Let it rain!

I’m still a little fixated with the whole feet-reflexology topic. Please indulge me this one last time. Recently I spoke with Cynthia Kasper (773-764-7040 in Chicago) who practices the Raindrop Technique, a system that uses essential oils and something called Vitaflex, which, it turns out, is a cousin to reflexology in that it is applied to the feet or hands and stimulates points in the body. For example, the instep correlates to the spine. The word raindrop stems for the fact that essential oils—at least eight and used in the same sequence--are then applied, or “dropped” to specific points.

Cynthia says she starts by “grounding” the client by holding his shoulders. Then, for the core of the treatment, he is asked to turn on his stomach, where Cynthia applies some of the oils to the bottom of the feet. This is the Vitaflex portion and it’s designed to help the oils absorb themselves into the bloodstream—and to feel good. Then a hot moist towel is applied to allow the oils to penetrate deeper. This, she says, first creates a hot sensation, which then shifts to cold.

The final portion of the one-hour treatment is the individualized part and centers on the client's back, in which oils are selected specific to the client’s needs and then worked in. Cynthia says the oils clear the "receptor sites on the cells." Others remove “misinformation” that may have gotten into the DNA sequences. “Our cells communicate to each other as part of a normal processes. Some of this information—energetic, electrical or chemical—can become skewed.” The Raindrop Technique, she says, “releases toxins and clean receptor sites.”

Here are a couple of helping websites in learning more about each oil's function, or to learn the practice yourself, which is not yet offered at most spas.

www.youngliving.us
www.raindroptraining.com
http://www.newdirectionsaromatics.com/essential-oils-essential-oils-ac-c-9_25.html?gclid=CPLq7oqbtowCFR6AWAod0AHaRw