Articles about Bowen Therapy

Note about this page: The latest issue of Positive Health magazine is published on the 4th Thursday of each month. The articles from that issue are placed on this web site on or about the same date.

The Bowen Technique Explained by Julian Baker The Bowen Technique is becoming the therapy that many are talking about and wanting to learn. With its incredible effectiveness and ease of use, therapists from all fields are finding a use in their practice.

The Bowen Technique by Julian Baker  Bowen Technique practitioner Jocelin Tennent – who is also one of the teachers of the technique for the European College of Bowen Studies – speaks from her experience: "I believe it works over meridians to release energetic blocks, toning, balancing and de-stressing. It encourages deep muscular relaxation which allows for structural realignment and organic changes where the body has been trying to readjust. I think it works so deeply mainly because it works at the body's own pace."

Gentle Touch Bowen Therapy by Joanne Figov Racked with five years of pain, his face grey with suffering, the car accident victim’s last resort before surgery was the Bowen Technique. After a few gentle finger movements across his muscles by Bowen therapist Suzanne Payne of Dorset, the patient felt an energy surge through his body. The chronic neck disorder, which had blocked all his movement, was suddenly freed.

Links to other Bowen
web sites

Bowen Association UK   Information, Articles and Links. Some very good anatomy links.

Bowen Technique of Australia   Articles and general information on the Bowen Technique. Inforamation on The Bowen Therapy Academy of Australia and their programs.

European College of Bowen Studies   Some general information on the Bowen Technique and a list of practitioners in the UK.

International Centre for Neurostructural Integration Technique  The website of an institute that teaches the Neurostructural Integration Technique, a form of soft tissue therapy developed from the various forms of The Bowen Technique.

The Finchley Clinc The website of Mark Lester with information on the Bowen Technique and other, especially electromagnetic, therapies.

Neurostructural Integration Technique (Advanced Bowen Therapy) by Michael J Nixon-Levy The Neurostructural Integration Technique® (NST) is an extremely powerful multidimensional technique, which has been specifically developed for the ongoing dynamic integration of the structure and viscera via stimulation of the central, peripheral autonomic nervous systems. The main objective is to remove pain and dysfunctional physiological conditions by restoring the structural integrity of the body.

Clinical Experiences of a Bowen Therapist by Stuart Rappaport  It was the mid-fifties in Victoria, Australia and a research pharmacist had an idea. Given the right resources, the human body had the innate capacity to repair itself – without invasive therapy such as medication or surgery.
     His name was Tom Bowen and now, forty years later, his remarkable studies are being applied more and more across the planet to bring relief, often where other treatments have been totally without effect.

The Bowen Technique by Tim Willcocks What therapist can claim to treat 13,000 patients a year – that’s an average of about 50 per day – and find that 90% of them require only 2–3 treatments in all? Wishful thinking? Well, apparently that’s how Mr Tom Bowen was working in Victoria, Australia, when the Federal Commission on Alternative Therapies checked him out in 1974.