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Many types of practices are associated with massage and include bodywork, manual therapy, energy medicine, neural mobilization and breathwork. Other names for massage and related practices includes hand-on-work, body/somatic therapy, and somatic movement education. Body-mind integration techniques stress self-awareness and movement over phusical manipulations by a practitioner. Therapies related to movement awareness/education are closer to dance and movement therapies. Massage can also have connections with the new age movement and altrnative mudecine as well as holistic philosophies of preventive medical care, as well as being used by mainstream medicla practitioners.