I have to start with what has to be one of the signature aspects of the massage experience,

which is that music, that like pan flute music.

Where do you get that music?

I hate most massage music.

I struggled so hard at the beginning of my career to find music that I didn't hate.

And I actually played the same album. It was Mozart for Meditation.

And it was 58 minutes. And at the time, most of the massages I was giving were 60 minutes. So it didn't repeat too much. And I listened to that for like three years. Really? Like in every

session? In every session, that thing just played on repeat. And it was 20 years ago when I started. So this

was literally a CD player under my massage table and it would be on repeat. And so we'd get to the

end of the album. And you'd hear like that funny scraping

noise as it's like the disc would repeat and start up again.

And that didn't drive you crazy to hear that again and again.

It didn't. Strangely enough, I think I kind of choreographed my

work to it, which was good as a beginning massage therapist when you're trying to find your footing.

Alyssa Haynes has been a massage therapist for 20 years. She recently brought that Mozart album

back into rotation on her playlist,

but she's not always the DJ for her sessions.

I had a client who used to regularly come in and bring his own playlist,

and it was always heavy metal.

And it was 90 minutes of heavy metal.

And he was so into the playlist that he actually made it so that at like minute 89 of his massage,

just ending, he would have an ending and it was a live performance so there

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