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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.
The Fainting Phenomenon
This week I got an email from Katy who writes: “I was about 20 minutes into the chair massage when the massage therapist began to work in and around my right shoulder blade. I began to feel clammy and tried to breathe deeply and out of nowhere, I began to black out....
An Outsider Analyzes Massage
I was a mama's boy. The youngest of four males born to my parents within five years, I was the baby of the family and spoiled rotten. There are a number of family stories dramatizing that fact, my favorite of which is how I bravely got on the school bus for my first...
The Realms of Massage
The first professional massage I ever received was around 1970 in an old Russian Banya on the near-North Side of Chicago called the Luxor Baths. The clientele was a mix of the old Jewish expats who had moved to the suburbs (Nelson Algren used to hang out here) and the...
Chair Massage: A foundation for fitness
While I am a big believer in making every moment a fitness moment (see Creating a Fitness Lifestyle), the reality is many people don't have even the most basic motivation to move to a healthier lifestyle. That's where chair massage fits in because it not only requires...
Change-ability: Mastering the Inevitable
Note: This is the fourth and last of a series of articles called “C”-ing Your Way to Success about the value of Conviction, Clarity, Consistency and Change-ability in business. The first three “C”s discussed in this series (Conviction, Clarity, Consistency) are...
Hygiene Protocol for Chair Massage
While there are probably more infectious agents on the doorknob customers touch as they enter your massage space than are on your massage chair, the public nature of chair massage makes a solid hygiene protocol essential. It is a matter both of perception and...
How Sticky is Massage?
In the world wide web, "stickiness" refers to how long you can keep a user on your website or how often you can get them to return. It is a measure of user engagement and loyalty. So how loyal and engaged, that is to say, how sticky are massage customers? Judging by...
Moving Massage from Acceptability to Accessibility
For as long as people have been paying for therapeutic massage services, practitioners have feared being mistaken for prostitutes. That fear was the primary driving force that, in 1983, led the American Massage Therapy Association to re-brand “massage” into “massage...
The Leg Problem in Chair Massage
Steve Knobles called today from North Seattle Community Acupuncture clinic. He recently started seating patients in a massage chair because it allowed easy access to their necks, backs and arms for needling and was often more comfortable than lying on a table....
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