I was recent asked what Bowen Therapy was, my answer seems to vary from person to person, so I always have to take a breath, assess the persons mindset and give an answer that we can both relate to.

My answer to this person (who by the way was my bank manager) was that it works mainly with vibration.

Each muscle strummed sets up an harmonious vibration within the body.

I always balk at explaining it like that because I want to steer clear of the airy fairyness of such explanations.

He then asked me if I did a lot of “tapping” during the treatment hence creating a vibration in the body – so I clarified it a little by explaining that we are all totally vibrational beings (at the risk of losing his interest straight away) and the vibration is a very fine one.

Using the analogy of hearing – when we hear some music that is awesome and makes us feel wonderful, we get a surge of energy through our body, I am sure you all have experienced this at some stage.

This surge is created by sound entering our ears and thus bouncing onto our tympanic membrane, this is the cause of the vibration that courses through our body and either makes us feel awesome, or really crappy and angry or something in the middle.

If  WE feel good…our body feels good and our energy improves, we go to a different place in our head and know how wonderful life is….

The peace that Bowen Therapy brings simply by bringing the body into a harmonious, strong and stable vibration is a perfect place for you to have a body with no pain and feel peaceful within yourself as well.

The way Bowen helps us to heal is by setting up a vibration – this – like a guitar string being strummed – effects the entire body by bringing it all into the same key, the same alignment.

Just because we have been taught that we are made up of separate bits doesn’t mean that its a certainty, we aren’t a body of separately functioning parts.

We aren’t a skeleton functioning separately from muscles and tendons, nor are muscles functioning separately from organs, glands and our brain, or for that matter our state of mind.

We work together as a team. Many times people sit up after a Bowen Treatment and their spine automatically cracks all the way down, or their cervical spine will crack spontaneously.

Bowen Therapy strums our body and mind (and spirit) into harmony with itself, ourselves and the world around us.