Reflexology and the Living, Loving Woman 
 
                
                   
                    This new
                    ninety-minute Reflexology video by Ann Gillanders addresses
                    the health and lifestyle issues most
                    important
                    to women today.  It provides self-help methods of health
                    improvement for women of all ages, from the youngest baby to the oldest
                    senior citizen. Ann's descriptions and detailed on-camera
                    demonstrations show her own proven techniques for treating a variety of
                    ailments and
                    maintaining a high level of wellness through all the major stages of
                    life. Here you can learn Reflexology techniques and give relaxing,
                    health promoting
                    treatments to patients,
                    family or friends TODAY.   
                   
                  
                    This new
                    Reflexology video has the same lush tropical seaside setting as Ann's
                    first
                    video, shot on the island of Maui in
                    Hawaii.  This time Ann has chosen a gorgeous botanical garden by
                    the bay in Sarasota, Florida.  
                     
                    Ann starts the program with a short review of Reflexology from the
                    practitioner's
                    standpoint, then moves right into
                    demonstrations of the methods she has found to be most effective for
                    her patients.  She shows how to find and direct your own Chi energy to help heal others.  Working with women and children from each major
                    age group, she gives details of the techniques she uses to treat
                    specific
                    physical problems and promote overall good health.  
                     
                    Graphics appear on the screen to show the exact areas Ann is treating. Ann's Fun
                    Foot Facts and vignettes between demonstrations keep the
                    program moving quickly.
                    
                    Ann first
                    addresses the
                    life of a woman even before birth, showing treatments that
                    promote fertility and conception.
                    These are
                    important mental and physical preparations for both men and women, for
                    the most
                    fulfilling experience of their lives. The treatments for infertility are
                    especially interesting because this is a growing problem
                    in the Western world.  
                     
                    Ann's holistic approach includes attention
                    to diet, emotional factors, physical fitness, awareness of harmful
                    environmental elements, and the balance, normalization and stimulation
                    of the hormonal system.
                    
                    Next are Ann's
                    techniques for care during pregnancy, and on through childbirth. 
                    She discusses breast feeding,
                    and treatments a new mother can give her baby when typical problems of
                    early development appear.  She then talks about the special needs
                    of energetic toddlers moving
                    out and exploring the world, on through the stress on young children of leaving home to
                    start school.  Ann shows ways to strengthen the immune system to
                    deal with infectious diseases,
                    and perhaps more important – ways
                    to stimulate the ability to learn.
                    
                    The special
                    problems of adolescent children through the teen years are in
                    the next part. Ann discusses the emotional turbulence, hormonal and
                    physical
                    changes during puberty, and
                    the assault of junk foods.  Reflexology methods for dealing with
                    the
                    specific problems of acne and
                    the onset of menstruation are
                    of particular
                    interest to teens and parents alike.
                     
                    For the mature
                    woman, Ann discusses stress-related
                    conditions and their affect on body
                    and mind. Anxiety relief and
                    the problems of PMS top the
                    list.  She talks about the effect of hormone-affecting contraceptives.  She also
                    examines
                    the common problems of endometriosis and cystitis.   
                     
                    In the
                    later mature years, women face the transition of menopause and the attendant physical
                    and hormonal changes.  Sleep pattern disturbances, hot flashes,
                    irritability, fluid retention, weight
                    gain, loss of confidence or self-esteem,
                    and
                    the changes in function of muscles and joints are all
                    addressed.  Emotional stresses such as "empty nest syndrome" can
                    cause profound depression that
                    can be avoided or relieved.  Likewise, osteoporosis and the pain of arthritis are both preventable and
                    treatable using Reflexology. 
                     
                    At the end of the program Ann shows how to do a complete Reflexology
                    treatment, used when treating all of these specific problems. 
                     
                     
                    
                    
                       Awards 
                      
                    
                    
                    Reflexology and
                    the Living, Loving Woman won the Cindy
                    Award in the Health, Fitness and Nutrition division,
                    presented by the
                    International Association of Audio Visual Communicators. 
                    Other winners were
                    ABC, PBS, The Smithsonian, NASA, A&E Network, Merrill-Lynch, and
                    IBM.
                    
                    It also won the Telly
                    Award in
                    Health and Medicine. The Telly is one of the most prestigious
                    awards
                    in the television industry, with awards also going to Disney, Universal
                    Studios, Warner Video, NBC and National Geographic. 
                     
                    
                   
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