Bodywork:
Alternative
Health Dictionary on Bodywork
bodywork (Bodywork Therapy, bodywork therapies): A potpourri of methods typified by exercising, manipulating, and/or manually (especially digitally) touching the body. It overlaps with energy field work. The expression bodywork is generally interchangeable with hands-on healing and hands-on health.
The major categories of bodywork are:
(a) massage therapy,
(b) body-centered psychotherapy, and
(c) touch therapy.
Its major foci are:
(a) body structure (e.g., chiropractic),
(b) body armor (e.g., Reichian Therapy),
(c) chi or vital energy (e.g., acupressure massage, acupuncture, and jin shinn),
(d) relaxation (e.g., lomi-lomi and Swedish massage), and
(e) the subtle body (e.g., Reiki and Therapeutic Touch).
The word bodyworkers refers to practitioners of any form of bodywork that is not categorizable as acupuncture, chiropractic adjustments, osteopathy, body-centered psychotherapy, touch therapy, or energy field work.
(See
also: Bodywork ,
Alternative
Health, Body Mind and Soul)
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Bodywork:
Alternative
Health Dictionary on Bodywork
bodywork (Bodywork Therapy, bodywork therapies): A potpourri of methods typified by exercising, manipulating, and/or manually (especially digitally) touching the body. It overlaps with energy field work. The expression bodywork is generally interchangeable with hands-on healing and hands-on health.
The major categories of bodywork are:
(a) massage therapy,
(b) body-centered psychotherapy, and
(c) touch therapy.
Its major foci are:
(a) body structure (e.g., chiropractic),
(b) body armor (e.g., Reichian Therapy),
(c) chi or vital energy (e.g., acupressure massage, acupuncture, and jin shinn),
(d) relaxation (e.g., lomi-lomi and Swedish massage), and
(e) the subtle body (e.g., Reiki and Therapeutic Touch).
The word bodyworkers refers to practitioners of any form of bodywork that is not categorizable as acupuncture, chiropractic adjustments, osteopathy, body-centered psychotherapy, touch therapy, or energy field work.
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Related Methods" by Jack Raso, M.S., R.D., Director of Publications for the
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