyone would like to know more please follow the link in the bio to the Functional Reflex Therapy website
www.functionalreflextherapy.co.uk to the dedicated book page or pop into the book higlights for a direct link. 🫂

Any questions send them my way. Thank you everyone for your support 🙏

03/04/2025

🌈 Hope & Kindness on National Find a Rainbow Day 🌈

I love all the national awareness days—they always get me thinking, learning and often open discussion.🙏

But how about this one, it's a little different but with big intent? 🤔

Who knew that April 3rd is National Find a Rainbow Day? A day that invites us to look up and find a colourful ray of hope in the sky.

I don’t know about where you are, but I definitely won’t see an actual rainbow today (it’s clear skies, lots of sunshine and no forecast for rain here in Essex in the UK! which makes a change lol). But just the thought of it makes me smile 🥰with the beautiful ray of hope that Functional Reflex Therapy (FRT) and the FRT Rainbow Relaxation Programme brings to so many people through positive touch, wellbeing, kindness, and caring. 🌈

FRT isn’t just about the positive touch of reflexology, it’s about support, connection, and a gentle approach to emotional and physical wellbeing. FRT Reflexologists are here to help.

So, why not follow the rainbow today? 🌈 Visit the FRT website to learn more, and perhaps even find an FRT therapist near you on the ‘find a therapist’ page. www.functionalreflextherapy.co.uk

Sometimes, the most beautiful rainbows aren’t just in the sky 😊 they’re found in the kindness we share 💖 throughout the world.

❗😍🌈If FRT and its rainbows, through workshops for the family, training for reflexologists, training for schools, reading the book, selfcare support has come your way, group and college talks, please give me a wave and if you'd like to - do offer a little comment and share the post, I'd love to hear from you.🙏

Thank you everyone for getting involved with FRT 🫂. Together we are helping to make a difference.

Oooh...... do let me know if you're lucky enough to see a rainbow today🌈 thank you for the lovely photo Martin Senior Photography 💖