07/04/2025
July 2025 Blog Do the Love Your Feet and Body Dance
We are so mean to our feet, which in turn is mean to our bodies…most of us do not take care of them, honor them for the job they do for us. We wear the wrong shoes, with too high of a heel, shoes too small for our toes, too low of an arch, too tight for our instep and the list can go on…Our feet carry our bodies, regardless if we are overweight, have crooked hips, are flat footed, or have issues like plantar fasciitis, one leg is shorter than the other, and we have bunions, toe fungus, plus, we don’t let our feet breathe. We treat our bodies even worse. Everything within the feet is connected through to your body’s organs and systems. If your feet are impacted, then your body is impacted. What treatments can help us to show love and do our feet and bodies better?
So how do we give our feet and body some love? We get some “Reflexology” or “Zone therapy as it has also been referred to for our feet or bodies! What is this reflexology and what is it like? According to Wikipedia and nova.edu, it was used by early Egyptians, (2323 B.C.E.) and developed and brought to the US by M.D. William Fitzgerald and Edwin F. Bowers in 1913. It was known and first explained as Zone therapy, a holistic treatment of gentle manipulation techniques within the 10 zones of the body (one for each finger/toe) which runs the length of the whole body and also from front to back. It is these zones or reflex points located within the feet that are connected to all of the different parts or systems of the body. For the body, it is a concise series of gentle but very specific, sequenced manipulation techniques done to the different parts of your full body. It can also be done on the hands, ears, and even the face.
In Foot Reflexology; our feet are identified out into 4 main parts: the Upper Body (neck, shoulders, elbow wrist and fingers too), the Upper and Lower Internals, we like to call the Packed Suitcase (back/spine too), and the Lower Body (knees and hips too). It is likened to be like an in-depth targeted foot massage with no massage oils.
In Body Reflexology; it starts with what we like to call “the dance”, which is to evaluate your hip’s alignment. The dance is done to correct the hips when they are out of alignment, but you could do the dance every day to help ensure your alignment. From there body manipulations are done to specific parts of the body (mastoid bone, sacral plates, spine, shoulder and blades, back, tailbone, sciatic, gemilli’s, spine/legs, knees, pelvic, face, head, and ending with feet). It is likened to be like a very calming massage-like and gentle chiropractic treatment.
If you hesitate to see a Chiropractor, because it’s non-gentle or harsh on your body, then Reflexology may be the answer for you. Both Foot/Body Reflexology is believed to unblock the energy pathways to the specific body parts, organs, and systems. Known to provide pain relief, stress reduction, and calming, it can provide you benefits for digestion, fatigue, sleep issues and so much more.
Blessings, Light, and Love!
