Modality Library

Every tradition, in one place.

From ancient lineages to contemporary practice — explore the modalities held by practitioners across Tera.

Movement & Fitness

9 practices
Yoga

Yoga is one of the world's oldest mind-body practices, combining physical postures, breathwork, and meditation to cultivate strength, flexibility, and inner stillness. On Tera you will find teachers across all major styles — from dynamic Vinyasa to restorative Yin, Kundalini, Hatha, Aerial, and beyond.

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Pilates

Pilates is a system of controlled movement designed to strengthen the core, improve posture, and build full-body awareness. It is used by dancers, athletes, and rehabilitation clients alike. Tera hosts both mat Pilates and reformer Pilates practitioners.

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Qigong
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Qigong (pronounced "chee-gong") is a gentle moving meditation that cultivates and balances the body's vital energy (qi) through slow movements, breathwork, and intention. It is both a healing practice and a spiritual discipline.

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Tai Chi
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Tai Chi is a moving meditation characterised by slow, flowing sequences that cultivate balance, coordination, and inner calm. Originally a martial art, it is now widely practised for its profound health and wellbeing benefits.

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Dance Therapy

Dance therapy (also called dance movement therapy) uses movement and dance as a therapeutic tool to support emotional, cognitive, and physical wellbeing. It bridges the gap between body and mind, helping clients process experiences that words cannot always reach.

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5Rhythms

5Rhythms is a movement meditation practice that maps five rhythms — Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness — as a wave of transformation. It is not choreographed. You move as you are, where you are.

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Feldenkrais Method

The Feldenkrais Method uses gentle movement and directed attention to help the nervous system discover more efficient and comfortable ways of moving. It is used for pain relief, neurological rehabilitation, and performance enhancement.

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Alexander Technique

The Alexander Technique is a method of re-educating the body's habitual patterns of tension and movement. It teaches you to move with greater ease, reducing strain on the musculoskeletal system and improving overall wellbeing.

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Reflexology

Reflexology is a therapeutic practice based on the principle that specific points on the feet, hands, and ears correspond to organs, glands, and systems throughout the body. Applying pressure to these reflex points promotes healing and balance.

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Hands-on & Bodywork

6 practices
Massage Therapy

Massage therapy encompasses a wide range of hands-on techniques designed to relieve muscle tension, reduce stress, support circulation, and promote overall wellbeing. On Tera you will find practitioners offering Swedish, deep tissue, sports, hot stone, Thai, lomi lomi, Balinese, Ayurvedic, and many other massage styles.

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Craniosacral Therapy

Craniosacral therapy is an extraordinarily gentle hands-on approach that works with the craniosacral system — the membranes and cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord. It supports the body's natural healing capacity and is deeply calming to the nervous system.

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Shiatsu
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Shiatsu is a Japanese bodywork practice that uses finger, thumb, palm, and elbow pressure along the body's energy meridians to restore balance and promote the free flow of qi. It is both deeply therapeutic and profoundly relaxing.

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Lomi Lomi
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Lomi Lomi is a Hawaiian healing massage that uses long, flowing strokes reminiscent of ocean waves, combined with prayer, breath, and intention. It is as much a spiritual practice as a physical one, working to release tension held in both body and memory.

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Watsu

Watsu is a form of aquatic bodywork performed in warm water (around 35°C). The practitioner supports and gently moves the recipient through a series of stretches, rotations, and massage while floating. The experience is profoundly nurturing and often described as returning to the womb.

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Bowen Technique

The Bowen Technique is a gentle, non-invasive bodywork method that uses precise, rolling movements over muscles, tendons, and fascia. Between each set of moves the practitioner pauses, allowing the body time to integrate and respond. It works with the nervous system to reset tension patterns throughout the body.

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Energy & Spirit

6 practices
Reiki

Reiki is a Japanese energy healing practice based on the principle that a practitioner can channel universal life force energy to the recipient, activating their body's natural ability to heal. It works on physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels simultaneously.

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Sound Healing
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Sound healing uses the vibrations of instruments — singing bowls, gongs, tuning forks, drums, voice — to shift the body and mind into states of deep rest and healing. Sound works at a cellular level, entraining brainwaves and releasing physical and emotional tension.

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Shamanic Healing
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Shamanic healing works in the realm of energy and spirit, addressing the root causes of illness, disconnection, or imbalance. Practices vary by tradition but may include soul retrieval, power animal work, extraction healing, ancestral healing, and ceremony.

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Ancestral Healing
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Ancestral healing works with the wounds, patterns, and gifts passed down through family lineages. It recognises that unresolved trauma does not end with the individual — it is carried forward. Ancestral healing seeks to honour, release, and transform these inherited patterns.

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Ifá
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Ifá is a complete system of spiritual wisdom, divination, and healing practised by Babalawos and Iyanifas. It offers guidance, healing, and connection to one's ori (personal destiny) and the Orishas (divine energies). Ifá has been carried through the African diaspora into Cuba (Lucumí/Santería), Brazil (Candomblé), and beyond.

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Crystal Healing

Crystal healing works with the energetic properties of crystals and gemstones to support balance and wellbeing. Different crystals are associated with different frequencies and healing qualities, and practitioners use them to clear, activate, and balance the body's energy field.

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Somatic & Trauma

5 practices
Somatic Experiencing

Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body-centred approach to healing trauma and stress. Rather than focusing primarily on the story of what happened, SE works with the physiological responses held in the body — the incomplete survival responses that keep the nervous system stuck in patterns of fight, flight, or freeze.

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Womb Healing
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Womb healing is a holistic practice that supports women and people with wombs in reconnecting with their womb space — physically, emotionally, and spiritually. It addresses ancestral wounding, reproductive trauma, menstrual imbalance, fertility challenges, and disconnection from feminine power.

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Hakomi

Hakomi is a mindfulness-based somatic psychotherapy that works with the body as a living map of the unconscious. It uses mindful states and gentle body experiments to help clients discover and transform core beliefs held in the body.

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EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured therapy that helps people process and heal from traumatic memories. Using bilateral stimulation (typically guided eye movements), EMDR facilitates the brain's natural information processing system, reducing the distress associated with traumatic memories.

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Polyvagal Therapy

Polyvagal-informed therapy applies the science of the autonomic nervous system to healing. It helps clients understand and regulate their nervous system states — safety, mobilisation, and shutdown — building greater capacity for connection, presence, and resilience.

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Mind & Wellbeing

5 practices
Meditation

Meditation is the practice of training attention and awareness to achieve a mentally clear, emotionally calm, and stable state. On Tera you will find teachers across a wide range of traditions and styles — from Vipassana and Transcendental Meditation to guided visualisation, mantra, and loving-kindness practice.

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Breathwork

Breathwork uses conscious breathing techniques to shift physiological and psychological states. Different modalities range from gentle nervous system regulation to deeply cathartic emotional release experiences. Breathwork can be profoundly transformative.

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Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy uses a state of focused relaxation and heightened suggestibility to help clients access and shift unconscious patterns, beliefs, and behaviours. It is a clinically recognised therapeutic tool used for a wide range of issues.

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EFT (Tapping)

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), commonly known as tapping, combines elements of cognitive therapy and exposure therapy with acupressure. By tapping on specific meridian points while focusing on a difficult emotion or memory, EFT helps to reduce the body's stress response to that issue.

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Life Coaching

Life coaching is a forward-focused practice that supports clients in identifying and achieving their goals, overcoming obstacles, and creating lives aligned with their values. Unlike therapy, coaching focuses primarily on the present and future rather than processing the past.

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Women's Health & Maternal Wellness

5 practices
Prenatal Wellness
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Prenatal wellness encompasses all healing practices designed to support the physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing of pregnant women. On Tera you will find practitioners offering prenatal massage, prenatal yoga, energy healing, nutrition, hypnobirthing, and more — all adapted for pregnancy.

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Postnatal Recovery
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Postnatal recovery encompasses healing practices that support new mothers in the weeks, months, and sometimes years after birth. This includes physical recovery from birth, emotional processing, hormonal rebalancing, and reconnection with the self beyond motherhood.

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Hypnobirthing

Hypnobirthing is an antenatal education and self-hypnosis programme that prepares expectant parents for a calm, positive birth experience. It teaches deep relaxation, breathing techniques, and positive birth psychology to reduce fear and support the body's natural birthing process.

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Fertility Wellness
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Fertility wellness encompasses holistic practices that support those on a fertility journey — whether trying to conceive naturally, preparing for IVF, or navigating unexplained infertility. It addresses the physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of fertility.

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Menopause Wellness
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Menopause wellness supports women through the physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of the menopausal transition — from perimenopause through to post-menopause. It encompasses nutrition, movement, energy healing, hormonal support, and psychological wellbeing.

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Nutrition & Lifestyle

3 practices

Cultural & Ancestral Healing

3 practices