I want to invite you into a deep understanding of rhythm and pressure.
You’re invited to learn with one of my mentors!
If you remember me posting a couple of months ago, I’ve begun hosting traveling continuing education teachers here in St. Louis, not just classes, but a weaving of teachers, lineage, and bodies in the room together.
Work that lives in the body long after the weekend ends.
And this next one feels especially close to my heart.
I’m honored to host my teacher and mentor, Randy Cummings, for an approach to barefoot massage that has deeply shaped how I understand pressure, rhythm, and the intelligence of the whole body:
Barefoot Shiatsu: Staff & Scarf May 11–12, 2026 10am–5pm 14 CEs Soleful Sara • St. Louis, MO $350
This is mat-based work that invites your entire body into the conversation: feet, knees, elbows, even tools like the staff and scarf all in service of meeting fascia with depth, steadiness, and listening.
We’ll move through supine, prone, and side-lying positions, exploring fluid transitions and rhythmic application so the work feels less like effort… and more like a current you step into.
If your thumbs and wrists are tired… If you’ve been craving a way to work with your body instead of against it… If you feel the call toward something both deeply effective and sustainable, this is a place to root into.
It’s also beautifully mobile work, something you can carry into festivals, events, community spaces, just a mat, a few props, and your body as the instrument.
Come learn from one of my sources of inspiration. Come feel what becomes possible when the whole body is present.
Woven: Soft Edges, Deep Roots is a space for massage therapists who want to deepen their touch, trust their intuition, and explore the body beyond technique through presence, relationship, and lived experience.
Other Upcoming Courses:
FUNdamentals 5/14-16 [FULL]
Barefoot Massage: Advanced 6/8-9
Evidence Informed Pregnancy Massage: 7/9-10
Nervous System Understanding 9/14
Trauma Informed for the clinical setting 9/15
Barefoot Massage: Intermediate 9/20-22 + Hot Ashi
Barefoot Massage: FUNdamentals 11/12-14
Barefoot Massage: Advanced 12/7-8
Thanks for being here!
Sara Newberry is a devoted bodyworker, mother, and founder of Somatic Sole Massage in St. Louis, MO, where she blends ancient wisdom with modern nervous system science to support holistic well-being. Specializing in Mind Body Coaching—a bottom-up approach that centers the body’s intelligence rather than the mind’s agenda—Sara offers a deeply intuitive, trauma-informed space for healing and transformation. Through barefoot massage, somatic practices, and sacred motherhood care, she guides clients in reconnecting with their body’s natural rhythms and resilience.
