Healing traditions

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• Body Manipulation

  Hands are the most valuable diagnostic and therapeutic tool in body manipulation therapies. Whether treating the body as a whole or in its individual parts, mechanical manipulation

• Massage Therapy

  Touching the body where it hurts is as basic an instinct as eating when hungry and sleeping when tired. Cave paints in the pyrenees from 15,000 years ago show injuries being treat

• Postural Reeducation

  Postural Reeducation therapies are directed towards retraining the body to come into alignment in order to change faults within an individuals posture and movement patterns. Learni

• Pressure Point Therapies

  Pressure point Therapies like Oriental Massage and Reflexology borrow from traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine in that their aim to release blockages in the flow of energies

• Structural Integration

  Deep tissue therapies like Rolfing. Hellerwork and Aston-Patterning attempt to eliminate tension and stiffness by massaging the body's network of connective tissue, known as fascia

• Therapeutic Touch

  Healing through physical touch conveys a sense of companionship, comfort and communication. Therapeutic Touch is based on the belief that a universal life force is at the core of a