Bowen Therapy

What is Bowen Technique?

Bowen is a dynamic, cross fibre muscle release technique that balances and stimulates energy flow.  It empowers the body’s own healing resources achieving balance and harmony, resulting in fast and lasting relief from pain and discomfort.  It is extremely gentle, relaxing and appropriate for all – including  babies, elderly, pregnant women and athletes.

A treatment session consists of gentle “moves” over specific muscle sites and other soft tissue through light clothing or directly on the skin. There are regular pauses between the series of gentle moves to give the body the required time to allow the body to reset and heal itself.

Bowen Technique is usually performed on a bodywork table, but can be done anywhere for example in a chair, on the sports field, or in a conference room.  Treatment sessions are carried out between 15 minutes and one hour. A series of three treatments are usually performed approximately one week apart.

The Benefits

Bowen facilitates the balancing of a broad range of conditions as it produces an integrated body response. It can address any problem (with medical supervision where appropriate) as the treatment is holistic. Bowen Technique strives to find the origin of a problem and is therefore very effective for muscular-skeletal problems, It often improves circulation, lymphatic draining, assimilation of nutrients and elimination of toxins.

Problems often addressed by the Bowen Technique at Absolute Health & Wellbeing include:

• Muscle & joint pain  
• Sciatic pain
• Whiplash
• Frozen shoulder
• Repetitive stress injury (RSI)
• Bunions
• Headaches & Migraine
• Asthma  & Allergies
• Constipation
• Bed wetting
• Digestive Complaints
• Hyperactivity
• Emotional stress and anxiety