Bowen Works

12/21/2025

12/18/2025

If only untangling Christmas lights were as satisfying as untangling fascial conversations 😄

Bowen Therapists — we see you!

12/16/2025

The fascial system is rich in sensory receptors and responds to a wide range of input — including gentle, specific cues.

Bowen Therapy is designed around this understanding, using precise moves and intentional pauses rather than relying on sustained or forceful pressure.

What looks minimal on the surface is actually a considered, anatomy-informed approach.

12/13/2025

It's all connected! Nothing happens or heals in isolation.

As a holistic bodywork technique, Bowen Therapy recognises that your whole structure is connected.

Your sore ankle might be caused by pelvis dysfunction, or your knee pain might stem from your neck.

Your Bowen Therapist will work with your whole body to try to get to the source of your discomfort.

12/09/2025

Feeling frazzled this festive season?

Can't get in to see your Bowen Therapist?

Try these simple tips to help soothe your nervous system and restore calm during the holiday rush.

While nothing compares to Bowen Therapy, these small practices can help carry you through until your next session.

12/09/2025

This time of year can stir up big emotions — but your nervous system may hold more hope than you realise.

While Christmas is a time of connection and celebration for some, it can also amplify feelings of loneliness, stress, and depression for many others.

The good news? Emerging research is offering new hope.

A clinical trial of 493 people with major, treatment-resistant depression found that stimulating the vagus nerve — the vital communication pathway between the brain and major organs — led to meaningful improvements in mood, daily function, and overall wellbeing.

👉 And this is where Bowen Therapy has something to offer.

Bowen Therapy includes a vagus nerve procedure, and like all Bowen moves, its aim is to guide the body out of “fight or flight” and into the parasympathetic “rest and digest” state where healing becomes possible.

While the clinical trial used an implanted device, Bowen Therapy works with the body’s own healing intelligence — with no drugs, no force, and no equipment. Just precise, mindful touch designed to help the nervous system settle.

Because the vagus nerve connects — and so does Bowen.

Research published in Brain Stimulation.

12/05/2025

Just in time for Christmas!!

12/04/2025

In Bowen Therapy, we don’t chase symptoms.

We work in a sequence that helps the nervous system reorganise (to the best of its ability.)

Because the body knows what needs to come first.

12/02/2025

Ever wish you could press Ctrl-Alt-Del on your day?

That’s what a Bowen session feels like for many people: a moment to reset, breathe, and begin again — gently.

(No buttons required. 😉)

11/28/2025

Your symptoms are signals — but they’re not the whole picture.

What feels like a local issue (tight calves, sore shoulders, stiff neck) may actually be part of a larger pattern your body has been managing quietly for years.

Bowen Therapy aims to address the deeper systems:
• fascia
• muscle tension
• joint alignment
• nervous system balance
• compensation patterns

Because lasting change can happen when the whole body gets the memo — not just one part.

11/27/2025

Just like a traffic light, your nervous system cycles through states of stop, slow, and go.

When you skip the “stop,” everything else gets harder.

Bowen Therapy honours the pause — inviting your body to shift out of overload and into a more settled state.

Because recovery isn’t a race.