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Here, you will find a curated collection of articles, media, public presentations, and videos, all crafted to inform, educate, and inspire. Whether you are seeking in-depth analysis, expert perspectives, or engaging visual content, the Library serves as your go-to destination for reliable information and practical tools to empower your learning and decision-making.
Embrace Your Role as Touch Educator
Touch is good for us. While that may come as no surprise to the massage profession, research that helps us describe the underlying physiology of touch is a tremendous breakthrough. We can now tell our customers exactly why massage makes them feel good. Within...
Seated Massage Success in the Workplace
This article originally appeared in the May 2014 issue of MASSAGE Magazine. Seated, or chair, massage is alive, well and flourishing in the workplace, primarily because of two overarching trends: evolving public perception of massage therapy and the impact of the...
Massage Chair Inventor Profile
[youtube_sc url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FFlwzIZusY&feature=share&list=PL1mtdjDVOoOpzYNFdLmgAxAaKTzwrOi2z" title="David%20Palmer%20-%20Inventor" fs="1"]Sometime around 2008, New York-based photographer David Friedman flew out to San Francisco to...
Massage is Sensational
A recent article in The Atlantic about a phenomenon called ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) reminded me of how little we celebrate the purely sensational nature of massage. ASMR is a subjective sensory experience that typically includes highly...
Calculating Services for a Pre-Paid Event
This question recently came in from a long-time chair massage practitioner: Is there is a calculation for figuring out in advance how many people in a group (office, convention, health fair, etc.) will get a chair massage at a one-time event if it is offered for...
Interview with David Palmer
At the 2013 World Massage Conference (WMC) David debuted his first webinar entitled The Future of Professional Touch. After the presentation and discussion, they premiered a video interview that had been shot in April 2012. You can view it here. In it David...
Chair Practitioner as Wellness Coach
This article originally appeared in the May 2013 issue of Massage Magazine. The focus of the issue was on the business of massage and I was asked to respond to the question: "How can I best position myself as a wellness coach offering chair massage services to...
Four Ways to Market Workplace Chair Massage
Outfitted with education, experience and selling points (see related article: 21st Century Workplace Seated Massage) for chair massage, how do you locate some likely business prospects? 1. Finding receptive companies can be as simple as reading the business section...
21st Century Workplace Seated Massage
This article originally appeared in MASSAGE Magazine's October 2012 issue. From the first days of professional seated massage in the mid 1980s, massage in the workplace has been a significant market segment. When my business was providing chair, or seated, massage...
On the Side of Angels
There is a successful company in Australia, 3-Minute Angels, that started in 2002 providing 3-minute chair massages in pubs and clubs for free. Customers would pay whatever they thought the service was worth. Today the business has grown into a more conventional...
How Culture Mediates Massage
Whenever customers sit in my massage chair, I know that their subjective experience of my touch will be the result of at least four factors: Their genetic profile (Are they male/female? Do they have biological disorders such as autism). Their personal touch history...
Positioning for a Chair Massage Without a Massage Chair
I love to introduce people to massage. I have massaged people in restaurants, on airplanes, at dinner parties and even outdoors in parks. When I go to visit my family on the East Coast, I consider it my pleasure to gift them with massage. If I want to do a thorough...
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