My prices have been set at $125 per hour for the past 5 years, and a lot has changed within my business(es) in that time. I’ve done my best all along to streamline and consolidate expenses for the business and keep my rates in a balance between attainable for you and sustainable for me. The world is changing, and I am just trying to adapt, evolve, dodge, and roll with the waves!
As of October 1st, 2022, sessions with me, Jeni Spring, will be priced as follows:
- 30 minutes: $80
- 1 hour: $150
- 90 minutes: $225
If you have been “underfoot” in an appointment with me (not Dawn) in the past year, then you will receive an email with a coupon code to extend the old price out through 12/31/2022.
How am I leveling up myself and making your massages better?
As of May of 2023 it will be my 20-year anniversary working in the profession. The average massage therapist lasts around 7 years in the field, and through the help of the same bodywork that helps HEEL you so much, Barefoot Massage has also helped me beat the industry expiration date, it’s allowed me to train thousands of other Massage Therapists AND create a team of expert Barefoot Massage instructors across the nation who are each exceeding the supposed “average” career span and teaching even more therapists collectively than I do. Woo hoo! Barefoot Massage is alive and thriving!
It’s hard to do the same thing, or some version of the same job, for 20 years. I know a lot of people who’ve changed professions, morphed their career trajectory or taken on a completely different job title multiple times since I got my first massage license. Not me: I’ve been here doing this, pushing this, living, eating, breathing, and loving this. I’ve been at the top of the Barefoot Massage game long enough that I sometimes lately feel like I can do this in my sleep. That’s not a good thing. So to challenge, deepen, and re-appreciate my understanding of how and why I do what I do professionally, I’m going back to school. I am attending the Anatomy Trains Structural Integration program, which is an intensive certification training that will pull me away to Walpole, Maine for weeks at a time in September & November of 2020, as well as April, May and June of 2023.
The caliber and length of training that I am undertaking are something above and beyond what any normal massage therapist tends to do, and the training I’ll be attending is longer than what most entry-level massage schools offer the new kids coming into the profession. In fact, there are even LESS people doing Structural Integration/Rolfing in San Antonio than there are Barefoot Massage Therapists. By combining everything I do with this new Structural Integration approach, I’m rarefying myself again. It’s a training that I’ve wanted to attend since 2010, but I was so busy keeping both my businesses and all those employees busy, that I never made the time for myself to tackle this goal. This year I made it happen, and I’m really excited!
I’ll be training in a multi-disciplinary environment with Occupational & Physical Therapists, Osteopaths, Chiropractors, Movement and Yoga Therapists, Athletic Trainers … and of course nerdy Massage Therapists like me.
We’ll be learning a new approach to whatever our style of bodywork is, by reading each individual body’s relative alignment, assessing the way the body interacts around its own centers of gravity, and working to promote more fluid and natural movement.
The whole idea is to elevate your own kinesthetic intelligence within your body. This work is really going to help with injury rehabilitation and enhance your athletic/artistic movement efficiency.
I’m still going to do all this with my feet!
Ok, I’m sure there will be a few things that require my hands, but for the most part, I’ll be learning new techniques with my hands and translating it down to be embedded within the Barefoot Massages you know and love. I have a feeling that a lot of the concepts I’ll be learning are already represented in my current work, but I am excited to learn why, how, and what to do from a different perspective.
I’ve already been dabbling with some of the new techniques and ideas since April. Everyone will start to get a better taste of the new work in October once I come back from 3 solid weeks of training in Maine – and it’s only going to get nerdier after November’s training. Ultimately, we’ll be progressing through a series of 3-12 sessions that sequence through specific areas of your body, aiming to create a balance of tensegrity in your connective tissues.
So, new inspiration for my insoles means new insight into your tissue issues. I am really looking forward to helping all of us collectively move and feel better through this new stuff. Combined with how my existing Barefoot Massage and Stretch Therapy work is already retraining your nervous system’s perception of and reaction to chronic pain, I think with the addition of Structural Integration, together we will become unstoppable super humans! Schedule a session in October and let’s see what we can do together!
See y’all underfoot sometime soon!
-Jeni
