Taken quite literally, face reflexology sounds almost a contradiction of terms, as far apart as the extremities the words refer to. Yet it is actually a new complementary therapy that combines looking good with feeling good through a unique marriage of three ancient techniques; Chinese energy meridians, Chinese acupuncture points, and Vietnamese and Andean tribal body maps.
It has been in the UK a mere three years, brought into existence and to the regulatory body, the Association of Reflexologists (AOR) by a Danish woman called Lone Sorensen Lopez, who has been formulating the therapy throughout her work over the past twenty-eight years.
We spoke to Nikke Ariff, a practitioner and teacher of face reflexology in London to learn more about this intriguing yet relatively unknown new therapy.
Nikke was an oil trader until a serious car accident seven years ago prompted her to change her lifestyle and train in alternative therapies.
"I was working in a very stressful environment and used to have complementary therapies on a weekly basis so I could bring myself back to the lions den the next morning so to speak. In 1998 my company in London sent me to South Africa to build up some of the market there, and that is where I had a very bad car accident. Afterwards, all the clich¨|s started to fall into place like; this is the first day of the rest of your life; life is not a rehearsal - and the most natural thing was to start training in complementary therapies."
"In fact, only recently I tried to look up an astrologer I had been to see in 1993. Unfortunately she's passed on now, but she asked me way back then had I ever thought of a career in healing. I looked at her as though I had come to the wrong place, but five years later it just made a huge amount of sense, and that's when I started my journey if you like."
Nikke trained in a variety of alternativee theerapies before finally discovering face reflexology.
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