Bodywork

Health therapies that involve manipulation of the body and its bioelectrical energy field. There are numerous types of bodywork, involving massage, physical manipulation, movement, breathing, realignment of the energy field, and energy transfer. These therapies assume the existence of a universal life force that affects health, and the existence of a self-healing capacity within everyone, which can be stimulated by the therapy. Bodywork takes into account the role of the mid and emotions in physical health, and the organism's overall interaction with the environment and the universal life energies. Although many bodywork methods are ancient, bodywork as a movement began around the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. Bodywork therapy involves a high level of intuitive awareness on the part of the therapist.