Manuvision is both a school and a body therapy method, with training centers in Copenhagen, Barcelona, and Aarhus. For over 25 years, we have worked with the body as the key to healing both physical and psychological challenges.
We share our knowledge not only through treatments and education, but also via books and podcasts, helping more people understand and benefit from the connection between body and mind.
Manuvision is a research-based branch of body therapy that has existed since 1998. We have spent the last 25 years refining our approach to treating the body and psyche, through the body and the nervous system. We treat everyone from stressed business leaders to sports stars, stressed young people and war veterans with PTSD. And everyone else who is also looking for relief from physical and psychological ailments. We pass on our knowledge in our 2-year body therapist training, where we equip our students to work in-depth with physical and psychological disorders through the body based on evidence and 25 years of experience. Read more about the education here.
“The work we do is about seeing with our hands. Manuvision means ‘hands that see’ – and that’s what we do when we have contact with the body”
At Manuvision, we listen less to the stories of the head and more to the language of the body. With our hands, we loosen the patterns that restrict breathing, movement, and outlook on life—making room for the connection between body, thoughts, and emotions that creates genuine well-being
We look at the whole person. We look beyond diagnoses and instead examine the connections between the body’s physical and psychological symptoms.
We have experience with fragile lives and violent destinies. We are the center of the research project at DTU in body therapy in Denmark, which has demonstrated the effect of Manuvision body therapy for war veterans with PTSD. We are involved in projects that help children, young people and adults with difficult social and psychological challenges. And for 20 years we have worked with elite athletes, from the Tour de France to the Danish national handball team, athletes who push their bodies to the limit to deliver top performances.
Our Story
Manuvision was created by six partners in 1998, all originally trained in the very first Body SDS program. With a shared curiosity and drive to go deeper, they set out to expand and evolve the practice of body therapy. What began as a collaboration grew into a unique system of techniques and exercises designed to truly see and sense into another human being.
From the beginning, relationships have been at the heart of our work—the relationship to oneself and the relationship to others. Attention, openness, and community are the key values that shape everything we do, because healing happens in connection.
Research and evidence for our treatment
Manuvision Body Therapy became the focus of the first scientific research project on body therapy in Denmark, conducted by the National Institute of Public Health together with the Military Psychiatric Clinic in the Capital Region.
The results showed that six months of Manuvision Body Therapy could significantly reduce—or in some cases completely remove—PTSD symptoms in war veterans. Published in Mental Health Science , these findings are paving the way for greater integration of the body into psychiatric treatment. Today, they continue to guide our work with trauma in its many forms, as well as with stress, anxiety, depression, and the physical imbalances that follow in their wake.
Read more: Research on Manuvision Body Therapy
“We are the most serious education within body therapy and the only one with evidence”
Elite Sports
For 20 years, we have been helping elite athletes build strength, balance, and mental resilience. We prevent and treat sports injuries and help athletes optimize their performance by working with the body, not against it.
Manuvision has also worked with professional cycling teams such as CSC, Phonak, Team Coast, Team Tinkoff Saxo, and Team Orica. Body therapist Kristoffer Glavind Kjær was a permanent member of the staff for the Danish men’s national handball team, helping them bring home the gold medal in 2019. Read more: Our work with Athletes
WE now TREAT IN MANY COUNTRIES
You can read about the individual therapists’ backgrounds and competencies and find the Manuvision body therapist that best suits your needs.
Manuvision body therapy has been the focus of the first research project in body therapy in Denmark, conducted by the National Institute of Public Health (SDU) in collaboration with the Capital Region of Denmark Psychiatry. The research results show that 6 months of Manuvision body therapy can reduce or completely eliminate PTSD symptoms in war veterans with PTSD. Read more: Reserach in Manuvision body therapy
Podcast about body therapy
Manuvision publishes podcasts where we delve into topics that explore the connection between body and mind, and talk about our education and further training. We are currently working on translating these exciting podcasts into English.
book about trauma treatment
“When the Body is at War” we gather the threads from 25 years of treatment practice with the experiences from the research project into the effect of Manuvision body therapy against PTSD, conducted by the Danish Institute of Public Health (SDU). We introduce our work with relationship and body awareness and the principles and techniques that can regulate the balance in the nervous system and create change in people exposed to trauma. We are also working on the translation of the above-mentioned book.
