Bodywork? What's that?
Perception affects our understanding of everything. What to you appears red, to me is orange; what to one is music to another is cacophony. To an extent these different, sometimes, divergent views are the result of our interpretation of routine occurrences, events and phenomena in light of our unique life experience and circumstances; which are usually as disparate or similar as the societies, cultures and countries from which we hail. So simply enunciating the word “Bodywork”, without definitive classification or qualification, lays the field open to all manner, sorts and conditions of interpretations of the innocuous term. Given the eccentricities of the English language where “trunk” is a part of a tree to an Englishman and the storage area of a car to an American; bodywork to a dancer, a sportsperson or an exercise buff can mean entirely different things. Well, there will be time enough to celebrate the uniqueness of our differences that contribute so effectively to create individuals and personalities. But for now, before the wayward train of individual interpretations of “Bodywork” chugs further on and departs on a world tour of its own, let’s de-link its many wagons; in other words, let’s strip it of the many possible meanings (we agreed it could have),and redefine it for the purposes of our little column here, shall we?
Bodywork Defined:
In light of the topic to be addressed herein, the term “Bodywork” would assume any of the following descriptions or definitions. All, essentially, convey the same idea.
1. (Definition-healingpeople.com) “The term bodywork includes several therapeutic techniques that maintain and promote good health and total Wellness through movement and handling of the body. Massage, structural/functional integration, movement awareness, and energy medicine are some examples of this form of health care.”
2.(Definition – mothernature.com) “The term bodywork refers to numerous “touch” therapies, including massage, acupressure, deep tissue manipulation, and movement awareness. Some of these therapies physically manipulate body structures, while others are based on the manipulation of the body’s “energy fields.” Bodywork therapies are designed to enhance the overall functioning and structure of the human body by stimulating circulation, promoting deep relaxation, and reducing pain.
3.(Definition - aarogya.com) “Bodywork is an umbrella term for the many techniques, both ancient and modern, that promote relaxation and treatment of ailments (especially those of the musculoskeletal system) through lessons in proper movement, postural re-education, exercise, massage and other forms of bodily manipulation.”
4. (Definition – wholelifepages.com) “Bodywork refers to the utilization of multi-therapies including massage, deep tissue manipulation, movement, energy balancing, acupressure, reflexology, rolfing and many others to help reduce pain, soothe muscles, stimulate blood circulation and promote relaxation and healing. It may also include emotional or energetic healing work.”
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