SLO~Soles Barefoot Massage Training
Enhance and extend your Career with
Barefoot Massage training...
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Are you a Massage Professional looking to extend your career & enhance your skills? We offer CEUs in Barefoot Massage for Licensed, Certified & Registered Massage Therapists at SLO-Soles Barefoot Massage Training, a satellite campus for The Center for Barefoot Massage. I am excited to share my passion to empower and inspire Massage Therapists from all over the nation, teaching Myofascial Barefoot Massage.
Class Schedule
We have a ton of options for our Fundamentals Class at SLO Soles Barefoot Massage in the upcoming months...
Fundamentals
2025
March 26-28
June 9-11
August 1-3
November 19-21
December 5-7
Intermediate
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April 1-2
June13-14
August 4-5
October 13-14
*Tustin, CA
December 9-10
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ROM/Range of Motion
2025
March 30-31
Advanced, Hot Ashi, Clinical, Fijian, Mat classes coming soon...
Class Details
This beginner Ashiatsu training will teach you how to use your feet to provide a full body deep tissue, myofascial release, and trigger point work-focused barefoot massage session. This class focuses on techniques applied to posterior aspects of the client’s body, as your weight and natural gravitational forces are utilized to effortlessly maintain consistent pressure through your feet. While the work is focused primarily with the client-prone, therapists will learn supine work as well.
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Fundamentals is the starting point for those wanting to train in FasciAshi barefoot massage – although it’s a “beginner” class, it is definitely not easy. Review your bony landmarks, endangerment sites, and muscle pathways – as well as the anatomical terminology that goes along with all that! FasciAshi sessions use overhead support bars as well as our proprietary Ashi-Strap to help regulate your pressure, flow, and balance while the client lies on a massage table.
​3 days, 24 CE's
Class price: $750
You can choose to pay in full upfront or make two payments. A non-refundable $375 retainer is required to hold your spot in class - the remaining $375 balance is due before class starts.
The only prerequisite is that you MUST be a licensed massage therapist.
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March 26-28
June 9-11
August 1-3
November 19-21
December 5-7
Fundamentals
Next Step Classes
Intermediate
This intermediate ashiatsu barefoot massage class empowers the experienced barefoot massage therapist to work even slower, maintain long sustained pressure holds on trigger points or adhered layers of tissue, and deliver deep myofascial strokes to the anterior and lateral aspects of your client’s body.
Supine and Side-body strokes will give you the tools to provide comprehensive feet-on practice in the often-forgotten, hard-to-reach areas of the body. We share how to work along the topography of our clients' bones and manipulate the length of each muscle and fascial chain.
Intricate use of the FasciAshi support strap is a big focus in this class. This unique addition to the overhead ashiatsu bars allows us to work on variable angles and vectors with consistent, controllable pressure that prevents fatigue for the barefoot massage therapist.
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Tuition: $600
You can choose to pay in full upfront or make two payments. A non-refundable retainer of 50% of tuition is required to hold your spot in class - the remaining balance is due before class starts.
Class is 2 days, and you’ll earn 16 Continuing Education credits. (NCBTMB and some select states)
Please plan your schedule to allow time to be present and punctual for the entire training experience. Partial attendance is not permitted. Any hours missed in class must be made up with the instructor and will be charged at their hourly rate. No CE’s or access to Alumni resources are granted until the class is completed in full.
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2025​
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April 1-2
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June13-14
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August 4-5
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October 13-14 *Tustin, CA
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December 9-10​​
ROM Range of Motion
Using Passive, Active and Resisted ROM stretch therapy techniques, this barefoot massage technique allows the Massage Therapist to stand on a massage table and maneuver clients’ limbs with their feet, using the strong muscles of their legs and hips. We hold onto overhead bars and lean into our suspended support straps for balance and leverage as we lift, bend, and twist clients into stretches. This helps a practitioner effortlessly maintain consistent pressure and counterbalance while providing deep point holds, or long fascial stretches.
We also compress or restrict clients compensating body parts down into a neutral alignment while creating various ranges of motion throughout all major joints in the body. The Barefoot Massage Therapist can observe movement patterns and queue the client into resisted actions to help build joint stability, and encourage their interoceptive awareness during passive fascial stretching and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation.
We’ll be reviewing secure draping options while blending ROM into slow gliding, non-lubricated movements along the client’s skin. Can be adapted for more use of creme or provided with the client clothed. A full-body, 3-dimensional stretch sequence is taught.
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Tuition: $600
You can choose to pay in full upfront or make two payments. A non-refundable retainer of 50% of tuition is required to hold your spot in class - the remaining balance is due before class starts.
The class is 2 days, and you’ll earn 16 Continuing Education credits. (NCBTMB and some select states)
Please plan your schedule to allow time to be present and punctual for the entire training experience. Partial attendance is not permitted. Any hours missed in class must be made up with the instructor and will be charged at their hourly rate. No CE’s or access to Alumni resources are granted until the class is completed in full.
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Upcoming Class dates:​
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March 30-31 with Ashley Spears
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Fijian Barefoot Massage
This Fijian Barefoot Massage/Matwork 1 class can be a starting point as your 1st barefoot massage class, as a supplement to any existing matwork you already provide, or it can be used to grow your existing barefoot vocabulary and master more skills applied by your feet. Originally taught within the massage industry starting in the 1990’s, adapted and brought to the United States from the Fijian Islands by Lolita Knight, this lineage of matwork based barefoot massage is traditionally performed on a floor mat using body cushions, with the client clothed – but can easily be done directly on the clients skin with zero to minimal lubrication.
Great as a stand-alone service, works wonderfully within any Thai, Shiatsu, Breema or Matwork session, and can even be implemented within a table-top barefoot massage like the Myofascial Ashiatsu Barefoot Massage techniques we teach in our FasciAshi classes.
This massage is super portable, as it is easy to use at events, house-calls, impromptu at family gatherings, or even out in nature with minimal equipment. Often times the therapist will find themselves seated in a chair or the floor while providing strokes. For standing strokes, the use of overhead bars is not required – although the FasciAshi Strap really helps! We may stabilize our balance with the FasciAshi-Strap, a chair, or any other balancing tools such as a bamboo staff, rather than overhead bars.
The work incorporates specific, deep pressure followed by a vigorous jostle movement to the larger muscle groups. Fijian Massage works with intensity by using our strong toes and bony aspects of our feet to create simple, rhythmic stroke repetitions. The versatility of the 8 moves that make up this technique allows for a wide range of possible ways to use it in your practice however “kneaded”!
No prerequisite is needed - other than you MUST be a licensed massage therapist.
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Tuition: $600
You can choose to pay in full upfront or make two payments. A non-refundable retainer of 50% of tuition is required to hold your spot in class - the remaining balance is due before class starts.
The class is 2 days, and you’ll earn 16 Continuing Education credits. (NCBTMB and some select states)
Please plan your schedule to allow time to be present and punctual for the entire training experience. Partial attendance is not permitted. Any hours missed in class must be made up with the instructor and will be charged at their hourly rate. No CE’s or access to Alumni resources are granted until the class is completed in full.
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Lost your way?
Revitalize your work with a Refresher
Touch-Ups:
4 hours, 4 CE’s, $100. Prerequisite: attendance in the matching core class.
Available for the Fundamentals, Intermediate and Advanced classes. Watch our schedule for when and where these refinement oportunities are next available!
Join us for a 4-hour meet-up! Reconnect with the intricacies of each FasciAshi class through massage exchanges with fellow barefoot massage practitioners like yourself.
In these Instructor-supervised sessions, refine your body mechanics, receive personalized technique updates, and build confidence in your skills. Participants must have previously attended the designated core class for each Touch-Up session (Fundamentals, Intermediate & Advanced).
Experience hands-on learning as you exchange massages with other trained practitioners, connect with fellow Barefoot Massage Therapists, and receive tailored support from the instructor and the group to enhance your success.
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Revitalize:
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1 day classes (Hot Ashi, Clinical Neck) = $125.
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2 day* classes (Intermediate, ROM, Advanced, Fijian/Matwork) = $250.
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3-day* Fundamentals class = $375.
*It is at each individual instructors discretion if they choose to offer days of each class a-la-cart, or if all must be attended – this is based on the needs of the classroom for that particular set of dates, and other logistical factors.
No CE’s are issued for these review courses, and no new instruction manuals are provided – but you can order a replacement or updated manual for $100 prior to your attendance at these events.
If you’ve already taken our classes, you are eligible to take our Revitalize class, which is where you’ll drop in into an existing class that you have already attended. This option is not available for anyone who has not attended a FasciAshi class. It’s specifically to observe a class for a 2nd time.
It’s an excellent opportunity to refresh your brain and your body, tweaking the moves that you are not comfortable with or would like to review. This is available on a space availability per class basis. You will be working side by side with new FasciAshi therapists.
When are the refresher classes?! Any class on the schedule, if a spare spot is available, has the potential to be a refresher class. To see if space is available and if a spare spot is able to be offered, email the instructor of the class coinciding with the dates and location that you’d like to drop in on. The prereq is just that you’ll need to have attended that class previously. (Like if you want a Fundamentals refresher, you must have already attended our Fundamentals class.)
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These are the other classes offered by The Center for Barefoot Massage. Some will come to SLO Soles through a guest Instructor and others will be coming after I continue my training. The Center for Barefoot Massage has satellite campus locations across the Country, if San Luis Obispo doesn't work for you, we have plenty of options.
Travel information...
San Luis Obispo, California
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SLO Soles Barefoot Massage Training is located just a few blocks from downtown San Luis Obispo. San Luis Obispo, ( or SLO to locals) is a gorgeous region of Central California. SLO is perfectly located between Los Angeles and San Francisco, 2 hours from Santa Barbara, Big Sur, and the Fresno & Bakersfield Areas. We're also referred to as the Central Coast of California. We have some incredible stretches of beaches, such as Avila Beach, Pismo Beach, Morro Bay, and Cayucos. Home to Cal Poly Technical Institute. We have a Monarch Groove, Carrizo Plains, and the one & only Hearst Castle. We also have some gorgeous wine country and delicious cuisine spanning our entire County. Our local airport flies Alaska, United, and American, with direct flights to & from Seattle, San Diego, Portland, Phoenix, Dallas/Fort Worth, Denver, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. We’re small-town California with big-time charm.
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Come for the Barefoot Massage Training and stay a few days for a taste of the SLO life!
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