Hot Ashi
Specialty Course: Barefoot massage with heated flax seed packs from Mother Earth Pillows!
Learn to use heated flaxseed pillows to perform specific barefoot massage protocols for the client in both a supine and prone position, in Hot Ashi, one of our specialty classes for FasciAshi Fundamentals trained Barefoot Massage Therapists. Hot Ashi is performed through clothing on a massage table with overhead bars and a flexible strap for balance and shearing ability.
Heat is an effective way to relieve both chronic pain and new aches, as well as for calming the autonomic nervous system. Its use is non-invasive and non-addictive, inexpensive and easy to incorporate into existing barefoot massage services. Using therapist’s feet in conjunction with heat produces almost effortless results in reduction of client anxiety, stress and pain.
Prerequisites: FasciAshi Fundamentals
Prerequisite: FasciAshi Fundamentals.
Class Price
Tuition: *$250
You can choose to pay in full upfront or make two payments. A non-Refundable 50% retainer is required to hold your spot in class - the remaining balance is due before class starts.
NOTICE: 2025 classes will TEMPORARILY not have the payment plan option while we transition between registration systems. If you try to sign up for a 2025 class and a payment plan is not offered, that is why. You can either choose to pay in full before we switch systems, or wait until the transition is complete - at that time on the new system you'll be able to chose payment plans.
Class is 1 day, and you’ll earn 8 Continuing Education credits. (NCBTMB and some select states)
*If the instructor is traveling to a location to teach this class, rather than teaching at their home base, then the tuition rate will be $300
Please plan your schedule to allow time to be present and punctual for the entire training experience. Partial attendance is not permitted. Any hours missed in class must be made up with the instructor, and will be charged at their hourly rate. No CE’s or access to Alumni resources are granted until the class is completed in full.
Therapists will learn:
- How to use the combination of their feet and hot flax pillows to provide a complementary full body barefoot massage myofascial integration.
- The contraindications of use of heated flax pillow in deep tissue barefoot massage.
- The benefits of the use of heat in conjunction with barefoot massage.
- The proper care, heating, and use of heated flaxseed pillows.
- To identify endangerment sites and structures that are unsafe to massage with heat, or the feet.
- To integrate the use of heated flaxseed pillows over the clients clothes, or a with traditional FasciAshi draping as the client is undressed for a massage.
- A full body 60 minute supine and prone protocol integrating heated flax pillows to provide fascial stretching, trigger point and techniques to the neck, shoulders, arms, chest, back, legs, and feet.
- The ability apply deep tissue, trigger point, and fascial techniques utilizing their feet on a variety of bodies.
Therapists will practice on and receive feedback from:
- 1-2 other therapists in class
- In class, you will:
- Give 3.5 hours of massage during this class
- Receive 3.5 hours of massage from other students
Attendees are provided with:
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- Course Workbook with pictures
- Discounts to Mother Earth Pillows
- Easy access to retail Mother Earth Pillow products as added value for your clients, and extra income for you!
- Access to the free Alumni Membership website with videos of the strokes learned in class
Don't get cold feet! Sign up now
When and where is this class offered? Click the button below!
Make sure you use a laptop or desktop computer to register for classes, as the MindBodyOnline system we use will not allow mobilie devices to select certain options (such as payment plans or waitlists.)
What's next?
To attend this class, you must have attended one of the following classes:
- FasciAshi Fundamentals
- Fundamentals Converge (this class is now discontinued, but still honored as a prereq.)
Retake this course for $125 / day!
Change is hard, learning is a process. Maybe you couldn’t find a good deal on a hot towel cabi, or didn’t order your Mother Earth Pillows right away, and you are forgetting the details… maybe it’s been a few months and you’ve got cold feet! For best retention of the concepts, theories, strokes and adventures we experience in class, you are always welcome back to review everything all over again. No CE’s or course materials are provided, but we’ll partner you up with either a client or another #AshiatsuTherapist who is also reviewing the class, and you’ll get to give and receive FasciAshi all day long while being guided, and tweaked, by the instructor. (Get a three hour massage for $125?! Not bad!)
Attend any Hot Ashi class for a review of everything.
Email your instructor to see if any space is available for you to take this class refresher course
This Hot Ashi class is the 1st of many Relax Track Specialty Barefoot Massage courses to come! As more classes within this track are released, we’ll link them as a “next step” here. For now, you are free to roam over to the Fijian Barefoot Massage class if you haven’t taken it yet, or FasciAshi Intermediate and FasciAshi ROM!