Bowen is a gentle and simple, yet powerful healing tool that taps into our body's innate ability to self-regulate and initiate a healing process. We are working with the soft connective tissue and its millions of receptors offering rolling movements over muscles, tendons, ligaments and nerve endings. 

These impulses can change the way the brain instructs the muscles in their tension and relieve the body's reactive holding patterns that underlie pain, stress, anxiety and dis-ease through re-setting the autonomic nervous system.

𖦹 Relief from Pain
𖦹 Body Alignment
𖦹 Restoration of Movement
𖦹 A Calmer Nervous System
𖦹 Energetic and Emotional Shifts

Developed and refined over many years in Australia by Thomas Bowen, Bowen Therapy is a soft connective-tissue hands-on technique which consists of rolling movements over muscles, tendons, ligaments and nerve endings within the fascial web performed in a specific sequence on specific points of the body separated by short periods of rest. 

These *rolling* impulses reach the brain via sensory receptors prompting an activated or under-activated nervous system to switch into parasympathetic state, into the Goldi Lock healing zone where it's not too hot, and not too cold, but where conditions are just right for healing.

Another Way to describe the mechanism of Bowen Therapy is that we are working through the fascia and muscles to influence the nerves within them. And thereby, changing the way the brain instructs the muscles in their tension, and relieving the body's reactive holding patterns that underlie pain, stress, anxiety and dis-ease. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​  ​​​​​                             ​    ​                 ​   ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The first session begins with a conversation. You are welcome to share what is going on for you - and what you are hoping for. I will make sure all your questions are answered and that you are feeling comfortable and ready to then transition onto the table.

This is where the gentle 'Bowen Moves' begin - typically over certain muscles and tendons on the back along the spine, head and legs. However, the sequence and number of rolling movements applied is unique to each person and can also happen in a sitting position. A set of Bowen Moves is followed by a 2-5 minute pause to give your nervous system time and space to process and respond to the subtle stimuli your body received. This is a time for you to just be and relax on the table....until more 'Bowen Moves' follow. ​After typically 20 - 40 minutes the set of movements are complete.

I will likely encourage you to walk around a bit to sense into your body as you are moving. I may even suggest you take a walk now that your body is re-organizing to support the new alignment and recommend to refrain from strenuous activites and hot/cold therapy in the following days. Drinking enough water before and right after and in the days following the session means you are keeping your fascia hydrated and this will amplify the effect of the 'Bowen Moves'. ​​

As a Bowen Technique practitioner, my offering is very simple. It does not involve any forcing or fixing. It is wrapped in gentle stimuli offered by my hands to your nervous system, handing the information over to you, then letting your body‘s inherent wisdom respond.

For some people, issues improve or resolve within one session. For other people, especially with chronic and systemic issues, the benefits of Bowen Therapy often seem to unfold over several sessions. There is always a bit of an unknown because of how uniquely each person responds and processes the "Bowen Moves".​

Most people find Bowen Therapy Sessions pleasant and calming. Afterwards most people feel relaxed yet energised and alert. Feeling tired or some soreness the day after is common for some people as their body adjusts and is moving through a healing process. ​​​​​

Our body is an amazing constantly self-organizing, biotensegral structure where change is not just local. Our planes of experience are intimately intertwined with each other. For example, our postural habits re-enforce our emotions and the way we feel re-enforces our posture.

Our bodily systems are also intimately interconnected, with each other and with our feeling, mental and physical state. For example, if our nervous system is in a stress response, our immune system and digestion is affected. Physically we may experience tightness in the chest and shallow breathing with racing thoughts and a critical part in us in high gear. ​

Bowen Therapy reverberates into all realms of experience - physical, chemical, emotional, energetical and mental - when the charged state of the tissues is deactivated through the body's shift into the parasympathetic nervous system, changes are global.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Session/$105