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We’ll be doing reflexology for the heels, for the arch of the foot, for the flat of
the foot, or this kind of side, and then the ball of the feet. So generally, you’ll be
using thumb walking. You could also do a hook and back-up when we get to the outer edges,
and a little bit of pinching on the sides of the feet to get more to the flat of the
foot. So let’s start with the heel. So with the heel, you’ll want to be sure you’re
holding on to the whole of the heel, maybe a little bit of the ankle as well for security.
And you’re just going to thumb walk across. So you start at the base and you thumb walk
across. If you want to give a little more pressure, you can lean in. If you want to
get a little more deeper into the heel reflexes, you can certainly use a knuckle down like
this, and be aware of the reflexes that are in this area. This is a whole pelvic region.
It’s the sciatic nerve reflex courses through there so you give attention or more attention
if your friend is going through something that they might want attention there. The
belly of the foot or the arch you could use thumb walking. So with thumb walking, you’re
just going to go in and pull out just a little bit, continued pressure, and out a little
bit. So you’re just going up, and the bites can be as far as tempo, you go in and out,
in, out. You don’t want to go much faster than that. And you’ll go up all five of
the zones. Right? So if we could think of the zones as where the metatarsal is. Right?
So you’re going up. You can also with the arch of the foot or the belly of the foot,
you can go crosswise from the lateral to the medial aspect. The lateral is the side, the
outer side, and the medial aspect is that inner side. So you’re going to go in and
do the reflexology crosswise.