#of CEs taken in the past year? I struggle with finding physical classes I want to take because I don’t think you can learn modalities well online. Mostly, I like to refine my barefoot massage skills and see how I can adapt hands-on into feet. With that being said, I have a few modality classes on my radar for this…
When we say that we are “anatomy based”, it’s not JUST that classes from the Center for Barefoot Massage will focus on your palpation skills, or that each stroke we teach has an intention aimed to achieve specific structural goals: it’s also because our instructors focus on making Barefoot Massage work for YOUR anatomy, so that you can specialize based on YOUR strengths.
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.”
The Center for Barefoot Massage opened in February 2017, but the technique was in creation long before that. While teaching for the original westernized Ashiatsu Barefoot Massage continuing education company, our founders, Jeni Spring and Mary-Claire Fredette, saw that 22 years of the same routine of strokes wasn’t doing any of us any favors.
Mary-Claire saw it in herself: although teaching a routine for such a stylized technique does really help create consistency in the massage approach, allowing clients the ability to know what to expect when they got that type of massage anywhere across the nation – the predictability was causing mental burnout.
Jeni had been seeing it already for years in her team of Barefoot Massage Therapists that worked with her at the nation’s first “all Barefoot” specialty clinic, Heeling Sole… The same stroke didn’t work for all the folks underfoot and caused repetitive strain injury on the LMTs when they tried to do that routine of strokes all day, every day.
1. Lengthen your massage career. How long did it take you to discover that the average career span of a massage therapist is 3-5 years (or 5-7, depending on the source)? They certainly didn’t tell me (Mary-Claire) about that in massage school. I think I found out somewhere along the way. Maybe it was when I started having tendonitis in…
Most of us went into the field of massage because we wanted to help people. Maybe we already were giving out shoulder rubs on everyone we could get our hands-on. Perhaps we just knew that we weren’t meant to be a counselor (ahem, Mary-Claire here, speaking from experience). But we had the heart to serve, to help others, to make…
Whether you’ve learned barefoot massage already or are pondering your possibilities, it’s important to decide who your ideal client is for barefoot massage. Really, you should know this even if you haven’t even considered the possibility of taking our classes! 1st consideration You can’t serve everyone. Think of big chains. While it may seem like they serve everyone, they’ve probably…
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Who needs help creating new content for your Barefoot Massage social media accounts?! Over the next 3 months, we will be providing you with coaching prompts and we want to see you adapt it to fit YOUR business. We want to see you create content on your social media account that is unique, engaging, and accurate. We want you to think about creating content that would bring your clients in and connect with them. We want to see you use our examples as inspiration, but not use them as verbatim – change up the idea to fit your voice and branding. THIS CHALLENGE IS FREE and is meant for Center for Barefoot Massage alumni. You can do it live with us and win prizes, and/or you can pick up this challenge anytime and use the prompts as content starting points just to have a fresh take on how you talk about your work. Our goal is to help you create 9 pieces of new, focused content that you can reuse over time in your rotation of posts. In fact, these 9 posts – just 3 a month – can easily become 18 different items thru the bonus challenges! WHO COULDN’T USE 18 NEW THINGS TO POST?!
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We hope that you and your household, your family, your friends, your work family as well as your communities, are all safe, healthy and happy.
During 2020 and 2021, the Center for Barefoot Massage as a company did not make many, if any, public announcements regarding COVID19 because we didn’t want to spread myths or misinformation: so we took a step back to assess the situation and come forward with an informed, calmer presence.
A lot has changed since March 2020. As of March 2022, we are now watching each county’s Community Levels where we teach, as recorded by the CDC. Read below to better understand our precautions and policies in place during the pandemic.
The world is going through the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). It’s typically spread by people who come in close contact (within 6′) of an infected person or through respiratory droplets from sneezing or coughing. According to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention): It may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object…
The benefits of side-lying barefoot massage are plentiful. Once you get past the “my client only wants to lie face down to receive the massage” mentality, you’ll find that you can access a number of muscles more easily when they lie on their side. Why side-lying barefoot massage? Providing side-lying barefoot massage allows you as a therapist to have better…