Ready to Save Your Body and Career from Burnout?
If you’re a licensed massage therapist who’s tired of nursing repetitive-use injuries or feeling burned out from traditional deep tissue methods, barefoot massage could be just for you!
Using your feet in your practice allows gravity to do most of the work, requiring minimal effort on your part. This saves your body by giving you an easier way to maintain phenomenal body mechanics all while giving ultra comfortable, deep, and effective massages.
Sound too good to be true? It’s not!
At The Center for Barefoot Massage we train massage therapists to intuitively use their feet, just as they would their hands, to confidently address each client’s chronic issues by teaching the art and science behind myofascial ashiatsu barefoot massage, lovingly referred to as “fasciashi.”
Therapists learn how to be anatomy-focused by applying deep tissue, myofascial release, and range of motion techniques–all with their feet!
Going barefoot can toe-tally save your body and extend your career.
What are you waiting for?
Classes Taught in Southern California
Fundamentals
This class will teach you how to use your feet to provide a full body deep tissue, myofascial release focused ashiatsu barefoot massage session.
We focus 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.
This is the starting point for those wanting to train in the Myofascial Ashiatsu “FasciAshi” style of 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!
Ashiatsu barefoot massage 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.
ALERT: If you are currently pregnant, trying to get pregnant, have recently had breast/gluteal/calf enhancement surgery and/or some select cardiovascular-related surgeries within the last 9 months, we regret that you cannot attend the seminar. Please wait until 6 months after childbirth, and 9 months post major surgeries. Refer to the Contraindications list here for students.
Range of Motion Stretch Therapy
This class allows the Massage Therapist to stand on a massage table to maneuver clients’ limbs with their feet using the strong muscles of their legs and hips to deliver passive, active, and resisted ROM stretch therapy techniques.
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 therapists to 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.
Therapists 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.
This class reviews 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.
ALERT: If you are currently pregnant, trying to get pregnant, have recently had breast/gluteal/calf enhancement surgery and/or some select cardiovascular-related surgeries within the last 9 months, we regret that you cannot attend the seminar. Please wait until 6 months after childbirth, and 9 months post major surgeries. Refer to the Contraindications list here for students.
Fijian Matwork – Coming in 2026!
This class is a great starting point as your first 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 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.
This massage is easy to use at events, house-calls, impromptu at family gatherings, or even out in nature with minimal equipment. 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.
ALERT: If you are currently pregnant, trying to get pregnant, have recently had breast/gluteal/calf enhancement surgery and/or some select cardiovascular-related surgeries within the last 9 months, we regret that you cannot attend the seminar. Please wait until 6 months after childbirth, and 9 months post major surgeries. Refer to the Contraindications list here for students.
If you’re looking to “step up” your game, while also creating a successful massage practice without hurting your body, look no further!