About Reflexology
Massaging and touching the feet to help the body is a very ancient practice. The tomb of Ankhmahor in Egypt was found in 1897 and is thought to date back to around 2330BC. Ankhmahor was a physician and on the wall of his tomb there is a series of pictures showing what seems to be foot message. One Person is holding the feet of other, appearing to massage or manipulate it. In another picture a hand massage is taking place. Feet have also always been very important to Native Americans for whom massaging the feet was considered a method of maintaining physical, mental and spiritual balance.
The Chinese have been using the application of pressure as healing therapy for over 5000 years. The ancient therapy of acupressure uses thumb pressure on acupoints – a series of points along lines of energy throughout the body – to help unblock energy and thus let the body heal itself. Acupuncture is similar but needles are used instead of thumb or finger pressure. Both these therapies are thought to have influenced the development of reflexology because they are all based on principle that there is a relationship between the point where pressure is applied and the rest of the body.
Eunice Ingham developed the works of her predecessors in several ways. She experimented to find out how pressure on one part of the foot affected other parts of the body. Having realized that the whole body could be treated using the application of pressure to the feet or hands she used Fitzgerald’s zones to chart the whole body onto the feet. Her charts are now the standard used by reflexologists all over the world. Eunice Ingham spent many years lecturing on reflexology and practicing it she also wrote two books, stories the feet can tell and stories the feet have told, both of which remain of interest and importance to reflexology students and practitioners. Doreen Bayly brought Reflexology to Britain in 1966, she had studied with Ingham in the US and her return she set up a Bayly School for Reflexology. From there many schools and professional reflexologists were created.
Professionals
Good life Reflexology Center
In now days, East Africa, reflexology is not well familiar to people. In 2012 a professional reflexologist known as ELIAS MUGABO, obtained a certificate education on reflexology, from there he started offering reflexology treatment to people in Rwanda and later he expanded to Uganda as well to Tanzania in August, 2013 with the center called Help life Reflexology Centre. In 2015, he decided to get back to school to improve his skills and knowledge on reflexology, he graduated a level three diploma at International Therapy Examination Council (ITEC) in 2017. After that, in the same year 2017 he join a Good life Reflexology Centre to provide reflexology cure to people in Kenya and later moved back to Tanzania with the same mission. After working harder and harder in improving his knowledge and working on reflexology.
ELIAS MUGABO became a person with profession and experience in reflexology industry, a situation that push him to expanding another branch for providing health service in Tanzania.
