We've seen many individuals including many reflexology moms create an at-home reflexology business as a source of income. Typically, the first step is successful results with one's own or a family member's health. Next friends and neighbors show up at the door after hearing how helpful and healthful the reflexology work has been. Success breeds more success as word spreads and soon, the casual reflexologist finds herself or himself developing a paying clientele as they are approached for reflexology work by people beyond an immediate circle of family and friends such as friends of friends and family as well as contacts from work and church.
Ruth Hahn of Piqua, Ohio, for example, started her use of reflexology to make more manageable her son's behavior resulting from brain injury at birth. She went on to extend her mom power to others, co-founding with another concerned mom Gloria Hufford the Rehabilitation Center for Neurological Development, now named the Hahn-Hufford Center of Hope which continues to use reflexology in its program.
When we started our reflexology careers, the successful reflexologists lived in small rural towns. Many had started their interest in reflexology as the parent of a sick child. They helped the child ameliorate the health situation or get well again. Such success lead on to applying reflexology to other family members, neighbors and friends. Soon, they were working with and charging money for providing reflexology sessions to a growing network of interested individuals - friends of friends, for example. Most often working out of the home, their businesses were a low cost solution to starting up a business that provided income. Our list such people from generations past includes Mary Lou Vanderlaan of Crown Point, Indiana and Mrs. Isringhausen of Jerseyville, Illinois.
We knew one Florida senior who had a healthy business making house calls in his retirement community. Our local reflexology mentor started as a concerned mother and ended up with a full time reflexology practice - for which she never charged a dime. It was her way of giving back to the community.
To get started learning about reflexology, consult one of the following books.
Reflexology: Health at Your Fingertips
Hand Reflexology (DK)Word of advice: Business licensing by city governments may limit such a business in your home. In addition, your start-up business is limited by massage licensing requirements for reflexologists in New York, Florida, New Hampshire, Nebraska, Hawaii, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Los Angles and Orange Counties, and the city of San Diego as well as reflexology educational requirements in North Dakota, Tennessee and North Carolina. If you are licensed for another profession (e. g. cosmetology, nursing, physical therapy, massage licensing requirements do not apply to you.
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