Restorative Foot Massage
Our feet are one of the most under-appreciated parts of our body. We spend most of our time on them – yet we take shockingly little care of them, force them into ill-fitting shoes, fail to strengthen their muscles, let them sweat in synthetic fabrics, …
Of the 206 bones in the total human body, more than a quarter (52 bones for most people - some people have 56, with 4 extra supernumerary sesamoids) are located in the feet. Per foot you have 26 bones (or 28 for some), 33 joints, 107 ligaments, 19 intrinsic foot muscles, and another 10 muscles that originate outside the foot but cross the ankle joint and act on the foot, plus various tendons! These all work together to hold your entire body structure up, and they allow your feet to move in various ways and carry your body weight + any extra weight that we carry/lift !
Issues ranging from lower backaches over headaches, a misaligned spine to even indigestion, can all often be traced back to problems with one’s feet.
The average person walks up to about 160,000 km (or 115,000 miles) in their lifetime – enough to walk 4x around the earth. This works out to about 6 ½ km per day. During a typical day, the average person spends about 4 hours on their feet and takes between 8,000 and 10,000 steps. While walking, each step can exert a pressure on your feet that exceeds your body weight. When you’re running, it can be 3 or 4 times your weight – which adds up to a cumulative force of over 500 tons per day. (With certain sports, this force can go up to 7 times one’s bodyweight!). Yet, standing in one spot is far more exerting on the feet than walking, as demands are being made on the same few muscles for a length of time.
The feet are also the site of the end- or starting points for half (6) of the organ meridians in the body, as well as an endpoint for many nerves (There are more sensitive nerve-endings per square centimetre in the foot than in any other part of the body).
Moreover, your feet provide a map of the entire body, with each area of the feet corresponding to a certain organ, gland or body part (as understood and used in reflexology), which allows us to work on every part of your body - and even on several very specific conditions - just by working on your feet!
This specific foot massage sequence allows us to:
- Balance and repair the entire nervous system
- Work on the meridian system
- Bring about whole-body balancing
- Target specific areas, organs or glands for healing
- Leave you in state of absolutely profound relaxation
- Offer deep and lasting rejuvenation.
The truly deep level of relaxation that can be attained with this massage is worth expanding on a little more. Most of my foot massage clients will fall into a deep sleep; snoring isn’t unusual, nor is drooling 😊 . One female (heterosexual) friend even asked me to marry her after I gave her a foot massage for the first time. Some of the feedback I have had on my foot massages are: “You could become a millionaire from this if you market yourself right” and “I feel a gazillion times better after this massage.”
- Duration: 60 mins.
- Women only.
- Please do not wear any perfume for the massage, as it will likely give either of us or both of us a severe headache.
Restorative Full-Body Massage
In this restorative anti-stress massage, 12 specific nerve points (5 on the front of the body, 7 on the back) are massaged in sequence, allowing the nervous system to deeply relax, repair and rejuvenate. The touch is very light as we don't target the muscles, but the effect is incredibly deep. This massage is not oil-based, and is done over the clothes. Japjeet is one of the only therapists in the UK and Europe providing this particular type of massage, so it is definitely worthwhile travelling to Leicester for.
This particular massage is especially recommended for people who:
- who have high stress levels and a fast-paced life and who find it difficult to relax
- who are suffering from anxiety and/or panic attacks
- with cancer going through chemotherapy or radiotherapy
- with an imbalanced or damaged nervous system
- with fertility issues
- -- and of course for anyone wanting to experience a truly profound state of relaxation.
In traditional practices, 10 treatments of this massage would be recommended to let the body fully restore itself to its natural stress-free state, but even just one treatment will leave you feeling extremely relaxed and rejuvenated, and you don't have to commit to a series of sessions to reap the many benefits from this particular modality (I do offer 5- or 10-session series at a discounted price - and you can even combine/alternate these massages with the Restorative Foot Massages I give within 1 discount-series).
- Duration: 60 mins
- Women only
- Please do not wear any perfume for the massage, as it will likely give either of us or both of us a severe headache.