Hands hurt? Back ache, neck ache, head ache? Shoulder pain, elbow strain, thumb bane!? You sound like your clients! Take the “ouch” out of your massage and save yourself with Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy (AOBT)!
With AOBT, you learn to use both gravity and your body weight to give your clients as much pressure as most of them need. No pain to you, no pain to them. Using overhead wooden parallel bars for leverage and support the therapist is easily balanced on the massage table as s/he glides with soft feet over the client’s skin. No more pushing and straining yourself to apply “deep tissue”…. just stand there and glide! You’ll actually be strengthening the muscles you’ve been underworking, and stretching the muscles you’ve overworked while using more traditional “hands on” massage techniques. AOBT offers an alternative to how you apply deep pressure, and is a great tool to have in your bodywork-tool-belt! Offer more massages in a day, since you’ll have no pain and more energy – or just go home pain free and live your life more fully!
We have 4 levels of classes available to massage therapists for the kinds barefoot massage they need. The beginning is Barefoot Basics, followed by our intermediate course: Anterior/Side-lying. Start here to learn the single-footed full-body application of our work that we are famous for, and see why we are known as “deepest, most luxurious massage on the planet”! Advanced Ashiatsu is available for our certified and well-practiced therapists, offering a larger vocabulary of strokes and applications for more chronic pain conditions or larger clients. Another starting point is with our Ashi-Thai class, which offers a clothed application of an adaptation of traditional Thai techniques using the AOBT body mechanics and principals – no previous Thai or Ashiatsu training is needed for Ashi-Thai. No more bending to lift heavy limbs, or palming compressions that hurt your wrists… stand up and use your feet!
Your clients will love the depth and fluidity of Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy – and your whole body will thank you!
List of Jeni Springs AOBT classes and events are below. For more info and to register for one of Jeni’s classes, visit http://heelingsole.com/workshops.html
To find another authorized and highly trained AOBT instructor near you, visit http://www.deepfeet.com/schedule_location.htm
June 22-26, Booth @ FSMTA Convention, Orlando, FL
July 16-17, Ashi-Thai, San Antonio TX
July 19-21, Barefoot Basics, San Antonio TX
July 22, Anterior/Side-Lying, San Antonio TX
August 24-26, Barefoot Basics, San Antonio TX
August 27, Anterior/Side-Lying, San Antonio TX
September 16-18, Advanced Ashiatsu, San Antonio TX
September 22-24, Barefoot Basics, Houston TX
September 25, Anterior/Sidelying, Houston TX
October 16-17, Ashi-Thai, Portland, OR
October 19-22, Booth @ National AMTA Convention, Portland, OR
October 27-29, Barefoot Basics, San Antonio TX
October 30, Anterior/Side-Lying, San Antonio TX
November 11-13, Barefoot Basics, Dallas TX
November 14, Anterior/Sidelying, Dallas TX
Advanced Ashiatsu in Seattle, TBA!
December 1-2, Ashi-Thai, San Antonio TX
