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…
“I love what I do, but I don’t know if my hands can do another ten years.” If you’ve spent any time in the Badass Bodyworkers Facebook community, you’ve seen this sentiment. Maybe you’ve even posted it. After a decade of manual therapy, the “wear and tear” isn’t just a metaphor—it’s a physical reality in your CMC joints, your wrists,…
Most of us got into massage because we wanted to help people. Maybe we were the friend who gave shoulder rubs to everyone at parties. Maybe we knew we weren’t meant to be counselors — but we wanted to make people feel better, calmer, lighter. So we went to massage school eager to serve, eager to heal. What most schools…
Is the Center for Barefoot Massage a Massage School? No, we are a Continuing Education and Professional Development company. Aspiring massage therapists entering the field looking for their foundational training to become licensed or certified massage therapists will need to look for accredited massage schools that meet your states massage licensure requirements. Programs are often 500-1000+ hours, depending on state…
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…
On March 17th, 2022, the Center for Barefoot Massage turns 5 years old! Happy Birthday to us! The size of the footprint that our Myofascial Ashiatsu and Fijian Barefoot Massage classes have left on the massage industry since we stepped on the scene back in 2017 is growing – and so are the life-changing foot-shaped impressions that our alumni are…
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…
At the Center for Barefoot Massage, all of our manuals are designed with space for notes. Note-taking moves you from a passive to an active learner and allows you to better absorb and retain the information you’ll be processing during class. NOTE TAKING + TIPS TO DO IT BETTER. 1. HOW IT WORKS: First off, note-taking requires effort so it…
Our FasciAshi Range of Motion (ROM) class is where stretch therapy meets ashiatsu massage. There is a growing presence of ‘stretch providers’ in the massage therapy, yoga and personal trainer industries, possibly due to the evolving understanding of the properties of fascia. The public is noticing more and more that a movement practice of some kind is essential to a healthy body – and some are turning to their massage therapists for help.
The human population is becoming more and more sedentary.
The leading cause of disability is musculoskeletal pain, and over 80% of acute and chronic injuries are caused by the body not moving properly. (I should know, I just spent a day on the couch writing this blog post!!) One goal of stretch therapy and movement re-education is to make the client more aware of their habits of movement and more comfortable in his or her body with less compensation.
We all need varying movement to maintain healthy tissue hydration, regeneration, and repair. Motion is lotion, no matter what lifestyle you live. The smooth moves we teach in the FasciAshi ROM class could be just the thing that your clients are ACHING to try!