Bowen Technique by Susan

21/11/2025

🌿 Unlock Your Body’s Healing Potential with Bowen Therapy 🌿

Are you dealing with chronic pain, muscle tension, or stress? Bowen Therapy is a gentle, non-invasive treatment that can help restore balance and promote healing in your body—without the need for harsh manipulation.

✨ Why Bowen Therapy?

Relieves pain and tension

Improves circulation and flexibility

Reduces stress and promotes relaxation

Helps with conditions like back pain, headaches, sciatica, and more

💆‍♀️ What to Expect: During a Bowen session, light pressure is applied to specific points on the body, activating the body's natural healing response. It's a relaxing experience that promotes deep healing on both a physical and emotional level.

👩‍⚕️ Experienced, Certified Bowen Therapist
You’re in safe hands with a skilled therapist who is dedicated to helping you feel your best.

🔑 Book Your First Session Today!
Take the first step towards feeling better with Bowen Therapy.

07903 160444 or DM to book

🌟 Your Body Deserves to feel good

21/11/2025

21/11/2025

Our brain runs the entire show, but how many of us know what the wiring actually looks like?

This graphic is basically a cheat sheet for how your nervous system really works, and once you see it all laid out like this, a lot of things suddenly make sense.

On the left, you’ve got the trigeminal pathways — the highways that carry sensations from your face, eyes, mouth, and scalp straight into the brain. Every time you feel a toothache, a cold breeze on your cheek, or a headache creeping in… that’s the system lighting up.

On the right is the part we all live with every day without realizing it:
the autonomic nervous system: sympathetic vs. parasympathetic.

One revs you up.
One slows you down.

Your digestion, heartbeat, breathing, pupils, blood pressure, sweating, or***ms - all of it is on autopilot, shifting between “fight-or-flight” and “rest-and-digest.”

And then at the bottom, you’ve got the actual building blocks.

The neurons themselves: motor neurons, sensory neurons. interneurons: and the neurotransmitters they use to talk.

Dopamine, serotonin, GABA, norepinephrine, glutamate… the chemicals behind mood, focus, addiction, calmness, motivation, sleep, cravings, and emotion.

our daily experiences come down to tiny electrical signals and chemical messengers firing inside this system.

17/11/2025

🌙 INSOMNIA & THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM

…and you didn’t even know they were connected!

Struggling to fall asleep?
Waking up at 2AM?
Feeling wired-but-tired?
Dragging yourself through the day?

Well… your lymphatic system may be the unexpected reason.
Yup — your sleep and your lymph are BEST FRIENDS, and when one goes off track, the other follows.
Let’s break it down in the most fun, Lymphie-approved way! 💚😴

🧠 1. Your Brain Has a Lymph System (SURPRISE!)

Most people don’t know this — the brain has its OWN drainage system called the glymphatic system.
It works ONLY when you sleep.

What does it do?

✨ Clears brain inflammation
✨ Flushes toxins
✨ Removes metabolic waste
✨ Balances your neurotransmitters
✨ Reduces swelling around brain tissues

When you’re in deep sleep (especially slow-wave sleep), the brain literally shrinks its cells by up to 60% so fluid can wash through and clean everything.

No sleep = no cleaning.

🌪 2. If Your Lymph Is Congested, Your Sleep Takes the Punch

When lymph is stagnant, thick or overloaded, your body can’t shift inflammatory chemicals out fast enough.

That creates:

🔥 high cortisol
🔥 restless brain
🔥 lymphatic pressure
🔥 full-body inflammation
🔥 racing thoughts at night

Your body can’t enter the healing parasympathetic (rest & digest) state…
because the lymph is shouting:
“HEY! I’m drowning in waste here!” 😵‍💫

😴 3. And Guess What? It Works Both Ways…

Insomnia ALSO blocks lymph flow!

When you don’t sleep:

❌ the whole glymphatic system switches OFF
❌ lymph fluid thickens
❌ inflammation increases
❌ hormones like melatonin drop
❌ cortisol rises
❌ detox slows down
❌ swelling worsens
❌ weight gain increases (because lymph regulates fat metabolism!)

Insomnia doesn’t only make you tired —
it actually blocks your detox system, especially in the brain.

🔔 4. Why You Wake Up Between 1AM–3AM

This is the liver’s detox window in Chinese medicine — and modern science agrees the liver and lymph work like twins.

When the liver + lymph are struggling:

💥 you wake up sweaty
💥 heart racing
💥 thirsty
💥 anxious
💥 unable to fall asleep again

It’s not “mood.”
It’s detox overload.

🌿 5. Signs Your Lymph Might Be Causing Your Insomnia

✔ Waking at the same time every night
✔ Puffy face in the morning
✔ Neck stiffness
✔ Heavy legs or swollen ankles
✔ Brain fog
✔ Feeling wired at night, exhausted in the morning
✔ PMS or hormone swings
✔ Head pressure or migraines
✔ Taking long to fall asleep even when tired

Your lymph is whispering…
and sometimes shouting.

🌙 6. How to Fix Lymph-Related Insomnia (the Lymphie way!)

1️⃣ Activate the neck lymph nodes before bed

Gentle collarbone pumps = calmer vagus nerve + better drainage.

2️⃣ Magnesium glycinate / Epsom salt baths

Relax muscles + improve lymph circulation.

3️⃣ Stop eating 3 hours before bed

Late digestion blocks lymph and liver detox.

4️⃣ Light stretching + deep breathing

Moves lymph + resets the nervous system.

5️⃣ Sleep on your side

The glymphatic system clears BETTER in side-sleeping positions.

6️⃣ Avoid inflammatory foods at night

Especially dairy, sugar, and salty snacks — they thicken lymph fluid.

If your lymph could talk at bedtime, it would say:

“Clear me out so I can let your brain sleep peacefully!”

Healthy lymph =
💚 deeper sleep
💚 calmer brain
💚 balanced hormones
💚 less swelling
💚 better detox
💚 a happier YOU

17/11/2025

🔥 There Are Tiny Flames Inside You — And Your Lymphatic System Puts Them Out

Most people think of inflammation as something you can see: a red rash, a swollen joint, or a puffy face. But beneath the surface, your immune system starts microscopic “fires” — and your lymphatic system is the silent hero that puts them out.

🧬 What Are These Fires?

Every time your immune system responds to injury, toxins, pathogens, or stress, it initiates an inflammatory cascade:
• Cytokines fire off
• Histamine surges
• White blood cells flood in
• Heat rises in tissues
• Fluid leaks from capillaries

It’s a brilliantly protective response — but if the fire isn’t cleaned up, it smolders.
Enter your lymphatic system: the built-in firefighter of your body.

💧 Your Lymphatic System: The Clean-Up Crew

Once the immune response has done its job, debris remains:
• Dead cells
• Inflammatory proteins
• Excess fluid
• Toxins and oxidants

Your lymph vessels collect this waste and transport it to lymph nodes, where it’s filtered and expelled from the system. But when your lymph is sluggish or blocked, toxins linger — and inflammation becomes chronic.

⚠️ What Happens When the Fire Isn’t Doused?
• 🔥 Autoimmune flare-ups – inflammation on repeat
• 🔥 Chronic fatigue & brain fog – unresolved systemic burden
• 🔥 Fibromyalgia & chronic pain – inflammatory interstitial stasis
• 🔥 Digestive issues & bloating – gut lymph overload
• 🔥 Cellulite & puffiness – inflammation trapped in fascia

You don’t just feel inflamed. You feel heavy, puffy, foggy, sore, and tired — because the fire hasn’t been cleared.

🌿 How to Support Your Lymphatic “Firefighters”

✅ Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD) – opens lymph pathways
✅ Castor Oil Packs – draw out internal heat
✅ Anti-inflammatory Nutrition – removes the fuel
✅ Deep breathing & movement – activates thoracic duct flow
✅ Hydration with electrolytes – keeps lymph fluid thin
✅ Dry brushing & Gua Sha – stimulate surface drainage

💡 WOW Insight

“The lymphatic system doesn’t just move fluid —
it determines how long inflammation stays in your body.”

📚 Scientific Sources & Research Articles:
1. www.frontiersin.org/journals/pain-research/articles/10.3389/fpain.2021.691740/full
2. www.verywellmind.com/lymphatic-drainage-massage-8601938
3. www.my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/21768-lymphatic-drainage-massage
4. www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/25/7/3907
5. www.physio-pedia.com/Manual_Lymphatic_Drainage
6. www.amtamassage.org/publications/massage-therapy-journal/research-update-lymph-drainage
7. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK513247
8. www.glamour.com/story/how-to-diy-lymphatic-drainage-according-to-experts
9. www.researchgate.net/publication/331355404_Inflammation_and_Lymphatic_Function
10. www.pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17394405
11. www.inflammregen.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41232-021-00175-6
12. www.allure.com/story/what-is-lymphatic-drainage-massage
13. www.ft.com/content/d1c3f9c2-15f1-443c-9a2c-b3e7f8d8ef3f

17/11/2025

Your body is a masterpiece — a living system of intelligence, rhythm, and balance.

No one else moves, feels, or responds quite like you.

Even identical twins have their own unique patterns — in their fingerprints, their eyes, and the way their nervous system communicates.

Every moment, your body is quietly at work: repairing, rebuilding, and rebalancing. Your brain processes more information than any computer, your heart beats to its own rhythm, and your fascia connects it all — a network of constant communication.

Bowen Therapy honours that wisdom — the body’s remarkable ability to listen, adapt, and find its own way back to ease.

You’re not just one in a million — you’re one in eight billion, and every part of you tells that story.

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Course of 3 treatments still £100 appointments available 07903 160444 or dm to book

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