Reflexology is a healing technique, based on holographic principles, that has been traced to ancient Egypt. The feet, as well as the hands and ears, are known to be an energetic blueprint for the whole body, its systems and organs. Foot Reflexology is quite different and distinct from foot massage in its application and health outcomes. Reflexologists use their hands to work the feet in specific patterns following the natural flow and energy dictated by the anatomy and physiology of the body as it is represented in the feet to affect greater balance of body, mind, emotion, and spirit. Research has shown benefit from foot reflexology for different types of pain, reducing excessive stress, increasing energy and balancing mood. Although Reflexologists work with energy patterns and do not diagnose, treat or cure medical diseases, reflexology has been shown anecdotally in practice and in clinical research to help in the healing process of a number of medical conditions, including Diabetes Type II (non-insulin dependent). The #1 treatment of choice for Diabetes Type II in China is foot reflexology. 

Dr. Martha Libster has been practicing and teaching Foot Reflexology with Herbal Applications for more than twenty years. She first learned of foot reflexology in 1983 when she was a professional dancer in New York City. Synchronistically, she met a German healer/reflexologist named Marguerite Teuwen, whom everyone called OMA (grandmother) after she moved to Los Angeles. OMA recognized Martha's love of healing and science and invited her to apprentice in the Glendale Foot Reflexology Clinic from 1984-1986 while Martha studied for her Bachelor’s degree in nursing. Martha describes her time working with OMA as “the perfect balance to my nursing education.”

OMA introduced Martha to “The Science of Energy Flow” which included holographic reflexology science and the application of that science to the endocrine glands and their corresponding energy centers. The OMA method of foot treatment also includes European herbal therapies – primarily topical applications, an energetic approach to patient care, and the German tradition of Kneipp water cure including herbal foot baths, wraps and packs. Martha was also certified in Foot Zone Therapy in 1991 at the Centre for Alternative Medicine in Kristiansand, Norway with the renowned Dr. Charles Ersdal. Since then Dr. Libster has developed her approach to Foot Reflexology that is an integration of nursing art and science, herbalism, OMA Method Foot Reflexology, water cure, and  the signal system of Ersdal Zone Therapy. Foot Reflexology treatments with Dr. Libster are a healing experience that will increase your under-standing!