How To Become A Certified Reflexologist
Submitted by: TigerEye
Alternative medicine has not delivered on its promises. Using chemicals and machines to try and bring a human body back to normal health has proved to be a failure over the last two hundred or so years. The original way to bring about normal health, using herbs and organic substances is now beginning to arise again. Reflexology is a part of the superior art of maintaining good health by using the body as its own curing tool. Read on to find out how to get certified as a reflexologist.
If you are one of the ones who finds out about the proven benefits of reflexology, you are a lucky one indeed. To start out early on the way to getting a certification as a reflexologist, you should take classes on health in high school, especially take nutrition classes. Learn all you can about how the body operates as a whole. The areas that will most certainly be used for reflexology are the feet. Most all the nerves in the body end in the feet. They all end in the hands and feet. They must first pass through the rest of the body. This makes them beneficial for reflexology and other uses. You will be using other areas of the body also after certification, not just the feet and hands.
If you want, get your own appointment with a reflexologist in your area and see what they do. If they find out a few things about your health that need improving, ask how they did it. If you want to really be bold, ask them if they provide classes. Getting instructions from someone who already knows what they are doing is a big benefit.
The American Reflexology Certification Board ( arcb.net ) is the group to contact about your final certification. They have the credentials to help you in your goal of getting certified. Reflexology is in higher demand, since the results of using it are so much better than alternative medicine. This organization is a nonprofit one that is located in Florida, United States. They have the necessary clout to approve your certification and give you more publicity, validity and effectiveness to your chosen profession.
Here are a list of places where a school offering certification in reflexology may be found :
- Anchorage, Alaska
- Tucson, Arizona
- Sedona, Arizona
- Tempe, Arizona
- Lexa, Arkansas
- Redondo Beach, California
- San Diego, California
- West Los Angeles, California
- Lakewood, Colorado
- Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Meriden, Connecticut
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Boca Raton, Florida
- Gainesville, Georgia
- Hawi, Hawaii
- Meridian, Idaho
- Peoria, Illinois
- Indianapolis, Indiana
- Augusta, Maine
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Sterling Heights, Michigan
- Saint Charles, Missouri
- New York, New York
This is not an exhaustive list, and the cities represented here are those who responded positively to a survey about certification for reflexologists.
Some of the things you will be learning include :
- Maps of the feet
- Anatomy and physiology
- Reflexology history
- Ethics and business etiquette
- Ten energy zones
- Relaxation techniques
- Terminology for medical purposes
There are other people that provide certification other than the American Reflexology Certification Board. Laura Norman is a popular reflexolgist. Ann Gillanders is another. Joelle Peters is one more that has over ten years of experience. Ms Peters is in Great Britain.
Certified Reflexologist
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