{"id":3853,"date":"2018-07-05T19:25:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T23:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/touchfitness.com\/blog\/?page_id=3853"},"modified":"2018-10-27T16:34:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T20:34:53","slug":"what-is-informative-bodywork","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/touchfitness.com\/blog\/touchfitness\/what-is-informative-bodywork\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Informative Bodywork?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3683 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/touchfitness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/TFB_009-Brand-Update-Logo_05f-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/touchfitness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/TFB_009-Brand-Update-Logo_05f-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/touchfitness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/TFB_009-Brand-Update-Logo_05f-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/touchfitness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/TFB_009-Brand-Update-Logo_05f.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><strong>Touch Fitness, Informative Bodywork\u00ae<\/strong> is more than just traditional massage therapy. It is a blending of <strong>traditional therapeutic m<\/strong><strong>assage <\/strong><strong>modalities<\/strong> (Swedish, Deep Tissue, Medical and Sports, Shiatsu, Thai Massage, exercises and stretches etc.) with <strong>non-traditional injury rehabilitation modaliti<\/strong><strong>es<\/strong> such as afforded by; <em>Movement Re-Education Techniques<\/em> (now called Movement Education, i.e. Ball Therapy as taught by Robin Powell, PhD, New York University (NYU), Feldenkrais -as taught by Kira Charles, NYC and The Alexander Techniques -as taught by The American Center for the Alexander Technique (ACAT), Clarice Marshall, NYU and Hope Martin, NYC), integrating the use of; <em>Tactile Aid <\/em>and<em> Ima<\/em><em>gery <\/em>from <em>Kinesthetics of Anatomy (<\/em>as taught by Andre Bernard, NYU and re-offered as my Relax Max class at Pure Yoga, NYC), <em>Visualization <\/em>(the use of descriptive language to <span class=\"ind\">form a mental image of something which is <\/span>an invaluable tool for relieving stress and recruiting the mind to assist change in the body)<em>,<\/em> and <em>Aromatherapy<\/em> (lovingly formulated and therapeutically blended custom and house massage oils and diffusions made from the highest quality Essential Oils) and blended with principles of excellent bio-mechanics gleaned from the world of Dance and Thai Chi.<\/p>\n<p>PLEASE NOTE: Massage therapy, exercise and aromatherapy are not intended as a replacement for appropriate medical attention and care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Touch Fitness, Informative Bodywork\u00ae is more than just traditional massage therapy. It is a blending of traditional therapeutic massage modalities (Swedish, Deep Tissue, Medical and Sports, Shiatsu, Thai Massage, exercises and stretches etc.) with non-traditional injury rehabilitation modalities such as afforded by; Movement Re-Education Techniques (now called Movement Education, i.e. Ball Therapy as taught by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":24,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3853","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/touchfitness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/touchfitness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/touchfitness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/touchfitness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/touchfitness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/touchfitness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3853\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/touchfitness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/touchfitness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}