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Bowen therapy is a gentle, minimal-touch treatment.
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It is working with the signalling through the fascia
to detect and remove blockages, thereby facilitating healing in the body.
To quote from my very first Bowtech instruction manual (BTAA, 2013):
"The Bowen technique is a dynamic system of muscle and connective tissue therapy (...).
It is sometimes called the 'homeopathy of bodywork'.
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It uses small but measured inputs to the body stimulating the body to heal itself, often profoundly. (This) usually results in the relief of many specific injuries and other health problems, both acute and chronic. It does so holistically, by using the body's innate healing mechanisms.
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The practitioner delivers signal to the nervous system at specific locations (on muscles, tendons, ligaments, or nerves) and the body does the rest, responding in its own time, as it is able. "
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Another favourite quote of mine illuminates a bit more the big-picture work a good Bowen Therapist will endeavour to do, and the potential complexity of issues at hand.
From John Wilks - the bowen technique, the inside story (2007):
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"Being an efficient Bowen therapist means being something of a Sherlock Holmes when it comes to ascertaining where the origins of someone's condition stems. (...) Influences on how we hold ourselves come in all shapes and sizes - genetic, environmental, accidents, operations, emotional, spiritual and beyond."
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Mind Body Bowen
Mind Body Bowen is a specialty sub-discipline developed by Anne Schubert and Margaret Spicer.
It borrows heavily from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and the meridian concept. It is a way of utilising Bowen moves very specifically to identify significant blockages in the body, which result from physical or emotional traumas that got 'frozen' into the body's cells. When a blockage has been located, the related traumatic event is being identified via targeted questioning. Once the right link has been established and the issue is being acknowledged, it very often quite quickly leads to a complete dissolving of the blockage. This can lead to a range of improvements in the quality of life, from a disappearing of previously recurring pain to a fundamental change in thinking / self-perception leading to significant changes in life.
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Mind Body Bowen is understood to often be much more effective an approach than doing 'talk-therapy' only, as it is now well established how important body-work is within the context of mental health work. - Refer the relevant information under resources for more background information, or google 'trauma work', PTSD & similar.
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Based on personal experience I have to say this is an astounding therapeutic tool for almost everyone. Blockages can disappear very quickly, and once the emotional link has been removed e.g. from negative thinking patterns, it is much easier to shift those negative thinking patterns and replace with positive ones.
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I like to express my heart-felt thanks, on behalf of myself and clients who have benefited from this technique, to those two amazing women, who keep traveling Australia (and probably beyond?) to teach this amazing healing method. It well and truly has lifted my level of assisting healing through Bowen to new levels.
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