About Us. Founder Scott Pando completed 1,000 hours of intensive training in Swedish, Connective Tissue, Sports, Esalen and Reflexology modalities of massage. He studied at the Institute of Traditional Medicine in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1983. He has practiced in North America, Europe, and Asia, for seventeen years. With continued education in the areas of Traditional Chinese medical principles, as well as attending various workshops on chair massage, Pando founded San Francisco Massage Works in 1997 and has been offering chair massage to businesses throughout the San Francisco Bay Area ever since.

Pando states, “The benefits of massage are basic, yet profound. I have seen it practiced first hand, in traditional cultures in places like India, where it's not uncommon to see mothers rubbing oil into their babies' skin as part of the morning bath. In Thailand the most renowned Thai massage school is situated in a temple in the heart of Bangkok! Massage is also being practiced in contemporary mainstream cultures such as Japan where business people line up daily to receive a chair massage at Tokyo storefronts. In the US, chair massage is being offered on a corporate level where it has come to be commonplace.”