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Why Study Reflexology With Me When You Can Learn For Free Online?

I’ve heard people question why they should study reflexology in a physical classroom when they can just as easily take a free course online. That’s a reasonable question, and I’d like to address that today.

I am convinced that you cheat yourself by only watching free content online IF you are ready to get serious about reflexology, yourself, and the dream of a happier life for yourself.

If you’re still at the place in your life where surfing Internet videos engages enough of your curiosity, then do that. But, if you’re ready to dive deep, then step onto the diving board!

Free content may offer you information, but it can never produce the results that a personal instructor’s thought, effort and commitment to you and your success will deliver. It’s not possible.

Online programs are formatted for the masses; the material is generalized and nonspecific to you and your life. You deserve more than that and will need more than that if you want to build a successful practice for yourself.

From the very beginning of the Therapeutic Hand & Foot Reflexology Professional Certification we focus simultaneously on mastering the two sides of a successful reflexology practice:

  1. The skills to offer a results-oriented reflexology session. That involves more than just learning hands-on techniques. It’s how to put it all together. It’s knowing how and when and why to offer what.
  1. The steps to manifest an ideal business and life for yourself. It pains me to no end to see people invest their time, money and heart into something and then never reap the rewards they imagined for themselves. For that reason, we start right at the beginning of the program to clearly visualize your dream and strategize an action plan to make that dream come true.

By the time your classroom hours are fulfilled, you will be equally adept at offering a reflexology session and have created a marketing plan to create a successful reflexology business.

And, I’ll hold you accountable to your business plan!

We’ll set up a private consultation to fine-tune your ideas for success and establish achievable goals and deadlines that will get the results you want. I’ll hold you to your commitment (unless, of course, you don’t want that support).

I wish I had had a coach when I started out; someone to help me to move past the limiting beliefs that stopped me from being all that I was meant to be. I didn’t, so I had to figure it all out for myself. Let me be your personal coach – make your journey easier than mine was.

Another thing to consider when contemplating whether to take an online course (free or paid) or take your reflexology certification in a classroom setting:

If you wish to become nationally board-certified in reflexology, or licensed in reflexology (five US states require a specific license to practice reflexology) and/or hold a Professional level membership with the national and/or state reflexology organizations, you will require live classroom hours of training – plenty of them. These organizations consider live classroom instruction, supervision and feedback essential to attaining the skills to practice safely and effectively.

I charge for my reflexology trainings because I see value in what I have to offer. I’m proud of my teaching abilities and have been recognized nationally by the Reflexology Association of America for “serving as a role model for all educators to inspire students to aspire to create a successful life on their own terms.”

I’m way better than free!

Join us (this year only) in Gainesville, Florida for the 22nd Therapeutic Hand & Foot Reflexology Professional Certification. Classes start April 4, so act now.

Thai Reflexology To The Rescue!

I unearthed this testimonial sent to me a while back from a student who attended the 3-day Traditional Thai Reflexology workshop. Somehow it slipped through the cracks and I never shared it. It is sooo worth reading! Never underestimate the human body’s ability to find a way.

“Four years ago, a gentleman in his 50’s, asked if I could help him with the difficulties he was experiencing, as a result of his last year of cancer treatment. As he told his story, I came to know that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer, and had agreed to enter an experimental treatment in Texas that would offer him a 5% chance of survival. Yes, you read right: 5%. He was one of eight people in the small study.

After removing most of his esophagus, the surgeons re-positioned his stomach inside his chest wall and then somehow stretched the duodenum of the lower stomach so as to reach the small intestine.   Months of painful radiation and chemotherapy followed, leaving him with pain when breathing and swallowing, and discomfort when eating.

I recognized how traumatized this man’s body was. Since his doctors had forbidden massage to his torso I decided to offer him a Thai Foot Reflexology session. For two years, I gave him that session every two weeks. We have now extended the time between visits to one month. He returned over and over again because he was convinced the Thai Foot Reflexology was the only thing that was bringing him any sort of relief in his new existence.

Throughout all the times I have had the pleasure to work with this man, he always experiences ‘fluttery’ sensations where his esophagus once had existed when I perform the Thai technique affectionately known as ‘Cut a Groove’. This technique runs through the third branch of sen Kalathari in the third zone of the plantar surface of the foot. Sen Kalathari is an energy sen line that crosses the body from left to right within the abdomen, which might explain his response.

There’s a good ending to this story. My client’s now expected chance of recovery is 98%. He is one of two people to have survived cancer and the treatment.”     

I was flabbergasted, to say the least, when I read the above. The impulse to live is so strong in each of us, and when given just a little, continuous support, will ignite.

Of course, Thai reflexology supports those with less dramatic conditions than the one above. It is a masterful and time-proven way to balance the body’s energy so that our organs and glands can function optimally.

Massage therapists enjoy learning this protocol. The techniques are unlike any taught in western massage (and reflexology, too.) It takes only three days to learn, unlike the training to become a certified reflexologist, which takes months. Certified reflexologists like having another reflexology approach to use other than the conventional western style they are trained in.

When I offer this training, you will be provided with an illustrated manual, Thai wooden tool, organic Thai oil and lifetime access to a video of the hands-on protocol. Check the schedule for upcoming workshops.