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BOWEN TECHNIQUE TREATMENT Session lasts about 45 minutes. Treatment can be done
through clothing or directly on the skin. The practitioner
"rolls" over the muscles with her fingers, which causes
the muscles to relax. The moves are done in groups.
Between sets, the practitioner leaves the room for at least two
minutes to allow the body to relax.
During a session the contracted muscles relax so that the
surrounding areas are freed from constriction. People may feel
relaxed or energized. The moves send out signals which help:
* stimulate energy flow;
* facilitate lymphatic drainage of toxins and
waste;
* promote good circulation;
* release tension;
* increase mobility;
* encourage the body to relax, realign and heal
itself.
The healing process begins once your body is relaxed. You may
feel shifts in your body during and after a session. The
technique promotes the removal of waste products. Once the “garbage”
has been cleared out, your body can start to function properly
again.
Move
The Pain Out of Your Body
Until
recently, heavy lifting was thought to be the main cause of back
pain, but studies now indicate that SITTING causes the most
problems. Sitting puts a lot of strain on our lower
back. The longer we sit, the more it hurts. That's
because 40 percent more weight is placed on the lower spine when we
are sitting. Our body, particularly our spine, was not
designed to sit in chairs for hours on end.
Movement is actually “medicine”. Walking is the best natural health remedy for many kinds of
conditions, disorders and symptoms.
It can help speed your
recovery process and has many other benefits:
* helps ease back pain;
* goes easy on your joints;
* can be done in short spurts;
* strengthens your bones;
* costs you nothing.
The
3 W's
1.
Walk
Right after your Bowen session, you should take a 15 or 20 minute
walk to start moving
the
pain
out of your body. Do not sit for more than 30 minutes at
a time the first day.
For the rest of the week take a 15-20 minute walk each day... or a
few short 5-10 minute walks. This will help “turn on your
body pumps” and move the toxins out of your body.
2.
Water
According to F. Batmanghelidj, MD., most pain is due to chronic
dehydration. He says that we hurt because our bodies are
thirsty.
Drink at least 8 glasses of water each day. This helps:
* relieve pain all over your body;
* relieve congestion;
* flush out toxins;
* lubricate your joints;
* keep your body in balance.
3.
Wait
After a Bowen session, you must wait at least one week before having any other kind of bodywork,
massage or chiropractic so you don’t interrupt the healing
process.
The Bowen moves send electrical signals to your muscles, nervous
system and brain, which help realign and balance your body.
The effects of the treatment will actually continue to work during
the rest of the week, and possibly longer.
MORE
ON BOWEN
In clinical practice on average it is common to receive reports from
clients that they can feel the body going through the unraveling
process for approximately 2 – 4 days. There is often a very
similar pattern experienced with body aches which move from one
location to another (e.g. shoulder to knee), some sweating,
emotional releases with some clients - but above all a very deep
sense of relaxation and change taking place. In addition many
clients report noticing their symptoms leaving their bodies in the
reverse order to which they arrived.
The actual application of the technique is
interesting in itself as it is distinctly different from any other
technique attempting to achieve the same goal.
In the first instance, a three part
integrated body balance is applied which is partly performed with
the client in a prone position and then finished with the client in
the supine position. The work generally commences in a prone
position, around the lumbar area and then quickly moves to the
thoracic area before returning to the legs and sacrum. There are a
few resting periods between the various sequences of ‘moves’,
which are carried out before moving the client into a supine
position.
The prone work, including resting periods,
usually takes about 15 minutes to perform. Once the client is in the
supine position, additional releases are applied to the diaphragm,
neck and knees – this also takes another 10 – 15 minutes to
complete. Other optional procedures may be blended into this
integrated body balance to add specificity or release when
necessary. There are optional procedures for the shoulders, elbows
and wrists, pelvis, ankles, coccyx and temporo-mandibular joint complex.
The integrated balance which is applied to
the body via the specialized moves is directed to areas where
proprioreceptors (spindle cells and Golgi tendon organs) abound.
However it is not just single stimulation of these points which
elicits such a comprehensive and powerful response in each
individual – rather it is the configuration in which the moves are
carried out.
Consequently the integrated balance once
applied synthesizes an orchestrated response involving alpha and
gamma motor neurons, various spinal reflex arcs, the motor cortex of
the cerebrum, the basal ganglia and the cerebellum.
It is reasonable to state that the Bowen
once applied creates a powerful context for change to take place in
the musculo-skeletal and visceral systems via what can only be
described as a specific decoding of the nervous system and a
comprehensive resetting of the body.
Once the session is over the client is
given aftercare recommendations which basically reminds them that
their body will go through a process of re-organisation for a few
days and to take it easy during this time by doing nothing too
physically strenuous. The client is also advised to keep up daily
walking and sufficient intake of water to help flush the lymphatic
system and assist the musculature to return quickly to stable
balance.
Although to the client the session seems
simple, non invasive and gentle - the results are nevertheless very
surprising and often miraculous. While this is the case for the
client, the practitioner comes to expect these wonderful results, as
dependability is one of the key characteristics of the Bowen
technique.
Typically clients will require only 2 – 3
sessions for their health problems to be resolved. Additional
sessions may be required for those with chronic health problems or
who require ongoing psychological and/or nutritional support.
I am often asked “will Bowen cure this
condition or that condition”?
My response is always the same –
Bowen will cure nothing! It is simply a process that enables the
body to regulate itself and throughout this process many symptoms
will disappear. That is to say that the symptoms in the first place
were simply a product of the complex blockage existing in the
body.
While
this may appear to be just semantics I stress that the distinction
is very important to keep in mind. Bowen is synonymous with
contextual healing – a lost art which is now having a resurgence
and gaining both popularity with practitioners and clients alike.
Another well-known example of a contextual healing approach is
homoeopathy. Interestingly many individuals have dubbed Bowen as
tactile homeopathy!
The following list of symptoms frequently
disappear in response to a Bowen session: acute and chronic pain
including back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, leg pain, facial
pain, headaches including migraines, sinusitis, digestive problems,
colitis, constipation, urinary disorders, menstrual problems,
infertility, prostate problems, visual problems, learning disorders
and emotional depression.
While the above conditions are the most
classical there are many other disorders which generally respond
favorably to treatment as well. Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple
Sclerosis, Glandular Fever and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome to name a
few.
Remember prevention is better
than cure. Once you show signs of improvement we will continue to
work with you to keep harmony and balance already achieved. A
regular treatment, depending on your timetable, will stop future
stress accumulating.
We encourage you to have regular treatments to prevent illness and
maintain a state of well being email
info@massagelondon.info
Call NOW your private
Bowen therapist on
07957 47 36 17
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