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Learn Barefoot Massage with Spotlight Instructor: Sharon Bryant

Today’s Barefoot Massage Training Instructor spotlight is Sharon, our multi-faceted hoola hooping, pirating, ukelele playing instructor, who is a whiz at creating pickled concoctions.

Your name:

Sharon Bryant (no, I’m not related to Bear Bryant, that we know of…)

Pets?

Maddie and Gypsy, my precious rescued fur babies (dogs). Gypsy is our little girl, a black lab mix that is around 8 years old. She came to us so frightened we had to adopt another dog to break through her fear of EVERYTHING.

After an entire year working with her, she still couldn’t take a treat from my hand. Maddie is our big girl. We adopted her from the pound where she’d been incarcerated for half of her short little life (she was about 6 months old). She was on the list for euthanization and we sprung her literally two days before it was her time. She is now around 6.5 years old. She’s a boxer, German shepherd, rottweiler mix and is an awesome dog. They are both ROTTEN.

How can I teach for the Center for Barefoot Massage?

Thank you so much for your interest to teach for the Center for Barefoot Massage! We are honored that you would even ask! Before we ever consider bringing anyone into our business to represent FasciAshi, we do require candidates to attend the courses themselves, and fully experience the work we have to offer within the learning environments we’ve created.
We are happy to consider the perfect candidates for the team but will need to see them complete all of our training beforehand. We don’t believe in the idea of just promoting and endorsing someone to a teacher status because they are in the right place, or they were the star student, or it’s the next perceived step, or it’s another way to create income so that they can massage less. We are looking for someone who is a born teacher, a self-starter who is a total nerd for Barefoot Massage, and who isn’t approaching this responsibility like it’s a hobby or an early retirement plan. We require our instructor team to continue massaging so long as they are teaching for us, so that they are teaching with integrity and their experience is relevant, fresh, and most of all, authentic. Although no two people are alike, we also prefer to see anyone interested in teaching with us to have 5 years of experience using our technique regularly in practice, so they can teach from real-world experience in addition to the details that they will undoubtedly embody after completing our instructor training and mentorship program.

The goal of our team is to nurture a team of barefoot massage super star into subject experts, and let them lead the new wave of barefoot massage therapists into the future.

FasciAshi Faculty Myofascial Ashiatsu Barefoot Massage Instructors
Sole Sisters – leaving their footprints on the massage industry
  • We are specifically choosing instructors based on their influencer status in the massage community.
  • We love to see our possible team members act as active participants in massage organizations, associations, boards or schools, and interact with a strong knowledgeable, respected presence in online massage groups.
  • Sparks of leadership is something we look for in those looking to join our team. Whether you manage a staff of massage professionals or you regularly cultivate a supportive network within your local massage community – skills like these will help us move the barefoot massage field forward.
  • We want to see potential instructors who are marketing mavens, ranking high in online searches for ashiatsu and barefoot massage in their local area.

Being accepted to teach for the Center for Barefoot Massage starts with your passion for barefoot massage.

The Center for Barefoot Massage is a growing company with an ever-expanding enthusiastic alumni base, and we are honored to be followed by curious, intrigued and excited fans. The future is bright, and we will have something for everyone in our circles to look forward to!!!
If you are seriously interested in helping us to spread our toes and expand our footprint on the massage industry, if you resonate with our philosophy, please make sure and attend at least 1 FasciAshi class with Jeni Spring ASAP, and fill out this form!

After I take the class, can I train my staff?

We get asked this question a lot – “Can I train my staff when I get back to work?” Or, “My spa director wants me to attend class so that I can train the employees everything I learned!”

Long story short – you cannot teach the work you learn in our classes UNLESS you are accepted into our instructor training program.

By attending our training workshops you will be a part of our professional family, and you’ll represent our work with every step you take.

As such, we have quality assurance and maintenance considerations to prevent any misrepresentation of the work itself, and to halt any unauthorized instructional programs. It is essential that the purity and safety features of our myofascial barefoot massage work, as well as the high-quality teaching standards established for the Center for Barefoot Massages curriculum, be upheld and honored for the continued respect of this lineage, as well as for the growth and support of our loyal FasciAshi practitioners.

This training we provide does not qualify or certify you to teach our protocols, sequences, techniques or methods in any environment, in any capacity. Attending our workshops or acquiring our materials does not qualify you, or give permission to teach any aspect of the technique, or present the FasciAshi format.

Implying that you are an instructor, trainer, a Certified practitioner, or any similar designation in any format is unethical, and goes against the Training and Use Agreement that every one of our adult learner students sign. 

The FasciAshi courses you attend are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the “knowing” the work. While in class, we encourage you to focus on learning the material for yourself, and retain what you can – without any agenda to teach this to your staff or other massage friends. Studies do show that there is never 100% retention level of material presented in adult learning – as humans, we learn what we can, and we take away what is most relevant to us at that time. Attending the course once as a student is not sufficient experience or training to represent any professional technique well. Don’t be come this student.

We want the best training for you, and for the sake of the future of the growing barefoot massage industry, we want the best possible representations being echoed across classrooms. To help our profession grow, as well as our little niche within it, we work very hard to deeply train our experienced staff in many nuances and elements of myofascial barefoot massage and curating a successful learning environment. We do not feel that this work should be passed down by word of mouth, so to speak. Let your staff and friends experience the same depth of information and resources, and encourage them to attend a live training with us. The benefits they will reap will equal yours, and you can continue to grow on your own path at first, and then together as a team.

Unless you have successfully passed our FasciAshi instructor training program that leads to status as a FasciAshi Instructor, and have written consent from the creative forces behind The Center for Barefoot Massage, LLC, you cannot teach what you learn in our classes. If you are interested in teaching FasciAshi, and want to help us spread our toes and expand our footprint on the massage industry, if you resonate with our philosophy, we welcome you to email us your resume and letter of interest to info@barefootmassagecenter.com

The Center for Barefoot Massage and FasciAshi as brands are comprised of a proprietary set of trademarks, logos, and designs. These, along with its copyright materials such as handouts, manuals, posters, media, online resources and other intellectual property is and shall remain in full ownership of The Center for Barefoot Massage, LLC. Any reports that show proof of our intellectual property being reproduced and taught without authorization will be met with legal consequences.

Thank you for understanding and respecting our commitment to barefoot massage excellence.