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Feet in heaven

TT Foot Care at Saket is a good stress-buster

RELAXING, REALLY! Gentle foot massage

If so far, you knew little about shiastu and foot reflexology, you have an opportunity to experience it all. For a price though.

At Saket PVR, find TT Foot Care, a venue to get rid of tension, physical exhaustion and sluggishness through foot reflexology. In this newly opened "de-stressing centre", as its owner, 40-year-old Tenpa Gurme from Bhutan prefers to name it, you have five rooms across 15000 square feet area.

Here, well-trained girls from the North-East provide you oil-free foot massage and shiatsu therapy for 45 minutes each for Rs.750 and 1,000, respectively. Though a combo of both costs Rs.1200 for one-hour and 15 minutes. While foot reflexology is pressing pressure points though finger tips on the sole, shiatsu is doing the same on both sides of the spinal chord.

Serene ambience

In the serene ambience of the air-conditioned room with Tibetan architecture, they play soothing, instrumental flute music from the North-East. If you want foot massage (reflexology), you are provided with sterilised shorts and pampered with feet wash with lukewarm fragrant water mixed with rose petals. Trained staff picks up just the right pressure points on your feet. Within 45 minutes, you actually feeling de-stressed. For shiatsu you don't need a change.

Says Gurme who chucked his cushy government job in Bhutan as an electrical engineer to open this venue, "Once I went to China and got some foot reflexology done. It was such a great stress buster because they are supposed to be the pioneer in the same. To test another stress buster I went to a gym regularly but realised that one really has to slog for many days to de-stress. So, I decided to start one such centre in Delhi after many years research. My brother brought a trainer from Nepal who trained our staff for several months. To test our capability we first opened one centre at Gurgaon.

An overwhelming response encouraged me to try it out at Saket. We get great customer response specially foreigners who say that we meet international standards."

But cautions this IITian from Roorkee, "We don't give treatments per say. If any one insists on the removal of temporary pains, we suggest them to come for a few sittings, say from two to five."

We provide on the spot, but temporary solutions for anxiety, headache, nervous tension, stiff neck and shoulder, back pain, migraine and insomnia, etc. We press pressure points on the sole and near spinal chord which in India are called charkas and in China, `chi', to provide relief. We have Indianised shiatsu, because people who visit us don't want oil-laden massage or want to change clothes."

RANA SIDDIQUI

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