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The Bowen Technique
Associated Therapists:
Eloise Gynn
What is The Bowen Technique?
The Bowen Technique is a holistic, remedial therapy that stimulates the body’s ability to re-align, balance and heal itself. Effective as a structural treatment for specific pain, it treats the body as a whole, touching the underlying physical, mental and emotional causes of the presenting symptoms. It is a gentle and relaxing therapy suitable for adults, children, including newborn babies and the elderly. It is great during pregnancy too.
What to expect
The technique involves a series of gentle moves at precise points over muscle, tendons, ligaments and the surrounding soft tissue. Between each series of moves, the therapist leaves the room for several minutes to allow the body the maximum space for deep relaxation and integration of the information received. You may feel your body start to respond in these breaks.
During the session, you will lie on a therapy table, or if it is more comfortable, the work can be effectively carried out with you seated in a chair. Appointments usually last an hour including consultation time and most of the work can be performed through light clothing. Often three or four treatments at weekly intervals are often sufficient to achieve lasting relief, although further treatments may be required.
How does it work?
The Bowen Technique acts upon the body’s autonomic, or self-governing nervous system to enable it to achieve homeostasis at a cellular level and regain its own natural balance. The gentle soft tissue moves connect the brain directly to the area of a problem, and allows an assessment of the tension in a specific muscle and surrounding tissue. During the breaks the muscle in question will relax if it can, creating relief and bringing back function.
It is a combination of the gentle soft tissue moves and the deeply relaxed state that starts the healing process.
How can The Bowen Technique help you?
Bowen therapy aims to balance the whole person, not just the symptoms. Practically any problem can potentially be addressed and some people use the Bowen Technique as a means of stress management, injury prevention and health maintenance, seeing their therapist regularly 2-4 times a year.