Range of Motion (ROM) Stretch Therapy
Stretch Therapy training: Enhancing performance through mobility
With a focus on Active and Resisted Range of Motion techniques, this Stretch Therapy barefoot massage technique allows the Massage Therapist to stand on a massage table and maneuver clients’ limbs using the strong muscles of their legs and hips to steer and control client positioning and motion. We hold onto overhead bars and lean into our suspended support straps for balance and leverage as we lift, bend, and twist clients into assisted stretches while they activate their muscles as cued by the practitioner, adding resistance and dynamic stretch theory into the mix. Our approach to assisted stretching 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, (supine, side-lying and prone) 3-dimensional stretch sequence is taught.
Prerequisites: FasciAshi Fundamentals or previous live beginner ashiatsu training. See the "Prerequisites" tab near the bottom of this page.
Class Price
Tuition: *$500
You can choose to pay in full upfront, or make two payments. A non-refundable retainer of 50% tuition 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 2 days, and you’ll earn 16 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 $600
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.
Crush those goals: just enroll!
When and where is this class offered? (Click the button below to see all the ROM classes currently scheduled)
Make sure you use a laptop or desktop computer to register for classes, and do not use the Mindody App if the pop up screen asks you to, because the MindBodyOnline system and their app will not allow mobilie devices to select certain options (such as payment plans or waitlists.) You must register through the browser on a desktop-site view of the page to be offered these options.
Therapists will learn:
- A “heeling” approach to barefoot massage that is on trend with the rising demand of new specialty stretch franchises
- Stretch Therapy theories
- Structural benefits to every movement
- How to work 3-dimensionally with your clients joints
- Contraindications and indications for mobilization and movements
- Appropriate bio-mechanics for best use of leverage and gravity
- How to manipulate the body through passive range of motions for a stretch
- How to cue clients to create their own movements under resistance or pressure for stability
- The dynamics of how to make any stretch active, passive or resisted, based on your clients needs
- How to use this work with draping, so it can be embedded within existing massages
- How to use this work with the client clothed
- Pro-Tip To Prepare: get good at your massage draping with FasciAshi co-founder, Jeni Spring – and use your toes!
Therapists will practice on and receive feedback from:
- 2-3 other therapists in class
- 1 student clinic client
- In class, you will:
- Give 5 hours of massage during this class
- Receive 5 hours of massage from other students
- Spend a total of 2 hours observing the instructor and other LMT’s demonstrate the strokes
- Spend 2 hours testing new skills on the public
Attendees are provided with:
- Course Workbook
- Access to the free Alumni Membership website with videos of the strokes learned in class
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.)
- Another continuing education providers beginner level ashiatsu course. Must show proof of attendance in a LIVE, in-person training that was at least 16 NCBTMB CE’s. Video audition may be required if your training is untraceable, or if it has been over 5 years.
- If this applies to you, please START the registration process, and get as far as the system will let you. This is creating a student profile in our registration system. Once you reach that stopping point, please text/call 210.816.1241, or email info@barefootmassagecenter.com with the dates and location that you took the prereq class(es). We will verify your CE’s, update your profile, and give you access to complete your class registration.
Retake this course for $125 / day!
Change is hard, learning is a process. Maybe you didn’t get a chance to practice after class, and you are forgetting the details… maybe it’s been a few years and you feel rusty. 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 two hour massage for $125?! Not bad!)
Attend 1 or both days of this class for $125 each day
Email your instructor to see if any space is available for you to take this class refresher course
Become a Barefoot Sports Massage Specialist
Once you have successfully completed the FasciAshi ROM class, you are eligible to fine-tune your footwork and attend our 1 day specialty courses! The Sports Track will have a series of classes that focus on barefoot techniques and topics to increase clients athletic performance and injury prevention, while working in pre and post event massage settings. Not necessarily just for “athletes,” this will also be great for your active adult clients who are looking to move with more ease. We aim to release a new Track class yearly, so your studies can continually expand
Continue your training:
Once you’ve completed this FasciAshi ROM training, you can funnel down into the Sports Track when those classes become available! If you haven’t already, you may also choose to attend the FasciAshi Intermediate course, and then aim for the Advanced class. There’s always Fijian Barefoot Massage, too, which will teach you a floor-based style of body mechanics, and new toe-skills!