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business, Pro tips by 04/22/2018 0Comments
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Do your clients respect your time?

I have discovered recently that lot of massage therapists have problems with running on time in their business. It’s not because they simply can’t keep track of time during a massage (although that does happen sometimes), but rather that the clients seem to not respect the therapist’s time.

When you have a client who continually runs late, how does that affect you? We often try to give them the full time-they’re there to feel better, right? So you don’t want to stress them out by telling them that you’ll have to cut their time short.

You end up getting stressed out during the massage and spend your time thinking about how you won’t have enough time to eat or make notes before your next client. Then you end up rushing after you finish that session and barely have enough time to change out your linens and throw a couple bites of food in your mouth while you just happen to be in the bathroom.

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Ashiatsu barefoot massage, Online Vs. In Person, Why FasciAshi? by 04/13/2018 0Comments
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What’s the difference between us and other barefoot massage training?

This is a question we’ve been getting a lot lately–not only from people wanting to learn barefoot massage, but also from those who are interested in teaching. What’s the difference between FasciAshi from the Center for Barefoot Massage and Ashiatsu massage from other programs? Intuitive versus a routine There are many differences such as how we teach educated, intuitive myofascial work…

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Ashiatsu barefoot massage, Pro tips by 04/10/2018 0Comments
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How to make more room for your feet during barefoot massage

Have you ever gotten really excited to see a new client walk into your massage office because they’re so big that they are going to be an AWESOME barefoot massage client? But then you have a moment of dismay because they are so big that you don’t have room for your feet on the table? I’ve tried hanging on for…

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Ashiatsu barefoot massage by 03/16/2018 0Comments
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Barefoot massage practice is the vehicle

“In 3 days, we’ll teach you to intuitively use your feet like you do your hands.”  This is true, but there’s more to learning barefoot massage than that. Sometimes we get therapists who look ridiculously amazing when they are in their barefoot massage training  class for the first time. Sometimes they have a dance or ice skating background, and other times…

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Ashiatsu barefoot massage, business by 03/15/2018 0Comments
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Podcast and Mad Ninja Skills

Jeni and I have been featured on Massage Business Blueprint’s podcast with the subject being “What you need to know before you take a CE class.” In the interview, we discuss our history into how we became massage therapists and forayed into the careers we have now. We also go over various points of our experience in having taught for…

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Ashiatsu barefoot massage by 03/02/2018 0Comments
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Don’t take our barefoot massage certification training

Strange title, right? Why would we tell you to not take our ashiatsu certification training when we obviously want people to take our classes? While this may come across as a little snarky, it’s not meant to be–it’s honest insight on if you’ll be a good fit for our barefoot massage workshops.

We are not for everyone. Craniosacral is not the best massage for the client who wants deep tissue and barefoot massage is over the top for clients who are petite or want a feather touch.

There’s a fair amount of competition for barefoot massage certification training.

You can learn online with some companies. Maybe you think you can figure it out from YouTube videos with no formal training at all. Or find an old DVD on the topic.

We are not your people.

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Ashiatsu barefoot massage by 02/28/2018 0Comments
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Why a therapist of 18 years loves FasciAshi barefoot

Today’s Wow Wednesday testimonial features Deb Fukano, a fantastic massage therapist of 18 years! She originally learned barefoot massage about 10 years ago and came into our FasciAshi class to learn new moves and invigorate her career. She raves: The more I do the new ashi the more I’m hooked. Love the strap! The slowness is what I love the most.…

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Ashiatsu barefoot massage by 02/19/2018 0Comments
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Scoot your client up for supine neck work!

As I mentioned in our last blog post, our Tuesday Toesday tips aren’t usually rocket science. Sometimes they are easy fixes that just take us a heck of a long time to figure out for some reason. Today’s tip for scooting the client up is one of those — super easy but with big results.

Although I am normal height (5’5″), my legs are short. So for years when I tried to do seated anterior neck, shoulder, and pec work, I’d get myself into some bad body mechanics.

The client was all cozy on the massage table like they were in bed for the night, far away from the head of the table.

Since I couldn’t reach their neck our shoulders well, I’d try a variety of, shall we say, interesting positions.

Perhaps you’ve tried these too:

  1. scooting the stool forward so you can reach the client’s neck and therefore giving yourself no back support.
  2. leaving the stool nestled by the wall and keeping your back there but scooting your rear end forward, giving you no lower back support.
  3. tilting your stool forward, praying that it doesn’t tip over and thrusting you on your client’s head!
  4. hunched like Quasimoto with a foot on the floor and the other foot on your client and using no stool

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business by 02/16/2018 0Comments
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Why a barefoot massage membership site

When Jeni, Paul, and I started this little business in 2017, and we spent a lot of time visioning and planning how we could make our barefoot massage company different from others. Not only in the strokes and how we teach, but in our post-class support. A barefoot massage membership site made sense.

It would be a place for our community to review strokes, download marketing and business materials, ideas on how to better run their massage studio and more.

I’ve been doing barefoot massage since 2002, and Jeni was shortly behind me in 2003.

Together with our instructors, we’ve learned so much about what helps barefoot therapists.

By the same token we’ve also discovered what also prevents other skilled therapists who have learned ashiatsu from actually doing it in their studio and growing a business.

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Ashiatsu barefoot massage, business by 02/09/2018 0Comments
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Transitioning your clients to barefoot massage

Once you’ve learned barefoot massage and have practiced, sometimes the biggest challenge is how the heck you get your clients to try it. Let’s talk about the transition to ashiatsu barefoot massage.

The question recently came up in our FB alumni group, so we thought this might be a question that others have as well.

First off, you must practice and accept feedback from non-paying clients about your newfound barefoot skills. Why non-paying? Because if you are fantastic at hands-on massage but only mediocre, at best, from having recently learned ashiatsu, your clients will not love your new skills.

They’ll say, “Thanks, but I’ll stick with what I know and love” or some similar jargon that will deflate you and make you wonder what you’re doing wrong.

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