SARGA BODYWORK's educational programs and proprietary products offer bodyworkers a unique and comprehensive system that is as effective as it is elegant. Sarga Bodywork’s live and online courses train and certify practitioners in our distinctive methodology. Our proprietary products facilitate a creative, efficient, and completely mobile application of these methods.
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SARGA BODYWORK is a barefoot massage method that employs the use of a fabric strap fastened to a massage table to deliver therapeutic myofascial and deep tissue techniques. This fabric strap is used by practitioners for stability and to add tensional and gravitational force to specific manual therapy methods. These methods, combined with the broad contact surface of the foot facilitate less restriction and more ease and relaxation in recipients’ bodies.
SARGA BODYWORK MARRIES METHOD AND DESIGN, enabling practitioners to gain tensional support and force with a fabric strap fastened to a massage table or floor-mat via our proprietary equipment. In addition to support, the Sarga Strap can be transformed into a variety of tools, and facilitates a wide range of body mechanics for the practitioner. By pulling up on the strap while applying downward pressure, practitioners gain tensional force that can then be transferred onto the recipient’s body. Utilizing high-tack lubrication, gravitational and tensional force, practitioners can deliver consistent, oblique pressure to provide a uniquely effective myofascial therapy. See Sarga Bodywork & Tensegrity. |
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SARGA BODYWORK encourages myofascial technique over effleurage or deep tissue techniques. We define myofascial technique as manual therapy characterized by sustained, oblique, and high-tack contact with the aim of stimulating a stretch response in the fascia associated with muscle (myo) tissue (see shear-force). This technique helps to facilitate length, hydration, and mobility in recipient's connective tissue. We celebrate the broad, densely innervated surfaces of our feet as perhaps the most effective and intelligent tools for this purpose!
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FEET! are amazing tools, and as bodyworkers, the ability to perform massage with our feet opens up a whole new set of biomechanical options. Use of the feet for massage is an ancient practice, most notably in parts of Asia and the Pacific. Many of these techniques however, do not commonly use lotion or oil for practical reasons . . . to cross the slippery slope of combining lubrication with foot-based bodywork requires structural support. Keralite Massage and Ashiatsu are two elegant expressions of this combination that require use of an overhead rope or a bar for balance.
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SARGA BODYWORK IS COMPLETELY MOBILE. Bodyworkers tend to be an independent breed, and the beauty of being a bodyworker is that our work goes with us wherever we go. We might be working at multiple locations, driving to outcalls, or traveling the globe while providing treatments to fund our wanderlust. Sarga Bodywork serves this independence by providing barefoot bodywork that is not limited by the need for structural overhead support that is built into a treatment room.
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THE WORD SARGA has meaning both in Spanish and in Sanskrit. In Spanish, sarga refers to a tapestry woven from many different threads. This is a fitting concept for us, since Sarga Bodywork synthesizes techniques and teachings from many different traditions. In this way, Sarga Bodywork is a colorful tapestry of bodywork traditions, carefully gathered and creatively woven into a beautiful quilt of possibility. It is appropriate that this metaphor of a tapestry is connected to the fabric that we hold in our hands for balance and support. In Sanskrit, the word Sarga can refer to a creation or origin energy, made manifest into form. This idea sustains our mission to provide techniques and materials that help inspire bodyworkers to resource their innate creativity in ways that are mindful, safe, minimally strenuous, and fabulously efficient.
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