The Complete Guide to Foot Reflexology - Softcover

Kunz, Barbara; Kunz, Kevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0960607013 ISBN 13: 9780960607013

Publisher: Reflexology Research Project, 1993

Synopsis

It’s the complete guide for the complete reflexologist… The Complete Guide to Foot Reflexology (Third Edition)

Here is the classic text, The Complete Guide to Foot Reflexology (Third Edition). Anchored in the tradition of the field yet meeting demands of a mature profession, this ever-popular text places emphasis on making you the complete reflexologist - the skilled practitioner, successful business person, and respected professional. Become a stress cue sleuth as you decipher the full-color photographs of real feet, real people - new in the Third Edition.

This book includes the ideas and the techniques you need to succeed, information about: foot reflexology theories, charts, professional issues, research, basic anatomy, and protocols to address health conditions as well as how to: provide a foot reflexology session, assess by observing cues and drawing inferences, communicate an evaluation of the session and a plan for future work, document reflexology work for medical or insurance purposes. 600 black & white line drawings • 21 black and white photos 8 pages full color photos and foot reflexology charts

About this title

About the Author

Barbara and Kevin Kunz have published 8 books in reflexology from Prentice Hall/ Simon and Schuster, Random House, Harper Collins, DK Publishing and RRP Press. Their books are in 30 overseas editions and 16 languages including Russian, Japanese, Spanish. Arabic and Hebrew.

Kevin and Barbara Kunz are internationally recognized authorities in the field of reflexology. They have researched, taught, practiced and documented reflexology for 30 years.

The Kunzes became concerned about the preservation of the native healing tradition of reflexology as practiced in the U. S. As a result they wrote, illustrated, and published The Complete Guide to Foot Reflexology in 1980. When published by Prentice -Hall in 1982, it was the best selling title for the fall season. This revision represents the latest in their findings.

Subsequent research includes further developments in foot reflexology technique, self-help hand and foot reflexology techniques, hand reflexology techniques, professionalism in reflexology and a theory of reflexology's workings within the nervous system.

Further books include Reflexology:Health at Your Fingertips, Hand and Foot Reflexology, A Self-Help Guide; Hand Reflexology Workbook (Revised); The Practitioner's Guide to Reflexology, Reflexology for Children, Medical Applications of Reflexology, and My Reflexologist Says Feet Don’t Lie.These sites receive over 6 million hits a year. The Kunzes practice reflexology in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico.

From the Back Cover

It s the complete guide for the complete reflexologist The Complete Guide to Foot Reflexology (Third Edition) Here is the classic text, The Complete Guide to Foot Reflexology (Third Edition). Anchored in the tradition of the field yet meeting demands of a mature profession, this ever-popular text places emphasis on making you the complete reflexologist - the skilled practitioner, successful business person, and respected professional. This book includes the ideas and the techniques you need to succeed with information about foot reflexology theories, charts, professional issues, research, basic anatomy, and protocols to address health conditions as well as how to: provide a foot reflexology session assess by observing cues and drawing inferences communicate an evaluation of the session and a plan for future work document reflexology work for medical or insurance purposes. Best-selling authors Barbara and Kevin Kunz are internationally recognized authorities in reflexology. Extensive work over thirty years includes reflexology practice, research, legislative advocacy, curriculum development, and teaching around the world. Original developments encompass reflexology theory, technique description and illustration, assessment, professionalism, and research. Written works include thirty foreign editions of eight books published in 16 languages. Their newsletter Reflexions has been in publication since 1980 and is available on the Internet.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Any field of study has premises whose purpose is to tie it together into a coherent whole. Reflexology too has principles that serve to unify it as an integrated system. These principles, although simple, make a profound statement about the body and its functions. Foot reflexology is the study and practice of working reflexes in the feet that correspond to other parts of the body. With specific hand and finger techniques, reflexology causes responses (relaxation) in corresponding parts of the body. Relaxation is the first step to the body s return to a state of equilibrium, or homeostasis, in which circulation can flow unimpeded to supply nutrients and oxygen to the cells. Research has demonstrated such change resulting from reflexology work. A change of blood flow to the kidneys was shown before and after reflexology work. Improvement in blood flow to the intestines was also demonstrated. With the restoration of homeostasis, the body s organs and muscles, which are actually aggregations of cells, may then return to a normal state of function as well.

Edition details

• Publisher: Reflexology Research Project
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0960607013
• ISBN 13: 9780960607013
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 234