Foot
1. Hand-over-handeffleurage on top of the foot (crosswise on tissue)
- You have to perform a crosswise effleurage.
- Don’t use two hands simultaneously, but alternately
- 3x3
- After the 9th finish by returning with a gentle touch and two hands at the same time.
2. Effleurage ankle
- Use only your middle and ring finger for this.
- Then stroke underneath the ankle with them.
- Then stroke underneath the ankle with them.
- Go back with a gentle touch, the indexfinger needs to go above the ankle, the other fingers underneath.
3. Frictions 1x
- Use your middle and ring finger.
- You have to perform frictions on 3 places on the soft part just below the ankle.
- Return with a gentle touch.
4. Hand-over-handeffleurage on top of the foot (crosswise on tissue)
- See 1.
5. Rotations foot (bottom/sole, not on top of the foot)
- Pick the foot up with 2 hands.
- Your thumbs should be on the bottom/sool of the foot
- Make a rotational movement (circles) with the thumb
- It has to be performed in the direction toe to heel.
- Your thumbs should be on the bottom/sool of the foot
- Make a rotational movement (circles) with the thumb
- It has to be performed in the direction toe to heel.
6. Brush foot (sole)
- Form a fist with the hand that’s on the inside.
- Your other hand should be on top of the foot for support.
- With both hands at the same time stroke from toes to the heal in one movement.
- Don’t apply pressure with the upper hand only the one on the bottom of the foot.
7. Modelling foot
- "Breaking metatarsals' (not literally of course)
- The movement looks a bit like intermittent pressure: take up the foot with the fingers (pinky, index, middle, ring finger) and you put your thumbs together on top of the foot, only you shouldn’t exercise pressure for 8 seconds
- You let your thumbs glide off to the side of the foot. drains thumbs down (to the side)
- "Breaking metatarsals' (not literally of course)
- The movement looks a bit like intermittent pressure: take up the foot with the fingers (pinky, index, middle, ring finger) and you put your thumbs together on top of the foot, only you shouldn’t exercise pressure for 8 seconds
- You let your thumbs glide off to the side of the foot. drains thumbs down (to the side)
- You have to do this at three places: behind toes, right foot and ankle on
8. Loosening of the ankle
- Pick up the ankle with the hand that’s on the outside
- Pick up the ankle with the hand that’s on the outside
- Grasp the foot with the hand that’s on the inside, hold it between your fingers (they should be on top of the foot) and thumb (on the sole)
- If you have trouble with the way you should keep your hands then think of a crosswise effleurage, only now your hand (the one on the outside) should be upside down supporting the ankle.
- You have to let the foot make circles, three times towards the inside, three times towards to the outside. The order doesn’t matter.
- If you have trouble with the way you should keep your hands then think of a crosswise effleurage, only now your hand (the one on the outside) should be upside down supporting the ankle.
- You have to let the foot make circles, three times towards the inside, three times towards to the outside. The order doesn’t matter.
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