Two weeks ago I was in the good old U.K. For the the 9th time already I teached Nerve Reflexology for foot reflexologists. Not only Britsh ones but in the different courses there were participants from U.S., Mexico, Venezuela and even Belgium. The courses are organised by Lynne Booth. She is a lovely English lady and a very well known reflexologist. She developed her own method, called VRT = vertical reflex techniques. In this method you treat the reflexzones at the weight baring foot. The patient is sitting or standing. She is teaching her method all over the world from Australia to Japan. And she is a great organiser! Teaching in her organisation is a real relaxing job. From weeks before every detail is scheduled like a fim script. Things I have to bring, were to stay, were to eat, pick up time for the course ....The only thing I have to do is to teach, to rest, to go for dinner, to sleep and to teach again. Lynne is married with Adam. He is an engineer and he is very keen in driving us around, look for fine restaurants an to cook lunch for us. I love them both very much. And then you have the course participants. Imagine in each course 20 women reflexologists (lucky me!) very smart in handling meridians, reiki and other alternative therapies. And suddenly, they are dropped in the pool of the very complex nervous system, in pain science and clinical reasoning. It must be like hel for the brains. But anyway they manage to build in the nerve reflex points in a wel balanced treatment schema. And I don't make it easy. Have you ever heard of terms like, C-fibers, nocireceptors, wind-up and sensitisation of dorsal horn, sympathetic maintained pain, neuromatrix of pain? They have to go to all of this stuff. And in practice they have to learn and handle over more then 300 nerve reflex points. You can not imagine how they perform this effort in three course weekends: 8 days in total. And they have to got to exams before they can have a diploma. No wonder they look a little bit tired on the photo. Or was it the champagne?
