A massaging system and method that includes a base carrying a massager head, carriage and drive arrangement resiliently biased by a massager suspension arrangement formed by part of a resilient deformable person support disposed between the massager head and a person supporting surface upon which a person being massaged by the massaging system. The massager suspension arrangement is formed by part of the resilient deformable person support that can be formed of foam, preferably memory foam, which provides or defines a spring of the suspension arrangement capture in compression.