Chair massage professionals often like using
predetermined chair massage routines when doing
seated massage.
Why?
One reason is that chair massage was
developed by David Palmer who was a strong
proponent and educator of a ancient Japanese
style of massage called Amma. Like many of the
Eastern styles of massage, the techniques of
Amma massage are applied in a systematic and
sequential fashion. So as Palmer developed chair
massage he carried that approach with him,
referring to this approach as a “massage kata”
rather than a massage routine.
This history aside, there are some good
reasons to use a chair massage routine.
Chair massage routines…
Provide for a level of quality control.
This is especially when chair massage
practitioners are working together as a group
which they often do.
Become automatic. When you are massaging
dozens of people in a public space there are
distractions. Having a chair massage routine
ensures that you don’t become distracted and
leave out important parts of your massage.
It provides a framework on which you can
build a longer massage. It’s a solid
foundation so to speak.
A Relax to the Max students learn a
researched and highly effective chair massage
routine as part of their chair massage training.
This routine was first developed in 1994 and has
been developed and refined since then on tens of
thousands of customers. The massage routine
focuses on the back, neck, shoulders, arms and
hands.
The routine was also designed to accelerate a
student’s learning process, allowing them to do
a safe, effective, and deeply relaxing massage
in a matter of days. In less than a week of
training, students are able to do massage that
feels so good, that many customers think that
they have trained for years.
But unlike most chair massage training that’s
available, Relax to the Max training goes well
beyond a predetermined chair massage routine.
Students learn a large range of techniques that
cover every part of the body – from scalp to
toes. They learn how to customize a massage of
any length and are able to do anything from a
three minute shoulder rub at the ninth on a golf
course, to a full body massage with the person
sitting right in the chair.
It’s a truly amazing learning system.
To find out more about the Relax to the Max
chair massage training program, explore the
links on the left hand side of this page.
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