Ashiatsu

I leave this morning for Cullowhee, NC and the World Massage Festival. I’ll be demonstrating in the DeepFeet booth with Ruthie and numerous other Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy therapists and instructors. If you’re going to be there be sure to stop by and say hi!

You can follow my travel progress on Facebook at Harvest Moon Massage Therapy & Reflexology.

I’ll be home Sunday and ready to see clients next week. Have a great weekend, everyone!

Check out this awesome AOBT video! She did an awesome job answering questions while she was actually doing the moves.

For everyone who is still wondering what I’ve been so excited about lately, here it is! My portable bars arrived Thursday. It was dark before I arrived home so I drug them inside off the porch and have slowly been unpacking the boxes ever since.

This morning I got up early because I couldn’t sleep from excitement. An hour and a half later, viola!

Usually they would go together much quicker, but it was my first time and there were a few other issues that we’re currently working to correct, nonetheless they’re here and they’re together.

So… if you have a group who needs someone to come speak and comes with an impressively large piece of equipment with which to demonstrate, call me!

I am currently negotiating with a massage therapist from KY trying to buy a set of used portable bars. The purchase, while expensive, will allow me to start attending conferences, trade shows, health fairs, and expos to demonstrate and raise awareness about Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy and Ashi-Thai as well as the overall health benefits of massage. I’m also banking on the fact that the added exposure will bring in new clientele.

The next step is to find those fairs and expos. I have a few leads, but I’m still looking for more. So if your company or an organization you know of puts on any kind of fair or expo, large or small, please leave a comment and let me know.

Commenters will also get first dibs at being my body on the table at some of these things too. Free massage. Woo hoo!

If you had trouble opening the PDF of the article that I posted last week, here’s the link to the official online publication from Natural Awakenings. You’ll need to scroll over to page 12 to see the layout.

Thanks for visiting!

The September 2010 edition of Natural Awakenings for the Tennessee Valley hit the news stands within the last few days. I found out when I arrived at my office Thursday afternoon. Several copies had been delivered to the waiting area and Miss Cathy was waiting for me with the news.

Happy dances ensued as she told me how nice it was and I tried to find it in the magazine. For the record my article is on page 12, but it took a long time to find because I was so excited.

And now, without further ado, here is the link to the PDF scan (it takes several moments to load, sorry about that) that I made of the actual magazine article. If you’re interested in a copy of the magazine (they’re free) and you’re in the Tennessee Valley area just visit your local health food store or contact Natural Awakenings directly.

Enjoy! And thanks for visiting!

If you’re here looking for information on Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy and its recognition by the American Medical Association, then you’re in the right place.

Let me start off by clearing something up. The American Medical Association does not recognize massage as a medical modality, therefore, it does not recognize Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy.

If you were to Google Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy and AMA or American Medical Association you will find numerous websites claiming that AOBT is indeed recognized by the AMA. You can find magazine articles with the same claim if you look hard. One of which actually appears in the Digital Lounge on the Deep Feet website. How could so many people believe this when it’s simply not true?

Well, there’s a simple explanation and I want to tell you so you don’t make the same mistake I did. It was a typo. Way back when, someone published something which was supposed to read, “recognized by the AMTA,” but instead read, “recognized by the AMA”. You can see how this impressive typo quickly took root.

Recently when asked to write an article on AOBT I pulled out the AMA gun to include and then realized I needed to do a bit of fact checking. I was confused when some publications / websites listed AMA and others didn’t so I fired off an email to a couple of instructors and Ruthie Hardee, the founder of AOBT.

This resulted in a personal phone call from Ruthie where we discussed my questions about AMA. Well, mostly she discussed and I sorta freaked out because OMG I’m talking to Ruthie Hardee, the founder of AOBT! Squeeeeee!!!

Anyway, I wanted to put this out there so perhaps other people designing their brochures or writing articles on AOBT don’t make the same mistake.

I should go, I have about a thousand brochures that need to be touched with correction tape!