Raven Reflexology

When you experience prolong stress or trauma, your body does everything it can to keep functioning. At first your body may respond with subtle signs - tension, headache or digestive issues, but when the signals go unaddressed and stress continues to build your body can reach a breaking point. Auto immune diseases, chronic fatigue and chronic pain or not just random occurrences. They’re deeply connected to the way your body has been trying to cope with unprocessed emotions and being constantly overwhelmed. When the nervous system is in a prolonged state of survival mode, it disrupts your immune system, your energy levels and your pain receptors. Overtime this imbalance takes a toll and the body’s ability to regulate itself, starts to break down. These conditions are often your bodies way of saying “I can’t do this anymore”. This represents a shift from coping to crisis signalling that emotional and physical burdens have become too much to carry. Find ways to support your nervous systems return to balance with reflexology.

Performed on the feet giving a deep sense of relaxation, reducing the many symptoms of stress in the body, mind and spirit. I will work specific reflexes which can help to balance the energy flow to corresponding areas in the body. It helps the body to rebuild its energy resources and recover from illness.

Despite working locally on the feet reflexology works as a whole body treatment. It can assist in reinvigorating the circulatory, lymphatic and nervous systems. By pressing different reflex points, it can help to reconnect the brain to the rest of the body, generating a feeling of deep relaxation and connectedness. This can aid in the improvement of many physical and emotional conditions.

Reflexology helps the body to restore its balance naturally, a little like pressing the “reset button”
Kamloops, BC

Reflexology has many health benefits*

Relaxation
Reflexology is known to open neural pathways and flood the nervous system with neuron activity which puts the body in a more relaxed state. By delivering an abundance of relaxation in your system, reflexology can induce a state of calm throughout your body and mind. employing this phenomenon, reflexology can be used to cure sleep disorders such as Insomnia and help your body get back to its normal, healthy circadian rhythms.

Improvement of Your Nerve Functions
As bodies age, the nerve endings become less and less sensitive in the extremity parts of our body. Opening up and cleaning out neural pathways can help improve the functionality and flexibility of nerves and cells in various organs in the body. Neural passageways are essentially like muscles, it is extremely beneficial and crucial to your health to keep them active.

Improvement In Your Brain Power.
By stimulating your nerves and opening your neural pathways, information flows much faster and more effectively to your brain which would help your brain to handle the process of the information faster which would result in much faster cognitive and physical reactions and a boost in your memory.

Increased Blood Circulation In Your Body
Effectively the most well-known benefit of reflexology is an improvement in blood circulation throughout your body, which means that blood along with oxygen gets cycled and delivered through the body more efficiently. Improvement in circulation also means more oxygen reaching the vital organ systems which optimize their functioning and further increases metabolism. The deliverance of oxygen through the body also results in faster healing and re-growth of damaged cells.

Eliminating Your Body's Toxins
By improving blood circulation, Reflexology improves bladder function and that helps reduce the possibility of urinary tract issues. This results in a more efficient system of eliminating toxins and other foreign elements, thereby protecting your body from various diseases and health conditions that can often happen as a result of a compromised urinary system.

Boosting Your Metabolism & Energy Level
A proper reflexology session can improve the functionality of many organs in your body which would result in higher metabolism which in return helps with creating more energy in your body. If you have been feeling sluggish or need a boost in your energy, book your next reflexology session.

Reducing Your Headaches
One of the most common applications of reflexology is to reduce the severity of migraines and headaches by relieving tension in the muscles that often result in such conditions. Since stress and psychological factors often manifest in the physical symptoms of a migraine, headaches brought by stress can also be eliminated using reflexology.

Relieving discomfort from Menstruation & Pregnancy
Reflexology can be very beneficial for women during pregnancy, especially with regard to labor lengths, women’s need for analgesics during labor as well as postpartum recovery time. Additionally, as a result of many of the health benefits mentioned above, reflexology can reduce the chances of post-partum depression, help the body heal itself, and get back to its normal metabolic activity faster.