Reflexology can be a truly wonderful complementary therapy for women’s health, offering support across various life stages and addressing a range of concerns. By targeting specific reflex points on the feet and head (cranial reflexology) it can help to balance hormones, improve sleep, reduce tension, promote deep relaxation and significantly reduce stress and anxiety. All common companions for women juggling various life demands. Ultimately, reflexology empowers women to experience greater physical and emotional harmony.
By stimulating specific points linked to the endocrine system, ovaries, and uterus, reflexology can help influence the production and release of hormones like oestrogen, progesterone, and oxytocin. These hormones play a crucial role in regulating the menstrual cycle, ovulation and overall reproductive health.
Hormonal imbalances can lead to a variety of menstrual issues, including irregular periods and PMS symptoms. Reflexology helps to balance your hormones by:
As more people struggle with hormone imbalances or unexplained infertility, reflexology can be used as part of a holistic approach to help create the family you’ve always dreamed of. We’ll look at your diet, exercise, lifestyle and other factors that could be having an effect.
Together we can help:
Stress and anxiety can be a huge factor when trying to conceive. The longer you’ve been trying to conceive, the greater the stress on your emotional and physical state and a cycle is started. With its calming and soothing effects, reflexology can be a highly successful fertility support for helping to manage and reduce this.
The 9 months of pregnancy will put your body through intense physical changes and reflexology can help mothers-to-be stay comfortable during this time. It can also help a variety of issues including sickness, insomnia, dizziness, aches & pains, anxiety, tiredness and constipation.
I absolutely love helping bumps become babies . It’s great to have reflexology throughout your pregnancy, however, if you can only come from 36 weeks it can be used as an excellent tool to help relax and support your body in preparation for labour.
If you’ve gone over your due date and you haven’t had any reflexology until then, it’s still worth getting in touch. I’ve seen some mothers recently who’ve only started reflexology once their due date has passed. Please get in touch to see if I can help you too.
Reflexology can be a wonderful therapy to help you before, during and after the perimenopause and menopause. Relaxation and lowering your stress levels can help optimise your physical and emotional wellbeing as well as help you feel calmer. You should sleep better and have a sense of improved mood and wellbeing.
Lifestyle can have a direct result on the perimenopause and menopause each woman will experience. I can’t wait to share some insights into how you can live happily, healthily and brilliantly in this next stage of your life.
Recent research concluding how reflexology can offer menopause support:
Reflexology can help improve sleep for menopausal women
(Maryam Asltoghiri, Zahra Ghodsi. Procedia – Social and Behavioural Sciences, Volume 31, 2012 Pages 242-246)
httpss://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042811029788
Reflexology can help vasomotor complaints (hot flashes, night sweats, heart palpitations) and quality of life
(Gozuyesil E, Baser M. Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice.t. 2016 Aug, 24:78-85)
httpss://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27502805/
Reflexology can help reduce depression during menopause
(F Mahdavipour et al, Complementary Therapies in Medicine, Volume 47, 2019)
Reflexology is believed to be helpful for sleep, stress, and reduced tension due to its ability to promote deep relaxation. By applying pressure to specific points on the feet which are thought to correspond to different organs and systems in the body, reflexology aims to stimulate the body’s natural healing processes and restore balance.
This gentle manipulation can help to calm the nervous system, reduce the production of stress hormones like cortisol, and increase the release of endorphins, which have natural pain-relieving and mood-boosting effects. The overall sense of tranquillity can lead to a reduction in mental and physical tension, making it easier to fall asleep and experience a more restful & quality sleep.
Cranial reflexology can help you experience a profound sense of calm and rejuvenation. It offers a gentle yet powerful path to natural balance and wellbeing. Focussing on reflex points on your head, it promotes deep relaxation, eases tension and supports your body’s innate healing abilities. If you’re seeking stress relief, improved sleep or simply a moment of tranquillity (without taking your shoes and socks off!) this could be for you!
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