As we educate massage professionals on when/how/why to best utilize Barefoot Massage techniques, The Center for Barefoot Massage is working to raise the standard and quality of this style of work. It’s our goal to grow the awareness and understanding of barefoot massage within the massage industry and in the public eye. Our objective is to instill a culture of creativity and excellence within our alumni.
Mission
To provide our students with the tools to become a fanatical ashiatsu practitioners, curious anatomy nerds and confident barefoot massage specialists. We aim to teach modern, evolving and informed theories of massage that, through your intent and knowledge, can be applied to clinical, sports, and relaxation-based sessions. Instruction is offered in our exclusive live training courses available to Licensed Massage Professionals, taught in person by experienced practitioners and leaders in the field.
If you have yet to receive a barefoot massage prior to your training, we encourage you to do so asap! Schedule an appointment with your instructor or their staff and get a feel for what you will be learning.
Dawn, like Jeni, Mary-Claire and the entire CBM team, is a passionate FasciAshi (ashiatsu) Barefoot Massage Therapist, as well as a Yoga Teacher. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Dawn is a sophisticated career therapist dedicated to offering the best of Barefoot Massage Therapy. Dawn believes massage and bodywork to be both an art and a science and she has a great love of anatomy & movement.
Dawn is not only committed to enhancing her professional skills and knowledge but she also is driven to help other Massage Therapists expand their knowledge & skills by guiding them to awaken their feet's potential and how to safely use gravity and functional movement to apply "feet-on" deep tissue, myofascial and range of motion focused barefoot massage. By choosing to study with Dawn and the Center For Barefoot Massage Team (CBM), and using your lovely little feet, Massage Therapists will not only lengthen their careers, but they can also potentially save them.
Graduated Massage School in 2003 | First Barefoot Massage Training 2005 | Assistant Barefoot Massage Instructor for Jeni Spring - 2009 - 2014| Owner of Barefoot Space - www.barefootspace.com 2014 - current| Helped to build Barefoot Massage awareness around the nation | Shamelessly loves Bigfoot | Taught internationally and across the US | Presenter at AMTA conventions | LOVES barefoot massage | Co-creator of Barefoot Massage - Sports Track w CBM | Wife to a dude that puts up with me | Mom to an athlete & fur children |LOVES coffee & Beer | Retired my hands forever!
Learn how to take control of your massage career in three simple steps! Start your barefoot massage journey with FasciAshi's myofascial ashiatsu training.
Your Barefoot Massage journey starts here. This beginner Myofascial Ashiatsu Barefoot Massage training will teach you how to use your feet to provide a full-body deep tissue, myofascial release, and trigger point work focused barefoot massage session. Complete the self-study Certification program for this class later to gain access to the Relaxation-based barefoot massage track of classes.
This intermediate ashiatsu barefoot massage class empowers the experienced barefoot massage therapist to work even slower, maintain long sustained pressure holds on trigger points or adhered layers of tissue, and deliver deep myofascial strokes to the anterior and lateral aspects of your client’s body.
Supine and Side-body strokes will give you the tools to provide a comprehensive feet-on practice in the often forgotten, hard to reach areas of the body. We share how to work along the topography of our clients bones, and manipulate the length of each muscle and fascial chain.
Intricate use of the FasciAshi support strap is a big focus in this class. This unique addition to the overhead ashiatsu bars allows us to work on variable angles and vectors with consistent, controllable pressure that prevents fatigue for the barefoot massage therapist.
Using Passive, Active and Resisted ROM stretch therapy techniques, this barefoot massage technique allows the Massage Therapist to stand on a massage table and maneuver clients’ limbs with their feet, using the strong muscles of their legs and hips. We hold onto overhead bars and lean into our suspended support straps for balance and leverage as we lift, bend, and twist clients into stretches. This helps a practitioner effortlessly maintain consistent pressure and counterbalance while providing deep point holds, or long fascial stretches.
We also compress or restrict clients compensating body parts down into a neutral alignment while creating various ranges of motion throughout all major joints in the body. The Barefoot Massage Therapist can observe movement patterns and queue the client into resisted actions to help build joint stability, and encourage their interoceptive awareness during passive fascial stretching and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation.
We’ll be reviewing secure draping options while blending ROM into slow gliding, non-lubricated movements along the client’s skin. Can be adapted for more use of creme or provided with the client clothed. A full-body, 3-dimensional stretch sequence is taught.
