Somatic and Body-Based Therapy Founders

Founders and teachers of somatic education and body-based movement therapy, the family of techniques that treat awareness of movement, posture and muscular tension as the route to physical and psychological wellbeing rather than manipulation of the skeleton or the use of drugs. This covers the founders of the named movement-education techniques such as structural bodywork, movement re-education and body awareness methods, the founders of dance and movement-based therapy, a physical fitness method built on controlled, body-aware exercise, and later teachers and facilitators who extended this body-based lineage into therapeutic and social practice. A figure whose primary discipline is chiropractic, osteopathy or hydrotherapy, even when their method also involves the body, is grouped instead under that discipline's own group.