Couples and caregivers receive massage tips via speaker phone or earpiece. Photo/Eric Lon.

Are you still holiday shopping, or considering something new for yourself, as a New Year's resolution? Imagine telling your sweetie on Christmas that you've arranged a personal massage session which will be applied by wonderful you, on a special date.  Maybe you'll arrange the appointment to coincide with a romantic getaway, or stay home and your mate can accessorize a fluffy towel with that new bauble or bangle you've wrapped under the tree.  Trading places during the massage is only fair, right?  It's a win-win situation, when you try the new service called TeleMassage.

Sarah Silva has been a licensed massage therapist for over 20 years.  She recently directed her healing hands toward an instructional telephone service called Telemassage.  Sarah is available to anyone who is serious about a single session of massage technique coaching with a partner, friend, or family member at the location of their choice.  With Sarah's voice on speaker phone or other hands-free phone device, clients are directed in the massage technique of their preference, after an initial appointment is made.

Customers create their own spa experience, or setup a convenient home massage with a partner or equally interested student.  This isn't just for romantics, but couples can light candles, prepare soft music and body oils before their appointment, or others interested in learning massage technique may prefer to practice on a friend, and prepare for future caregiving or pampering of a special someone.  

Anyone with a telephone can arrange a fantastic surprise for someone, then follow-through on the appointed day with another phone call - - apply those free minutes, Baby!  How else can you stay in touch by cell phone, and have your partner at your fingertips, at the same time?  Technology meets biology.

Sessions and rates vary, but absolutely nothing about this service is sexually oriented or suggestive. The web site informs you that this is about kinks, not kinkiness.  But, those who know their own bodies well are better able to communicate their needs to a mate, so serious students on the phone may apply their newfound knowledge privately, later.  Not that I've tried any salacious chatter during a phone call with Sarah, but I've heard that there will be immediate disconnection, with no refund.  And the whole point here is connection, not disconnection.

Massage can be healing, pampering, or attributed to better overall health, well-being, and circulation. So, take a look at the telemassagenow.com web site and see if your New Year's resolution should include some new phone terminology.... like not putting yourself on hold anymore, or spending more peak minutes with your mate.  Then, let your fingers do the walking.

A single thought:  hands-on experience