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4Dim bodywork  
Founded by Dirk Oellibrant and his wife Katrien Laurens, 4 Dimensional Bodywork combines a variety of other healing practices. The purpose of the treatment is to increase movement and communication between the four layers of consciousness. The underlying philosophy is Taoism. 4 Dimensional Bodywork  ... Read More
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Acupressure  
"Acupressure" can be used as both a generic (or broad) term and as a specific treatment. Some people say that any treatment that stimulates the acupressure points using whatever degree of pressure is acupressure. This broad definition would then encompass a large number of other treatments ... Read More
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is a technique of inserting and manipulating fine filiform needles into specific points on the body with the aim of relieving pain and for therapeutic purposes. According to traditional Chinese acupuncture theory, these acupuncture points lie along meridians along which qi (or vital ... Read More
Addiction Treatment  
Addiction covers a wide range of issues, from substance dependence to physical dependence to psychological dependence. The causes and effective treatments for addiction depend on the type of addiction and also of the framework in which the person doing the treatment operates. There are a wide range  ... Read More
Alexander Technique  
Alexander Technique is a physical movement discipline with a focus on self-perception of movement. It is most often taught by hands-on coaching and by convincing participants of the value of physical poise. What makes it unique is its lack of preset exercises; any movement can be used to ... Read More
Allergy Therapy
Allergy Therapy refers to a healthy mode of tackling the influence of allergies on our bodies. Allergies represent an overreaction of our immune system to a stimulus. The result could be a minor health disorder, like a runny nose, to as serious a condition as anaphylactic shock and death. Allergy ... Read More
Amatsu  
Amatsu is a modern adaptation of an ancient Japanese hands-on therapy that can be administered to most musculo-skeletal problems for correction, pain management and rehabilitation. It also addresses the triad of stresses on the body - namely physical, emotional and nutritional factors. It has only ... Read More
Angels / Spiritual Guides  
An angel is a spiritual supernatural being found in many religions. Although the nature of angels and the tasks given to them vary from tradition to tradition, in Christianity, Judaism and Islam, they often act as messengers from God. Other roles in religious traditions include acting as warrior or  ... Read More
Animal Communication  
Animal communication is any behaviour on the part of one animal that has an effect on the current or future behaviour of another animal. The study of animal communication, sometimes called zoosemiotics (distinguishable from anthroposemiotics, the study of human communication) has played an ... Read More
Animal Therapies  
Animal therapies all have a common purpose in mind - helping your favorite pet or your prized breed live a longer happier life. These therapies have proved to be valuable in cases of injuries and diseases, old age ailments, promoting general good health, relief of tired and sore muscles, as well as  ... Read More
Anti-aging and Beauty  
Anti-aging addresses how to prevent, slow, or reverse the effects of aging and help people live longer, healthier, happier lives. It includes scientific research and applications in genetic engineering, tissue engineering, and other medical advances, e.g., finding treatments and cures for ... Read More
Apitherapy  
Apitherapy is the medical use of honey bee products. This can include the use of honey, pollen, propolis, royal jelly, and bee venom. Most claims of apitherapy have not been proved to the scientific standards of evidence-based medicine and are anecdotal in nature. A wide variety of conditions and ... Read More
Aquatic Bodywork  
Aquatic bodywork is a form of warm water hydrotherapy and massage that has been used worldwide for recreation, rehabilitation, and therapy. In a one-to-one session, you lie weightless in chest-deep warm water. The practitioner will support your head and lower back or knees and you are moved, ... Read More
Aromatherapy  
Aromatherapy is a form of alternative medicine that uses volatile liquid plant materials, known as essential oils (EOs), and other aromatic compounds from plants for the purpose of affecting a person's mood or health. Essential oils differ in chemical composition from other herbal products because ... Read More
Art Therapy  
Art therapy is a form of expressive therapy that uses art materials, such as paints, chalk and markers. Art therapy combines traditional psychotherapeutic theories and techniques with an understanding of the psychological aspects of the creative process, especially the affective properties of the ... Read More
Aston Patterning  
Aston-Patterning is an integrated system of movement education, bodywork, ergonomic adjustments, and fitness training that recognizes the relationship between the body and mind for well being. It helps people who seek a remedy from acute or chronic pain by teaching them to improve postural and ... Read More
Augenblick Therapy  
This therapy helps to free blocked emotions and can therefore heal body, mind and spirit. More than 30 years ago, Gerda Boyesen, a Norwegian Clinical Psychologist and Physiotherapist, discovered a method of relieving stress and its side-effects without drugs or psycho analysis. Her alternative ... Read More
Aura / Energy Healing
Energy medicine, energy therapy or energy healing is based on the belief that a healer is able to channel healing energy into the person seeking help by different methods: hands-on, hands-off, and distant (or absent) where the patient and healer are in different locations. The term "energy ... Read More
Autonomic Response Testing (ART)  
Autonomatic Response Testing uses functional muscle testing through biofeedback of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) to identify disturbances, dysfunctions and then potential remedies. It is a sophisticated process designed to give accurate and reproducible diagnostic results. It does not measure ... Read More
Ayurvedic Medicine  
Ayurvedic medicine is the most ancient of the six recognized Indian Systems of Medicine to the Indian subcontinent. It is sometimes considered to be a Hindu system of health care because of its origins in the oral advice on living from the Vedic metaphysics (Charaka Samhita). Ayurvedic medicine is ... Read More
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Bio-Energy Therapy  
Bio-Energy Therapy is considered to be beneficial for most medical and psychological problems. It is a form of complimentary medicine (alternative medicine) based on an ancient theory that all illnesses are caused by a disturbance to the flow of energy within the body. According to bio-energy ... Read More
Bio-Puncture  
Biopuncture is a new therapy consisting of injecting biological products (herbs and homeopathic products) into specific areas. The name Biopuncture originated from combining the word biotherapeutics [ bio- ] with acupuncture [ -puncture ]. Most of these injections are given under the skin or in the  ... Read More
Biofeedback / Neurofeedback  
"Biofeedback is a process that enables an individual to learn how to change physiological activity for the purposes of improving health and performance. Precise instruments measure physiological activity such as brainwaves, heart function, breathing, muscle activity, and skin temperature. These ... Read More
Body Code  
The Body Code is an energy modality developed by Dr. Bradley Nelson who spent 17 years practicing as a holistic physician, specialized in helping those with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and/or Fibromyalgia. He first developed the Emotion Code, and then expanded his experiences into the Body Code. ... Read More
Body Talk  
During a Body Talk session, the practitioner facilitates communication with innate wisdom of the body by using neuromuscular biofeedback. After asking innate a series of yes or no questions, the client's own body wisdom leads the practitioner to locate the priorities which are not communicating ... Read More
BodySense Method  
The BodySense Method is a total body program focused on helping you learn to respond to the feedback of your body, to use your breath properly and to know the requirements of a given posture. It was developed by Sue Luby and grew out of her experiences with Yoga. BodySense is a process, a moving ... Read More
Bowen Family Systems Theory  
Murray Bowen, M.D., (13 January 1913, Waverly, Tennessee - 9 October 1990) was an American psychiatrist and a professor in Psychiatry at the Georgetown University. Bowen was among the pioneers of family therapy and founders of systemic therapy. Beginning in the 1950s, he developed a systems theory ... Read More
Bowen Therapy  
'Bowen Therapy' is a term that may refer to one of two very different practices; one is a form of psychotherapy or counselling (more precisely called 'Bowen Family Systems Theory') and the other is a form of healing touch. This description relates to the second type of practice. Bowen Therapy (also  ... Read More
Breathwork
The term breathwork refers to many forms of conscious alteration of breathing, such as hyperventilation or connecting the inhale and exhale, frequently used within psychotherapy or meditation. Proponents believe the technique may be used to attain alternate states of consciousness, and that ... Read More
Breema  
Breema is a form of bodywork that has been described as a cross between partner yoga and Thai massage. The techniques may be utilized in either a practitioner-recipient mode or solo as "Self-Breema." The practice is intended to relax and enhance the balance and flow of "life energy," and no strong ... Read More
Brennan Healing Science  
Brennan Healing Science was created by Dr. Barbara Ann Brennan, a former NASA physicist. In BHS, universal energy is channelled through the crown chakra and also drawn up from the earth to make it available to the client through the palm chakras. Thus, a wider spectrum (frequency) of energy is made  ... Read More
Buteyko Breathing  
The Buteyko method or Buteyko Breathing Technique is a holistic health philosophy, primarily for the treatment of asthma, that includes a set of breathing exercises developed by the late Russian doctor Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko. The method is taught as a complementary therapy and several small ... Read More
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C.H.E.K. Practitioner  
C.H.E.K. stands for Corrective Exercise and High-performance Kinesiology. C.H.E.K. Practitioners come from a variety of backgrounds and have taken training and been certified by the C.H.E.K. Institute. A C.H.E.K. Practitioner is a holistic coach who specializes in developing corrective and ... Read More
Candle Therapy  
'Candle Therapy' can be used to refer to either ear candling (also called coning) or to using candles (often with aromatherapy) for relaxation and stress relief, which is what this form of holistic treatment refers to. Candle therapy involves burning candles (often with a variety of fragrences) to ... Read More
Chair Exercise  
Chair Based Exercises (also called Seated Exercises or Mobility Exercises) involve a variety of exercise movements that can be done while seated. Often used by seniors or people in wheelchairs, these exercises provide a way to improve one's fitness and health. Inactivity is known to increase the ... Read More
Chakra Therapy  
Chakra Therapy belongs to the category of alternative healing methods. "Chakra" is a Sanskrit word and literally means "spinning wheel". Chakras are the "junctions" on our body; the "energy centres", all corresponding to a certain part of the body and the relevant body parts and organs. They are ... Read More
Chelation Therapy  
Chelation therapy is the administration of chelating agents to remove heavy metals from the body. For the most common forms of heavy metal intoxication (i.e. those involving lead, arsenic or mercury), the standard of care in the USA dictates the use of dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) or Dimercaprol.  ... Read More
Chiropody / Podiatry  
Podiatry, podiatric medicine or chiropody is a field of healthcare devoted to the study and treatment of disorders of the foot, ankle, and the "anatomical leg" (i.e. below, and not including, the knee). The range of disorders podiatry can address largely depends on the scope of practice laid down ... Read More
Chiropractic  
Chiropractic is a health care profession that focuses on diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system and their hypothesized effects on the nervous system and general health, with special emphasis on the spine. Chiropractic treatment emphasizes manual ... Read More
Chirothesia  
Chirothesia is the laying on of hands to transmit healing to the world from God, which has been practiced in different forms by most of the major faiths in the world. Chirothesia is the practice of therapy, healing or blessing transmitting and communicating the divine energy (energia, vital life ... Read More
CLEAR  
CLEAR integrates a number of energy psychology methods. It uses acupressure point therapy (EFT), bilateral stimulation (EMDR), somatic experiencing, clearing of blocking beliefs and muscle testing (kinesiology). CLEAR helps relieve depression, anxiety, phobias, PTSD, and it helps free individuals ... Read More
Colonic Hydrotherapy  
Colon hydrotherapy is an alternative medical procedure, sometimes associated with naturopathy which removes waste from the large intestine without the use of pharmaceutical agents. Similar to an enema, it involves the introduction of discrete amounts of purified water, sometimes infused with ... Read More
Colour / Light Therapy  
Chromotherapy, sometimes called color therapy or colorology, is an alternative medicine method. It is claimed that a therapist trained in chromotherapy can use color and light to balance energy wherever a person's body be lacking, be it physical, emotional, spiritual, or mental. Chromotherapists ... Read More
Colourpuncture  
Colourpuncture is a form of energy medicine that addresses the root cause of illness and disease. In Colourpuncture, selected colours are beamed onto the meridians (energy channels) used in Acupuncture and Reflex Zones of the body. Light provide the cells with the information they need to heal, ... Read More
Core Belief Engineering (CBE)  
Core Belief Engineering was founded by Elly Roselle in 1982 in White Rock, British Columbia. Core Belief Engineering (or CBE) is a form of pyschotherapy. The goal of a session is to identify those core beliefs held within the subconscious mind that have become automatic patterns and reactions and ... Read More
Counselling
Counselling is an interactive learning process contracted between counsellor(s) and client(s), be they individuals, families, groups or institutions which approaches in a holistic way, social, cultural, economic and/or emotional issues. Counselling may be concerned with addressing and resolving ... Read More
Cranial Osteopathy  
Osteopathy is an approach to healthcare that emphasizes the role of the musculoskeletal system in health and disease. In most countries osteopathy is a form of complementary medicine, emphasizing a holistic approach and the skilled use of a range of manual and physical treatment interventions ... Read More
Craniosacral Therapy  
Craniosacral therapy is a form of Complementary and alternative medicine used by physical therapists, massage therapists, naturopaths, chiropractors and osteopaths. A craniosacral therapy session involves the therapist placing their hands on the patient in order to tune into the craniosacral ... Read More
Creative Arts Therapy  
Creative Arts Therapy uses art, music, dance, movement, drama and/or poetry to address healing. The creative arts therapies include art therapy, dance/movement therapy, drama therapy, music therapy, poetry therapy, and psychodrama. These therapies use arts modalities and creative processes during ... Read More
Creative Visualization and Relaxation  
Creative Visualization and Relaxation (CVR) is the combination of Visualization and Relaxation which helps people attain relaxed brain wave states and then focus on the issue they would like assistance with i.e. losing weight, stopping smoking, decreasing stress and/or chronic pain, accelerated ... Read More
Crystal and Gemstone Therapy  
Stones and minerals have been used for healing as far back as we know. Crystals have long been associated with healing and purification and gemstones have been used for ceremonies and worship and as a sign of wealth. Various gems are assocated with different healing properties and with different ... Read More
Cupping  
Cupping involves placing heated cups over the skin. It is a type of Traditional Chinese Medicine treatment that encourages blood flow and eases stress, aches and pains. It also increases the blood circulation and lymph flow, thus strengthening the immune system. Cupping is a form of acupuncture ... Read More
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Dance / Movement Therapy  
Dance therapy, or dance movement therapy is the psychotherapeutic use of movement (and dance) for emotional, cognitive, social, behavioural and physical conditions. It is a form of expressive (creative arts) therapy. Certified dance therapists hold a masters level of training. Dance therapy is ... Read More
Daoyin Tao  
Tao Yin is a series of breathing exercises practiced by Taoists to cultivate ch'i or internal energy of the body based upon the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The practice of Tao Yin was an ancient precursor of qigong, and was practised in Chinese Taoist monasteries for health and ... Read More
Dentistry  
Dentistry is the care of the teeth and mouth. More formally, it is described as the "evaluation, diagnosis, prevention and/or treatment (nonsurgical, surgical or related procedures) of diseases, disorders and/or conditions of the oral cavity, maxillofacial area and/or the adjacent and associated ... Read More
Detoxification  
Detox, short for detoxification, in general is the removal of toxic substances from the body. In conventional medicine, detoxification can also be achieved artificially by techniques such as dialysis and chelation therapy. In complementary and alternative medicine, detoxification can mean many ... Read More
DNA Activation  
DNA Activation is a form of energy healing that is, by many indications, capable of stimulating a self-healing potential in the human genetic blueprint. DNA Activation removes the energetic blockages to you embodying your Higher Self. It is an energy therapy that people report to have acted as a ... Read More
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Ear Candling / Coning  
Ear candling, also called ear coning or thermal-auricular therapy or Hopi Ear Candling, is one of the energetic modalities. Many practitioners believe that that the healing from ear candling occurs when the body shifts from a sympathetic to a parasympathetic state within the autonomic nervous ... Read More
Egoscue Method  
The Egoscue Method™ recognizes that fundamental anatomical, physiological & biomechanical principles govern the musculoskeletal system. The goal of the Egoscue Method™ is to eliminate disparities that can occur when injuries or negative lifestyle conditions affect the way the system  ... Read More
Electromagnetic Fields and Radiation  
Electromagnetic fields are areas of energy that surround electrical devices such as power lines, microwaves, electric blankets and other electrical devices. These fields are also called EMFs (or electric and magnetic fields). Cell phones also give off radio frequency energy (RF) which is a form of ... Read More
Emmett Technique  
The Emmett Technique is a complementary therapy to assist in the relief of pain and discomfort and is particularly recommended for pain from arthritis, muscle pain or headaches. It is a form of body therapy which can be practiced as a form of self treatment or by a trained practitioner. The Emmett ... Read More
Energy Therapy
Energy Therapy is the application and practice of energy healing, using vibrant, energy-sensitive methods of complementary alternative medicines that are currently being developed in the rapidly-growing field of energy psychology. Energy Psychology techniques were first popularized in the early ... Read More
Axiatonal Re-Alignment
Axiatonal Re-Alignment is a simple and effective energy therapy that is used to correct blockages and imbalances on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level. It can be used when feeling off-balance or confused about life or the direction headed and provides a deeper connection to the ... Read More
Emotion Code
The Emotion Code is a form of energy healing where the practitioner removes trapped negative energies that distort and imbalance the body physically and emotionally. The Emotion Code centers around the identification of "trapped" emotions via muscle testing and various similar methods and their ... Read More
Emotional Freedom Technique® (EFT®)
Emotional Freedom Technique® (EFT®) is a psychotherapeutic alternative medicine tool based on a theory that negative emotions are caused by disturbances in the body's energy field and that tapping with the fingertips on some of the same points where acupuncturists may use needles, while ... Read More
EmoTrance
EmoTrance (now being called Emotional Tranceformation Method) was first presented at the Oxford Energy Psychology Conference by Silvia Hartman in 2002 in England after years of studying and publishing about NLF (neuro linguistic programming) and EFT (emotional freedom technique) and other energy ... Read More
Energy Coaching
Energy Coaching is a direct way to clear any specific issue or limitation in your life. It uses empowering questions and an energetic clearing statement, that literally unblocks and erases the energetic charge around a particular issue. This coaching will allow you to clear all the energy that ... Read More
Integrated Energy Therapy®
Integrated Energy Therapy® or IET® is a safe, gentle, yet powerful support to release suppressed feelings, and the energy blockages they cause, from our cellular memory. Releasing the blocks allows for self-healing on all levels (physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual). IET® uses a ... Read More
LifeLine Technique®
The LifeLine Technique®, developed by Dr. Darren R. Weissman, DC, is an “advanced holistic system that discovers, interprets, and releases the root cause of physical and emotional symptoms and stress - emotions buried within the subconscious mind. When those emotions are harmonized with ... Read More
Lightwave Therapy
The Pleiadian Lightwave infusion technique, developed by Bryan de Flores, is a type of energy therapy concerned with the level of vibrations of an individual's energy fields. Lightwave is said to "transcends linear space and time to recalibrate the human energy field and spiritual blueprint for ... Read More
Prema Birthing Healing
The Prema Birthing healing system is the most loving way to be REBORN into your True Self. It is a gentle and powerful way for you to let go of the negative programming and limiting beliefs that keep you stuck. Each of us is born with a set of circumstances, or "karmas", that create our ... Read More
Rising Star Healing
The Rising Star was channeled by Derek O'Neill, a psychotherapist, healer, internationally acclaimed transformational therapist, author, speaker and humanitarian from Ireland. The Rising Star can assist in healing physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual issues, release trauma or illness, ... Read More
Environmental Health  
A holistic approach to natural health focuses not only on our inner well being but also on the quality of our environment. Environmental quality products and services enable us to test and improve the purity of the air we breath, the water we drink and many other aspects of our environment, ... Read More
Environmental Psychology  
The environmental crisis cannot be fully understood without understanding human behaviour. Environmental or “eco“ psychology is the psychology of the green movement and of mankind‘s role in the global ecosystem. Education on this subject offers individuals a better understanding ... Read More
Equine Facilitated Learning  
Also known as Equine Guided Development, Equine Facilitated Human Growth, Equine Facilitated Personal Development, Equine Facilitated Experiential Learning, Equine Facilitated Learning & Coaching, Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy, Equine Facilitated Leadership Development. In the last fifteen ... Read More
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Feldenkrais®  
The Feldenkrais® Method is a somatic technique developed by Israeli atomic physicist Moshe Feldenkrais. The Feldenkrais® Method tends towards being a form of self-education as opposed to a manipulative therapy. The Feldenkrais® method aims to improve movement repertoire, aiming to ... Read More
Flower Essences and Remedies  
Flower essence therapy falls under the category of vibrational medicine. Vibrational medicine uses the chi energy in living organisms for health benefits. The various flowers are suspended in spring water and allowed to absorb the sunlight. They are then suspended in equal parts spring water and ... Read More
Focused Intention Technique (FIT)  
Focused Intention Technique (FIT) is a holistic self-healing process that uses a series of questions to facilitate the resolution and understanding of personal issues at the root cause. The process opens the doorway to your untapped potential and intuition, which facilitates immediate access to ... Read More
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German New Medicine  
German New Medicine was founded by Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer in 1981. It is based on the five biological laws that he says explain the cause, development, natural healing of diseases based on universal biological principles. He says that diseases are not the result of malfunctions or malignancies in the  ... Read More
Gestalt Therapy  
Gestalt therapy is an existential and experiential form of psychotherapy that focuses on the individual's experience in the present moment, the therapist-client relationship, the environmental and social contexts in which these things take place, and the self-regulating adjustments people make as a  ... Read More
Green Design/Architecture  
... of practitioner whilst trying to reduce their own environmental footprint. Business owners can become eco friendly from the ground up by using a green design/architecture approach to their buildings or build outs, by sourcing green products and technologies and seeking advice from experts in ... Read More
Guided Imagery  
Guided imagery is the conscious use of the imagination to create positive images or healing visualisations in order to bring about healthful changes in both the body and the mind. You can learn to communicate more effectively with your unconscious mind, requesting that your body function in an ... Read More
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Hakomi  
Hakomi is a method of assisted self-study, designed by Ron Kurtz (founder of the Hakomi Institute and the Hakomi Educational Network) in the 1970s. Using mindfulness and an experimental attitude, the method offers help to people who are interested in experiencing less suffering and more freedom and  ... Read More
Healing Codes  
The Healing Codes are a form of self-healing using energy that work on the four healing centers of the body. You use your fingers to point towards these healing centers in certain set sequences depending on what you are want to heal. Healing Codes practitioners and the founder of the Healing Codes ... Read More
Healing From The Core  
Healing from the Core is a curriculum that teaches a mind-body-spirit approach that strengthens one's presence, in business, the therapy room or in life. It is designed particularly for practitioners and therapists and covers topics such as: fine tuning your subtle energy palpation skills ... Read More
Healing Touch  
Healing Touch treats the whole person: relaxes the mind, heals the body, and soothes the spirit. The principle behind it is that it does not stop at the skin. The human body extends an energy field, or aura, several inches to several feet from the body. When illness occurs, it creates a disturbance  ... Read More
Health Coaching  
Health coaching is becoming recognized as a new way to help individuals manage and live as well as possible with their illnesses and conditions, especially those of a chronic nature. Health coaching is a method of providing support to someone with an illness or chronic condition, walking with them ... Read More
Heart Resonance Therapy  
The Heart Resonance system that we practice today was grounded through Trevor Gollagher in 2003. Trevor’s work in this area began in 1992. Although, he had been healing with energy for a number of years, the ‘true knowing’ and understanding of this had never occurred to him. He ... Read More
Herbal Medicine  
Herbal medicine refers to using a plant's seeds, berries, roots, leaves, bark or flowers for medicinal purposes. The expression 'herbal medicine' refers to the practice of herbal medicine which uses herbs and herbal preparations in support of a holistic healing strategy. A herbalist assesses the ... Read More
Holistic Health  
Holistic healing means taking an holistic approach when seeking treatment for imbalances and choosing to live a more balanced lifestyle. What primarily distinguishes holistic healing apart from alternative medicine, complementary medicine, and integrative medicine is that physical health is not ... Read More
Holistic Nutrition Therapy
Nutritional therapy is not only about healthy eating. It is a form of complementary medicine which incorporates diet, fluids and supplements, together with natural healing techniques, in order to help the body repair and restore itself naturally. Nutritional Therapy can be used to treat many ... Read More
Holographic Repatterning  
Holographic Repatterning, also known as Resonance Repatterning, is a process for positive change that is based upon New Physics which states that all matter is energy. If all matter is energy, then everything has a frequency. Low back pain has a frequency, diseased organs have a frequency. Limiting  ... Read More
Holotropic Breathwork  
Holotropic Breathwork is a psychotherapeutic approach developed by Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D. and Christina Grof, believed to allow access to nonordinary states of consciousness. Holotropic breathing has some similarities to rebirthing, but was developed independently. Holotropic Breathwork is ... Read More
Homeopathy
General Introduction Homeopathy (also homoeopathy) is a form of alternative medicine first defined by Samuel Hahnemann in the 18th century. Homeopathic practitioners maintain that an ill person can be treated using a substance that can produce, in a healthy person, symptoms similar to those of the ... Read More
Homotoxicology  
Homotoxicology is the study of the science of toxins (toxicology) and how they depose in the human body (homo for homo sapiens). There is a framework that describes how toxins are excreted in a healthy body and what happens when pathways are blocked. Homotoxicology was invented by Dr. Hans ... Read More
Horstmann Technique  
The Horstmann Technique is a bodywork therapy consisting of several processes. It was developed in the mid 1990s by Australian Natural Therapist, Trish Trowbridge. Horstmann was Trish’s birth name. After more than ten years of practicing a variety of Natural Therapies including Remedial ... Read More
Hydrotherapy  
Hydrotherapy is the use of water by external applications, either for its pressure effect or as a means of applying physical energy to a tissue. Hydrotherapy covers a wide variety of uses of water for health purposes, from spa therapy to water exercise to physiotherapy done with the benefit of ... Read More
Hyperbaric / Oxygen Therapy  
Hyperbaric medicine, also known as hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is the medical use of oxygen at a higher than atmospheric pressure. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is breathing 100% oxygen while under increased atmospheric pressure. In April 2005, the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society ... Read More
Hypnotherapy
... in response to what happened. Each time something similar happens, our physical and emotional reactions attached to that first memory are repeated. Hypnotherapy can guide you to remember the original event and separate that memory from the learned behavior and replace unhealthy behaviors with new  ... Read More
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Integrative Medicine
Integrative Medicine combines the latest scientific advances in medicine, nutrition and alternative therapies to give you the best ways to preserve health, improve your quality of life and aid in the recovery from illness or neurological disorders. Read More
Integrative Release Therapy  
Integrative Release Therapy is a holistic healing method which integrates practices from NLP, energetic touch methods, pressure point therapies, yoga, shamanism, visioning, hypnotherapeutic trancework, intuitive work and spiritual practices to offer a unique and effective approach to healing and ... Read More
Intuitive Arts
... that offers direction, assistance, creativity, validation, comfort, encouragement, motivation or empowerment to the seeker. The more popular intuitive arts include channelling, mediumship, scrying, tarot, psychic readings, I Ching, tasseography (tea leaf reading), Ouija board, ... Read More
Akashic Record Readings
Akashic Record Readings is working with past and current life issues, clearing vows, agreements, etc and helping release belief patterns. The akashic records (akasha is a Sanskrit word meaning sky, space or aether) is a term used in theosophy (and Anthroposophy) to describe a compendium of mystical  ... Read More
Astrology
Astrology is a group of systems, traditions, and beliefs in which knowledge of the apparent relative positions of celestial bodies and related details is held to be useful in understanding, interpreting, and organizing information about personality, human affairs, and other terrestrial matters. A ... Read More
Channelers
A channeller is a conduit (also called a vessel or channel) for universal life force energy. A channeler develops the ability to link, communicate and transmit information from a source of higher intelligence (E.g. spirit guides, angels, universal source, soul or higher self). By entering into an ... Read More
Dowsing / Pendulums
Dowsing, sometimes called doodlebugging, divining or water witching, is the practice which dowsers say permits them to detect hidden water wells, or buried metals, gemstones, or other such objects as well as currents of earth radiation without the use of scientific apparatus. A Y- or L-shaped twig ... Read More
Dream Therapy
Dream interpretation is the process of assigning meaning to dreams. In many of the ancient societies, including Egypt and Greece, dreaming was considered a supernatural communication or a means of divine intervention, whose message could be unravelled by those with certain powers. In modern times, ... Read More
Face Reading
... marriage stays long and fruitful, if you have the potential to be a great doctor, writer or movie star? The answers may be written all over your face. The ancient Chinese art of face reading is over 2.500 years old, and it was documented as long ago as the time of Confucius. By looking at ... Read More
Feng Shui
Feng shui is an ancient Chinese practice believed to utilize the Laws of both heaven (astronomy) and earth (geography) to help one improve life by receiving positive Qi. The original designation for the discipline is Kan Yu--literally: Tao of heaven and earth). The words 'feng shui' literally ... Read More
Hand Writing Analysis
Hand Writing Analysis (or Graphology) is the study and analysis of handwriting especially in relation to human psychology. In the medical field, it can be used to refer to the study of handwriting as an aid in diagnosis and tracking of diseases of the brain and nervous system. The term is sometimes  ... Read More
I Ching
The I Ching (Wade-Giles), also called "Book of Changes" or "Classic of Changes" is one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts. The book is a symbol system used to identify order in chance events. The text describes an ancient system of cosmology and philosophy that is intrinsic to ancient ... Read More
Intuitives
An intuitive utilizes their natural born inner senses – clairvoyance (clear seeing), clairaudience (clear hearing), clairsentience (clear sensing or feeling), claircognizance (clear knowing), clairalience (clear smelling) or clairhambience (clear tasting) to access information from the spiritual ... Read More
Medical Intuitive
In alternative medicine, a Medical Intuitive is a person who uses their intuition to find the cause of a physical or emotional condition. Medical intuitives claim to heal illness by connecting with the universally infinite healing powers of the divine. They are purported to be able to heal at ... Read More
Mediums
A medium, through the art of mediumship, specifically deals with communicating to deceased loved ones to provide comfort, closure, plus proof of survival or validation to the inquirer. A medium may use two different forms for receiving information: (1) Mental Mediumship - through light trance ... Read More
Numerology
Numerology is a language of numbers; a system based on energy vibrations. The birth date, plus the original and current birth name are used to compile a personal chart. Each letter of the alphabet correlates to a number and each number correlates to an energy vibration of individual meaning, sound ... Read More
Psychics
... these experiments as sufficient evidence for psychic functioning partly due to the intrinsic unliklihood of psychic phenomena. Early examples of psychics include the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi who, according to Greek mythology, provided prophecies from Apollo himself, as well as Nostradamus, a  ... Read More
Scrying
Scrying (also called crystal gazing, crystal seeing, seeing, or peeping) is a magic practice that involves seeing things psychically in a medium, usually for purposes of obtaining spiritual visions and more rarely for purposes of divination or fortune-telling. The media used are most commonly ... Read More
Spirit Babies
Spirit Baby intuitive practitioners are able to connect with the spirit of a child who was lost in a previous pregnancy or not yet conceived. By communicating with the spirit baby parents who have lost one or more pregnancies, or who have had difficulty conceiving are able to heal and often make ... Read More
Tarot Reading
The tarot (also known as tarocchi, tarock or similar names) is typically a set of seventy-eight cards, comprising twenty-one trump cards, one Fool, and four suits of fourteen cards each - ten pip and four face cards (one more face card per suit than in ordinary playing cards). Tarot cards are used ... Read More
Tea Leaf Reading - Tasseography
Tasseography (also known as tasseomancy or tassology) is a divination or fortune-telling method that interprets patterns in tea leaves, coffee grounds, or wine sediments. The terms derive from the French word tasse (cup), which in turn derives from the Arabic tassa (cup), and the Greek suffixes ... Read More
Iridology / Eyology / Scierology  
Iridology (also known as iridodiagnosis) is an alternative medicine technique whose proponents believe that patterns, colors, and other characteristics of the iris can be examined to determine information about a patient's systemic health. Practitioners match their observations to iris charts which  ... Read More
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Jin Shin Jyutsu®  
Jin Shin Jyutsu® is an energy healing modality based on the idea that energy pathways throughout the body can be blocked or limited and that these blockages or limitations can cause discomfort, pain and even illness. The art itself is done by placing the listening to the energy pulses in the ... Read More
Juice Therapy  
Juice therapy is the practice of drinking raw fruit, vegetable, herb and grasses juice as part of a fast or in addition to other foods to cleans and detoxify the body while also filling it with healthy unprocessed nutrients. Juice therapy follows a system of cleansing and restoration and uses fresh  ... Read More
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Kahuna  
Kahuna is a Hawaiian word, defined in the Pukui & Elbert Dictionary as "Priest, sorcerer, magician, wizard, minister, expert in any profession." (See also Ancient Hawaii) Forty different types of kahuna are listed in the book, Tales from the Night Rainbow. Kamakau lists more than 20 in the healing ... Read More
Kinesio Taping  
Kinesio Taping was invented by a Japanese chiropractor Dr. Kenzo Kase in the 1970‘s.  Kinesio Taping gives support and stability to your joints and muscles without affecting circulation and range of motion. It is also used for Preventive Maintenance, Edema, and Pain Management. The tape is ... Read More
Kinesiology  
Kinesiology, also known as Human Kinetics, is the science of human movement. It focuses on how the body functions and moves. A kinesiological approach applies scientific and evidence based medical principles towards the analysis, preservation and enhancement of human movement in all settings and ... Read More
King Institute Method (TKM)®  
The King Institute Method® (TKM®) is the use of basic physiological physics to help restore the correct circulation on conductivity of the body. It is based on the fundamental precept that everything that exists is electromagnetic energy (called bio-electromagnetic energy in the human body)  ... Read More
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Life Coaching  
Coaching can provide empowerment and support in a wide variety of ways. Whether we are seeking a change, or simply want to proceed in our lives with more focus and vigor, a good coach can make all the difference. Life coaching is a practice with the aim of helping clients determine and achieve ... Read More
Light Touch Therapy  
Light Touch Therapy utilizes a precise sequence of touch points that redirect the inner energies of the body. Light Touch engages both physical and energetic aspects of health. It aims to help a person to feel emotionally and physically better. The touch points cover the gluteal, the sacrum, the ... Read More
Live Blood Analysis  
Live Blood Analysis uses a single drop of live blood from your finger to help with the early identification of serious health conditions. It is possible to see at what stage of pathological development the body is in, simply from using one drop of blood. Depending on the irregularities found in the  ... Read More
Lymphatic Drainage Therapy (LDT)  
The lymphatic system drains fluids, detoxifies and regenerates tissues, filters out toxins and foreign substances and helps us maintain a healthy immune system. If lymph circulation stagnates however, toxins accumulate and compromise cellular functioning, which opens the way to physical ailments. ... Read More
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Macrobiotics  
Macrobiotics is a complete dietary system claimed to be a cure for many diseases, including cancer. Macrobiotics involves a holistic approach to diet, maintaining that the foods we eat affect our state of compatibility with the universe. Read More
Magnetic / Biomagnetic Therapy  
Magnotherapy involves the use of a magnetic device placed on or near the body or the transmission of magnetic impulses through the body to relieve pain and facilitate healing. Magnotherapy has been used to treat a wide range of conditions including: Arthritis Insomnia Carpal tunnel syndrome ... Read More
Magnified Healing  
While Reiki (Traditional Usui) and Magnified Healing are both vibrational energy healing, the Reiki energy is passed via attunements from the Teacher. It is a channeled energy and is directed into the body of the person . The body takes the energy and utilizes it to the level of acceptance of the ... Read More
Manual Lymphatic Drainage  
Manual Lymphatic Drainage (also known as Manual Lymph Drainage (MLD®)) is a therapy where the practitioner uses a range of specialized and gentle rhythic pumping techniques to move the skin in the direction of the lymph flow. This action stimulates the lymphatic vessels (part of the circulatory  ... Read More
Manual Medicine  
Manual medicine is the science of manual treatment and deals with reversible dysfunction of the locomotor system. It covers all diagnostic and therapeutic techniques associated with the spine and major limbs of the body. You have to visualize that the physician is repositioning joints into their ... Read More
Massage
Massage therapy is one of the oldest natural healing techniques. Massage techniques have been used for thousands of years to relax the muscles, ease aches and pains, rejuvenate the body and restore the body's innate healing ability. From the ancient times, the Chinese, Indians, Greeks and Romans ... Read More
Access Consciousness Bars
There are 32 pressure points on your head, which when gently touched (called "running the bars"), effortlessly and easily release anything that doesn't allow you to receive. Behavioural patterns, belief systems, points of view, ideas, thoughts, emotions can all be accessed. The bars can be used to ... Read More
Amma Massage
Amma massage is an ancient therapeutic massage that dates back to 2697 B.C. and is based on traditional Chinese medicine. This massage is based on the principles of traditional Chinese medicine and uses all the techniques of the major forms of therapeutic massage. Pressure and touch are applied to ... Read More
Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy (AOBT)
Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy is not the same thing as Ashiatsu. While the origination of Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy began with the founder’s knowledge of Ashiatsu, the treatments are completely different. Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy is a type of massage therapy in which the practitioner ... Read More
Ayurvedic Massage
...  not only addresses illness and treatment, but is a complete way of life which includes diet, lifestyle, activity levels and appearance. According to Ayurvedic texts, the human body is made up of the five elements of nature: air, fire, water ether (space) and earth. Each one is associated with ... Read More
Biodynamic Massage
Biodynamic massage is concerned with the integration of mind and body. It involves a broad range of techniques that work not only at the physical level of skin, tissue, muscle and bone, but also at the more subtle level of energy flow in the body. Read More
Californian Massage
The Californian massage realigns the body, the spirit and the emotions. The long, light touches, sliding pressures and deep kneading of this oil massage are very soothing. It sculpts the body, puts you in contact with yourself, and enhances your vision of personal space. Read More
Chair Massage
Massage of a client sitting in a massage chair. The client remains fully clothed and no oils are used while their shoulders, neck, upper back, head, and arms are massaged. Read More
Chavutti Thai Massage
Chavutti Thai Massage is a full body oil massage, which begins with traditional Thai twists and stretches designed to open and relax the body. It involves warm oil being massaged over the whole body with the practitioners feet. Chavutti Thai massage was developed and founded by Kingsley O.  He ... Read More
Connective Tissue Massage
Connective Tissue Massage (CTM) is a dynamic approach to bodywork that releases myofascial restrictions. CTM relieves chronic tension, increase ease of movement, improves posture, and enhances self-awareness. These results are often achieved with remarkable efficiency, providing immediate relief ... Read More
Deep Tissue Massage
Deep tissue massage is a type of massage therapy that concentrates on rearranging deeper tissue layers of the muscles and connective tissues. Reminiscent of Swedish massage, this massage utilizes many of the same movements and techniques though the pressure is usually more. Some of its strokes also  ... Read More
Esalen Massage
Esalen Massage therapy is a form of massage therapy that is a variation of the traditional Swedish massage. Esalen massage therapy does use many of the long flowing strokes that have become known as Swedish massage technique, but the focus and goals of Esalen massage therapy are what sets it apart ... Read More
Fibromassage
Fibromyalgia massage was designed to help people cope with the pains of fibromyalgia, which is a chronic syndrome that causes terrible fatigue and enormous pain. The word “fibromyalgia” means tissue and muscle pain. The main symptom of the condition is great pain that affects the muscles, ... Read More
Finnish Massage
Finnish massage is a deep tissue massage concentrating on trigger points,stiff muscles and problems you might have. After a finnish massage all of your muscles will feel totally relaxed and your whole body will feel renewed. Read More
Geriatric Massage
Geriatric massage is a form of massage developed for use on the elderly. This style of massage addresses specific issues common to elderly individuals, such as increased fragility and sensitivity to touch. Massage therapists can pursue certification in geriatric massage, and this style of massage ... Read More
Hawaiian Massage - Lomi-Lomi
Lomi Lomi, or "loving hands" is a form of massage that originated in Hawaii. Following the idea that a belief can block energy flow as much as muscle tension can, Lomi Lomi helps release the blockages and, simultaneously, gives the energy new direction. Thus, Lomi Lomi is not just a physical ... Read More
Hot Stone Massage
Hot stone massage is a specialty massage that uses smooth, heated stones. They are often basalt, a black volcanic rock that absorbs and retains heat well. It is a deeply soothing, relaxing form of massage. The heat helps tight muscles release. Read More
Indian Head Massage
Indian Head Massage is a treatment based on old Ayurvedic techniques involving work on the upper back, shoulders, neck, scalp and face. Indian head massage is beneficial for:- * Relieving tension * Relaxation * Stress * Fatigue * Stimulating circulation * Joint movement * Promoting healthy hair ... Read More
Infant Massage
Infant massage is a way of bonding with your baby through gentle touch. It can help facilitate the healthy development of a baby’s physical and emotional self and at the same time benefit you by strengthening your physical and emotional bond with your baby. A baby develops a relationship with the  ... Read More
Japanese Traditional Massage
Anma is a Japanese traditional form of bodywork in which thumb and palm pressure is applied to pressure points on the body to improve health and enhance the body's natural healing abilities. The word Anma means "kneading of energy lines"and "friction", Anma is sometimes described as a finger ... Read More
Jin-Shin Do
Jin Shin Do ("The Way of the Compassionate Spirit") is a therapeutic massage technique developed in the 1970s by Iona Marsaa Teeguarden derived from Jin Shin Jyutsu.[1] It combines elements of Japanese acupressure, Chinese acupuncture, orgone of Wilhelm Reich, Qigong, principles of Ericksonian ... Read More
Medical Massage
Medical Massage is result oriented and the treatment is specifically directed to resolve conditions that have been diagnosed and prescribed by a Physician. The therapist may use a variety of modalities or procedures during the treatment, but will focus the Medical Massage treatment only on the ... Read More
Oncology Massage
Oncology Massage is a specialized form of massage developed specifically for cancer patients. The focus is on enhancing healing while “doing no harm“. Historically most doctors recommended that cancer patients abstain from massage as it could potentially break up cancerous tumours and ... Read More
Pediatric Massage
... are often accompanied by pain, anxiety, loneliness and fear. So it only makes sense that healthcare staff and medical facilities are looking to pediatric massage as treatment for some of these symptoms. Research has shown that massage therapy can ease both physical symptoms as well as, ... Read More
Pregnancy Massage
Pregnancy massage is massage therapy specifically tailored for the expectant mother's needs. It is also called pre-natal massage. Read More
Radiant Touch Massage
A combination of Hot Stone, Swedish Massage, and Reiki. Read More
Registered Massage Therapy
There are tremendous benefits to be achieved through regular massage therapy treatments from a Registered Massage Therapist. Whether your need is to have a moment of relaxation, reduce muscle tension or attain relief from chronic pain, a therapeutic massage can enhance your overall sense of ... Read More
Russian Massage
Russian massage is a system of therapeutic and sports massage developed in the former Soviet Union. It uses a variety of manipulations of the body's soft tissues to achieve benefits, including stress reduction and relief from muscle aches. Read More
Sound Massage
Sound massage according to Peter Hess© is a unique method that takes you to deep physical and mental relaxation, strengthens your immune system, and triggers your self-healing process. During the sound massage session, specially crafted therapy singing bowls are placed on and around your clothed ... Read More
Sports Massage
Sports massage is designed to help atheletes prepare their bodies for optimal performance, recover after a big event, or function well during training. But you don't have to be in the Olympics to benefit from sports massage. Sports massage is also good for people with injuries, chronic pain or ... Read More
Swedish Massage
Swedish massage is the most commonly offered and best known type of massage. It was developed by a Swedish physiologist, Henri Peter Ling at the University of Stockholm in 1812. It uses a firm but gentle pressue to improve the circulation, ease muscle aches and tension, improve flexibility and ... Read More
Tibetan Massage
Tibetan massage is a profound form of massage which works on the wind channels of the body. Read More
Matrix Energetics™  
Matrix Energetics™ is a complete system of healing, self-care and transformation founded by Dr. Richard Bartlett D.C., N.D. It is a transferable and teachable phenomenon, powered by intent, which has a physical and observable effect every time. Complete beginners as well as seasoned health ... Read More
Medical DITI Thermography  
Medical DITI is a non-invasive diagnostic technique that allows changes in skin surface temperature to be explored, looking for any abnormalities that could reflect internal medical problems. Medical DITI is a monitor of thermal abnormalities present in a number of diseases and physical injuries. ... Read More
Meditation
Practiced for several thousand years, meditation is a mind-body technique in which a person engages in quiet contemplation in order to induce a state of mental and physical tranquillity. The technique has also been shown to have a variety of health benefits, particularly for treating stress and ... Read More
Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness meditation (MM) originates from Eastern contemplative practices and typically involves exercises, such as body scan, as well as walking and seated meditations. MM is intended to cultivate continuous and clear attention to ongoing subjective experiences, combined with an attitude of ... Read More
Osho Active Meditations
Osho Active Meditations are a combination of meditation techniques that balance stillness with activity, silence with sound. Each type of Osho Active Meditation combines different stages, activities and techniques (from breathing to sound to set up and free movement) with a stage of silent ... Read More
Primordial Sound Meditation
Primordial Sound Meditation is a meditation technique originating in the ancient wisdom of India. Primordial Sounds—the basic, most essential sounds of nature—are used to disconnect us from the activity of life. These individually selected sounds, known as mantras, are based on the ... Read More
Transcendental Meditation
Transcendental Meditation, or TM, (a trademark of Maharishi Foundation, Ltd.) is a meditation technique introduced in 1958 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1917-2008). The technique is practiced for twenty minutes twice a day while sitting with one's eyes closed, involves repetition of a thought-sound ... Read More
Vipassana Meditation
Vipassana, which means to see things as they really are, is one of India's most ancient techniques of meditation. It was taught in India more than 2500 years ago as a universal remedy for universal ills, i.e., an Art of Living. For those who are not familiar with Vipassana Meditation, an ... Read More
Zen Meditation
Zen Meditation seeks to awaken you to the true nature of yourself. It is not about being enlightened or about entering a trance. It is about being fully aware of yourself in the present moment. From a Buddhists perspective it would open our minds up the possibilities of emptiness. Read More
Metamorphic Technique  
The Metamorphic Technique is concerned with transformation of patterns. It is an empowering tool for enabling people to 'get out of a rut’, let go of past limitations and move forward in their lives. The Metamorphic Technique is not a therapy or a treatment, as it is not concerned with addressing  ... Read More
Metaphysics / Mysticism  
The Spiritual Philosophy of Metaphysics provides us with a roadmap to Meta Reality and a methodology for life towards reawakening our true multidimensional superconsciousness. It is a path of self development, inner fullfillment, tranformation and ultimately it is believed, transfiguration ... Read More
Microcurrent Point Stimulation (formerly ETPS)  
Microcurrent Point Stimulation (originally called ETPS or Electro Therapeutic Point Stimulation) treatment uses a device that combines the principles of acupuncture, massage, electrotherapy and physical therapy. ETPS Therapy is based on the belief that pain usually has several different sources ... Read More
Midwife Birthing
Midwives provide education and support during pregnancy, assist mothers during labor and delivery, and provide follow-up care. Practitioners of childbirth support include childbirth educators, childbirth assistants and doulas (women labor coaches who also provide post-partum home care). Some ... Read More
Mind Detox Method (MDM)  
The Mind Detox Method (MDM) consists of a series of powerful questions asked between a Mind Detox Practitioner and client to discover and heal the negative beliefs (often hidden in the more subtle realms of the mind), to let go of problems and stress and instead enjoy more peace, happiness and life  ... Read More
Moativational Medicine™  
Moativational Medicine™ is a dualistic, cause-centred and preventative approach and methodology to uncovering and dissolving the emotional component existent within physical illness, ailments and disease and, as a result, inspiring and facilitating a reduction and disappearance in symptoms, ... Read More
Munay Ki Rites  
The Munay-Ki are the nine great rites of initiation of the medicine way. The word munay means “I love you” or “BE AS THOU ART.” The Munay-Ki are the nine gates that heal us and transform our human energy field into that of homo luminous. The prophecies of the ancient ... Read More
Muscle Activation Technique  
Muscle Activation Technique (MAT) looks at a muscle’s tightness as a form of protection in the body. Weak or inhibited muscles can create the need for other muscles to tighten up in order to help stabilize the joints. MAT gets to the root of pain or injury by addressing muscle weakness rather  ... Read More
Muscle Energy Technique  
Muscle Energy Technique is an osteopathic technique for mobilizing joints and soft tissue using muscle contraction. There are several distinct techniques which may be called muscle energy techniques including reciprocal inhibition, and post-isometric relaxation. Muscle Energy is an Active (requires  ... Read More
Myofascial Release  
Myofascial Release is a safe and very effective hands-on technique that involves applying gentle sustained pressure into the Myofascial connective tissue restrictions to eliminate pain and restore motion. Myofascial Release Treatment sessions are performed directly on skin without oils, creams or ... Read More
Myokinesthetic System  
The Myokinesthetic System is a relatively new soft tissue treatment developed by Michael Uriarte D.C. that specifically treats the nervous system. It is geared to impact the nervous system in a specific way. You don’t have to get undressed and there are NO oils or creams, it only takes about ... Read More
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Naprapathy  
Naprapathy (Czech náprava, correction - from napravit, to correct) - is a branch of complementary medicine (Manipulative therapy), that focuses on the evaluation and treatment of neuro-musculoskeletal conditions. Doctors of Naprapathy (naprapaths) are connective tissue specialists, but are not ... Read More
Naturopathy
Naturopathy is a distinct system of medicine that is based on a belief in the healing power of nature and especially in the body's ability to fight disease and heal itself. Practiced by naturopathic doctors (also known as naturopaths or N.D.s), Naturopathy incorporates a wide range of natural ... Read More
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)  
Neuro-Linguistic Programming seeks to replace counterproductive reactions that hamper the healing process with beneficial ones that boost it. It is suggested that Neuro-Linguistic Programming can help: * Pain management * Speed recovery from injury * Combat allergies * Enhance the immune system * ... Read More
Neuromuscular Integrative Action (NIA)  
NIA (previously Non-Impact Aerobics, now Neuromuscular Integrative Action) is a physical conditioning program based on a premise that movement is a pathway for self discovery and personal transformation. NIA is intended to deliver cardiovascular,aerobic exercise and whole-body conditioning. NIA was  ... Read More
Neuromuscular Therapy (NMT)  
Neuromuscular TherapyNeuromuscular Therapy (NMT) is a very specialized form of manual therapy. A therapist trained in NMT is educated in the physiology of the nervous system and its effect on the muscular and skeletal systems. The Neuromuscular Therapist also is educated in kinesiology and ... Read More
Nutraceuticals / Glyconutrients  
... in a natural fresh organic diet are largely absent in the modern diet of packaged, processed and transported food Dubbed the sugars that heal, Glyconutrients are now the source of increasing research and much justisfied excitement following numerous first hand experiences of benefits in ... Read More
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Ohashiatsu  
Ohashiatsu combines hands-on touch techniques, gentle exercises, stretches and meditations in a seamless flow of movement. Ohashiatsu is an energising dance. It is also a mutual issue: when the practitioner enjoys, you as the receiver, benefit. When the practitioner communicates their enjoyment and  ... Read More
Orgone Energy  
Without Prescription Drugs, Depression, compulsive behavior, ADHD, and a range of anxiety related problems face so many of us. While medical orgone therapy can relieve symptoms, its true aim is getting to the root cause of issues that rob so many lives of happiness. Modern psychiatry too often ... Read More
Oriental Body Balance  
Oriental Body Balancing fuses both Eastern & Western Medicine thus enabling us to offer the very best advice and treatment to everyone on an individual basis. Oriental Body Balance has a unique diagnostic system that views the body from many different angles to find the root cause of each ... Read More
Ortho-Bionomy  
A non-invasive, osteopathically-based form of body therapy where the practitioner uses gentle movements and positions of the body to facilitate the change of stress and pain patterns. A strong focus is placed on the comfort of the individual, no forceful manipulations are used. Read More
Orthomolecular Medicine  
Orthomolecular Medicine is the practice of preventing and treating disease by providing the body with optimal amounts of substances which are natural to the body. The key idea in Orthomolecular Medicine is that genetic factors and health problems are central not only to your physical ... Read More
Osteopathy  
... that these techniques improve your immunity by loosening congested lymph nodes and increasing the movement of your body's natural antibodies. Osteopathy is known to treat a wide range of conditions including: Skeletal and muscle pain Bad posture Pulled muscles Sports injuries Arthritis ... Read More
Ozone Therapy  
Some people, including a number of doctors and biochemists, believe ozone has remarkable healing properties. Others have argued that it is nonscientific and has no proven benefits. For many years ozone's medical value or non-value has been the subject of controversial and emotional debate. The ... Read More
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Palm Readers - Palmistry - Chirology  
Palmistry is a branch of occult science, which deals with the comprehensive study of the palm-prints to get the idea of future happenings in life. The scientific name for palmistry is "Chirology". Palmistry is another proof which champions that everybody has a different life, because we all have ... Read More
Parapsychology  
Educationally-healing programs; Parapsychology, the Silva Method and Remote Viewing are effective means to expanding consciousness, realising our fuller potential and thereby attaining ultimate peace and life fulfilment. The Silva Method uses dynamic meditation skills, expanded psychic functioning ... Read More
Past Life Regression  
Past Life Regression (PLR) is a method of accessing the memories of past lives in order to understand certain physical or psychological ailments which are otherwise un-explainable. This technique is also used to understand relationships in our life which affect us deeply, but for no logical reason.  ... Read More
Pathwork  
Pathwork is a spiritual journey of self- facing, meditation, and opening to the higher self within.  The Pathwork process is one way to achieve a higher quality of life, more fulfilling relationships, and a sense of your place in the world and the cosmos. The Pathwork blends psychology and ... Read More
Peaceful Touch  
Peaceful Touch is a healthy touch program for children. The power of touch is miraculous in its simplicity. It is a necessary gift of nature, without which a human being cannot thrive. The Peaceful Touch approach integrates healthy touch into children's activities, from games and story-telling to ... Read More
Pellowah  
The Pellowah Healing Technique is a form of Energy Healing that was developed in 2003 by an Australian spiritual channel named Kachina. Practitioners say that "the name Pellowah is angelic for 'Radical Shift in Consciousness.' but that although this is an Angelic word, it is not healing from the ... Read More
Personal Development  
Personal development is something most of us do on a daily basis without ever thinking of it this way. Personal development is sometimes referred to as self-development or personal growth, and it traditionally covers a broad set of areas to improve. Personal development is about improving yourself ... Read More
Physiotherapy  
... observe and verify symptoms and may suggest diagnostic tests to better evaluate a patient's condition and develop an effective treatment plan. Physiotherapy can treat a variety of conditions from severe injuries or nerve damage that is causing pain and lack of mobility to less sever issues ... Read More
Phytotherapy  
It is the science that cures with medicinal plants which is complemented with acupuncture. It is the Chinese pharmacology based on the plants. Read More
Pilates  
Pilates was designed by Joseph Pilates, a physical-culturist born in Mönchengladbach, Germany in 1883. He developed a system of exercises during the first half of the 20th century which were intended to strengthen the human mind and body. Joseph Pilates believed that mental and physical health  ... Read More
Play / Drama Therapy  
Play and Drama therapy uses psychology, psychotherapy, drama, theatre, play and anthropology. Drama therapy enables you to process difficulties encountered in life, through the safety of dramatic distance and re-enactment of life events. Drama therapy is helpful for:- * Personal expression * ... Read More
Poetic Medicine  
The Institute for Poetic Medicine's Vision Statement is: To Awaken Soulfulness in the Human Voice. At The Institute for Poetic Medicine, we are collectively dedicated to nurture and strengthen the human capacity to connect to Self, Other, Community, the Natural World, and the Divine. We offer ... Read More
Polarity Therapy  
Polarity therapy is based on the fact there is a flow between positive and negative poles in our body, and for the body to remain healthy it is necessary that this flow is maintained properly or else it would result into illnesses and other disturbances, such as fatigue. Polarity therapy considers ... Read More
Practice Building  
Ways and tools to help build up your holistic practice. Read More
Pranic Healing  
Pranic healing is an energy healing technique based on the overall structure of the human body. According to the precepts of pranic healing, our body is actually composed of two parts: the visible physical body, and the invisible energy body called the bioplasmic body or aura. The visible physical ... Read More
Professional Services  
Professional Services specialising in support of the Complementary and Alternative Health Care Sector. Read More
Psycho Education  
By exploring the world of psychology both within and outside of themselves, psycho-education allows participants to reflect on their own behaviours and potentially gain a better understanding of themselves and their connection to the world. Read More
Psychodrama  
Psychodrama is a form of human development which explores, through dramatic action, the problems, issues, concerns, dreams and highest aspirations of people, groups, systems and organizations. It is mostly used as a group work method, in which each person in the group can become a therapeutic agent  ... Read More
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is a process in which a trained professional enters a relationship with a patient for the purpose of helping the patient with symptoms of mental illness, behavioural problems and personal growth. The process involves the patient and therapist sitting in a room talking, which is why it  ... Read More
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Qi Gong  
Qigong (pronounced ‘chee gung’) translated from the Chinese, literally means 'working with energy'. Qigong is an ancient Chinese discipline that uses breathing, meditation, visualisation, and repetitive physical exercises to cleanse and strengthen the body. It is the art and science of ... Read More
Quick Pulse  
The Quick Pulse Technique© was developed by Jo Dunning. The goal of a session/treatment is to clear issues that people may be encountering in their lives, using "Source Energy" to rebalance the aspects of the mind, body and emotions. According to practitioners, "It is a clearing, life-changing  ... Read More
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Radionics  
Radionics is a method of healing at a distance through the medium of an instrument using the ESP faculty. In this way, a trained and competent practitioner can discover the cause of disease within any living system, be it a human being, an animal, a plant or the soil itself. Suitable therapeutic ... Read More
Rapid Eye Technology (RET)  
RET is a natural, safe way to release stress and trauma. RET simulates REM sleep, your body’s own natural release system. This powerful quick release happens without reliving the trauma. Accessing the whole mind/body system while in an awake state allows you to be in control of your own ... Read More
Rebalancing  
Rebalancing is a unique psychosomatic body mind treatment system incorporating technical precision with an artistic meditative approach. This effective and easy to practice method has its roots in Rolfing postural integration and liquid bodywork, and is a fascinating body mind journey. This ... Read More
Rebirthing  
Rebirthing is a safe, powerful, and subtle breathing process that helps you experience greater peace, health and happiness, especially during times of transition and potential stress. Rebirthing restores your mind, body, and spirit to their natural equilibrium. Rebirthing is also so-called because ... Read More
Reconnective Healing  
Reconnective Healing connects us to the fullness of the Universe as it reconnects us to the fullness of our being and who we are, not just through a new set of healing frequencies, but possibly through an entirely new bandwidth. (Believe me, I know how strange this sounds, but stay with me). The ... Read More
Reconstructive / Prolotherapy  
Injection Prolotherapy is the injection of a solution for the purpose of tightening and strengthening loose or weak tendons, ligaments or joint capsules. Prolotherapy works through the multiplication and activation of fibroblasts (primitive connective tissue cells that are work horses of repair and  ... Read More
Reflexology
Reflexology is based on the understanding that each cell in the body has the knowledge of the whole body, and so does each body part. Reflexology therefore maps the entire body to a particular organ (i.e the hand or foot) and then the reflexologist works on the areas of that body part that map to ... Read More
Reflexotherapy  
Based on the science of Reflexology, Reflexotherapy is a drug-free, pain-free alternative and complementary method of treatment used to promote healing, relieve stress, tension, aches and pains. With reflexotherapy, the body's reflex zones, point-reflex zones, or general areas of the body (i.e. ... Read More
Regenetics Method  
Regenetics Method facilitates conscious personal mastery, healing and transformation in the body-mind-spirit through an integrated approach to DNA activation. Read More
Reiki  
Reiki (pronounced "ray-kee") is a therapeutic technique in which healing energy is channelled, or conducted, through a practitioner's hands into the person receiving the treatment. It is believed that Reiki brings the body into emotional and spiritual balance, supporting the body's natural ability ... Read More
Remedial Therapy  
Remedial Therapy / Massage utilises many techniques, including massage, to address a wide range of soft tissue problems. The aim is to reduce pain and tension by releasing pressure of muscles in spasm, and to address tendon and ligament complaints. Treatments can dramatically reduce pain and ... Read More
Retreats  
A retreat can either be a time of solitude or a community experience. Some retreats are held in silence, and on others there may be a great deal of conversation, depending on the understanding and accepted practices of the host facility and/or the participant(s). Retreats are often conducted at ... Read More
Rife - TENS Therapy  
TENS Therapy uses mild electrical impulses as an alternative to drugs. TENS Therapy has been prescribed by doctors as a safe, reliable pain management system and can be used: * To relax tense muscles before a further treatment is used e.g. chiropracty or massage * For Arthritic pain relief * For ... Read More
Rolf Movement Education  
Rolf Movement Education consists of awareness exercises that the client can complete on the table or can learn to do at home. Some of these can provide the changes of Rolfing Structural Integration(TM), without the firm touch of the structural work, others enhance the structural work. Not all ... Read More
Rolfing / Structural Integration  
Rolfing is a form of deep-tissue, structurally oriented bodywork. Rolfing is employed primarily to help: * Reduce stress * Ease mobility * Posture * Reduce musculoskeletal pain * Reduce back pain * Improve the operation of muscles used in the breathing process Rolfing aims to realign the body by ... Read More
Rosen Method  
Rosen Method Bodywork uses gentle touch to contact areas of muscle tension and restricted breathing. The practitioner provides feedback on the subtle bodily changes that occur when muscles relax. The combination of touch and verbal interaction deepens the client's physical and emotional awareness. ... Read More
Rossiter Stretch System  
Rossiter Stretch System is a powerful approach to help you relieve pain almost anywhere in your body without any risks or side effects, especially the kinds associated with traditional medicine. The Rossiter System teaches you how to stretch your body's connective tissue to get rid of pain quickly ... Read More
Rubenfeld Synergy Method (RSM)  
...  emotions- and spirit. Throughout our lifetime, stress, memories and emotions get stored in our bodies. Some become holdings or tensions. Through the Rubenfeld Synergy Method clients learn to be in touch with their bodymind. Through gentle touch and reflective listening, RSM offers pathways to deep  ... Read More
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Sand Tray Therapy  
Sand Tray Therapy involves using sand tray and small objects to express feelings and thoughts to address healing. One specific type of Sand Tray Therapy is sandplay, which is a form of psychotherapy that attempts to form a connection with the psyche towards a goal of healing. Sandplay therapy is a ... Read More
Scenar Therapy  
The Scenar 97.4 is a healing device invented by Russian Scientists for use in space, where Russian cosmonauts would have a means of treating themselves in orbit, without the need to take drugs. Using a simple 9 volt battery the Scenar works by stimulating the brain with a constantly varying signal ... Read More
Sedona Method  
Sedona method is a technique to dissolve negative emotions and achieve peace and happiness. Sedona method says that all of us have peace and happiness at our core. We are covered by negative emotions and feelings. As we dissolve these negative emotions and feelings, we experience more and more of ... Read More
Sexuality  
Human sexuality is a fundamental attribute of our being. Accepting, understanding and rejoicing in our ability to enjoy and explore deep intimate and meaningful relationships with others should be an enriching spiritual experience for us. This then becomes the spring board for managing and ... Read More
Shamanic Healing
Shamanic belief systems have a long history and deep cultural heritage around the world from the Native American Indians, to Australian Aboriganies, Tibetan and Celtic Mysticism to name but a few. Shamanism is classified as an archaic magico-religious phenomenon in which the Shaman is the great ... Read More
Shamballa Healing  
Like Reiki, Shamballa is the energy of UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, which comes through your heart chakra to help you heal yourself and others. The healing abilities you acquire when you are taught Shamballa are only a by-product. The major purpose of these activations and initiations is your own personal ... Read More
SHEN Therapy  
SHEN Therapy is an effective and predictable therapy, solidly based in physics and physiology, and proven with 25 years of clinical research and professional application. SHEN Therapy uses naturally occurring Chi (Qi) from a practitioner's hands to relax and release both physical and emotional pain  ... Read More
Shiatsu  
Shiatsu is a Japanese form of massage therapy (the word shiatsu means "finger pressure" in Japanese). Shiatsu aims to promote health and healing by correcting energy imbalances in your body. Shiatsu emphasises the maintenance of health and the prevention of disease rather than treating a specific ... Read More
Soft Tissue Release  
Soft Tissue Release (STR) is a dynamic, highly effective technique that has an immediate and powerful effect on muscle and connective tissue. STR is a combination of Myofascial Release, Therapeutic Massage, and Active Assisted Stretching. The technique involves applying precise pressure during a ... Read More
Somatic Experiencing®  
Somatic Experiencing® is a form of therapy related to PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) and manifestations of trauma such stress and anxiety. When we experience overwhelming anxiety, the nervous system goes into a fight, flight or freeze response. When this powerful survival energy is ... Read More
Somatic Movement  
Somatic Movement Therapy is a gentle movement therapy that involves stretching and breathing exercises to realign the body and the mind. This form of movement therapy is based on various other body-work methods such as Feldenkrais, Yoga, Rolfing, etc. It teaches proper postural alignment with ... Read More
Sound / Music Therapy
Sound and Music Therapies involve a variety of therapeutic modalities intended to release you from emotional blockages and/or relieve physical, emotional or spiritual problems using sound and music. There are a variety of holistic therapies and treatments related to Sound, Music, Tones/Vibrational ... Read More
Atlas Balancing™
Atlas Balancing™ is an extremely gentle technique employing light touch, energetic work and Sound Codes™ to return the cervical atlas to its correct position. The atlas is turned a minimum of 19 degrees to the left in every human being. While many techniques move it near its proper ... Read More
Gong Therapy
The Gong uses vibration to cover all human frequencies and energy centers and produces relaxing benefits similar to meditation, exercise, and breathing but without physical or mental effort (gong does the work). Healing Gong is recommended for releasing stress, clearing negative thought patterns ... Read More
Sound Based Therapy
Sound based therapy is the use of sound vibrations with specific equipment, specific programs, modified music and/or specific tones/beats. Some types of Sound Based Therapy are used to treat auditory disorders, behavioural challenges, hyperactivity disorders and to remediate learning and ... Read More
Vibroacoustic Music Therapy (VAM)
Vibroacoustic Therapy occurs when music is converted to tactile sensations which permeate your whole body with stimulating and soothing sound. Vibroacoustic music therapy relieves the symptom of tension, fatigue, pain, headache, depression, and nausea. Some medical providers treating suicidal ... Read More
Vibroacoustic Therapy (VAT)
Vibroacoustic Therapy (VAT) utilizes specific frequencies which are played through transducers in a specially designed bed, chair or table. With VAT, no music is included, as the pre-selected frequencies are chosen based on the effects those frequencies have on various parts of the body, and ... Read More
Vocal Healing
Voice Healing is a process of receiving healing through the sound of a voice. Similar to massage or energy work, you get comfortable (usually with your eyes closed). Then you listen to a voice with particular vibrations (either through the practices of a Vocal Healing Practitioner or a recorded ... Read More
Speech / Voice Therapy
Speech or Voice Therapy is a key tool in the treatment of voice disorders. Voice Therapy is one type of a broader set of speech and language therapies that are administered by speech-language pathologists (SLPs). Voice Therapy is one of the three main tools (along with surgical treatments and ... Read More
SPHE-RE  
SPHE-RE (short for Sacred Peace Energy Healing) is an energy based practice. Lynn Neilson is the Founder of SPHE-RE. Her experience in energy work over the last decade has prepared her to receive this new energy called Sacred Peace Energy and to bring it to the world. Together with her partner, ... Read More
Spiritual Growth and Well-being  
As spiritual beings we choose to incarnate in order to experience and learn life lessons that will enhance and elevate our soul’s growth and potential. Each experience or life lesson helps to eliminate or overcome negative ego constraints and to heal from within. This in turn strengthens ... Read More
Spiritual Healing
Spiritual Healing is the deep transformation on a core level that you experience after an ‘energy treatment’ from a spiritual healer. Your healer places their hands on or near your body and soft energy begins to flow from the palms of the healer's hands. Your healer may touch your body or ... Read More
Spiritual Intelligence  
Spiritual intelligence has been described as the “ultimate intelligence“ and has become a hot topic among the general public, the corporate world, and researchers alike. Understanding this new and exciting facet of the human mind can help us better understand our full potential - both ... Read More
Spiritual Poetry  
Spiritual poetry is not necessarily associated to religious verse. Rather it is an inspirational teaching shared through a spiritual melding of the author’s soul and the universal source. Spiritual poetry may express the universal values or truths in life or they may be an expression of love or ... Read More
Strain Counterstrain  
Strain Counterstrain is a massage technique for relieving musculoskeletal spasms and pain. A positional release technique, SCS was developed in 1981 by the osteopathic physician Dr. Lawrence Jones. It is a gentle and safe technique that relieves spinal or other joint pain by passively shortening ... Read More
Structural Integration
Structural Integration is a scientifically validated process of restructuring the body through movement, touch, and education.  The field of gravity is an unseen force that is consistently interacting with the human body -- Structural Integration aims to re-educate the human body so that it lives ... Read More
Support Groups  
In a support group, members provide each other with various types of help, usually nonprofessional and nonmaterial, for a particular shared, usually burdensome, characteristic. The help may take the form of providing and evaluating relevant information, relating personal experiences, listening to ... Read More
Systemic Constellation Work
The Systemic Constellation process is a trans-generational, phenomenological, therapeutic intervention with roots in family systems therapy (Psychodrama of Jacob Moreno, Virginia Satir, Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy), existential-phenomenology (Brentano, Husserl, Heidegger), and the ancestor reverence of ... Read More
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Tactile Communications  
Tactile communication refers to what we communicate through the sense of touch -- through touching, or not touching each other in various ways. Touch may be the most primal or basic form of communication, since it's the way things are communicated to infants, way before infants have learned ... Read More
Tactile Stimulation  
Any stimulation related to the act of touching or the sense of touch. Read More
Tai Chi
Tai Chi (pronounced "tie chee") is an ancient Chinese discipline that integrates mind, body, and spirit. Tai Chi uses meditation and deep breathing with movements through a series of continuous exercises, called "forms," which resemble slow-moving ballet. Tai Chi can help to treat problems with: ... Read More
Tantric Massage  
Tantric massage involves working with the sexual energy to release blockages and raise your conciousness. Read More
Tantsu  
Tantsu, a form of bodywork done on a mat, was developed 25 years ago to bring the nurturing of Watsu (“Water Shiatsu“) back on land.  It is characterised by breath-coordinated, whole body holds, in which the Base is supported, while the rest of the body is pressed moved and stretched ... Read More
Thalassotherapy  
Thalassotherapy is a family of body treatments which are designed to utilize substances which are acquired from the ocean, such as seawater, marine mud, and seaweed. Many spas offer several thalassotherapy treatments, and in some regions spas dedicate themselves to offering just thalassotherapy, ... Read More
The Work - Byron Katie  
The Work is a simple yet powerful process of inquiry that teaches you to identify and question thoughts that cause all the suffering in the world. It's a way to understand what's hurting you, and to address your problems with clarity. In its most basic form, The Work consists of four questions and ... Read More
Therapeutic Humour  
Therapeutic humour is any intervention that promotes health and wellness by stimulating a playful discovery, expression, or appreciation of the absurdity or incongruity of life's situations. This intervention may enhance work performance, support learning, improve health, or be used as a ... Read More
Therapeutic Touch™  
Therapeutic Touch™ is a contemporary healing modality drawn from ancient practices and developed by Dora Kunz and Dolores Krieger. The practice is based on the assumptions that human beings are complex fields of energy, and that the ability to enhance healing in another is a natural ... Read More
Theta Healing  
ThetaHealing is a simple method of connecting with Creator then commanding and witnessing physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual changes in yourself or in others. The ThetaHealing practitioner goes into a particular meditative state (Theta brainwave) and channels healing energies tailored to ... Read More
Thought Field Therapy® (TFT)  
Thought Field Therapy® ("TFT") was created by Roger Callahan, PhD (a clinical psychologist) and his wife, Judith Callahan in 1979 and is a meridian energy modality that uses many of the concepts from Acupuncture and Applied Kinesiology. It is based on the belief that imbalances in a person's ... Read More
Time Line Therapy  
Time Line Therapy™ is a series of techniques which allows you to release and eliminate unpleasant emotions from memories of past events. This can result in a dramatic improvement in your personal growth and development. Read More
Total Body Modification (TBM)  
T.B.M. (Total Body Modification) is a technique that is used to find the organ or area of the body that is stressed, determine why it is stressed and correct the problem by restoring balance to the nervous system. In other words, while basic Chiropractic is used to correct the Structure and ... Read More
Touch for Health (TFH)  
Touch for Health (TFH) falls under the branch of alternative and complementary therapy known as kinesiology – systems of healing that use manual muscle bio-feedback to determine which stimuli stress the body and how that stress can be decreased. The Touch for Health model does not treat or ... Read More
Traditional Chinese Medicine  
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) theories apply the phenomena and laws of nature to the study of the physiological activities and pathological change of the human body and its interrelationships. Some typical therapies used in Traditional Chinese Medicine include acupuncture, herbal medicine and ... Read More
Trager Therapy  
Trager is a very gentle modality of bodywork and movement re-education developed over the course of Dr. Milton Trager's lifetime. The Trager Approach uses movement to teach the body how to be more comfortable and to move with freedom and ease. During the table work, a combination of rocking, ... Read More
Transpersonal Psychology  
Transpersonal psychology incorporates the study of humanity’s highest potential, and with the recognition, understanding, and realization of personal connection with self, others and universe, spiritual, and transcendent states of consciousness. Five key themes in particular feature prominently: ... Read More
Trigenics  
Trigenics is a muscle and nerve treatment therapy utilized by manual medicine practitioners which provides pain relief and reduction of muscle spasm/contracture. Trigenics is a combination of manual joint and soft tissue manipulation using specific points in the soft tissue to stimulate the nervous  ... Read More
Triggerpoint Therapy  
... Many chiropractors and massage therapists find the model useful in practice, but the medical community at large has not embraced trigger point therapy. Although trigger points do appear to be an observable phenomenon with defined properties, there is a lack of a consistent methodology for ... Read More
Tui Na - TuiNa  
Tuina is a method using arms, hands, fingers, elbows and knees as tools for preventing and treating diseases and illnesses. Tuina rectifies your body’s anomalies and alters the inner energy state of your biological system. For soft tissue injuries, Tuina relaxes muscles and tendons, promotes ... Read More
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Unani Medicine  
As an alternative medicine, Unani has found favour in Asia, especially India. In India, These Unani practitioners can practice as qualified doctors, as the Indian government approves their practice. Unani medicine is very close to Ayurveda. Both are based on theory of the presence of the elements ... Read More
Urine Therapy  
In alternative medicine, the term urine therapy (also urotherapy, urinotherapy or uropathy) refers to various applications of human urine for medicinal or cosmetic purposes, including drinking of one's own urine and massaging one's skin with one's own urine. A practitioner of urine therapy is ... Read More
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Veterinary Medicine  
The practice of veterinary medicine includes the diagnosis and treatment (including prescriptions and surgery) of all animal disease. "Animal" includes every living creature except humans. The practice of veterinary technology includes the performance of services within the field of veterinary ... Read More
Visceral Manipulation  
Visceral Manipulation is the process of massaging and manipulating deep tissue to improve the functioning of the various organs in the abdominal cavity. There are several reasons that people choose to engage in this type of bodywork. Visceral manipulation is believed to increase circulation to the ... Read More
Vision Therapy  
Vision Therapy is a type of physical therapy for the eyes and brain -- is a highly effective non-surgical treatment for many common visual problems such as lazy eye, crossed eyes, double vision, convergence insufficiency and some reading and learning disabilities. Many patients who have been told, ... Read More
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Water Therapy  
Water therapy is the use of water to improve health. According to alternative medicine advocates, one form of water therapy is the consuming of a gutful of water upon waking in order to "cleanse the bowel". A litre to a litre and half is the common amount ingested. This water therapy, also known as  ... Read More
Whole Body Vibration  
Whole Body Vibration was developed in the 1970s in Russia by scientists looking to counteract the loss of bone mass experienced by astronauts during long space missions. They reproduced the stimulus on the body through vibrations which then forces the body's muscles to contract and relax. This ... Read More
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Yamuna Body Logic  
... function and alignment; standing straight, shoulders back, a natural curve to the spine, hips, feet and knees aligned. It’s about liberating the body. Just one YBL session introduces effortless grace to your posture. Stand up straight without strain, and perform to your athletic maximum ... Read More
Yoga
Yoga refers to traditional physical and mental disciplines originating in India. The word is associated with meditative practices in both Buddhism and Hinduism. In Hinduism, it also refers to one of the six orthodox (astika) schools of Hindu philosophy, and to the goal toward which that school ... Read More
AcroYoga
AcroYoga is a combination of Yoga, Partner Yoga and Acrobatics. In a natural progression of a solitary Yoga practice, we experience an immediate feedback reflecting our state of being in working with a partner. In every contact, with every connection, we face our fears, learn trust, overcome ... Read More
Ananda Yoga
Is a school of yoga advocated by Swami Kriyananda. It is an attempt to bring Hatha Yoga (the science of yoga asanas/postures) back under the wing of its predecessor Raja Yoga (Royal Yoga). Ananda Yoga for higher awareness reflects its main goal of raising the student’s level of awareness and ... Read More
Anusara Yoga
Anusara Yoga is a modern school of Hatha Yoga grounded in a Tantric philosophy of intrinsic goodness. The emphasis of the school is on a set of "Universal Principles of Alignment" which underlie all postures, "Heart Opening" postures and the spiritual/meditative benefits of Hatha Yoga. Read More
Ashtanga Yoga
Popularized by K. Pattabhi Jois and often promoted as a modern day form of classical Indian Yoga. It involves synchronizing the breath with a progressive series of postures – a process producing intense internal heat and a profuse, putrefying sweat that detoxifies muscles and organs resulting  ... Read More
Bhakti Yoga
Bhakti Yoga is a term within Hinduism which denotes the spiritual practice of fostering loving devotion to God, called bhakti. Traditionally there are nine forms of bhakti-yoga. Bhakti yoga is generally considered the easiest of the four general paths to liberation, or moksha (the others being ... Read More
Bikram Yoga
Bikram's Yoga, also known as Hot Yoga, or "Fire Yoga" is a style of yoga developed by Bikram Choudhury and a Los Angeles, California based company.[1] Bikram Yoga is ideally practiced in a room heated to 105°F (40.5°C) with a humidity of 40%. Classes are guided by specific dialogue including 26 ... Read More
Chair Yoga
Chair Yoga is a modified series of traditional poses that makes yoga accessible to almost anyone. Even though the poses are adapted, the full benefits are still provided. It’s great for someone who may be out of shape, overweight, elderly or recovering from an illness or surgery. Read More
Dahn Yoga
Dahn yoga (also known as Dahn Hak or Dahnhak) is a Korean yoga system founded by Ilchi Lee. In Korean, dahn means "primal, vital energy," and hak means "study of a particular theory or philosophy." Dahn teachings are said to place equal emphasis on physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. ... Read More
Divya Yoga
Divya Yoga is a synthesis of the ancient system of hatha yoga and a contemporary method of bodywork called Hellerwork. Divya Yoga is divided into four parts: the first focusing on the “sleeve” of the body, the second focusing on the “core” structures, the third on the ... Read More
Forrest Yoga
Ana Forrest has been changing people’s lives for nearly 40 years. An internationally recognized pioneer in yoga and emotional healing, Ana created Forrest Yoga while working through her own healing from her life’s trauma and experience. Forrest Yoga is renowned as an intensely physical ... Read More
Hatha Yoga
Traditional hatha yoga is a holistic yogic path, including disciplines, physical postures (asana), purification procedures (shatkriya), poses (mudra), breathing (pranayama), and meditation. The hatha yoga predominantly practiced in the West consists of mostly asanas understood as physical ... Read More
Healing Yoga
The healing art of Yoga has been practiced for millennia to enhance both the physical and mental well being. Yoga uses restorative poses to help relieve stress, back pain, indigestion, fatigue and headache. Take time to discover the healing power of Yoga and the benefits it can bring into your ... Read More
Hot Yoga
Hot Yoga is a series of yoga poses done in a heated room. The room is usually maintained at a temperature of 95-100 degrees. As you can imagine, a vigorous yoga session at this temperature promotes profuse sweating which rids the body of toxins. It also makes the body very warm, and therefore more ... Read More
Integral Yoga
Integral Yoga can refer to two different styles of yoga; the yoga taught by Sri Aurobindo (also called purna yoga or supramental yoga) in the early 1900s, and the later style taught by Swami Satchidananda from 1966 onwards, who trademarked the term "Integral Yoga" in the United States in 1977 (the ... Read More
Integrative Yoga Therapy
Integrative Yoga Therapy was founded by Joseph Le Page, whose special focus is energy healing. As approaches to health continue to evolve, Yoga will become a primary vehicle for wellness programs of the future, because of its ability to promote health and healing at physical, emotional and ... Read More
ISHTA Yoga
The Sanskrit word yoga means union. In general the term Yoga refers to the tools and techniques we can use to reconnect to this state of union, or oneness which exists at the core of each of us. Yoga is beneficial to the body on a physical level, while at the same time helping to enrich our ... Read More
Iyengar Yoga
The Iyengar method of Yoga is initially learnt through the in-depth study of asanas (posture) and pranayama (breath control). Mr Iyengar has systematised over 200 classical yoga Asanas and 14 different types of Pranayamas (with variations of many of them) from the simple to the incredibly ... Read More
Jivamukti Yoga
Founded in New York in the 1980’s by Sharon Gannon and David Life , it has become an extremely popular Vinyasa style of Yoga. There are five types of classes, Open, Basic, Beginner, Spiritual Warrior, and Meditation. Jivamukti Yoga is a physical, ethical and spiritual practice, combining a ... Read More
Jnana Yoga
Jnana yoga is called the path of knowledge, or the path of non-dualism. This yoga has become very sought after, particularly in the west, chiefly for people who wish to circumvent the concept of an exclusive God. It is basically for individuals with strong intellectual interests and for who ... Read More
Karma Yoga
Karma yoga (see yoga ), the spiritual discipline of detachment from the results of action, is a famous teaching of the Bhagavad-Gita. Read More
Kripalu Yoga
Kripalu uses yoga concepts of inner focus, meditation, standard yoga poses, “breathwork“, “development of a quiet mind“, and relaxation. Kripalu emphasizes “following the flow“ of prana, or life-force energy, compassionate self-acceptance, observing the activity ... Read More
Kriya Yoga
Kriya Yoga is a technique, taught directly by the master to the disciple through a purification process. There is no written record of when this ancient tradition of Kriya Yoga began. The rishis of the Upanishads, Shri Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita, Maharishi Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras and many ... Read More
Kundalini Yoga
Kundalini yoga is an ancient form of yoga that has only been practiced in the west relatively recently. In 1969, Yogi Bhajan founded 3HO (the Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization) to introduce Kundalini to a broader population. Although Kundalini had not previously been taught to the public, Yogi ... Read More
Laughter Yoga
Laughter Yoga (Hasyayoga) is a form of yoga employing self-triggered laughter. The "laughter" is physical in nature, and does not necessarily involve humor or comedy. Laughter Yoga combines unconditional laughter with pranayama (yogic breathing). Laughter is simulated as a body exercise in a group;  ... Read More
Partner Yoga
The word "yoga" comes from the Sanskrit root yuj meaning "to bind, or join." Yoga is centrally the practice of union, whether you are joining the mind to the body, the human to the divine, or the individual to the infinite. The various styles of yoga that have made it to the West all share a common  ... Read More
Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy
This is difficult to explain verbally due to its highly experiential nature. Physically it’s like having a yoga class done to your body. You go through a series of practitioner assisted yoga postures and an open-ended, non-directive dialogue of the outcome of the session. Using focused ... Read More
Power Yoga
More vigorous and fitness based than traditional Yoga. Has been in vogue since the mid 1990’s, evolving as a result of Western Yoga teachers wanting to make Ashtanga Yoga more popular among western students. Power Yoga lays stress on flexibility and strength and involves a flowing intense ... Read More
Prenatal Yoga
Prenatal Yoga uses postures, breathing, and meditation to help ease pregnancy, delivery, and the after effects of birth. The classes create strength, focus, flexibility and awareness through a gentle practice designed especially for the pregnant woman's needs. Prenatal Yoga classes provide a safe, ... Read More
Purna Yoga
Purna Yoga is an alignment-based yoga system that uses heart-centered meditation and healthy living practices to help you feel truly alive! Purna Yoga helps remind us how good it feels – and how easy it can be – to welcome your Spirit back into your body and life. Purna Yoga is a ... Read More
Raja Yoga
Raja yoga translates as raja, meaning "royal" and yoga, meaning "union." This concept refers to the individual uniting with the divine. In Hindu philosophy, raja yoga is considered classical yoga and one of the six astika (orthodox) schools of yoga. Read More
Restorative Yoga
Restorative Yoga is a therapeutic style of yoga which utilizes props to make it easier for the body to get into certain poses, and thus, surrender to the pose. Practicing poses using props provides a completely supportive environment for total relaxation. The more your body is supported in the ... Read More
Sahaja Yoga
Sahaja Yoga is a meditation technique developed by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi that involves the awakening of a subtle spiritual energy known as the Kundalini which lies dormant in the sacrum bone at the base of the spine in three and a half coils. The word ‘sacrum’ is derived from the word ... Read More
Sat Nam Rasayan
Sat Nam Rasayan is a yogic healing tradition that uses one's awareness for healing. The practitioner relates with the patient in consciousness to find one or more tendencies that hold a condition. Awareness of a tendency will produce an intention which is then manifest in the relation, allowing ... Read More
Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga
Yoga is a philosophy, a science and way of life. The word yoga is from the Sanskrit Yoke and means union; it is the union of Mind, Body, and Spirit. The goal of Yoga is to recognize yourself as a spiritual being, to be established in union and act in harmony with the Universe. When your physical, ... Read More
Siddha Yoga
Siddha yoga is a term that's sort of a generic term, which means powers or depth. There is a group founded by swami Muktinanda. He was the first to immigrate to the west in a major way. It's a system of primarily meditation that also employs other aspects of yoga postures, breathing and service ... Read More
Sivananda
Named after the teachings of Swami Sivananda. This is a non-proprietary form of Hatha Yoga, in which the training focuses on preserving the health and wellness of the practitioner. Unlike Ashtanga Vinyasa which is a more athletic program, Sivananda training revolves around frequent relaxation and ... Read More
Svaroopa® Yoga
Svaroopa® specializes in the inner opening, the yoga poses release the tensions from the deepest layers of the body, thus opening up conscious access to the ever-expanding realms of inner self. Svaroopa® Yoga is trademarked by S.T.C. Inc and was originated by Swami Nirmalananda Saraswati ... Read More
Tantra Yoga
The aim of Tantra Yoga is to expand awareness in all states of consciousness, whether a waking state, a dream state, or a sleep state. To accomplish this we need to deprogram and reprogram ourselves. Having been born in a particular place and time provides us with our primary programming, which is ... Read More
Thai Massage / Thai Yoga Bodywork
Thai Massage is an ancient art of body therapy for healing, health, and transformation. Thai Massage is an interactive manipulation of your body using passive stretching and gentle pressure along energy lines. These movements help to: * Adjust your skeletal structure * Increase flexibility * ... Read More
Tibetan Yoga
Tibetan Yoga comprises 5 simple yet dynamic yoga exercises called 5 Tibetan Rites, meditation,praanayam and positive thinking. The 5 Tibetan Rites is a yoga routine based on a ritual of exercises done by Tibetan Lamas, which helped them to live very long and healthy lives and to stay forever young.  ... Read More
TriYoga
This is a complete and revolutionary system based in ancient Yoga, founded by Yogini Kaliji (Kali Ray), TriYoga includes the full range of Yoga practices. The art and science of yoga flow, TriYoga unites pranayama and mudra with dynamic and sustained asana. Rhythmic pacing, relaxation-in-action, ... Read More
Vigorous Vinyasa
This is a stimulating flow series designed to enliven the body and enrich the soul with energy and life. This is a more advanced practice than the Vinyasa series and is wonderful for awakening the body and mind. The term Vinyasa refers to the alignment of movement and breath which turns static Yoga  ... Read More
Viniyoga
Viniyoga is an ancient Sanskrit term that implies differentiation, adaptation and appropriate application. The term is used to refer to an approach to Yoga that adapts the various means and methods of practice to the unique condition, needs and interests of each individual. It gives each ... Read More
Yoga Nidra
Yoga Nidra is a form of guided meditation received while lying down or sitting in a chair. It brings you to a state of deep relaxation through body sensing and focusing on the breath and then helps you identify and sense feelings, emotions, and beliefs while in this deep state of relaxation. The ... Read More
Yoga Therapy  
Yoga Therapy is the process of empowering individuals to progress toward improved health and well-being through the application of the philosophy and practice of Yoga. Yoga therapy, derived from the Yoga tradition of Patanjali and the Ayurvedic system of health care refers to the adaptation and ... Read More
Z
Zero Balancing Therapy  
Zero balancing is touch technique that combines eastern and western medicine. Treatment aims to restore a smooth flow of energy throughout the body paying attention to "foundation" joints that act as shock absorbers for the weight distribution of the body and to breathing patterns, eye movements ... Read More