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A humble carpenter at the Geelong Cement Works in the 1950’s, Tom Bowen developed a deep interest in physical injury despite having no formal training in any of the health sciences. Being profoundly deaf his after-work ‘clinics’ were busy but notoriously quiet; perhaps it was this quiet that enabled him to really ‘see’ the body both before and after his treatments. He could perceive a physical imbalance in the individual, and enable their body to start fixing itself; hearing wasn't needed.
Bowen Therapy is a holistic treatment using touch technique.
The treatments seek to determine through palpation, where issues may lie within the central nervous system, with the aim of correcting by movement of muscle & fascia at acupressure points.
Bowen can also be a maintenance therapy for those wanting a preventative approach to health.
There are different ‘schools’ of Bowen. I focus on the IOS (Importance of Symmetry) approach which aims to Target Dysfunction.
Tom Bowen’s insight appears to have been an early awareness of the fragility and importance of this delicate layer of tissue many decades before modern imaging modalities confirmed its uniqueness in connecting body and mind.
“the fascia is a matrix of fibres, a freeway between the surface and deeper structures”
(Esther Garcia-Cuellar, 2018).
There is no forceful manipulation & no dramatic bone-cracking; Bowen therapy is the art of understanding the client’s issues and needs and making use of gentle yet precise finger-tip movements that stimulate the body’s own nervous system receptors to begin to self-heal. The ‘moves’ practiced by your therapist follow the pattern of the lines of the fascia, and there may be natural pauses during the therapy that allow your body to rest and adapt and for your practitioner to assess your changes.
Bowen is suitable for everybody including:
This is not an exhaustive list, and Bowen therapy can help with many of the mind-body inter-connected disorders of 21st century living that are not obviously ‘physical’ yet affect the body as well as the mind; chronic and acute anxiety, depression, body repetitive disorders, headache, tic behaviours and musculo-skeletal disorders. Bowen sees no separation between body and mind, simply the being as one organism.
We follow the work of French philosopher Maurice Merleau -Ponty as we apply & individualise Tom Bowen’s work to each human body: ‘the body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art
All bodies are works of art, from the gorgeous alabaster of the newborn to the lived in parchment of the 70 year old ex dairy worker, and when you make your appointment please do so knowing that your individuality and your own lived experience is what matters –
That’s what Tom Bowen was all about.
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Cowra, NSW, Australia.
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