The Barefoot Massage Open 2.5 #Mobility with Dawn Dotson Ashi Bar Pass-Thru: Start off laying prone on the ground. Keep your arms extended and grip loose. See video Raise the PVC pipe behind of your body . Once overhead, retract the shoulder blades down and pull behind your back. You can adjust and widen your grip if that movement was…
Barefoot Massage Therapists need a good amount of strength and flexibility in their hips – which is where mobility exercises that help to create a balance between the two concepts come into play. This week, it’s time to work on those hips! Resistance bands are a great way to strengthen muscles without causing too much stress, so grab your band and get started.
This year, for our SECOND ANNUAL ASHI-CHALLENGE (which coincides with the CrossFit Open) we bring you the BAREFOOT MASSAGE OPEN 2.0: with 2x the content!!! On Fridays, our New York Instructor Dawn Dotson will be posting mobility/stability exercises and activities for your body…. And on Tuesdays, Jeni will post challenges to do while you massage!!! Here’s our Week #2 Mobility…
This year, for our SECOND ANNUAL ASHI-CHALLENGE (which coincides with the CrossFit Open) we bring you the BAREFOOT MASSAGE OPEN 2.0: with 2x the content!!! On Fridays, our New York Instructor Dawn Dotson will be posting mobility/stability exercises and activities for your body…. And on Tuesdays, Jeni will post challenges to do while you massage!!! Here’s our Week #1 Mobility…
What to Know Before You Sign Up for FasciAshi Training Back in 2018, Jeni and Mary-Claire joined Allissa Haines of Massage Business Blueprint for a podcast episode called “What to Know Before Taking a Massage CE Class”. (It’s sadly since been archived when that podcast was retired, and all interviews were removed from the web, as far as we can…
You’ve been saving up all year – stashing your tips, making the most of your work schedule so that you are prepared to take time to travel far and wide to that 3 day massage class, or 4 day massage convention that you have been SO excited about….
MAN THAT SOUNDS SO AWESOME! 3 days of receiving massage? A working vacation!??!
OK wait. This is the part not everyone thinks through all the way.
Your body is about to get weirded out for a few days, best prepare.
Any ashiatsu therapist who loves to do seated work will tell you that you need to make sure you stretch your hip flexors. I personally often can spend 20-30 minutes doing seated work during a 90 minute session (depending on the client’s needs.)
You need to make sure you keep your hip flexors loose in order to do this or you’ll end up walking like Quasimodo.
This move is like your typical runner’s stretch, but it has an added component: the side stretch.