Heeling Sole Barefoot Massage

11/19/2025

This is an actual sign on the pier in Santa Barbara that I found while in town for a Barefoot Massage class with John Harris 14 years ago today.⁣
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𝘋𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴? 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘵 𝘔𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮. 𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴, 𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘶𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘪𝘮.⁣
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But, back to the sign. 𝗜 𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡! It's so true. We all know the dangers of walking in high heels - 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘧𝘦𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘦 & 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘷𝘪𝘣𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴... They seriously mess with your body's alignment & posture, & the shape of your foot, if you wear them often enough. ⁣
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𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗱, 𝗺𝘆 𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀. 𝘖𝘰𝘰𝘰𝘩 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦...⁣
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𝗜 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗺 𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗛𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗜 𝗮𝗺 𝘁𝗿𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. ⁣
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𝙇𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙉𝙤 𝙋𝙖𝙞𝙣, 𝙉𝙤 𝙂𝙖𝙞𝙣? That's too dangerous, that's not what I do.⁣
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𝗙𝗲𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗹, 𝗺𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻? Ok, I can work in this realm. ⁣
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𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗼𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲𝘀, 𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗜 𝗰𝗮𝗻.⁣
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I've found safe ways to give deep tissue, myofascial release... 𝘪𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘵. ⁣
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My ongoing training, experience, & most importantly 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁-𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲, help me work safely.

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11/18/2025

Your body has an inner GPS… and it’s not woo.
It’s interoception: your ability to sense what’s happening inside you in real time.

During your massage at Heeling Sole, we’re not just working with muscles. We’re working with your awareness. Here are a few simple ways to tune in while you’re on the table and in your day-to-day life:

✨ Notice your internal “yes” and “no.”
Instead of judging a sensation as good or bad, try naming it. Warmth, pressure, stretching, pulsing. Jill Miller teaches that labeling sensation lowers threat and increases clarity.

✨ Feel the waves, not the storms.
If something feels intense, shift your attention to your breath or to a nearby calmer zone in your body. This anchors your nervous system so the stronger sensation feels more manageable.

✨ Track the edges.
Follow a sensation for three breaths. Does it expand… shrink… move… soften… or simply stay the same? This is how you build interoceptive accuracy and teach your brain that safe input is truly safe.

✨ Practice micro check-ins outside the massage room.
Pause once today and scan from collarbones to low belly. What’s tight… floaty… tired… energized? You don’t have to fix anything. Just noticing is the rep.

If you want to build these skills between sessions, I’ve got Jill Millers self-massage balls re-stocked here in the office. They’re perfect for holiday self care, nervous system downshifting, and reconnecting with the “you” inside your body.

11/11/2025

Here’s your radical reminder:
You don’t have to be in crisis to care for your body.

We live in a culture built on urgency—where burnout is normalized, rest feels indulgent, and exhaustion gets mistaken for dedication. Many of us were taught that stillness has to be justified.

✨ It’s me, hi! I’m the problem, it’s me. ✨

I just spent a week in Palm Springs doing an early Thanksgiving thing with my hubs, mom, and grandma. I had a great time and I realized that I'm kind of a small business tweaker, tweaked out on my work life. On the days we didn’t have anything planned, I felt anxious and weird. I’d wake up before everyone, pounding out computer work before breakfast. We did a great job of not watching TV, but at night I kept feeling like I needed to scroll my phone... just to make sure nothing was blowing up with my businesses.

Newsflash: they were fine. I just couldn’t relax my brain.

Massage time is a great place for both you and me to find a different rhythm—one that makes space for recovery before collapse. But honestly? We can all be working on that outside the massage room, too. I thought I was doing pretty okay... but nope.

In a world running on overdrive, reaction, and chronic stress, rest isn’t withdrawal—it’s how we recover.

I've got openings this month and next, and mixed in there I’ve also got a few more days blocked off to give myself time—whether that means catching up or just catching my breath, and keep those vacay vibes vibing! If you normally get more than one session with me per month, I’m asking everyone to stick to one per month for November and December so there’s room for everyone to get underfoot before the holidays.

Y'all are awesome! Thanks, and I hope you can make time for nothing, too!

10/31/2025

It's the end of the month already, so here's a recap of what me, the walls and the ghosts in the building overheard during your massages!

Just helping y'all feel all the physical feels that play hard to get or hide behind their usual obvious pranks

10/29/2025

This was the most expensive event I put Heeling Sole into with the biggest hopes and levels of excitement. We planned to have a fun day working on athletes in our doublewide booth as the main massage option at a regional CrossFit competition: we were so well set up, staffing was timed perfectly, the whole Sasquatch crew was ready to rock ...and it flopped.

The event was inside except for the running sections, and we were outside. The competitors and their fans mostly stayed in there to stay cool and watch other rounds. It was DEAD outside in the vending area. Even the big name PT's in town who had booths there left their tents empty and unmanned... But we stayed onsite and massaged eachother.

I was so angry about this. I dropped a good chunk of money on the spot and sponsorship, their tshirts and our own, paid my crew for standing there doing nothing. It's stuff like this that really makes me analyze the organization of events - I thought I was careful and thorough in researching this event, but apparently not enough. I've been an event coordinator for large conventions and farmers markets, and I know that the vendors can't be in competition for attention with the event itself, it's got to be a part of the event organically, with every part pointing attention towards another. This was not.

This has been your moment of un-zen: shedding light on the BS that went on behind the scenes of a business that was otherwise painting rosey pictures on social media because that is what is expected... (Booo, hisss)

We're not only standing on his shirt, we're ON the shirt!

Find the Heeling Sole logo on everyone's Lats/Teres-ish area of the Power Output Challenge tshirts, then find our booth between the entrance to the gym amd the bouncy house!

THIS IS NOT JUST A NORMAL FANCY FROU FROU PRETTY MASSAGE. We're advanced trained deep tissue sports massage therapists and our mobility specialists are trained in Yoga Tune-Up and MobilityWod.
Think of our bodywork like aggressive myofascial release, deep tissue compression with passive stretching and active/resistive range of motion to restore your brain, body and bones between the competition rounds.
Come get some. $20/15 minutes: plus you'll get a coupon for $20 to use towards a session in our office, and be entered to win a full set of mobility balls for your at home self care!!

10/26/2025

When the vibe around us feels tight and tense, we physically feel that too, and our connective tissue follows that lead, binding us down from the inside out.

Fascia, AKA our connective tissue, serves as part of the body’s communication network, wrapping every muscle, bone, and organ in one continuous web. When it gets restricted—from stress, fear, or too much stillness—everything feels bound up. But we can get that fascia moving again, there is hope! It responds to rhythm, breath, and mindful pressure.

Whenever you are underfoot here at Heeling Sole, I'm trying help your fascia remember how to glide again. Through barefoot massage rooted in Structural Integration principles, we melt through layers of tension, calm the nervous system, and make space for movement—inside and out.

10/24/2025

It's been a LONG week, y'all, full of so much computer work, deep thoughts poured out into writing new manuals for my other company, , and you know, just the "new normal" usual unprecedented drama and chaos of the world in general... BUT, I just gave two of the best massages today, and they reminded me of all the good things I can help offer my local community!

Y'all snapped me out of my funk and back into the best moments of any week: the moments when I'm ankle-deep in your muscles.

If you were underfoot today, thanks for coming in and making this Friday amazing. Have a great weekend!
-Jeni