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Introduction You may have seen the intense videos on Instagram and TikTok of a fist aggressively pushing into the armpit and calling it Brazilian lymphatic drainage, but real Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD) is nothing like that. There are multiple “styles” of MLD: the Foldi method, the Leduc method, the Casley Smith method, the Chikley method, and, what I practice, the Vodder method. The Vodder method was developed by massage therapists Dr. Emil Vodder and his wife Estrid Vod

Introduction You’ll often hear bodyworkers say “everything is connected,” but the extent to which everything is connected is unimaginable. We learn about the body in systems: musculoskeletal, lymphatic, endocrine, reproductive, nervous, respiratory, integumentary, digestive, urinary, and cardiovascular. This makes the body easier to study, but can unintentionally disconnect these systems from one another in our understanding, including how our bodies interact with the surroun