What Is Bowen Therapy?
Bowen therapy is much like neuromuscular re-toning. Through the use of a very specialized series of rolling moves at specific points over the muscle and other soft tissue, the body is stimulated (treatment). This sends a signal throughout the area which in turn helps promote better body balance, body function and muscle re-education. Bowen therapy is unique in the field of bodywork, in that unlike many other modalities, much of the therapy can be done through clothing. In a very real sense, the sensory signal reverberates throughout the autonomic nervous system to trigger the body to reset, similar to rebooting a computer.
How does Bowen Therapy Work?
The human body transmits and receives signals in two primary ways: via electrical and chemical signals. Bowen therapy is a deeper, often relaxing technique where a sequenced series of rolling moves at specific points over muscle and other soft tissue are completed. These rolling moves are commonly referred to as the “Bowen roll” technique. Each series is followed by a brief period that allows the body to integrate and/or process the signal.
What Bowen Therapy Does?
Bowen therapy helps promote whole health by activating structural and/or functional healing even with longstanding issues. Bowen therapy stimulates the body (treatment), facilitates the expelling of toxins and aids in the improvement of blood flow which in turn assists in maintaining a more healthy, normal and supple musculature.
Why Bowen Therapy?
Whether you are as “fit as a fiddle,” “injured,” “looking for that competitive edge,” or interested in “routine preventative maintenance,” Bowen Therapy can help complement, improve and maintain your life and health.
What You Are Missing If You Don’t Have Bowen Therapy?
Bowen therapy can help encourage restoration to body balance/function and structure/function. In the process of living life, we often are unaware how we misuse, misuse and neglect our bodies. Often, we become out of balance and de-conditioned. Bowen therapy is something you don’t want to miss. You don’t want to let this opportunity pass you by. This is something you need and should not have to live without! Why not do all that you can to assist your body heal itself?
What Clients Say About Bowen Therapy…
Clients often report rapid improvement after accidents/injury and progression in cases of chronic pain. Routine maintenance clients commonly state they feel like everything is back in shape. The Bowen therapy unique modality assists the body in healing and often sparks surprising and unexpected results, where nothing else has been successful.
“Life can be extremely busy and stressful. Through the hustle and bustle we often do not set aside time to take care of ourselves and consequently our bodies suffer. All too often, we don’t eat right, we don’t exercise like we should, we don’t give ourselves the appropriate amount of time to sleep, and we don’t even drink adequate amounts of water. As a result we often develop poor nutrition standards, atrocious coping mechanisms and find ourselves distraught when through our own abuse, misuse, and neglect our bodies become de-conditioned. We might even develop areas of pain, restriction of movement or even worse. Why not give Bowen a try? What have you got to lose? Take your life and health seriously today, seize the moment!”
What do I wear?
Loose comfortable clothing. In order to be effective in the technique, therapists must be able to feel the muscles and be able to work through the clothing. Therefore heavy thick clothing such as jeans, khakis, etc. is not advised, nor are nylons. Appropriate clothing such as gym shorts, t-shirts, leggings, etc. are preferable.
