Bowen is a UNIQUE, GENTLE and EFFECTIVE method that allows the body to heal itself.
Bowen treats the person and not the disease – HOLISTIC is the word! It facilitates the healing of the whole body. What seems to be happening during a Bowen session is that the body is allowed to re-orient to a memory of a previously healthy state or an original blueprint of health.
The Bowen principle is “LESS IS MORE” – The Technique produces maximum results with minimum intervention.
Bowen creates a balance in the AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM that increases relaxation and improves immune system function. The ANS regulates 80% of physiological and emotional functions and governs such things as digestion, respiration, heart and circulatory function, blood pressure, muscles, glands, and immune function. This is why Bowen is just as good for all internal problems as it is for muscular or skeletal injuries.
In a Bowen session we move over MUSCLES, TENDONS, LIGAMENTS, JOINTS, NERVES, ACUPUNCTURE MERIDIANS AND TRIGGER POINTS and of course the FASCIA. The fascia surrounds organs, other structures such as muscles, and it allows free movement of these all around.
A Bowen move encourages a sort of “CONVERSATION” between the brain and the spinal cord. When going over the “belly” of the muscles, the nerve receptors of the muscles communicate with the spinal cord and the brain for stretching and contracting.
With some of the moves TOXINS get released hence water intake is very important to flush them out of the system.
Since the Bowen Technique addresses the body as a whole unit rather than just the presenting symptom, it embraces the physical, chemical, EMOTIONAL and mental aspects of each person receiving a treatment. When it comes to healing, the body will prioritise.
The touch is light with very gentle pressure, hence it is SUITABLE FOR ANYONE from newborn babies to the very elderly, from the very fit sportsman to the critically ill.
NO MANIPULATION of the skeletal system is made. Observed vertebral movements are the evidence of the body realigning itself.
Bowen stimulates ENERGY FLOW, promotes GOOD CIRCULATION, increases blood supply and LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE