Become a Member

The American Organization for Bodywork Therapies of Asia (AOBTA®) is a national not-for-profit professional membership organization which promotes Asian Bodywork Therapy (ABT) and its practitioners. AOBTA® serves its community of members by providing:

• Appropriate credentialing
• Scope of practice and educational standards
• Resources for training, professional development and networking
• Continuing education opportunities
• Avocation of public policy to protect its members and the public
• Public education on the benefits, ethics and principles of ABT
• Access to insurance programs

AOBTA® honors a diversity of ABT disciplines. All the forms that are recognized by AOBTA® originally had their roots in China. Over the centuries, China, Japan, Thailand, Korea and more recently, North America and Europe have changed and evolved these forms into separate and distinct modalities.

• Acupressure
• AMMA Therapy®
• Chi Nei Tsang
• Five Element Shiatsu
• Integrative Eclectic Shiatsu
• Japanese Shiatsu
• Jin Shin Do® Bodymind Acupressure™
• Macrobiotic Shiatsu
• Medical Qigong
• Shiatsu Anma Therapy
• Traditional Thai Massage
• Tuina
• Zen Shiatsu

AOBTA® offers membership to those practitioners, instructors, and students of a form of Asian Bodywork Therapy (ABT) that have met the professional level curriculum standards.

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