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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 on 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.

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.

Fundamentals

Myofascial Barefoot Massage. Continuing Education. SLO~Soles. Center for Barefoot Massage
Myofascial Barefoot Massage. Continuing Education. SLO~Soles. Center for Barefoot Massage
Myofascial Barefoot Massage. Continuing Education. SLO~Soles. Center for Barefoot Massage

No prerequisite needed – other than you MUST be a licensed or certified massage therapist.

California Therapists! If your city/county does not require or if you do not have CAMTC, you must submit the following in order to attend class: transcript from an accredited massage school, certificate of completion, and proof of professional liability insurance.

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What will you learn in class?

  • Theory of myofascial barefoot massage

  • Structural benefits to every stroke

  • Pedi-care

  • Contraindications and indications for barefoot massage

  • Appropriate biomechanics to save their body and get deep

  • Safe bar and strap installation

  • How to use their feet to provide a massage with emphasis on deep tissue, myofascial release and trigger point work

  • Strokes with modifications to create a customized barefoot massage sequence for clients. How to launch, market and incorporate barefoot massage into their practice

 

Additionally… Therapists will practice on and receive feedback from:

  • Other therapists in class

  • Your instructor

  • A minimum of 2-3 student clinic clients

  • In class, you will:

    • Give 8.5 hours of massage during this class

    • Receive 4 hours of massage from other students

    • Spend a total of 2 hours observing the instructor and other LMT’s demonstrate the strokes

Attendees are provided with:
  • Course Workbook

  • Bar Installation Designs/Blueprints, hardware specifications

  • 8oz jar of PurePro creme, and samples of other products

  • Access to the free Alumni Membership website with videos of the strokes learned in class

Tuition: $750

A non-refundable 50% retainer is required to hold your spot in class – the remaining balance is due before class starts. (You can choose to pay the full tuition upfront, or make two payments.)

Class is 3 days, and you’ll earn 24 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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Myofascial Barefoot Massage. Continuing Education. SLO~Soles. Center for Barefoot Massage
BarefootMassage/MassageCE's/Ashiatsu/CenterforBarefootMassge
BarefootMassage/MassageCE's/Ashiatsu/CenterforBarefootMassge

Range of Motion ~ ROM

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, 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.

Prerequisite: Fundamentals.

Tuition: $500

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.

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 a 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.  

Prerequisite: Fundamentals.

Tuition: $500

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.

 Advance

This advanced-level class empowers the experienced myofascial ashiatsu barefoot massage therapist to work with more difficult single and double footed strokes, potentially applying their full body weight as kneaded. Strokes are performed with the client in Prone, Anterior and Sidelying positions, while the therapist massages from varying angles of pressure to achieve a safe, deep, fascial barefoot massage session focusing on structural alignment.

Learn how to vary your stroke intentions as you choose to use your feet working bilaterally, unilaterally, contralaterally, simultaneously, in sync and out of sync, independently or in succession in the Advanced class. Work bilaterally from head to toe on the right client. No two massages are the same and the possibilities for using these techniques on your existing client based are endless!

Prerequisite: Intermediate.

Tuition: $500

You can choose to pay in full upfront or make two payments. A non-refundable 50% retainer of the 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.

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 1990s, 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 family gatherings, or even out in nature with minimal equipment. Often times the therapist will find themselves seated in a chair or on 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 needed - other than you MUST be a licensed massage therapist.

This advanced-level class.......

Prerequisite: Intermediate.

Tuition: $500

You can choose to pay in full upfront or make two payments. A non-refundable 50% retainer of the 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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