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WHAT MODALITY IS
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BOWEN THERAPY
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(Bowen Therapy Practitioner)
The Bowen Technique is one version of a group of technical interpretations
of the work of Australian self proclaimed osteopath Tom Bowen 1916 - 1982
known as Bowen Therapy which is a holistic system of healing. The Bowen
Technique was limited to Australia until 1986, four years after Bowen's
death in 1982, when it was named, and spread to other countries around the
world by Mr. Oswald Rentsch a massage therapist of Hamilton, Victoria
Australia who observed Mr. Bowen at work one morning a week for two years.
It has since been developed and furthered by many others and is now one of
the nine therapies involved in the move towards voluntary self regulation
in the UK.
The Bowen Technique addresses key points to stimulate energy flow, but
Bowen Technique involves a gentle, rolling motion, with very light
touches. The practitioner will stimulate sets of points, often with pauses
between sets. The Bowen Technique is not a form of massage, though it does
claim to release areas of built-up stress in the muscles, and clients
usually experience profound relaxation after a session.
A view held by some Bowen Therapists is that the specific way that Bowen
Technique addresses the muscles stimulates the stretch and golgi tendon
reflexes as well as joint proprioceptors in a way that heightens the
sensory awareness of the body in the area worked on. This can lead to
strange sensations such as heat release, tingling and a general increased
awareness of the areas being worked. These sensations are sometimes
mistakenly associatied with some form of "energy healing". Through
increasing sensory awareness the move taps into the body’s ability to self
regulate which, in turn, can stimulate the body to heal itself.
The Bowen Technique can be used as a stand-alone therapy or in combination
with other treatments. from
Wikipedia.
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