All manual therapies involve touch. Informed, therapeutic touch brings an immediate, and concrete opportunity for the non-verbal tissues of the body to represent themselves. The touch is informed because I, the therapist, have education and training in the nature of bones, nerves, muscles and organs, as well as how these all relate to each other in the systems of the body.
I use touch as another way to listen to you. Touch literally creates space and time for attentiveness in which the body can give voice, through tissue movement to arrive at some freedom of expression—health—that dissolves physical constrictions or restrictions and allows ease and balancing.
Touch also exists at the intersections of physical unspoken voices and emerging words. The words arise out of your personal story as well as our shared contexts. My study of our shared contexts: culture, history, society, or science, also supports informed touch of manual therapy.