🇺🇸 United States · Contemporary
Ashiatsu (Barefoot Bar Massage)アシアツ（ベアフット・バー・マッサージ）
Systematised in 1995 by Ruthie Hardee in the United States, inspired by barefoot techniques from across Asia: deep oil massage with bare feet while holding overhead bars. The name is her trademark, now taught as 'DeepFeet Bar Therapy'.
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- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Era
- Contemporary
- Classification
- Modern bodywork
- Techniques
- Foot / Oil / Pressure
- Practitioner body parts
- Foot
- Medium
- Oil
- Clothing
- Skin contact, draped
- Setting
- Table
- Also known as
- Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy · DeepFeet Bar Therapy · Barefoot bar massage · 足圧 (Ashiatsu, Japan) · Sarga Bodywork · Barefoot deep tissue
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