By Steve Capellini and Michel Van Welden
Foreword by Robin Leach
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About the Authors
Steve Capellini: You may be thinking to yourself, "What makes HIM so special that he should write this book on massage?" Perhaps what most specifically qualifies me is the inordinate amount of time, amounting to many thousands of hours, I’ve spent cooped up alone in a room with just one other person, touching them all over their bodies and getting paid for it.
What could be more fun? Or more weird? I hope I’ve got the communication skills to get across to you the reasons why an otherwise sane human being would spend such a large percentage of his life in such a strange manner.
And in addition, to give you an idea of some more specific qualifications, here’s a rough chronology of my life in touch:
1977: Received first massage ever, from high school girlfriend Grace, and knew that something important had just transpired.
1983: Attended 108 hour massage class in Los Angeles and became certified. Had to take V. D. test at local health clinic in order to receive license (a local prostitution ordinance).
1984: Massaged members of the cast and crew of a movie being filmed about Ernest Hemingway in Pamplona, Spain, during the famous running of the bulls. Yes, I ran.
1985: First regular massage job, at a spa in Florida, giving 25-minute full body oil rub-downs to cigar-smoking "good ole boys" for $4 an hour.
1986: Rethought career choice. Started working at a friend’s landscaping company.
1987: Was called into work at a new spa in Miami, the Doral. Massaged Dr. Ruth Westheimer, who gave me the "secret" of aphrodisiacs.
1988: Became supervisor of the massage and spa treatments department at the Doral, in charge of 40 therapists.
1989: Became a traveling spa trainer, hiring staff and overseeing openings of spas in Vermont, Jamaica, oncruiseships, and more.
1992: Started teaching workshops to massage therapists and business owners. Massaged Red Cross volunteers and army personnel in aftermath of Hurricane Andrew.
1997: Began publishing books on massage and spas (this is the third one).
1998: First child born. Waiting until he’s a year or two old before teaching him how to massage Mommy and Daddy.
1999: Continuing to rub, teach, and write.
Michel Van Welden, PT, NT, received his training at the Physical Therapy Institute of Paris, specializing in orthopedic and neurological rehabilitation, as well as sports medicine and the treatment of burn victims.
For 26 years, he practiced both in hospitals and in his own private clinic. Working hand in hand (no pun intended) with plastic surgeons, he helped develop Plastic Physical Therapy, which increases the positive results of plastic surgery procedures. He also assembled a procedural manual and produced a video about lymphatic drainage and has taught his technique to therapists throughout France and around the world.
Since arriving in the U. S., he has become an "expert on the skin," who, in May 1998, substantiated the first derivative claim ever approved by the FDA for the treatment of cellulite using a patented massage device. All the other stuff you see on infomercials about cellulite is a lot of malarkey.
Mr. Van Welden is currently a consultant and acting Director of Research for two American clinical research projects studying the effects of massage on cute little pigs. These are underway at UCLA and Vanderbilt University, believe it or not.
Michel is also a wild and crazy outdoorsman. He has run to the top of Mount Kilamanjaro seven times. He also became the record holder for long distance running along the Great Wall of China, covering 1,500 miles, half of the wall’s length. His greatest achievement in the sports field, though, was in helping dozens of other people discover their own potentials by leading fitness trips to the Great Wall, Kilamanjaro, the Andes peaks, and other destinations.
Mr. Van Welden is married and is the father of three children. He lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
He can be contacted by email at Mi chel vp@worl dnet. att. net.
Dedication
I dedicate this book to the coolest little massage partner ever, Brandon Sunthorn Capellini, born August 3,1998.
Acknowledgments from Stei/e Capellini
I thank Atchana, my darling partner and wife, who received less massages because I was so busy writing these past months. The rest of my family was equally supportive and enthusiastic too: Mom & Dad, Tina, Bala & Adi, Jim & Lalitha, Rob, Suzanne, Chris, Ari, & Nicole. And of course the Thai side of the family: Umpun, Lek, Pat, Rangsan, Tina, & Rolando. And the father-in-law I never knew, Sunthorn Chuaindhara; he lives on in our hearts.
I appreciate my co-author Michel Van Welden for his help and for being so dedicated to his worldwide massage research.
I’m very grateful to Carol Susan Roth, who believed I was right for this project and made it all possible through her dedication and hard work, and to Lori Huneke for introducing us.
Thank you to stellar literary agents, Michael Larsen and Elizabeth Pomada, who’ve been steadily supporting my writing and helping me grow.
All the folks at Hungry Minds have been a pleasure to work with because they are smart and they have vision and they like massage! I really appreciate being treated as part of the team, especially at BEA, and I’d especially like to thank Tami Booth for her support, encouragement, and hard work on this project. I also thank Kathleen Welton for remembering me from two years earlier; Tim Gallan, a brave soul who endured major surgery while right in the midst of editing this book; Christina Turner; Karen Young; Kristina Pappas; Mimi Sells; Jonathan Malysiak; Steve Berkowitz; Charles Berkstresser; Roland Elgey; Sarah Woodman & Ana Noetzel for creating killer trade show events; David Scott for staying in touch from Australia; and John Kilcullen for proudly proclaiming "Free massages! Only in America!" at the Book Expo. You’ve got a great team, and you know how to throw a party!
Also, there are so many friends and clients from the massage and spa world who’ve helped with this book too: Jai Varadaraj for all her help from India; Lynda Solien-Wolfe for her guerilla massage marketing and the great Massage For Dummies chair; Don Payne; John Fanuzzi; Carole Spellman; Ed Wilson; Iris Burman; Dan & Telka Ulrich; Pat Weinman; Harvey & Phyllis Sandler; Dave Kennedy; Amory Rowe; the Dail family up in Maine for their unparalleled hospitality; and especially Nancy Dail for her technical review of this book; Steve Chagnon; Vincenzo & Susy Marra; Giovanni Grippando; Regina Kipnis; Ellen Wickersham; Connie Johnson; Jim Berenholtz; Mark Siciliani; and Carol Ann Ferrol.
Also, I thank the co-creators of the book: Kathryn Born, for the illustrations; Peter Barrett for the photography; and his assistants Alfredo and Ava, and of course the models, Fardan Karibee, Josephine B. Hortenbrink, Jason Barger, & Linda Vongkhamphra.
Acknowledgments from Michel Van Welden
For my Mom, for all that she did for me, including going through sciatica pain to show me the way of my future. Thanks.
To all the patients who knocked on my door to receive a massage and ended up sweating in Africa or in Bolivia.
To Steve Capellini for not thinking that all French are arrogant, carrying their baguettes and bottles of wine everywhere they go, and for offering me the pleasure of sharing the success of this book.
To Sebastien and Jordane my sons, for all the support they bring to their too often gone away, Dad.
To Jocelyne who taught me how to speak to pigs about massage, and convince them that the guy with the white coat and a strong French accent was not the butcher. And for the love she brings me every day.
To Dr. James Watson, plastic surgeon at UCLA, and Dr. David Adcok plastic surgeon at Vanderbilt University, for all the hours spent together in the lab and in the Plastic Surgery Department trying to understand a non – surgical technique.
To Tami Booth for giving me this extraordinary opportunity — And to Carol Susan Roth for making it possible.
To be published in the USA.
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