Massage Therapy Journal Spring 2025

Spring 2025 • 29

Resilience in Your Massage Practice How you can maintain vitality and youthfulness through a long, fruitful massage career.

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It is primarily by living our values that we can share effectively with others.

and stressed-out clients, and can also help reduce inflammation, pain, tight muscles, and soreness. Q We’re also excited about your upcoming “Mysteries of Longevity & Rejuvenation” workshops. Can you give us a glimpse of what massage therapists can expect to learn? Lee: The workshops will be mostly experiential. We will explore the secrets behind the Inca Blue Zone and a wide variety of other methods I have uncovered or developed over the years that contribute to resilience, vitality, and longevity. Massage therapists will also become able to explain how each of these methods works. Q In today’s fast-paced world, how can massage therapists help their clients achieve a longer, healthier life? Lee: The first step is to verify life-enhancing methods to incorporate into their own lives. Facts without personal verification are empty. It is primarily by living our values that we can share effectively with others. Q Finally, what message would you like to leave with our massage therapist community? Lee: I’d like to encourage all therapists to make a joyful, vital, centenarian lifestyle their own through direct experience and verification. This means examining both ancient wisdom and modern innovations such as the CHI Palm and CHI Sun to distill what works. For more information on the “Mysteries of Longevity & Rejuvenation” workshops and to explore CHI Institute’s range of products, please visit our website at chi.us.

Richard Lee has traveled the world in search of keys to consciousness and vitality, from Qigong to the rejuvenation secrets of the ancient Incan shaman. Richard Lee is Director of Research and Development at CHI Institute Q Could you share what initially drew you to explore Qi Gong and the human vital field? Richard Lee: My journey began as an engineer firmly grounded in material science. However, witnessing the profound effects of Chinese medicine and practicing many forms of energy healing left me asking: “What is the vital field?” Then, I started building devices to simulate the different forms of energy I found in the vital field. Q You spoke of the Blue Zone in the Andes. How has this influenced your approach to health and wellness? Lee: I saw that for thousands of years the Inca have sustained a rich shamanic and plant-based medicine health care system. I studied the Inca shamanic methods and built devices that would simulate some of these effects. Q Massage therapy can be physically demanding for practitioners. How can CHI support massage therapists in their own self-care routines? Lee: Massage therapists often focus so much on their clients that they may overlook their own well being. We have developed many methods to support practitioners. The CHI Sun improves the intuitive connection with source energy that heightens focus, creativity, tranquility, and restful sleep. The CHI Palm simulates the magnetic, emotional energy that is often depleted when massaging depleted

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