Just because you can deliver deeper pressure with your feet doesn’t mean you should. Barefoot massage safety for the client and the therapist should always be the top priority. For years, barefoot massage carried rigid stories about who could and couldn’t thrive under the bars. You might have heard that larger therapists will crush lighter clients, petite therapists cannot generate…
Most massage therapists take barefoot massage classes to get into this work because they love helping people feel at home in their bodies, but somewhere around year three or four, the math starts getting scary. Your thumbs ache before your third client of the day, your wrists click when you turn the steering wheel on the drive home, and you…
Our Values in Action At the Center for Barefoot Massage, we are redefining barefoot massage as a respected, essential part of therapeutic bodywork. Just like hands or elbows, the foot is a powerful tool—capable of delivering precise, effective pressure. Through evidence-based education, we are raising industry standards and challenging outdated perceptions, ensuring barefoot massage is recognized for its depth, skill,…
When we say the Center for Barefoot Massage is anatomy-based, we mean more than just learning muscle attachments. It’s about why we teach what we teach — and how it helps therapists adapt barefoot massage to their own bodies while improving outcomes for their clients. Traditional Ashiatsu often relied on set routines: the same strokes, in the same order, for…
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(This article was originally published on 6/11/2024 by Jeni Spring here, and the social media recap from Julie Marciniak was posted 4/16/2025 here and here.) One of the questions that we Barefoot Massage therapists get asked VERY often is “Can you actually feel knots when you massage with your feet?” Yes, we can! OF COURSE we can feel things through our feet! It’s…
Get ready for this years Barefoot Massage Open Challenge! This year’s topic for the “Open” is on common physical imbalances of Barefoot Massage Therapists that could result in injury. Our instructors have been talking behind the scenes A LOT about all the things that make up “body mechanics“… things like your alignment while working, as well as what movement possibilities and…
Resources for you to use to educate your immediate circles on the benefits of Massage AND ways to help YOU be more aware within your Barefoot Massage sessions. First off, welcome to this years National Massage Therapy Awareness Week! This long holiday is our professions chance to spend an ENTIRE DEDICATED WEEK to promote the health benefits of massage therapy and…
Hi, I’m Jeni Spring feeling the need to chime in here about the Ashi-Strap! Have you seen something dangling from Ashiatsu Bars in pictures across the internet? Is someone you follow online leaning or sitting in a strap of some kind while massaging with their feet?
I started that trend. You’re welcome! Now the strap is integral to the Myofascial Ashiatsu technique taught at the Center for Barefoot Massage.
More and more massage therapists are wanting to ONLY massage with their feet and specialize in Barefoot Massage. A trend of retiring hands-on massage and sticking to feet-on work has echoed outwards from our instructor’s local studios. Barefoot Massage Specialists are reaching into a variety of environments within our industry, ranging from solo practitioners to multi-therapist massage businesses across the…