Bowen Technique  - 

• Effective, gentle and relaxing hands-on treatment. Some people almost fall asleep.  (Some actually snore!)

• It is suitable for all age groups.

• Using fingers and thumbs, movements are made over soft tissue at specific points.  No massage or manipulation is used.

• The patient is left resting at frequent intervals to allow the input of the gentle movements to be absorbed.   These breaks are therapeutic and extremely important.

• Treatment is usually given through light clothing.

Bowen can successfully treat many conditions some of which are:

• Back / neck pain,  joint pain (hips, knees, shoulders, elbows)
• Asthma, hayfever and respiratory complaints
• Migraines
• Menstrual  / menopausal problems
• Chronic fatigue
• Digestive problems including infant colic and IBS
• Sports injuries
• Trauma (even long after an accident)
• Stress

People frequently comment on how relaxing the treatment is.  They are also surprised that such minimal practitioner / patient contact achieves such a great deal.  Any initial scepticism usually turns to amazement as they return to better health.

What Bowen does

• Bowen treatment creates a slight disturbance of the body tissues which trigger the healing response, allowing the body to realign and re-balance.

• Patients can experience for example a tingling sensation or feeling of warmth in a part of them that may or may not have been treated.  It can be as bizarre as work on the head resulting in sensations in the feet! 

• Mostly we are unaware of where we physically hold our tensions/emotions.  During a course of treatment a person may become conscious of tender or painful areas of which they had previously been unaware.