Treatments

Reflexology is not just a luxury but a vital investment in your overall wellbeing. It has the power to relieve stress, improve circulation, and encourage your bodies self-healing abilities.

Reflexology - supporting your journey with pre-conception, pregnancy & post natal care

Pre-conception reflexology is a complementary therapy focused on balancing the body's systems and reducing stress to create an optimal environment for conception. While it cannot guarantee pregnancy, it aims to regulate hormones and menstrual cycles, improve ovarian function, support sperm production, and foster emotional well-being for both partners by promoting a relaxed state. Treatment often involves regular sessions for several months to support the full process of conception and can involve partners to increase its potential benefits. 


During this second trimester and beyond, a trained reflexologist can help alleviate common pregnancy symptoms like stress, anxiety, heartburn, and swollen ankles by applying pressure to specific points on the feet and hands to promote relaxation and restore the body's balance. 


Reflexology is considered a safe, natural, and drug-free method to promote labour by stimulating oxytocin production and relaxing the body, particularly after the 37th week of pregnancy. It is thought to work by applying pressure to specific points on the feet that correspond to the uterus, ovaries, and pituitary gland, helping to transition the nervous system into a calm, relaxed state conducive to labour.

Benefits of Reflexology

Reflexology is linked to many potential benefits and may help to:
  • reduce stress and anxiety
  • reduce pain
  • lift mood
  • improve general well-being
In addition, people have reported that reflexology helped them:
  • boost their immune system
  • fight cancer
  • get over colds and bacterial infections
  • clear up sinus issues
  • recover from back problems
  • correct hormonal imbalances 
  • boost fertility
  • improve digestion
  • ease arthritis pain
  • treat nerve problems and numbness from cancer drugs (peripheral neuropathy)

What is Reflexology?

Reflexology is a type of massage that involves applying different amounts of pressure (using thumb, finger walking) to the feet, hands, face and ears. It’s based on a theory that these body parts are connected to certain organs and body systems. 

Reflexology rests on the ancient Chinese belief in qi, or “vital energy.” According to this belief, qi flows through each person. When a person feels stressed, their body blocks qi. 

This can cause an imbalance in the body that leads to illness. Reflexology aims to keep qi flowing through the body, keeping it balanced and disease free.
In the 1890s, British scientists found that nerves connect the skin and internal organs. They also found that the body’s entire nervous system tends to adjust to outside factors, including touch. 
Reflexology may help to calm the central nervous system, promoting relaxation and other benefits.


Aromatherapy

Aromatherapy is a form of complementary and alternative medicine. It uses essential oils to manage symptoms or boost your well-being. It’s a holistic therapy, meaning it supports your whole self — mind, body, and spirit. Aromatherapy involves inhaling essential oils or applying them (diluted) to your skin. 

Essential oils, which are highly aromatic, are readily absorbed into the body via the skin and lungs and are believed to affect the body on all levels - physically, mentally, and even emotionally/spiritually. When combined with massage, which helps to soothe away muscular tension and improve circulation, an aromatherapy treatment can be either deeply relaxing or uplifting, depending on the oils and massage techniques used by the therapist.

Aromatherapy is used for a variety of reasons, to help manage or cope with specific physical, mental, or emotional problems, or as means of relaxation, or to help maintain good health and a sense of general well-being.

Indian Head Massage

Indian Head Massage is a beneficial and deeply relaxing massage to the head, shoulders, upper back, arms, neck, scalp, and face. 

When we feel stressed or angry, tension builds up in energy centres around the head, face, neck, and shoulders. This can later display itself as eye strain, headaches, migraine and stiff neck and shoulders. Indian head massage technique helps to unblock the uncomfortable build-up of tension and aid relief. The effect of this therapy is not just physical but works on and emotional level too, calming the spirit, relieving stress and promoting relaxation.