Discover the Power of Bowen Therapy
Bowen therapy is a simple yet highly effective hands-on technique that uses gentle pressure to stimulate the body to ‘reboot’ itself. During a treatment, the Bowen move is applied to the body using either thumbs or fingers with very gentle pressure. Combined with deliberate pauses, this approach allows the body’s innate healing response to become part of the treatment process.
With Bowen, you can quickly overcome challenges from various stressors, promoting a relaxed body and mind. This technique helps with a wide range of issues, including muscular-skeletal ailments, hormonal changes, decreasing energy levels, minor injuries, poor sleep patterns, chronic pain, restless babies, and aches from sports or exercise.
Unique Benefits of Bowen Therapy
What sets Bowen therapy apart from other techniques is its ability to stimulate cellular and nervous system communication, reaching deeper tissues and organs, and promoting the body’s natural healing capabilities. Gentle in nature, Bowen can be performed without concern of harm, leaving clients feeling relaxed and renewed. Often, clients report symptoms of physical detoxification and emotional clarity.
Bowen treatments are typically performed once a week, allowing time for integration and recovery. This technique is suitable for people of all ages and can be used for ongoing health maintenance.
Reboot Your Body with Bowen
Bowen is one of the most effective modalities for treating people with pain. The first treatment, known as a “Reboot” treatment, enables the body’s different programs to “re-start” and align. As Bowen integrates mind-body connections, it’s not just a physical therapy. The experience is subtle, relaxing, and healing, prompting the body to reset, repair, and balance itself.
How Does Bowen Work?
Bowen therapy involves gentle rolling-type moves made over specific areas of the body using fingers and thumbs. This technique activates nerve bundles underneath muscle and other soft tissues, stimulating the superficial fascia—a matrix of proteins that forms our body and conducts cellular communication. The body responds by increasing fascia mobility, enhancing the function of systems including the brain, nervous system, blood circulation, and lymphatic system.
Improved lymphatic drainage and circulation allow vital nutrients to reach injured tissue, reducing painful swelling. Additionally, Bowen breaks dysfunctional pain loops that persist even when there’s no longer any tissue damage.
The Origins of Bowen Therapy
Tom Bowen of Geelong, Australia, was a quiet, enigmatic man with an uncanny gift for healing. By the mid-1970s, his Bowen Therapy was in great demand, treating an astounding 13,000 people per year. Tom was not only a healer but also a generous teacher, allowing others to witness his treatments and develop their interpretations of his work.
Tom Bowen viewed his work as a continuous progress rather than a finite modality. His vision lives on through the refinements and adaptations made by Bowen practitioners worldwide. Influences on Bowen’s practice include Ozzie Rentch, Romney Smeeton, Gene Dobkin, Ron Phelan, Graham Pennington, John Garfield, and insights from the Fascia Research Society and Chinese medicine.
Bowen College UK aligns its interpretation of Bowen with the healing principles of medicine from Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, Dr. Andre Saine, Dr. Robert Schleip, and Dr. Hamid Tajbakhsh, combining these insights to create a comprehensive and effective therapeutic approach.
