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  1. Vibromuscular Harmonisation

    The Vibromuscular Harmonisation Technique (VHT) is a new bodywork technique developed by Jock Ruddock and inspired by such disciplines as Aikido, Bowen Technique, Tai Chi, Cranio-S...more

  2. Vibromuscular Harmonisation

    The Vibromuscular Harmonisation Technique (VHT) is a new bodywork technique developed by Jock Ruddock and inspired by such disciplines as Aikido, Bowen Technique, Tai Chi, Cranio-S...more

  3. Voice Movement Therapy - Healing Mind and Body with Sound and Song

    Healing Mind and Body with Sound and Song by Paul Newham Fifteen years ago I founded a form of therapy now known as Voice Movement Therapy.more

  4. Walking with your Iliopsoas Muscle

    The author explains the importance of maintaining a supple, well-functioning iliopsoas muscle, and has written a book on the subject.more

  5. Westerners Learning Complementary Therapies in China

    The decision to travel to the East to participate in learning about traditional Chinese methods of health care, is not just a geographical journey but rather an expansion of onesel...more

  6. What Is Chiropractic Massage Therapy?

    Understanding what massage therapy refers to will depend somewhat on what part of the world in which you are discussing care. The concept of promoting wellness in the body through m...more

  7. What is Naturopathic Physical Medicine?

    In this first of a series of articles on integrated treatment approaches in relation to Naturopathic Physical Medicine, the author focuses on the relative decline in interest in re...more

  8. What is Tennis Elbow?

    Tennis Elbow is an overuse condition/injury which is generally located on the outside of the elbow joint. The medical name for this condition is Lateral Epicondylitis.more

  9. What is Thai Yoga Massage?

    This article is an account of the history, philosophy, and technique of Thai Yoga Massage.  This practice is helpful for a range of physical complaints, as it works through releasi...more

  10. What is the Difference between Beauty and Complementary Therapy Qualifications in the Same Subjects?

    As the registrar for Complementary Health Professionals (CHP), one of the UKs leading professional associations, we are reviewing qualifications every day. Not only do we check qual...more

  11. What is Turmeric Essential Oil useful for in a Clinical Aromatherapy setting?

    The Latin name for this plant is Curcuma longa Linn and it is a member of the Zingiberaceae family (the same as Ginger oil). Native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, it...more

  12. What Is Yogic Massage? How Yogic Massage Found Me

    The technique was invented by Brigette Hass, a tutor of the MTI who also teaches holistic massage, energy awareness, dance and movement and meditation. Yogic massage is a form of h...more

  13. What will it be like Returning to Work after Lockdown?

    Covid-19 has had a devastating effect on the complementary therapy industry and it is particularly hard when you are a self-employed sole trader. As a result, the question all compl...more

  14. What You Need to Know about Physiotherapy and Sports Physiotherapy

    Do you know someone who had lost the use of their arms and legs after they have suffered from a stroke? Or someone whose limbs or other parts of the body had been injured so that th...more

  15. When in Doubt Ask!

    Asking questions, for some reason, is very difficult for most people. The problem is we either feel we do not have the right to question, after all we do not want to insult the pers...more

  16. Which is Better: Heat or Ice for a Pinched Nerve?

    You’ve probably used heat or ice before on a sprain or a sore muscle. But, if you have a pinched nerve, you know it’s a different feeling than a sprain or strain. So, you may be won...more

  17. Whole Meridian Massage Therapy

    This article focuses on Traditional Chinese Medicine body massage and the meridians, the route to promoting better blood and energy circulation and overall communication between th...more

  18. Wholistic Integrated Approach to Health

    In this feature, Vivienne Silver-Leigh looks at brain respiration. The courses the author has experienced consist of exercises, meditation, healing, Chi Gung and Yoga breathing. Ce...more

  19. Why Bother being a Member of a Professional Association?

    Ever since I first qualified in complementary therapies way back in 1993 (massage therapy was my first qualification), I have belonged to a professional association and have done so...more

  20. Why Can’t I Work Out What’s Wrong With Me?

    So many of us have multiple symptoms that seem to be dissociated. Visits to the doctor yield referrals to different consultants each giving tests and diagnoses within their own spe...more

  21. Why develop degrees in Complementary Therapies?

    By September 1998 at least ten Universities in the UK were enrolling students in degrees on Complementary Therapies. Some of the universities were offering places on up to six diff...more

  22. Why Do Some Therapists Make it in Business and Others Do Not?

    This is a question me and Joyce were discussing recently as we have both been tutors in aromatherapy and massage over the last few decades.more

  23. Why our Body is Often Under More Stress after the Birth than during Pregnancy

    It goes without saying that we pay attention to the health of a mother while she is pregnant, but it is also important to consider the time after childbirth. Postpartum, the body is...more

  24. Why the Client Consultation is So Vital

    One of the key areas of being a complementary therapist is the consultation process. It is fundamental to everything we do from ensuring the treatment is safe and effective to recor...more

  25. Wise Women Change and Heal

    This article sets out the case for a return to the ancient tradition of wise women healers. She reminds us that “as far back as the 1600s, elite, university-trained doctors sought ...more

  26. Working on Clients with Long-Covid

    COVID-19 is going to be with us a long time and people are still being infected with it daily. I had it for the second time three weeks ago. The vaccination is supposed to help prev...more

  27. Yi Dao Reiki

    Master Tam is a qualified Master of both Taoist and Tibetan Tantric spirituality and healing. Yi Dao Reiki is the first part of a secret knowledge that he wishes to restore to the ...more

  28. Yoga and Ayurveda for Headaches and Migraines

    According to Aled Francis, a Manipulative Physiotherapist from the Sydney Headache Clinic, treatment has traditionally focused on identifying certain features such as the frequen...more

  29. Yoga and Ayurveda for Reducing High Blood Pressure

    This article focuses on specific Ayurvedic and yoga remedies for high blood pressure. The author explains what causes high blood pressure, how to recognize if you have it and what ...more

  30. Yoga and Ayurveda in Daily Life are Good for Health

    Everyone aims to have positive physical and mental well being but it becomes difficult to achieve them in our stressful and fast paced lives. People are opting for yoga and Ayurveda...more

  31. Yoga and Detoxification in Tuscany

    This article is a detailed and very inspiring account of the centre in Tuscany, run by husband-and-wife team, John Parkin and Gaia Pollini, on The Hill That Breathes. The remote an...more

  32. Yoga and Macrobiotics for Back Pain

    Meggan Brummer begins by looking at the benefits of using ginger externally. According to Macrobiotics, a ginger compress can be used to relieve back pain, menstrual cramps, arthri...more

  33. Yoga for Diabetes

    In this overview, the author contrasts the eastern and western approaches to treatment of the various forms of diabetes and sets out what can be achieved using Yogic asanas or post...more

  34. Yoga for Mothers and Babies

    An important principle of Yoga is that attention and stability and ease and pleasure can exist within the body side by side. A sense of power and control while being at ease and ...more

  35. Yoga for Stress Relief - Tap into Numerous Health Benefits

    Yoga is one of the best ways of coping with the stress of modern life. It doesn't involve drugs or great expense, and can be practised by anyone of any age in any physical condition...more

  36. Yoga for Weight Loss and Management

    In this article on Yoga for Weight Loss and Management, the author says obesity has reached epidemic proportions globally, and a new survey has also found that half of the British ...more

  37. You Don't have to be Perfect to be Free of Back Pain

    The article begins by referring to a recent study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which did MRI scans of 98 people who did not have back pain, and found that m...more

  38. Your Healthy Heart: Herbal and Nutritional Approaches

    The author argues the case for integrated medicine as an approach to an imbalanced heart or circulatory system and the precursors such as low or high blood pressure, angina, harden...more

  39. Zen Meditation in Kerala - the Spiritual Quest with no Technique to Learn

    This is how it is; this is what we have to learn! That there is no technique that will make life wonderful all the time but that there is an attitude we can adopt that accepts that ...more

  40. Zen-Bodytherapy

    Zen-bodytherapy is a system of bodytherapy and somatic education whose goals are to align and balance the structure, function and energy of the body.more

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