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Reflexology Lynne Booth
Vertical Reflexolgoy
Lynne runs a private practice in Bristol, a clinic for professional footballers, and for the past twelve years, has held a weekly clinic at the St Monica Trust which provides nursing care and sheltered housing for 400 elderly residents. She has practised reflexology at a hospital and clinic and has run seminars for nurses and care-workers as well as regularly giving talks, lectures and presentations. She has assisted in practical instruction and examined for the International Institute of Reflexology and is an enthusiastic exponent of ART (Advanced Reflexology Techniques). In June 1998 Lynne presented at the inaugural ART conference in London where she was awarded a Fellowship for services to reflexology.
Lynne began her career as a technical administrator in the French and Music departments at Brighton Polytechnic. After graduating from Bristol University she worked for several years at IBM running a library and information centre. Throughout her working life she kept up her interests in reflexology, homeopathy and nutrition. In 1991 she began reflexology training in Bristol and went on to study for a professional qualification in London at the International Institute of Reflexology. Since then she has attended a series of advanced reflexology courses/nutritional seminars each year.
Lynne discovered Vertical Reflex Therapy (VRT) while working on orthopaedic problems associated with the elderly. She has subsequently developed and extended this technique to cover all age groups and many conditions including ME and other post-viral problems, insomnia and asthma. Lynne has developed a short comprehensive treatment that involves her new techniques and conventional reflexology. She has mapped out and recorded unique hand and foot charts depicting new, or deeper, reflexes that are manifest when the foot is weight-bearing. More recently she has developed VRT Nail-working techniques and mapped reflexes out on the nails. These profound methods form part of the VRT Hand and Nail-Working course. The large reflexology school, REFLE, in Japan runs a VRT diploma course. Knowledge of VRT is a required component on many professional accredited reflexology diploma courses.
Synergistic Reflexology, where hand and foot reflexes are work simultaneously, was developed as an extension of VRT but can be equally applied to conventional reflexology.
Lynne has particular interest in reflexology for children and the elderly and also runs bespoke training sessions for nurses and carers for the St Monica Trust. One of her interests is arthritis and this resulted in two invitations to speak at National Health Service seminars for the medical profession on the treatment of arthritis. She has lectured to speech/voice therapists at the Royal United Hospital, Bath and Southmead Hospital, Bristol. She has also discussed and demonstrated VRT/reflexology on radio and TV programmes including BBC, Discovery Health, HTV and SABC.
Lynne and VRT tutors regularly run courses in Europe and she has taught in South Africa, Japan, USA, Australia, Canada, Jamaica and Dubai. She has presented at international conferences in the UK, Finland, Denmark, Jamaica, South Africa and USA, and was the keynote speaker at Australian and Canadian reflexology conferences.
In 1999 and 2000 the Daily Telegraph featured half-page articles on Vertical Reflex Therapy resulting in an overwhelming response from practitioners wanting to learn VRT and members of the public seeking a qualified practitioner. Positive Health, Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times, Zest, In Touch, Health and Fitness, Bella, Evening Standard, Metro, The Sunday Express, The Scotsman and others and many professional reflexology journals in the UK and internationally have featured numerous articles on Vertical Reflex Therapy in the last decade.
Lynne has written a best-selling book on Vertical Reflex Therapy and Synergistic Reflexology, called Vertical Reflexology which was published by Piatkus Books in September 2000 (reprinted three times). Vertical Reflexology for Hands was published in June 2003. They are translated into Dutch, Russian, Czech, Portuguese in Brazil and Japanese. She and appointed VRT tutors are engaged in running seminars in the UK and internationally, where her new advanced techniques have been taught to over 5000 qualified reflexologists.
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