Freedom To Move - Bowen Therapy

21/10/2025

It is something that gets exclaimed to me quite often. Oh I wish I had got my Husband here.

17/10/2025

Bowtech Ease. A fantastic blend of essential oils that how warm your tissues, and provide relief for sinus's, joints and muscles, and aids restful sleep.

14/10/2025

Alternate Wednesdays 11-1pm

14/10/2025

Bowen Therapists - We understand.
Understanding fascial continuity is essential for comprehensive treatment approaches that address not just the local pathology, but the broader biomechanical implications throughout the upper and lower body.

12/10/2025

Just returned from Tauranga. Weekend of revision with fellow Bowen Therapists. Always great to catch up with other members!

30/09/2025

Your body is an amazing design in that it understands fully how to express itself with the trained practitoners hands uterlising the Bowen Technique.

Your body doesn’t lie.

From skin to fascia, posture to hormones — it’s always giving us feedback.

Bowen Therapy encourages us to slow down, listen, and work with the body’s design.

27/09/2025

Why Freedom to move - Bowen Therapy Havelock North chooses to be here for the community.

My mission is simple:
To help individuals live life better!

I believe that wellness shouldn’t be complicated, painful, or intimidating. That’s why I use the Bowen Technique — a gentle, non-invasive therapy that works with your body’s natural ability to reset and heal. The body gives ques of what it needs. The assessments during each session tell me when the Bowen Technique has done its job.

💡 Whether you’re dealing with long-standing pain, jaw tension, stress, or you just want to feel more balanced, our goal is to create a safe, welcoming space where you can finally exhale and let your body do what it’s designed to do: recover.

And here’s the fun part… healing doesn’t have to be clinical or cold. I carry a warm smile, a bubbly character, compassion, and a touch of my heart goes into every session.

My promise: Every person who walks through my door will be treated as an individual, not a diagnosis. I tailor each treatment to you, helping you feel supported every step of the way.

When your body feels good, everything else in life flows better.

In the future: Bowen Therapy will be recognised by government bodies. It will be ACC approved. A new long research project is starting soon.
Your support will be needed. # # #

19/09/2025

I do have clients with similar experiences of not gaining relief until they tried Bowen Therapy.

Chronic pain following surgery. A great outcome !

(I’ve recycled this post from 2020)

I recently spoke to a client I treated almost 3 years ago. She allowed me to share her Bowen experience and I’m glad she did, because hers was one of the most memorable Bowen treatments and outcomes that I’ve carried out.

My client for 26 years had been suffering severe pain in her right scapula (shoulder blade) since she had undergone open heart surgery in 1991.
The pain could not be explained by her doctors and over the years she had been on heavy pain medications and tried many different treatments to no avail.

It was interfering with every aspect of her life including sleep and any kind of physical activity. She described the pain as radiating under the shoulder blade and was sometimes excruciating.

She decided to try Bowen.

During her treatment, she experienced tingling in the troublesome shoulder blade, which continued for some time afterwards. (This type of tingling during treatment is quite normal, although some clients don’t experience this.)

On returning for her 2nd (and final) treatment, she was in disbelief that the scapula pain had disappeared within days. Although she wasn’t getting her hopes up too much in case it returned.

Just before Christmas the following year I received a phone call from her and she said something like “I just want to say thank you so much. That pain hasn’t come back. You have changed my life and I just wanted to tell you that before Christmas.”

3 years on and the pain still hasn’t returned.

This is one example of how effective the human body can be in repairing itself once it’s given the right conditions and stimulus to do so.

If you are suffering any kind of pain whether it’s a new injury or long term (chronic), Bowen may help and I would suggest is certainly worth a try.

(Note: Everybody responds at different rates to treatment and often more than two treatments are required for chronic conditions.)

19/09/2025

A neighbor (88yrs) further up the street, whom wanted to see me weekly today,
NEIGHBOUR: "Louise, I think I don't need to see you for a while. My knees are good, my back has no pain, even after a little trip on a rug that has now been removed" (Black eye). It is a miracle. Louise it is amazing what you have done for me".

So she did not have a session today, and I did not charge her for not cancelling. She has no phone or computer. She had initially made the tricky journey with her walker to my door to leave a message for me to contact her. She now can walk easily without a walker.

18/09/2025

Tensions and densification in the tissue layers impedes correct movement through the hip and femur. The gentle approach of Bowen Therapy is sometimes all it needs for you to feel improvement.

16/09/2025

Bowen Therapy Havelock North. Helping your body to move better and reduce breakdown potential.

09/09/2025

Many people notice improvements quickly. I interact with an older Neighbour (87 years) across the street, giving her mandarins. she comes back with something in exchange. But we got to talking about her difficulty with her shoulder. It was only after a number of days that she messaged me and said. "Louise I will take you up your offer to help me with my shoulder". She came on Saturday. Her shoulder restriction was such that she could not move her arm past being level with her shoulder out side ways. Her other arm she was able to swing right up close to her ear. I proceeded to do the light rolling moves on muscles mid back, upper back and neck. I then proceeded to do the gentle light touch shoulder release on her good shoulder. This set her up to know what to expect when I did her troubled shoulder. Her muscles of the rotator cuff were very small. After doing the release moves and waiting 30-60 seconds she tested her arm. Her bad shoulder now could move right up close to her ear. I was impressed at the big change. My neighbor remained skeptical and did not show as much surprise as me. I called her a few days later and her words were "it seems too good to be true. Do you think it will help get rid of my back pain when I lay down?" I make no guarantees, but Bowen Therapy has helped thousands of people gain relief and stop chronic pains. Good news is she is willing to try it again. She talked with family members and found out that some already knew about Bowen Therapy family as they had been having great help with a practitioner in Napier.