by David Palmer | Nov 9, 2011 | Chair Massage, History
The first time we nervously walked into Apple Computer’s Macintosh division in 1984 to provide seated massage with our matching grey slacks, white polo shirts and blue blazers, we felt overdressed. At a time when the largest computer company in the world, IBM,...
by David Palmer | Aug 21, 2011 | Chair Massage, In the News
Last week Phuket, Thailand, featured two of its most famous tourist attractions–beaches and massage–as the Ministry of Health hosted one of five preliminary events leading up to an official attempt in November to break the Guinness World Record for most...
by David Palmer | Aug 1, 2011 | Bodywork, Business, Chair Massage, Education
When I first began developing chair massage sequences in 1982, one of my students was also a student of Haruyoshi Ito, who had introduced a Japanese movement form called Shintaido to the United States and Europe during the mid 1970s. One day this practitioner came to...
by David Palmer | Jul 27, 2011 | Chair Massage, Touch
When I was a kid, my Mom and I used to lie at opposite ends of the couch with our legs entwined. When I was a kid my Dad used to kiss me goodnight. Then, somewhere around ten or eleven, I became too big or perhaps too much of a “boy” to get a leg cuddle or a Dad kiss....
by David Palmer | May 23, 2011 | Chair Massage, History
My love affair with chair massage began in 1982, four years before the first professional massage chair came on the market. This is the story of what it took to get that first massage chair built. The problem The team I had assembled to begin providing seated massage...
by David Palmer | May 23, 2011 | Chair Massage
Oils and lotions were out. That seemed obvious back in 1982 when I first began exploring the idea of massaging people in a seated position. Fortunately, because I had been trained in traditional Japanese massage (Amma), that was not a problem. Amma practitioners...
