Myofascial Ashiatsu is not easy. Even our ‘beginner’ class, FasciAshi Fundamentals, is really hard. There is a lot of anatomy knowledge that we expect out of our students. Although the work will get much easier with practice, these first 3 days in class are definitely challenging on your mind, body, and ego.

You’ll be massaging for two full hours in a row every day, plus learning to massage with a new tool (your feet – which is SO much harder than it looks) and then somehow massage a client using everything we learned over 2 days boiled down into a 90 minute session on the 3rd day. THAT’S FREAKIN HARD!!

Why?

I want our students to understand WHY the angles and approach to each stroke are in place, so that the work doesn’t turn into a mindless smearing of lotion, or result in injury. I don’t just want you to look good doing the work and have cool Instagram pictures, I want you to get the intention of the stroke down so that your clients feel the full potential of the technique. If you can understand why ‘Lateral Leg 2’ uses a certain foot to massage as it posteriorly tilts the clients pelvis while bending their knee, then you can use that particular stroke, or parts of that stroke, intuitively on the clients who “knead” it most… Not just because it’s the next item on the list of massage strokes that you are ‘supposed’ to do.

Methods get muddy when you don’t understand the theory or reason behind them.

What we are trying to teach in class helps you offer the pain relieving, stress reducing healing that the public is looking for… the expectations your clients and future clients have for therapeutic massage can be met under YOUR FEET.

FasciAshi requires MINDFULNESS, but in the process of being a student again, it really does fill your mind, and can be overwhelming.

I know that its hard.

If it were easy, it wouldn’t be called Continuing Education.

Don’t give up.

Lervvvv Jeni