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"For years, I&amp;#x27;ve fantasized about hiring a massage therapist to come to the office and give us all chair massages at our desks. Seriously, I&amp;#x27;ve been annoying my bosses (pretty much every place I&amp;#x27;ve worked) with this bizarre request&amp;amp;#8212;all in the name of &amp;quot;beauty research&amp;quot;&amp;amp;#8212;for ages. Well guess what? My dream finally came true yesterday!So, it turns out that a lot of people (not just hedonistic me) want in-home and in-office massage treatments. I was talking to a good friend about my chair-massage-at-my-desk fantasy and she told me about Refresh Body, an in-home wellness service that has a team of top-notch massage therapists, yoga instructors, pilates instructors, and personal trainers that they&amp;#x27;ll dispatch to your place&amp;amp;#8212;home or office&amp;amp;#8212;at the drop of a hat. The company, launched in 2007, services New York City and the Hamptons&amp;amp;#8212;and the prices aren&amp;#x27;t outrageous compared to in-spa and in-gym rates. For example, a one-hour in-home massage costs between $135 and $165&amp;amp;#8212;which is about on-target with what a premium spa in New York charges. Of course, the difference is you don&amp;#x27;t have to leave your house for the Refresh Body appointment! Here&amp;#x27;s what happens when you book a massage: You can schedule your appointment online at RefreshBody.com (you can also pay online). The massage therapist arrives with a heated table (for table massages&amp;amp;#8212;in our case, we booked chair massages), high thread-count sheets, essential oils, a chamomile eye pillow and a heat pad. Refresh also offers pre-natal massages (they&amp;#x27;ll bring a &amp;quot;pregnancy pillow&amp;quot; for expecting mothers, too). For yoga, pilates, and training, the instructor will bring mats, bands, blocks, and weights. So, yeah, here&amp;#x27;s me getting a chair massage in the conference room yesterday: It was awesome. Lesley, who&amp;#x27;s working on me in that photo, is a supervising massage therapist and she was amazing&amp;amp;#8212;plus, I picked lemon essential oil, which I&amp;#x27;ve never done before, and it was great. I really highly recommend in-office massages&amp;amp;#8212;its such a luxury, but bosses, take note: this is a major morale-booster! Have you ever had an at-home massage? This was my first one, and I&amp;#x27;m kind of hooked! Usually I go for massages once a month or once every two months to a spa that&amp;#x27;s close to my apartment (where they stand on you!) but I&amp;#x27;m sooo going to be booking Refresh Body for super-lazy don&amp;#x27;t-wanna-go-outside weekends."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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