The Technical Bowen

The technical bowen comes from where?

Thomas Ambrose Bowen was born in Geelong, Australia. In the early 1950s, he realized that his wife's asthma attacks, which had required several hospitalizations, varied considerably depending on her diet. After a few years of a good diet and with soft tissue manipulations he had developed to relieve her, Jessie no longer needed medication or hospitalization.

At this time, his meeting with Ernie Saunders, a renowned manual therapist, marked a decisive turning point in his life. It was after many interviews with this man that he began to develop the technique that was to bear his name. Self-taught, Tom Bowen studied anatomy and gradually, through continuous experimentation, he developed a unique method that allowed him to effectively treat the back pain of his co-workers.

What do you use the Bowen technique for?

Bowen is a reflex, neuro-muscular therapy. Like other reflex therapies, the role of muscle spindles and other receptors in the skin, muscles and joints is essential. A major peculiarity of the Bowen method, arguably allowing better integration of information and giving the results a lasting aspect, is the pause, necessary and present, between each sequence of "Bowen moves".

The gesture of the therapist must be precise and applied. Bowen is a holistic manual method that offers very gentle tensioning of muscles and soft tissues; it gives astonishing results in relation to the intensity of the work accomplished by the practitioner.

Bowen is taught to therapists from different backgrounds: physiotherapists, kinesitherapists, doctors, osteopaths, manual therapy practitioners and other practitioners working in the health sector.