Alexander Technique: This therapy teaches patients to become aware of their thinking and how it affects habitual movements of the body. Changing these habits by becoming self aware can help release tensions, increasing balance and posture.

AMMA® Therapy (or ANMA): A combination of Oriental and Western medicine, this therapy restores the flow of energy to organs that are not working properly. Patients employ therapeutic exercises, diet changes, and herbs or vitamins.

Applied Kinesiology: Using acupuncture meridians, the practitioner exerts pressure on a spot while the patient resists that pressure. It is used as a diagnostic tool to determine weakness or imbalance in the body.

Aston-Patterning: This therapy serves to show athletes how they can increase their performance by using proper alignment, body positioning and muscle tone.

Bioenergetics: Created by Alexander Lowen, this treatment uses the body and mind to release tensions in the muscles and stress in the mind by understanding the energy systems of the body.

Body Logic: Uses space-making to allow the body to balance itself. Practitioners help patients create space around joints and locked areas. This creation of space allows the body to expand and find freedom of movement.

Body-Mind: This treatment focuses on the connection between the mind and the body. It is a general form of massage therapy.

Breema: This is a Kurdish method of bodywork that has been passed down through generations. It is a comprehensive therapy performed on the floor that involves the interaction of practitioner and patient to create balance and emotional harmony in the patient. This is accomplished through holding points, stretches and rhythmic motion.

Chair Massage: Quite simply, this is a massage session “to-go.” With the hustle and bustle of today's world, people don't often have time for a full-body massage. This therapy allows clients to sit in a specially designed, portable chair that exposes the neck, back, hips and shoulders. Massage sessions are very short.

Colon Hydrotherapy: Licensed only in Florida, this therapy provides cleansing of the colon using warm water introduced at a certain pressure. Massage or visceral manipulation is used during this treatment.

Cranio-Sacral Therapy: Using the scalp as a massage point, the practitioners of this therapy use the feel and appearance of the skull's suture points to determine what might be causing motor problems.

Equine Sports Massage: This is human-style massage adapted to horses, in order to help those horses that regularly run to prevent injuries.

Feldenkrais: Used mainly for pain relief, this system, which was invented by an Israeli physicist, emphasizes the use of well thought out micro-movements to retrain muscles.

Geriatric Massage: Bodywork applied to senior citizens. Practitioners use their knowledge of the aging process and the debilitating injuries of the elderly to maximize the effect of massage.

Hakomi Bodywork: This bodywork is actually more akin to psychotherapy. It focuses on teaching the client about limitations in physical and psychological patterns that serve to increase freedom.

Healing Touch: This hands-on massage aligns the body's energy field and removes blockages in energy flow.

Hellerwork: As an off-shoot to the Rolfing technique, this therapy combines deep-tissue massage with verbal cues and physical movement to work with the body's connective tissues, re-aligning the structure of the body.

Hydrotherapy: (see Spa Treatment)

Infant Massage: Bodywork dedicated to the proper massage of a baby or small child. Classes exist for both practitioners and parents.

Lymphatic Drainage: This massage of the lymphatic system is popular in Germany and Austria. It works to help drain lymph stagnation and improve circulation.

Medical Massage: This kind of massage isn't much different than others, except that it is utilized when a physician has provided a prescription, and deals with injuries and rehabilitation.

Myofascial Release: Using gentle stretches, practitioners find areas of the body that are under strain. They work with connective tissue called fascia to allow patients to experience release of stress and tension.

Myotherapy and Neuromuscular Therapy (see Trigger Point therapy)

Orthopedic Massage: This method of massage is a comprehensive mixture of many different styles, including Trigger Point Therapy, Myofascial Release and others. It is used to treat soft-tissue injury and pain.

Pfrimmer Deep Muscle Therapy: This massage style works with damaged soft tissue and muscles. Practitioners use friction to improve circulation and unclog lymphatic areas.

Polarity Therapy: In this popular method of massage, the practitioner moves his hands over the patient's body with the intention of balancing and removing restrictions of the body's electromagnetic field.

Postural Integration (see structural integration)

Pregnancy or Prenatal Massage: This is a specially designed massage just for expectant moms.

Qi Gong: also termed Chinese Medical Massage, this is the most common style of massage practiced. Its goal is to balance a person's life force to keep him/her healthy.

Reflexology: Uses the feet or hands as massage points, with the understanding that these extremities affect the rest of the body.

Rolfing: This bodywork, created by Ida Rolf, uses connective tissue work to change the structure of the client's body.

Rosen Method Bodywork: This psycho-physical system involves using contracted muscles to determine areas of tension. Changes in the client's breathing provide clues as to sensitive areas and possible emotional connections to contracture.

Rubenfeld Synergy: This technique is more attuned to the emotional health of a person, dealing with pent up feelings and why these feelings are causing physical problems. It is a mind-body therapy that combines The Alexander and Feldenkrais techniques along with hypnotherapy.

Shiatsu: This Japanese bodywork uses pressure points that are located on acupuncture meridians. Practitioners focus on maintaining the flow of energy through these meridians.

Spa Treatments: Often found in one non-residential location, spa treatments help rejuvenate the body with natural wraps, massage, and mind-body approaches to health. They have become very popular in the 21st Century, and are even offered as a part of a luxury hotel or condominium package.

Sports Massage: This type of massage is an adaptation of Swedish massage. It is used on athletes to help them recover from the extreme muscle exertion of competition or training.

Structural Integration: Similar to the Rolfing technique, this massage includes ten sessions, each building on the last, of myofascial manipulation to help the body recoup from the stresses of everyday life.

Therapeutic Touch: This is used by nurses, but also by massage therapists to direct the universal life energy, removing blockages that keep a person from the path of healing.

Trager: This method of massage involves gently rolling/rocking a client to encourage the freeing of tensions. It concentrates on maintaining the overall health of the nervous system.

Trigger Point Therapies: These therapies use the same principles as acupressure, but using Western anatomy rather than Oriental anatomy.

Watsu: Performed in 94-degree water, this massage utilizes moves from Zen Shiatsu, in combination with the warm water, to remove physical and emotional blockages.