Reflexology is a non-invasive complimentary touch therapy which can help promote deep relaxation and feelings of wellbeing. By reducing the effects of stress it can be pivotal in optimising good health and building resilience.

Based on the theory that different points on the feet, hands, ears and face correspond with different areas of the body, reflexologists work areas with their thumb and fingers to help the body naturally balance and for overactive/underactive glands or organs to normalise.

The origins of reflexology can be traced back hundreds of years in India, China and Egypt where inscriptions were discovered on a physician’s tomb dating back 2,330 BC. However, it was not until the early 1990s that reflexology was introduced to the west through the work of Dr William Fitzgerald, an American who discovered zone therapy as practiced by the North American Indians. His work was built upon by Eunice Ingham, an American physiotherapist, who is often credited as being the pioneer of modern reflexology. The foot maps she created in 1930 are still used in many countries today.

“If you’re feeling out of kilter, don’t know why or what about, let your feet reveal the answer, find the sore sport, work it out,” Eunice Ingham.