Your Bowen Session
Assessment
Assessment is a vital start to any session – how straight are you? Are your leg lengths the same, where are the tensions in tissue or muscle, is your sacrum aligned? Much of this occurs with you facedown on a standard couch with face hole.
Fascia Bowen
Very briefly, fascia is a tissue covering bone, muscle, ligament. blood vessels. It’s thin, made of collagen and contains tissue fluid. It acts as the lubricating tissue allowing free movement of our bodies.
There will be times when I use a combination of the rolling type Bowen movements and stretchy movements which move larger areas of tissue/fascia. It depends on how you are……..we talk about that. I repeatedly find this is a good mix but on its own, it can be less challenging to the body and is particularly helpful for those troubled by some auto immune illnesses eg. fibromyalgia. Sadly it’s not a cure but it helps the pain and your movement.
.Lymphatic Bowen
Lymph is fluid, some of it is within the fascia. There’s about 15L of it of which some 8L are replaced daily. At the most simplistic I can think of, movement helps pump it around the body. Reduced movement can reduce the exchange and it hangs around in your tissues and can make the fascia sticky = more reduced movement, discomfort, pain.
It follows that where I can assess that an increase in lymph is part of or causative of some of your issues, addressing this is enormously helpful in its self and allows the standard Bowen moves to have better effect.
I love clients to look things up and when it comes to fascia and lymph I positively encourage you to “check it out”.
First Appointment
Consultation and assessment- We chat through your relevant medical history and what it is that brings you to Bowen Therapy for your treatment.
- 45-60 minutes Bowen Therapy session as evaluated from the consultation.
Subsequent appointments
Therapy Session- You can update me on your well being since the last treatment and I can tailor a treatment to best help you.
- 40-50 minutes Bowen Therapy Session tailored to your needs.
Regular "top up" treatment
Bowen Treatment Session- Regular appointments to help maintain and build upon the improvements experienced after your planned treatment sessions.
- 40-50 minutes Bowen Therapy Session tailored to your needs.
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Bowen therapy as practised today is the work of Thomas Ambrose Bowen of Geelong, Australia. It came to the UK in 1993.
It is a dynamic discipline now just as it is reported to have been for Mr. Bowen who developed his technique and understanding over many years. This is best demonstrated through the work and teaching of those who I suggest are todays “greats” of Bowen namely, John Garfield, Graham Pennington and Ron Phelan. This is not to undervalue the other incredibly informed and dynamic teachers and practitioners out there some of whom I have not met. It has been an absolute privilege to meet those I have and to be taught by them.
About Me
An S.R.N (UCH trained) and A&E Senior Nurse in central London. I left the NHS in 1990 and went on to other things having gained my LLB (Hons) (University of London) in 1993. I gained my Bowen certificate in 2017 and have been in practice ever since, initially in Cornwall where we lived until late 2019.