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Can I buy a strap?

“How do I find and purchase the ashi-strap?” …  “Where do I buy that sling on your ashiatsu bars?”

“This small piece of equipment is a game changer.”

Interested in using a strap during your Barefoot Massage sessions? Using our support strap is more than just “strappin’ up”, you’ll need to understand the safety and technique for it’s use and installation.

If you have attended a Center for Barefoot Massage class since we opened in 2017, we’ll be happy to sell you a strap – just contact us, or get ahold of your instructor!

If your ashiatsu training was with another company, we cannot sell you a strap, or help you with any support for that strap, until you are FasciAshi trained. Read this post and check out the Intermediate class as the first place for experienced ashi-therapists to start their myofascial ashiatsu and strap training with us!

The Ashiatsu-Strap allows FasciAshi Therapists to work effortlessly on a diagonal angle to engage the lateral fascial line and offer different angles of pressure, still utilizing body weight and gravity to create tension in the strap that gets translated back into your client. It also saves your hands from death gripping the bars. We teach increasingly diverse uses of the strap the deeper you get into courses with The Center for Barefoot Massage, so you’ll learn more with each step. PLUS, some of our Instructors are even offering free straps with upcoming classes: bonus!!

The Center for Barefoot Massage is the only Continuing Education group that is teaching the use of these overhead suspended straps, because the idea comes from our Co-founder, Jeni Spring, who’s been using them since 2003, for 18 years. The straps start here with us, and if you know how to use them, how to clean them, and how to trust them, they help your ashiatsu sessions become effortless.

Stay safe, stay ethical, get some training into the equipment you rely on.

The strap will have your back!

Ashiatsu Portable Bars: a real-talk review from Jeni Spring

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For those of you who know me – you know that I love the ashiatsu portable bars. I was originally trained in ashiatsu on a very old style of the portables, (that were new at the time) and they feel like home to me. Although I honestly couldn’t afford them back then, I put my first set on a credit card and made sure I got my money’s worth out of them ASAP. Ever since, I’ve used them regularly at local Farmers’ Markets, sporting/yoga events and massage conventions. I’ve taught on portable bars across the country and in Germany. I used ashiatsu portable bars daily for 6 months at one point because I wasn’t sure I wanted to stay in that location long enough to justify building permanent bars.

I just spent 3 solid days working on a set of portable bars that I own. Now that *anyone* can go buy a set of portables, I wanted to fill you in on all the things I don’t think anyone will actually tell you about them. HERE WE GO!

How do I install the Ashiatsu Bars and Straps?

The FasciAshi Fundamentals class is where we will teach you e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g that you will need to know on how to install ashiatsu bars and straps, and how to build your overhead bar support.

In class, we provide designs and blueprints with detailed suggested material shopping lists that outlines which wood to choose, as well as the specifications of the ~many~ different options for hardware available.

Please DO NOT build your bars prior to class.

How Do I install ashiatsu bars and straps
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There are some specific measurements and safety guidelines that go along with using the bars that we will discuss together. For liability reasons we will not provide this information before class.

Many massage therapists have had to completely re-build their bars after taking our courses because their original designs were either not conducive to proper body mechanics, or were unsafe. Save yourself time, money and stress… just wait! Your Center for Barefoot Massage Instructor will show you examples, help you with designs, and provide you with blueprints when you meet in class. Even if you are not construction minded, the materials we provide you are perfect to hand over to your landlord, handy-person and build-out team: we’ve streamlined the process so you can easily build your bars in a day!

Looking for portable ashiatsu bars?

Read this blog post to know what the wooden portable ashiatsu bars are really like to use. SPOILER ALERT: They are not easy.

  1. Once you’ve finished your first ashiatsu barefoot massage class with us, our blueprints for portable bar designs are only $150!
The strap will have your back!

The straps are something Jeni Spring came up with and has been using with her ashiatsu sessions since 2003. The Ashiatsu-Strap allows FasciAshi Therapists to work effortlessly on a diagonal angle to engage the lateral fascial line and offer different angles of pressure, still utilizing body weight and gravity to create tension in the strap that gets translated back into your client. It also saves your hands from death gripping the bars. Read more about our support straps here.

Safety is key:

Equipment standards are a large part of the safety involved with our technique. Training centers are equipped with Earthlite’s “Spirit” massage tables and “Flex-rest” face cradle platforms, which have a 800 pound working weight capacity and offer the utmost padding for comfort. Strong enough to hold you, your client, and the movement created during the protocol, comfy enough to fall asleep.

The overhead bar apparatus in our training centers are built to commercial grade code, and support well over 1000 pounds in weight – even though we don’t dangle from the bars like monkeys, it’s very nice to know that our rigging is strong and can hold us up if the entire class decides to do a pull up on their bars!

We’ll teach you in class how to build safe and sturdy bars for your own use, and we’ll discuss the many makes and models of massage tables appropriate for using during a session. Discounts on Earthlite products available for our alumni – click here!