Ashiatsu Floor brings the many benefits of traditional Ashiatsu performed on a massage table using overhead bars TO THE FLOOR.
Your clients receive and experience the same therapeutic benefits from Ashiatsu Floor as they would from Ashiatsu Bar. You can perform full body Ashiatsu massage both seated and standing utilizing a seat and cane to support and assist the movement of your body as you massage client’s with your feet. Ashiatsu allows you to strengthen your body and improve your posture while providing clients with deep muscle tension relief and relaxation. The pressure is applied using the entire sole of the foot. The heel, arch, ball of the foot, outer and inner edges of the foot, and the toes. When it comes to massage, the feet are like larger stronger hands. Because of the large size of the feet, deep pressure is more comfortable for clients and they experience less or no discomfort and pain compared to deep tissue techniques performed using the hands, knuckles, forearms and elbows. The more comfortable deep pressure with Ashiatsu leads to longer lasting results for clients.
The pressure you apply can be as light as Swedish massage or the deepest pressure you could ever apply.
Barefoot Trainer’s Ashiatsu® offers both live and eLearning Ashiatsu Floor programs. These programs teach and cover everything from its history and marketing methods to proper movement, body mechanics, how to warm your feet and more.
More importantly, you’re going to learn how to perform therapeutic massage and experience absolutely ZERO fatigue and ZERO wear & tear on your body.
And this is true no matter how many massages you are doing in a day, week, month, year, and over your ENTIRE CAREER.
The Ashiatsu Floor program teaches full body seated & standing Ashiatsu Floor techniques using a chair for seated techniques & a cane as the balancing tool for standing Ashiatsu.
Students who take and follow these programs will learn to perform a flowing full body Ashiatsu massage with great fluidity and control. Proper and improper body mechanics are taught and practiced for each Ashiatsu stroke as well as how to transition from one stroke to the other.
Ashiatsu Floor is a great option for an Ashiatsu practitioner who can't or doesn't want to install Ashiatsu bars into a ceiling or walls. Ashiatsu Floor equipment is easy to travel with making it a great technique for your mobile massage business. A therapist can perform Ashiatsu Floor at events such as fundraisers, road races, and other large events making it great for marketing Ashiatsu. At these events Ashiatsu really stands out amongst other therapists performing traditional upper limb massage techniques and catches the interest of people who receive regular massages and have never experienced Ashiatsu before. And it of course draws the attention of people who have and they love to see an Ashiatsu practitioner at their event.
Topics Covered:
• CEU’s, Certification, & Web Directory Listing
• Origins and History of Ashiatsu
• Foot Care & Self-Care for Ashiatsu
• Ashiatsu Massage Contraindications
• Ashiatsu Massage Benefits - Therapist
• Ashiatsu Massage Benefits - Client
• Recommended Ashiatsu Floor Equipment & Supplies•
• Best Ashiatsu Lubricant - Creams, Oils, Lotions
• Client Draping
• Keys to Proper Seated & Standing Ashiatsu Body Mechanics
• Ashiatsu Marketing
• Ashiatu Definitions
• Ashiatsu massage application and practice. Students practice Ashiatsu on each other in class.
• & more…
Purchase of the live Ashiatsu Floor class or the Ashiatsu Floor eLearning program includes an optional pre-class 30-minute phone or video consultation with founder & instructor Justin Michaud to discuss everything Ashiatsu and your path to successfully adding it into your massage services.
