I’m sure you’ve already noticed by now, but have you seen how the words “Fascia” and “Ashi” (short for Myofascial Ashiatsu) meet in the middle to create FasciAshi?! That’s the whole idea behind our work: making Ashiatsu training more applicable to the massage you are already doing – because we know you are all FASCIA-nated with not just muscles, but connective tissue and how you can impact that in your massages.

We want to help support professional growth and talent in our alumni base. There is a collective consciousness “out there” that is wanting to specialize in barefoot massage. We are leading a movement that will offer massage therapists to opportunity to learn many styles of original barefoot massage, and learn details specifically within Ashiatsu Barefoot Massage, so that they can retire their hands, or at least use their feet as accurately as they do their hands.

We don’t want you to have to memorize a routine, only to break it apart years later to figure out how to effectively apply the material to your specific client base. That ability to see outside the box and read through the lines comes naturally for some, but not all. Our training gets you to the point NOW, and saves you years of figuring out what generations of Barefoot Massage Therapists before you have trudged through the mud over time to research and discover on their own. FasciAshi (Myofascial Ashiatsu Barefoot Massage) brings you to the point of catering and customizing your myofascial ashiatsu sessions to knead the needs of your clients in that moment. We teach trouble shooting, critical thinking, and theories involved with each protocol, stroke and application to help you work more intuitively with confidence.

Many therapists who’ve learned Ashiatsu in the past have thrown important parts of the original material or body mechanics away because “it didn’t work for them”… or they forgot it entirely. I saw these scenarios happen when therapists weren’t taught how to adapt strokes or understand the reasoning behind it, so they got lost in how to apply the techniques all together. At that point it just gets messy, massage therapists get hurt giving the work, or they miss the purpose of the stroke entirely. Too often I see Ashiatsu watered down in practice to just a deep pressured relaxation massage, because that’s the main take-away concept focused on in past training.

Myofascial Ashiatsu Barefoot Massage is more than that.

The classes available so far from the Center for Barefoot Massage have a whole new concept from everything that has been taught in other Ashiatsu classes you see out there.  We are developing many more courses filled with new techniques, tried-and-true protocols, and specialized topics to help barefoot massage therapists from all lineages grow and evolve their application of the work into something that your clients need now. The devil is in the details: We teach those details and want you to have the tools to have a long, successful career specializing in Barefoot Massage.

Keep your head up, your feet ankle-deep in muscles, and keep your eyes on FasciAshi and the Center for Barefoot Massage… big plans are afoot for you.