Definitions

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  • noun A person who builds the bodywork of a car
  • noun A person that offers erotic massage for hire and sometimes prostitution as well

Etymologies

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body +‎ worker

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Examples

  • She studied with the newly controversial Glenn Black at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, N.Y. She describes Black as "a masterful yogi and a bodyworker who specializes in a type of Orthopedic Physical Therapy called Bodytuning" she continues, a bit tongue-in-cheek "my relationship with my teacher is a very old fashioned mentor-mentee, very wax-on wax-off."

    E. Nina Rothe: The Culture of Wellbeing: Jill Miller and the Great Yoga Controversy E. Nina Rothe 2012

  • As a bodyworker, I have learned to see the body holistically.

    Wild Feminine Tami Lynn Kent 2011

  • She studied with the newly controversial Glenn Black at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, N.Y. She describes Black as "a masterful yogi and a bodyworker who specializes in a type of Orthopedic Physical Therapy called Bodytuning" she continues, a bit tongue-in-cheek "my relationship with my teacher is a very old fashioned mentor-mentee, very wax-on wax-off."

    E. Nina Rothe: The Culture of Wellbeing: Jill Miller and the Great Yoga Controversy E. Nina Rothe 2012

  • As a bodyworker, I have learned to see the body holistically.

    Wild Feminine Tami Lynn Kent 2011

  • She studied with the newly controversial Glenn Black at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, N.Y. She describes Black as "a masterful yogi and a bodyworker who specializes in a type of Orthopedic Physical Therapy called Bodytuning" she continues, a bit tongue-in-cheek "my relationship with my teacher is a very old fashioned mentor-mentee, very wax-on wax-off."

    E. Nina Rothe: The Culture of Wellbeing: Jill Miller and the Great Yoga Controversy E. Nina Rothe 2012

  • She studied with the newly controversial Glenn Black at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, N.Y. She describes Black as "a masterful yogi and a bodyworker who specializes in a type of Orthopedic Physical Therapy called Bodytuning" she continues, a bit tongue-in-cheek "my relationship with my teacher is a very old fashioned mentor-mentee, very wax-on wax-off."

    E. Nina Rothe: The Culture of Wellbeing: Jill Miller and the Great Yoga Controversy E. Nina Rothe 2012

  • She studied with the newly controversial Glenn Black at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, N.Y. She describes Black as "a masterful yogi and a bodyworker who specializes in a type of Orthopedic Physical Therapy called Bodytuning" she continues, a bit tongue-in-cheek "my relationship with my teacher is a very old fashioned mentor-mentee, very wax-on wax-off."

    E. Nina Rothe: The Culture of Wellbeing: Jill Miller and the Great Yoga Controversy E. Nina Rothe 2012

  • She studied with the newly controversial Glenn Black at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, N.Y. She describes Black as "a masterful yogi and a bodyworker who specializes in a type of Orthopedic Physical Therapy called Bodytuning" she continues, a bit tongue-in-cheek "my relationship with my teacher is a very old fashioned mentor-mentee, very wax-on wax-off."

    E. Nina Rothe: The Culture of Wellbeing: Jill Miller and the Great Yoga Controversy E. Nina Rothe 2012

  • The first time it was the back stairs and I fell a whole half flight on the way to go see a bodyworker of all things.

    Dr. Susan Corso: Body Meanings, or, What I Learned When I Tumbled Down the Stairs 2009

  • She began as a potter and bodyworker and after a certain point her ceramic work began to develop sculptural qualities -- her tactile knowledge of the human form began to inform her potting.

    Archive 2009-02-08 Sean Craven 2009

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