How to Create a Garden Path for Reflexology

Reflexology Chart

Chinese medicine has included using reflexology points on your feet to benefit your health for thousands of years now. Reflexology uses a map on the feet where specific acupressure points on the feet can relieve pain and bring balance to other parts of the body. There are many techniques and tools available to massage the reflexology points on the feet to improve circulation and to help relieve pain and stress from the body. However, for the purpose of this article, we're going to explore using textures along a garden path that will serve to apply different depths of pressure to the different reflexology points along the bottom of the feet. A reflexology walking path will help improve your health with each step!

Instructions

1. 

   The most important way to benefit from a reflexology garden path is to take a slow barefoot stroll across areas with different textures and angles in the ground. Enjoy the feel of the ground, dirt, grass and other natural items under your feet. Notice how pleasant it can feel and how it can be calming for the mind and body to experience. These are the principles you will want to apply to your reflexology walking path.

2. 

   Use smooth stones of different sizes and positioned at different angles to create a cobblestone reflexology path in your garden. The rocks should be steady, so that they do not throw off your balance.

3. Use soft ground cover plants for a pleasant barefoot path. There is a wide variety of ground cover plants that are intended to fill spaces in walk ways with their textures and are pleasant to walk on. Add some of these plants along areas of your reflexology path.

4. 

   Place mosaic stepping stones or other large stepping stones with different textures for barefoot walking in your reflexology garden path.

5. 

   Use bark, sticks, wood planks and pine cones along your reflexology garden path. Pretty much anything can be used along your reflexology path ways, so try out different types of natural textures that create a pleasant feel while walking barefoot.

6. 

   Forget having smooth, flat pathways and create small mounds, dips, and hills to your reflexology path. Creating an area of land that is uneven will serve to apply a different feel with each step.

7. Before you come back inside or even placed on the inside of your home, have textured, beaded or cobblestone mats for more reflexology walking areas.

8. To create an indoor reflexology path, get a wooden box that is large enough to step around in and fill sections of the box with sand, wooden beads, small decorative rocks, dried beans, dried peas, or gravel. You can also find reflexology sandals and mats that have bumps or pebbles built onto the surface for reflexology walking.

Tips & Warnings

• Try different texture ideas and use items that are aesthetically pleasing for you to step on.

• Do not use items that may provide pain, a lack of balance or splinters to you when you step on them.

• This information is not intended to substitute a diagnoses or treatment of a health care professional.

Resources

• Foot Chi
• Full Size Foot Reflexology Chart