Double Vessel with a Foot-Massage Scene

©2009 Erma Slyvester 

Erma Slyvester, a great reflexologist from Albuquerque and a good friend of ours found this vessel in the Art Institute of Chicago. Here is the description. 

• Chimú
  
• North coast, Peru
  
• Double Vessel with a Foot-Massage Scene, A.D. 1200/1450
  

Here is a direct link to the Art Institute for a picture without the glass. http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/91690

Nice Spotting Erma. 

Kevin Kunz

http://www.reflexology-research.com 

http://www.dk.com/reflexology 

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How I got interested in reflexology

I was writing this for a reflexology group over on Facebook and thought I might share it with you as well.

The question is, "How did you get started in reflexology?". My answer.

I was browsing through a bookstore years ago when I spied a red book on reflexology. I picked it up, thought it was interesting and bought it.

I took it home and started working on myself. I feel asleep right away which I thought was odd. Up until that time I could not fall asleep during the day.

I started working on family and friends. They started reporting all these results which I found hard to believe. I wasn't at all good.

Then I met Barbara, my soon to be wife. She had continuous sinus problems and the medications side effects were troubling to her. For the first time she had relief.

Then a life changing event took place when a friend's daughter was in a head on crash. Her husband died from the event and she was brain injured. The doctors told her parents to institutionalize her.

Our friend asked me to attend a reflexology seminar. The rest is history.

We often get people telling us how our books changed their life. I guess since a book profoundly changed my life I understand.

Kevin Kunz

BTW Our friend's daughter went back to teaching and although still with some partial paralysis worked until retirement.

The wonders of ‘kolkolis’

The wonders of ‘kolkolis’ - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

Kolkolis is an indigenous form of reflexology where sticks are beaten on one’s soles. Songaben Payoyo, a 66 year old healer practices it in the Philippines.

“This is not mere massage. This is healthy to everyone, especially the old,” he says.

“Even when I was young, some foreigners would ask the elders in the village what kolkolis was good for. The elders would say it makes the nerves awake,” he says.

“It’s rare for those who undergo kolkolis regularly to suffer a stroke,” he says.

Editor's note- I have never heard of this. Has anyone out there ever tried this?

Kevin Kunz

http://www.reflexology-research.com