Ashiatsu is an advanced type of therapy. In this technique, I use my body weight and various surfaces of my feet to deliver deep tissue massage strokes and compressions to release tightly held and adhered muscles and fibers.  While Ashiatsu can include an entire body session, it is best at targeting tightness in the posterior chain muscles of the back, hips, buttocks, thighs and calves.  I reserve this massage for the larger,  densely framed, or muscular individual who prefers (or requires) the deepest of deep tissue massages to achieve relief from tightly bound muscles.

I am formally trained by the Center for Barefoot Massage and one of the few providers of Ashiatsu in Fredericksburg and the Texas Hill Country.

I recommend this type of massage for almost anybody in Fredericksburg and the Texas Hill Country.  In addition to just being relaxing, it addresses general body tension. It involves effleurage strokes along muscle fibers, and kneading to break up adhesions and scar tissue. It can include the full-body, from the larger muscles of the back to the delicate muscles of the hands, forearms, and neck.  It can include the lateral and anterior neck muscles, such as the scalenes and sternocleidomastoid, to the muscles of the face and jaw.  Additionally, I can address the quadriceps, hamstrings and deeper muscles, such as the piriformis (often responsible for sciatic or low back pain), and I can target trigger points found throughout the body held within dense muscles, like the quadratus lumborum to smaller muscles, like the infraspinatus of the rotator cuff and fine muscles, like those of the suboccipitals, which can be responsible for headaches and migraines.