Texas Ashiatsu DeepFeet Bar Therapy Training

11/28/2025

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11/28/2024

Happy Thanksgiving!

🥧🍂👣 HAPPY THANKSGIVING 👣🍂🥧

We hope you have a restful and restorative holiday with your loved ones today!

We are thankful for each and every DeepFeet Student and look forward to working with more of you in the new year !

01/02/2023

2023 brings many new and exciting opportunities to the barefoot massage world! Chavutti Thirumal training is coming to the Dominican Republic March 20-31, 2023! Your new destination DeepFeet Bar Therapy - Ashiatsu Training and Barefoot Massage Training location in the DR is hosting Helen Noakes Yoga and Chavutti Massage Instructor.

You may be wondering, where does Chavutti Thirumal fall within my current massage practice?

Whether you’ve been practicing some form of barefoot massage for a while or are brand new to it, Chavutti Thirumal can serve your current practice. This ancient form of barefoot massage is traditionally practiced on a mat on the floor meaning there are NO WEIGHT RESTRICTIONS. This is also convenient for therapists who have been hesitant to get into the table forms of barefoot massage due to a fear of heights. No table necessary. You are not limited in walk space around your client's body which encourages the body to be addressed in non-conventional ways to modernized, table-based barefoot massage.

What about practitioners who currently practice a form of table-based barefoot massage? A majority of the techniques and strokes you learn during your Chavutti Thirumal training effortlessly translate onto the table top and can transform your current barefoot massage practice into a fluid dance geared towards deep relaxation and induce almost a trance-like state.

A little about Helen Noakes:
“I began training in Swedish massage with Claire Maxwell-Hudson and graduated in 1995. I hosted my own practice in Natural Bodies with Gary Carter in Brighton for many years. In the late 90’s I began my life transforming journey in India, where I became acquainted with Chavutti Thirumal and trained with Veejay and Padma Nair in Kerala. This was the beginning of my love for Chavutti as I was immediately hooked by this unique style, and developed my own training school to help other practitioners learn this incredible art.” — Helen Noakes

Helen Noakes now travels the world teaching this beautiful form of barefoot massage.

Add to your preexisting barefoot massage toolbox or get your feet wet and start from the very beginning with the world’s first recorded form of barefoot massage!

See Chavutti in action:
https://youtu.be/G5m4zATBHWc

Additional class details:
https://www.helennoakes.net/chavutti-training

Chavutti Thirumal or Massage by foot pressure, is an ancient art form of massaging the body with the feet. It's roots are Kerala, in South India, bathed in t...

11/05/2022

A very unique opportunity is happening at the Dominican Republic DeepFeet Bar Therapy - Ashiatsu Training and Barefoot Massage Training destination training location next year! DeepFeet will be hosting Helen Noakes Yoga and Chavutti Massage for a Chavutti Thirumal retreat March 20 - 31, 2023!

What is Chavutti Thirumal?

Chavutti Thirumal is the oldest recorded style of barefoot massage in the world. The client lays on a mat on the floor, traditionally in a loin cloth, as the practitioner uses oil and warm clean feet to massage the client’s body. The practitioner utilizes a rope that hangs overhead from wall to wall as a support for balance and stability.

Over 2,000 years old, this technique originates in Kerala and was developed for maintaining suppleness in the body, and for treating pain and swelling caused by combat. It is however, equally suitable as a treatment for those not involved in regular or strenuous physical exercise and wishing to maintain their own fitness and well being.

Chavutti is based on the precise knowledge of the body’s energetic channels “nadis” or the meridian lines. Using the feet gives the feeling that tension is being gently ironed out. Receiving this bodywork is not only relaxing for the soft tissue in the body, it also can be rejuvenating and energizing.

The course will include an additional 6 hours aquatic bodywork in the pool along with 60 hours of Level 1 & 2 Chavutti training.

For additional course details, pricing, accommodations, inquiries and sign up visit:
https://www.helennoakes.net/chavutti-training

09/19/2022

‘𝑀𝑖𝑑 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑃𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑤𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑚, 𝐵𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑜 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒’𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒!

ICYMI: I’ve been in Sampatiki, Greece for the past two weeks! What’s in Greece? My mentor and Chavutti Thirumal Instructor, Helen Noakes. I was very fortunate to begin my training with her back in 2017 with Chavutti Thirumal Level 1 & 2. This time we knocked out Level 3 training as well as the first annual Chavutti Retreat. This retreat was geared around experiencing the effects of giving and receiving Chavutti for over a week straight. I’ve had the great privilege of meeting and working with some of the best Chavers from around the world. This invaluable time has been spent fine tuning techniques I have been practicing for years as well as perfecting new ones learned at the beginning of our stay.

I was introduced to Chavutti Thirumal by DeepFeet Bar Therapy - Ashiatsu Training and Barefoot Massage Training during my initial training back in 2009. As a company DeepFeet Bar Therapy honors the roots of barefoot massage within their courses by detailing the History of Barefoot Massage. Chavutti is the oldest recorded barefoot massage style in the world and is just one of many influences for what we know today as Westernized Ashiatsu.

Interested in expanding your knowledge and barefoot massage skills with Chavutti Thirumal? Helen Noakes Yoga and Chavutti Massage is going to be teaching at our Dominican Republic Retreat Center!

DR dates:
January 9th - 20th 2023
March 20th - 31st 2023

Apply for Chavutti trainings at helennoakes.net/chavutti-training

Want to try it out before committing to a class? Come get under my feet and experience it for yourself! Any questions about the technique? DM me and we can chat!

Until then.. Only one spot remaining in our next Ashiatsu DeepFeet 1: Basics course for September 26 - 28, 2022! Sign up link in Bio! Join us for some clever footwork, save your bodies, lengthen your careers and grow! 👣

06/18/2022

People often ask, "But how would you massage this or that?" Where there's a will, there's a way! Ashiatsu is a complete full body massage and is more capable than you would think! Next class is filling up. Sign up now!

Next class is July 25-27, 2022. Don't miss this fun opportunity!

02/16/2022

Want to give a deep luxurious massage without putting excessive stress on your body? This class teaches you how to work smarter and not harder to allow you to get in deep without that pokey, and sometimes, painful pressure we experience in hands on deep tissue massage. Broadening the pressure with the use of our feet allows for a soothing, flowing dance that gently introduces deeper pressure to your clients. We work broad to specific allowing clients to adjust to this new style, gaining their trust and condensing the most therapeutic work allowing for you to fit in so much more into your sessions. Just one hour of ashiatsu is equivalent to 2-3 hours of hands on work due to deeper pressure and the ability to cover more surface area in a shorter amount of time!

Our March 28-30, 2022 class is ALMOST full! Your next opportunity to learn ashiatsu following this class will be May 23-25, 2022.

Come learn this career changing modality with me and revamp your massage. Sign up link in bio!

11/30/2021

🎉 The 2022 class schedule for DeepFeet's Texas Campus is officially LIVE on the DeepFeet website. 🎉

Come join me in the new year and learn this beautiful modality designed to save your body while delivering an even more effective deep tissue experience to your clients!

Sign up at: https://www.deepfeet.com/locations/san-antonio/