About Lynne Booth

Lynne Booth BA (Hons) BRCP IIR ART (regd) Hons FAoR trained with the International Institute of Reflexology. She has a private practice and also runs a reflexology clinic at a 400-resident St Monica Trust in Bristol as well as a clinic for professional footballers. The development of VRT and a small medical study were conducted at the Trust in the early to mid-1990s. Lynne frequently presents VRT at conferences internationally and she and VRT appointed tutors have taught VRT courses in the UK and internationally to approximately 6000 qualified Reflexologists. In 1998 Lynne was awarded an ART (Advanced Reflexology Techniques) fellowship for services to Reflexology and in 2008 The Association of Reflexologists (AoR) also gave her an honorary fellowship. She has written a best-selling book Vertical Reflexology and also Vertical Reflexology for Hands. A training DVD Vertical Reflexology for Hands and Feet was released in 2008. Her books are published in 6 languages including Japanese, where it is taught as a diploma course in Tokyo. For more information on VRT, practitioner courses or the nearest available VRT practitioner contact Booth VRT on Tel/Fax: +44 (0)117 962 6746;  contact@boothvrt.com   www.boothvrt.com

Articles by Lynne Booth

• Reflexology – Caring for Older People
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  Reflexology is suitable for older people, as it helps circulation, normalizes bodily functions and can aid detoxification. It is easily accessible, as only the shoes need to be removed, and it can be done standing, sitting, or reclining. 

• Vertical Reflexology for Hands and Feet: Do not neglect the beneficial role of hand reflexology
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  The author gives an account of the basis for reflexology.  She then explains the concept of vertical reflex therapy (VRT), which involves standing up so that the dorsal areas of weight-bearing feet or hands can be worked on, using the traditional gentle but precisely located pressures, mapped according to their locations on the plantar areas.

• Vertical Reflex Therapy (VRT) for Sports Injuries
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  The author has developed the practice of Reflexology to include work done while the feet (and hands) are in a weight-bearing position. Newer research has concentrated on Hand VRT, and working ‘a grid system of reflexes on the nail’. The article explains the theory behind the system and gives some information about the process.

• Vertical Reflexology
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  Vertical Reflexology, or Vertical Reflex Therapy (VRT) was developed by Lynne Booth six years ago when working with chronically ill residents at the St Monica Trust nursing home in Bristol. She found that VRT, which focuses on working the weight-bearing dorsal reflexes on the top of the foot, was particularly suitable for elderly people who had orthopaedic problems or were wheelchair-bound.

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