Whitsunday Bowen Therapy

Bowen Therapy (or the Bowen Technique) is a very gentle form of bodywork, developed by the late Tom Bowen in the 1950’s in Australia. Small, gentle, precise moves are made on muscles, tendons, ligaments and nerves.

Bowen Therapy addresses the entire body, through restoring balance in the autonomic nervous system. The Bowen moves prompt the shift from the stressed, sympathetic “fight or flight” mode, to parasympathetic “rest and repair” dominance. The soft-tissue Bowen moves are performed in a way that the body’s proprioceptors (nervous system receptors) are stimulated. The signals create a change to the pain is felt in the body, facilitating the body to begin to heal itself.