St. David's North Austin Medical Center booked corporate chair massage for an employee appreciation event. Austin Energy did the same for a staff wellness day. Licensed Texas massage therapists, fully managed, covering Palmer Events Center, the Domain, and conference hotels across Austin and Central Texas. Your team handles the event. We handle everything else.
St. David's North Austin Medical Center and Austin Energy have both booked corporate chair massage through us for employee appreciation events and staff wellness days. Our massage therapists are licensed in Texas, experienced working convention floor setups and corporate office environments, and arrive on time with everything they need. An office appreciation event near South Congress typically runs one massage therapist. A full trade show booth at Palmer Events Center runs one to two. A Domain tech company weighing chair massage against a catered lunch for the same appreciation budget line gets the exact staffing number before committing to either option.
Request a Quote → Read: How Chair Massages Boost Employee Productivity Read: Corporate Massage Services OverviewOperational support for trade shows, conferences, employee wellness programs, and corporate events throughout Austin and Central Texas.
Palmer Events Center hosts some of Central Texas's most active trade shows and consumer expos. A professional chair massage station at your booth creates a visible draw, keeps attendees in conversation with your team, and sets your footprint apart on a busy show floor. Our massage therapists are familiar with standard booth configurations and manage their own queue and setup independently. See events at Palmer Events Center.
Learn MoreAustin's conference hotel circuit runs year-round at the JW Marriott Austin, Fairmont Austin, and Hilton Austin, with multi-day industry events drawing attendees from across the country. We staff wellness breaks with one massage therapist for smaller meetings and full wellness lounge buildouts for large conventions. A multi-day convention wellness lounge and a single conference break session get quoted against their own budget line, not a shared convention-wide allocation.
Learn MoreOnsite chair massage is one of the most direct signals you can send to your Austin team that they are valued. We come to your office, bring all equipment, and leave your employees with a genuine physical benefit. Available as a one-time event or a recurring weekly or monthly program for companies in Downtown Austin, the Domain, Cedar Park, Round Rock, and across the metro.
Learn MoreChair massage is consistently the most visited station at any corporate health or benefit fair. It gives employees an immediate, physical experience that a brochure cannot replicate. We integrate into your fair layout and manage our own line independently. A standard setup requires 6.5 x 6.5 feet of floor space. Austin's large healthcare and government employers use us regularly for annual benefit fair events.
Learn MoreTeacher Appreciation Week, Nurses Week, Administrative Professionals Day. Austin has a substantial concentration of hospital staff at the St. David's HealthCare network and Ascension Seton system, plus public school districts and state agency offices whose organizations mark these occasions each year. We bring professional chair massage directly to the people doing the hardest work, at your location, fully managed from start to finish.
Learn MoreI wanted to send a quick note to say thank you for all of your help with the event. The event was a great success, and the guests really loved their hand massages!
Jenn Hearon • The Weekend CollectiveThe communication is always timely and professional. Great job!
Healwise 2.0Massage by Design has been so very pleasant to work with. Booking, the level of service, and total experience has been consistent regardless of where in the country our events have been located.
Jessica Percival • Big LotsAustin's economy spans technology, healthcare, government, and education with large corporate footprints in each sector. The Domain tech corridor, the St. David's and Ascension Seton healthcare networks, the University of Texas, and the state government complex each generate recurring chair massage demand from HR teams running annual appreciation programs, health fairs, and Nurses Week or Teacher Appreciation events. Trade show exhibitors at Palmer Events Center add a convention-driven booking layer that runs year-round.
Our massage therapists serve the full Austin metropolitan area and surrounding Central Texas region. Any event within 100 miles of Downtown Austin is in our service area. That includes the Domain tech corridor, conference hotels along Congress Avenue, and corporate offices throughout the suburbs from Cedar Park to Round Rock to Westlake.
Every client we work with tells us the same thing: they need it to be simple and they need to know it is handled.
Tell us your event date, venue, and how many hours you need. A coordinator follows up within one business day with massage therapist availability and confirmed pricing for your Austin event. No obligation at that point.
Once you book, we coordinate everything on our end. Massage therapist assignment, timing, and any venue-specific requirements. If you are at Palmer Events Center, the JW Marriott Austin, or a corporate office in the Domain, we know what those setups look like. You will not be managing logistics on event day.
Your massage therapist arrives on time, in professional attire, with the chair and every supply needed. They set up independently, manage their own queue, and break down when the event ends across corporate offices, trade shows, and conferences throughout Central Texas.
Recipients stay fully clothed in their work attire. There are no oils, no changing, and no disruption to the rest of the workday. A session takes 10 to 15 minutes per person.
A standard setup requires 6.5 x 6.5 feet of floor space. We can also work in smaller areas including conference room corners, back sections of trade show booths, and shared office spaces throughout Austin and Central Texas.
Most corporate chair massage sessions run 10 to 15 minutes. That is enough time for employees or event attendees to experience a genuine physical benefit without taking a significant break from their day.
Our massage therapists arrive with a professional massage chair and all required supplies. We handle everything from arrival to breakdown, at every Austin venue.
Massage by Design has been providing professional chair massage since 2005. In that time we have staffed employee appreciation events for St. David's North Austin Medical Center and Austin Energy, worked trade shows and conferences at Palmer Events Center, and supported HR teams at corporate offices throughout the Domain and Downtown Austin. That depth of experience means nothing catches us off guard on event day.
Most corporate massage companies are run by businesspeople. Massage by Design was built by a licensed massage therapist. Founder Koko Klipper started her career behind the chair and grew this company from the ground up. That firsthand experience shapes how we screen massage therapists, coordinate events, and show up for clients across every market we serve.
We serve 40+ cities with the same standard at every event. A Domain tech company weighing chair massage against catered lunches for its Austin appreciation budget, and the same conversation happening in its Chicago or Dallas office, both get a number to bring back to HR without a fresh vendor search each time. Visit our full locations page to see every city we serve.
The clock starts when the first recipient sits down. There are no charges for arrival, setup, or breakdown. The number on the quote is the number on the invoice. For Austin tech companies and healthcare systems managing internal budget approvals, that clarity matters. If your organization runs events in Austin one quarter and Chicago or San Diego the next, the number that cleared Austin's HR budget line is the number that clears the next city's too. Learn more at massagebydesign.net.
Austin's technology sector concentrates significant HR budget in a small geographic area. The Domain alone houses the regional offices of companies whose HR and workplace experience teams run appreciation programs on formal annual calendars. When a tech employer plans an appreciation event, chair massage competes against catered lunches and branded merchandise for the same budget line. It wins on employee feedback consistently enough that many Austin tech companies treat it as a recurring annual program rather than a one-time event. That repeat-booking pattern generates a volume of returning clients in the Domain corridor that most markets of Austin's size don't produce.
The St. David's HealthCare and Ascension Seton networks create a second, structurally different demand pattern. Hospital systems run Nurses Week programming across multiple facilities simultaneously during the first full week of May. Each facility has its own scheduling constraints, its own shift rotations, and its own point of contact. All of them need confirmed vendor availability during the same compressed window. That multi-facility, multi-day structure means healthcare clients in Austin book earlier and require more logistical coordination than any other event type in the market. For a vendor without consistent availability across multiple dates and locations, this event type is difficult to fulfill reliably.
Palmer Events Center sustains demand throughout the year from exhibitors whose primary metric is booth traffic. In a market where Austin's convention calendar competes with regional trade shows, corporate summits, and industry conferences running back to back from January through December, exhibitors who have used chair massage at a previous show book it as a line item rather than a discretionary add-on. That distinction between planned budget and impulse booking means Palmer Events Center exhibitor bookings come in earlier and cancel less often than almost any other event type Massage by Design serves in Austin.
Yes. We staff trade shows, consumer expos, and professional events at Palmer Events Center and are familiar with the venue's floor configurations and exhibitor logistics. Our massage therapists work within standard booth footprints, set up independently, and manage all event-day coordination on their own. Learn more about our trade show chair massage services.
The most common event types include trade show booths at Palmer Events Center and the Austin Convention Center, where chair massage draws foot traffic and keeps attendees engaged; employee appreciation events at corporate offices in Downtown Austin, the Domain, and Cedar Park; health and benefit fairs for large healthcare and government employers including the St. David's HealthCare network and Austin Energy; multi-day conferences at the JW Marriott Austin, Fairmont Austin, and Hilton Austin; and special recognition weeks including Nurses Week and Teacher Appreciation Week for school districts and hospital staff throughout Central Texas.
Yes. Every massage therapist we send to an Austin event is licensed by the State of Texas and carries their own liability insurance. We can provide documentation on request if your venue or event organizer requires proof of licensing or insurance coverage before allowing onsite service.
For major trade shows at Palmer Events Center and large multi-day conventions, book four to six weeks in advance when possible. Austin is a high-volume event market and massage therapist availability fills quickly during peak conference periods, particularly in the spring and fall. For employee appreciation days and office events in Downtown Austin, the Domain, or the suburbs, two to three weeks of lead time is typically sufficient. Contact us and we will confirm availability for your dates within one business day.
Yes, and the mechanism is direct. Most desk workers carry chronic tension in the neck, shoulders, and upper back from extended time at a screen. A 10 to 15 minute chair massage addresses those areas specifically while the recipient stays fully clothed in their work attire. There are no oils, no changing, and no disruption to the rest of the day. Employees return to their desks having had a tangible physical benefit rather than a pamphlet about healthy habits. For Austin tech companies competing for talent, a single onsite chair massage event often produces more positive team feedback than an entire quarter of passive wellness programming.
Our massage therapist arrives at your Palmer Events Center or Austin Convention Center booth before doors open, sets up the chair within your footprint, and begins seeing attendees as traffic starts. The chair requires roughly 6.5 x 6.5 feet. Sessions run 10 to 15 minutes each. The massage therapist manages their own sign-up process, maintains the flow of the queue, and breaks down at the close of the show day. Exhibitors consistently report that chair massage is the single most effective draw for sustained booth traffic. Your booth staff focuses on conversations while our massage therapist runs the station independently.
One massage therapist can serve approximately four to six people per hour at 10 to 15 minutes per session. For a four-hour employee appreciation event with 60 to 80 attendees, two massage therapists is a common configuration. For a full-day trade show booth at Palmer Events Center, one dedicated massage therapist typically covers the traffic volume for most mid-sized exhibitors. When you submit your quote request, tell us your expected headcount and event duration and a coordinator will recommend the right staffing level for your specific event.
Yes. Many Austin companies use us for regular onsite chair massage on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly schedule. It is one of the most requested and cost-effective employee wellness benefits, particularly for technology and healthcare companies in competitive hiring markets. A recurring program requires no additional coordination after the initial booking is confirmed. Your massage therapist arrives, sets up, runs the session, and leaves. Learn more about employee appreciation chair massage.
Chair massage is priced by the hour per massage therapist. Rates start at $95 per hour with a two-hour minimum. The final rate depends on event location, number of hours booked, and whether the event runs during evening or after-hours shifts. There are no setup fees, teardown fees, or travel charges within the coverage area. Credit card payments carry a 3.15% processing fee. The price in your quote is the price on the invoice and does not change after the event.
Request a quote directly through Massage by Design. Tell us your event date, venue, and how many hours you need. A coordinator follows up within one business day with massage therapist availability and confirmed pricing for your Austin event. We serve the full metro including Palmer Events Center, the JW Marriott Austin and Fairmont Austin, Downtown and South Congress offices, and suburban venues in the Domain, Cedar Park, Round Rock, Georgetown, Pflugerville, and Westlake. There is no obligation after receiving your quote. Reach us by phone at (866) 629-7352 or visit our full locations page to see every city we serve.
Tell us about your event and one of our coordinators will follow up with massage therapist availability, pricing, and everything you need to know. Usually within one business day.
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