Founder: George Kometani
In the spring of 1990, after working 30 years as a mechanical engineer in the aerospace industry designing, building, launching rockets for government experiments and directing the launching of the first successful commercial scientific rocket, BrightLife founder George Kometani changed his direction to "body mechanics." Upon experiencing the healing effects of shiatsu massage, he decided to focus on this form of holistic healing. After graduating from the Shiatsu Massage School of California in Santa Monica, California, he worked and taught for a number of years, at the same school while developing his own private practice which he still successfully maintains today. Using his skills as a mechanical engineer, he invented and developed the Bodyfloat System.

In his quest for a complete body therapy technique, he has studied many different modalities of massage such as: Sports Massage, Reflexology, Jin Shin Do (energy work), Myofascial Release, Zen Therapy, Visceral Manipulation, Pregnancy Massage and Qi Gong (Chinese energy exercise). He has incorporated the best of all of these modalities in his practice to meet the needs of his clients.

More recently, Kometani has been in demand as a clinician to teach others practitioners the techniques which he developed himself for effective relief of neck and shoulder pain. Seeking to share his knowledge of the positive effects of Self-Massage, he has facilitated regular workshops with extremely positive results to various civic, church, school and other interested groups. He contends that we can accomplish a great deal for better health with self-massage on a daily basis.