It’s one thing to want to learn how to massage with your feet – and it’s a whole other world when you realize that you want to do this all day, every day, for the rest of your life! If becoming a Barefoot Massage Specialist is your “thang”, we want to help you! The Center for Barefoot Massage offers an…
Are you looking for one of our Myofascial Ashiatsu and Fijian Barefoot Massage trained students to give you the best deep massage of your life? Follow this link to find a trained professional near you.
(Or follow this link for help on how to use the directory!)
Want to be a “guinea pig” in one of our Student Clinics during a Center for Barefoot Massage class? Although our instructors don’t typically recruit straight from the public to fill these spots, every member of our teacher team is still a practicing Barefoot Massage therapist with a local business: you’ll want to schedule a series of sessions with them to get on their radar. We keep a list of our existing clients who would work well with our students for future classes. You can find our list of instructors and track down their local businesses here.
Center for Barefoot Massage alumni can list in our SOLE Provider directory for free!
We have a great network of Barefoot Massage Therapists across the nation – and their clients travel! We all know that once you try Myofascial Ashiatsu, you won’t want to go back to normal massage, so lets help these fans of our work find their favorite bodywork in the town they are relocating to, or visiting! If YOU are a Barefoot Massage Therapist and want to get found, dig your heels in and read more below to get started!
One thing that’s really important to us at the Center for Barefoot Massage is taking care of our instructors. They work really hard to keep current on massage techniques & constantly perfect their own barefoot moves. In fact, all of our instructors specialize in barefoot massage. In our 1st price increase in 5 years, raising our rates allows us to…
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…
Join the challenge!
GOAL: Create NEW content that educates YOUR community
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?!
What you’ll get
- 3 months worth of focused topics to create NEW social media content, with guidance from the Center for Barefoot Massage Instructors & their local businesses
- 3 specific assignments each month
- End up with 9-18 new pieces of content that are true to your brand AND uses updated Barefoot Massage information: no more re-using outdated, overused lingo or old posts.
- Earn points as you post and you can win a free Center for Barefoot Massage shirt, collectible stickers from our instructors across the nation AND an upgraded directory listing on our website to boost your SEO rankings and help more potential clients find you.
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Great question! Many insurance companies have additional waivers and education requirements to offer services such as Hot Stone therapy, Prenatal Massage, and even Cupping. While no mainstream massage insurance company is currently requiring extra waivers or testing through their own means for Barefoot Massage coverage, it is still something that you’ll want industry-approved training in before providing to the public.…
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…