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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.
Successful Businesses Start With Conviction
For an entrepreneur, conviction is where it all starts. An exciting idea enters your brain and gets your juices flowing. You can't stop thinking about it so you start testing the idea out in conversations with friends. After that reality check you begin making lists...
How Steve Jobs Revolutionized the Massage Industry
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, was...
584 People Receive Seated Massage on Thai Beach
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 simultaneous...
Quality Control Through Katas
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...
Why I Do Chair Massage – Part Two
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....
I Believe in Touch
In 2004, National Public Radio (NPR) began airing readings of brief essays entitled This I Believe written by youth and adults from all walks of life about the core values that guide their daily lives. It was based on a 1950s radio program of the same name, hosted by...
July 21, 1911 – Happy Hundredth Birthday, Marshal McLuhan
The author of The Medium is the Massage, Marshal McLuhan, deserves a space in the massage almanac for the positive PR impact he had on the early days of contemporary massage, not to mention my life. In 1967, the year of this book's publication, massage was still...
Creating a Fitness Lifestyle
We all believe in the importance of fitness. Heck some of us are selling it. But what is fitness, and how do you achieve it? My idea of fitness is a broad one. It includes physical, intellectual, social and spiritual components. But my concept of fitness does not mean...
The Curious Disparity of Ambidexterity
After an operation in 1974 put my right shoulder out of commission for a couple of months, I realized how little dexterity I had in my left hand relative to my right. What’s that all about, I thought. Who made that dominant hand rule that we live our lives by anyway?...
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