Therapy Name: Bodywork
Regulatory Body: None
Efficacy: Each form of bodywork has differing efficacy.
Overview: Any therapeutic, healing or personal development work which involves some form of touching, energetic work or the physical manipulation of a practically oriented physical and somatic understanding of the body.
Some of the best known forms of bodywork are: Yoga and pranayama, breath work and respiration techniques; Respiratory therapy; Body-Mind Centering; Continuum; Feldenkrais method; Rolfing; Trager Approach, Alexander technique, kinesiology, Bates method, Bio-energetics, Bowen technique, metamorphosis massage, Polarity therapy, and osteopathy.