When it comes to continuing education for massage therapists, not all barefoot massage trainings are created equal. At The Center for Barefoot Massage, we go beyond “just learning a stroke.” We teach therapists how to think critically, work safely, and apply pressure with purpose—using their feet, fascia, and a whole lot of nerdy anatomical insight.
If you’ve taken other barefoot massage classes and felt like something was missing—structure, science, real feedback—you’re not alone. We’ve met countless LMTs who left other trainings without understanding how to adapt barefoot work to real clients, real conditions, and real bodies on their tables.
We call it like it is: The devil’s in the details, and that’s exactly what we teach.
👣 What Makes Our Training Different?
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In-person instruction from experienced LMTs who still work with clients every week
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Focus on fascia and sustained pressure, not speed, showmanship, or oil-based gliding
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Detailed feedback to help you refine mechanics, pacing, and pressure
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Pain science and interoception education that helps you understand the why, not just the how
We’re here to help you trust your feet like you trust your hands—and to give you tools for career longevity, client results, and real confidence underfoot.
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I’m sure you’ve already noticed by now, but have you seen how the words “Fascia” and “Ashi” (short for Myofascial Ashiatsu) meet in the middle to create FasciAshi?! That’s the whole idea behind our work: making Ashiatsu training more applicable to the massage you are already doing – because we know you are all FASCIA-nated with not just muscles, but connective tissue and how you can impact that in your massages.
We want to help support professional growth and talent in our alumni base. There is a collective consciousness “out there” that is wanting to specialize in barefoot massage. We are leading a movement that will offer massage therapists to opportunity to learn many styles of original barefoot massage, and learn details specifically within Ashiatsu Barefoot Massage, so that they can retire their hands, or at least use their feet as accurately as they do their hands.
We don’t want you to have to memorize a routine, only to break it apart years later to figure out how to effectively apply the material to your specific client base. That ability to see outside the box and read through the lines comes naturally for some, but not all. Our training gets you to the point NOW, and saves you years of figuring out what generations of Barefoot Massage Therapists before you have trudged through the mud over time to research and discover on their own. FasciAshi (Myofascial Ashiatsu Barefoot Massage) brings you to the point of catering and customizing your myofascial ashiatsu sessions to knead the needs of your clients in that moment. We teach trouble shooting, critical thinking, and theories involved with each protocol, stroke and application to help you work more intuitively with confidence.
🧠 Inside Our Teaching Approach
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Modular training design that builds layer-by-layer, not a one-size-fits-all crash course
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Structured feedback loops: You’ll give and receive real-time feedback with your classmates and instructor daily
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Instructor accountability: We follow a teaching rubric aligned with the AFMTE’s instructor competencies and evolving research on fascia, pain, and movement
⚠️ Spotting Red Flags in Other Programs
Before you sign up for any barefoot massage training, ask:
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Is the class taught by a currently practicing LMT?
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Are the techniques adapted to myofascial work or just surface-level strokes?
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Does the class encourage individualization or one-size-fits-all pressure?
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Is there any discussion of client contraindications and pain education?
We’ve seen too many therapists walk into our Fundamentals class confused, unprepared, or even injured from other CE programs that skipped the science and sold the sizzle.
✅ What You Can Expect from CBM
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Clarity about when not to use certain strokes
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Integration of interoception and pain science into your practice
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Real-time instructor support and safety protocols
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Deep dive into mechanics, movement, and how to apply what you learn
“We teach therapists to deliver pressure with intelligence, not intensity.”
Many therapists who’ve learned Ashiatsu in the past have thrown important parts of the original material or body mechanics away because “it didn’t work for them”… or they forgot it entirely. I saw these scenarios happen when therapists weren’t taught how to adapt strokes or understand the reasoning behind it, so they got lost in how to apply the techniques all together. At that point it just gets messy, massage therapists get hurt giving the work, or they miss the purpose of the stroke entirely. Too often I see Ashiatsu watered down in practice to just a deep pressured relaxation massage, because that’s the main take-away concept focused on in past training.
Myofascial Ashiatsu Barefoot Massage is more than that.
The classes available so far from the Center for Barefoot Massage have a whole new concept from everything that has been taught in other Ashiatsu classes you see out there. We are developing many more courses filled with new techniques, tried-and-true protocols, and specialized topics to help barefoot massage therapists from all lineages grow and evolve their application of the work into something that your clients need now. The devil is in the details: We teach those details and want you to have the tools to have a long, successful career specializing in Barefoot Massage.
Keep your head up, your feet ankle-deep in muscles, and keep your eyes on FasciAshi and the Center for Barefoot Massage… big plans are afoot for you.
When it comes to continuing education for massage therapists, not all barefoot massage trainings are created equal. At The Center for Barefoot Massage, we go beyond “just learning a stroke.” We teach therapists how to think critically, work safely, and apply pressure with purpose—using their feet, fascia, and a whole lot of nerdy anatomical insight. If you’ve taken other barefoot…
