Every Body Heals

03/18/2024

Spent a beautiful day in the office sharing Bowen, wisdom and connection with Kjersti of True North Wellness Mi. Kjersti's soulful and intuitive attention, combined with beyond-her-years understanding and Shamanic training makes for an incredibly warm and healing experience. If you're in the Lansing area, be sure to check her out! And if you're not, she is worth the drive. Thank you, Kjersti! I'm excited to continue our connection 💜

02/25/2024

Fresh Spring Office Hours! We're all about the weekends now😄 Saturdays & Sundays 10am-5pm

02/22/2024

Scoliosis. I live with it. And so do several of my clients. That’s why this ⬇️ is my current “read”! Bowen has helped my pain tremendously. AND I am curious to see how learning movement and connection with my body can change things - for me AND you! Have been stalking this practitioner and her book online for a few months and finally bought the e-book yesterday. Will keep you posted!

02/20/2024

Welcome Home, Couch! Anyone who has been with me since pre-Covid days will remember this beauty 😊. She has returned!

12/23/2023

Blessings for a quiet, cozy holiday for you and yours!

12/12/2023

**If you would like to feel amazing and shine again, message me and lets talk 😊💜. That is what I love to do-help people shine**
These are my client files for the week💜. I am so incredibly grateful for each of you. We have known each other for 10 years (as long as I have been in business) or just a couple of months. But regardless of the longevity, I am humbled by your story, your strength and your determination to reach the wellbeing you know you deserve. Because you DO deserve it. You shine, my dear, you shine.

12/02/2023

LOVE this quote by John Wilks..."We are the heath finders, the ghost-busters of the complementary healing world, whose job it is to find that kernel of health, water it, feed it and allow it to grow."

WHAT is Bowen?
Bowenwork works primarily with the fascia (your body's connective tissue) and the autonomic nervous system (your body's control center for those automatic processes like breathing, reproduction, digestion and your fight or flight response). Bowenwork is comprised of a series of specific, rolling movements over key structural points in the body, including muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints and nerves. These moves send a message to the brain via the nerves in that structure. These messages are often interpreted as a little “heads up” to the brain to pay attention and allow for relaxation to both the nervous system and your fascia. The brain then re-orients itself to a “blue-print” of a previously healthy state. This re-orientation can happen in any of the systems of the body so Bowenwork produces an integrated healing response for the whole body.

11/25/2023

Haven’t shared any pics of the office in quite a while!

11/03/2023

New Offers, New Thoughts, New Things...and a tribute to an office bunny

Every Body Heals is an ever-evolving, living, breathing Bowenwork practice born of a desire to bring hope. We meet you exactly where you are to help you feel better so you can be brave and make your life beautiful.

09/22/2023

This is where I live. Often, there’s drama of the circle-of-life sort. I’m often scraped or bleeding or aching…or holding back tears. There’s laughter. And joy. There’s connection. There’s magick. Happy Equinox. May your fire burn bright and warm you as you release everything you have outgrown. Blessed be, my Loves.

09/05/2023

New This Fall...After-School Office Hours for Youth Sessions!
⁉️ Youth Sessions ⁉️
Yes❗️ EBH offers special sessions for people 18 and under. Youth often respond more quickly to Bowen and it can take fewer sessions to resolve an issue. Our Youth Sessions go with the flow, whether the client is
✅a newborn with a kink in her neck
✅a tween needing support in coping with pain
✅a Senior with a football injury

09/01/2023

Welcome September and the time of taking stock, reorganizing and re-evaluation.

“What do you want more or less of in your life, so you can love the life you’re leading?” ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

08/30/2023

Hi Friends! Well, it has been a summer of doing, learning, thinking and growing. And I know I’m not alone 😉. The farm that hosts Every Body Heals is getting a small face lift, and so is EBH. 🥰🐐👩🏼‍🔧
BOLO soon for the release of our newsletter , expanded office hours and a few other growth spurts! 🌱💥

08/20/2023

Flowers for today’s clients!
In addition to providing Bowen and a safe place to heal, the sesquicentennial farm that hosts Every Body Heals also hosts a small flower biz. So, today, my beautiful clients get flowers 💜🌻!

07/16/2023

In pursuing our holistic wellbeing, roots are important. Whether you celebrate them…or learn from them. July is my maternal grandmother’s birthday month so she always has a special place on my desk (the rest of the year she keeps watch over my work from an antique shelf behind me). When you come in for your session this month, feel free to share a hello and happy birthday with Bernice 😊💜

06/30/2023

A little Snoopy may be just what’s needed for embattled bodies, souls and respiratory systems. Everyone is struggling this week. Be kind. 💜

06/25/2023

Sometimes a client shows up in my office very much “in their head”.

I notice the shallow breathing, the tight eyes, the darting thoughts they just can’t completely communicate. Ready to launch out of their chair at the slightest provocation, fight or flight is strong here.

So sometimes we walk.

We have 2 hours, there’s time. And there’s a path through the woods.

The brief walk through the trees helps ground them. Helps connect them back to the Earth so they can rest on the table, and absorb the healing they need.

We do what needs to be done here, my love. Sometimes that’s walking.

06/21/2023

UPDATE: Changes, changes! Now 2pm and 4:30pm are available on Sunday.

This coming Sunday, June 25, is an Office Hours Sunday!! I have an 11:30am and a 2pm available. Grab them now 😊! Your next chance to get on the schedule is Sunday, July 2 at 2pm. Blessings, Love!

06/02/2023

“Every five years, you discover that everything you know is bullsh*t.” ...that statement (while abrupt and sorta cussy, which I sorta like) is pretty true. At least for me.

I watched something on TV several years ago where one of the characters said, “Every five years, you discover that everything you know is bullsh*t.” And I felt that. I mean, it was fiction, but I felt it. And then I started looking back over my life and discovered that, yes, that statement (whil...

05/11/2023

I’m looking for input! Am wondering…how many people out there are curious about or interested in bodywork and/or soulwork for humans…BUT INVOLVING HORSES?

Does that question quicken your heart?

Does you raise a mental hand there?

Horses have this amazing electromagnetic field surrounding their heart. It can directly influence our own heart rhythm and emotions. They are frigging amazing creatures.

I’m wondering, in this time (this liminal space) when things are massively changing for individuals and institutions, structures crumbling, bridges burning, new growing from the ashes…I’m wondering if you are curious about helping your body release the tension created by all of this change? Helping your body realign so you can greet these changes in life with clearer focus and less pain?

And would that be cool with a HORSE present? To kind of help slow the heart rate, bring peace and a bit of magic to the situation?

Just wondering…help me out with some thoughts, my loves! Or just raise your hand!

Photo featuring Shadow Pony

05/01/2023

I don’t offer acupuncture at Every Body Heals but I had to share this one. Happy Monday! Start it off with a laugh!

04/24/2023

https://www.forbes.com/health/mind/what-is-liminal-space/....

FASCINATING and heart-waking article on Liminal Space. Have been aware of and recognized these times in my own life and in working with my 💜clients💜 but never put language to it or delved into the deeper aspects. Was always on my "to do list". Will be diving deeper now...
👉"We find ourselves trying to fit into what we once knew as comfortable, but still struggling because it is no longer a fit,” she adds. “But by recognizing that this space is now uncomfortable, an individual has a chance to move towards a more authentic expression of themselves.”
And therein lies the paradox of liminal space. On the one hand, when you’re in it, there is a chance that you feel uncomfortable or out of sorts. But it’s also because of these transitions that you have a chance to grow and watch your life evolve into something new."

04/16/2023

Diffusing for clients today…a little Lemon and Peppermint to celebrate and freshen this unseasonably warm spring weekend. Here’s to the Weekend Warriors looking for pain relief and relaxation!

04/11/2023

Lunch break today consisted of lying in the sun with a puppy, a little meet n greet with the resident goats, a garter snake sunning itself and a woodchuck out for an afternoon stroll.

Sometimes I think it would be more “professional” to go back to keeping an office in town…a more “clinical” setting, if you will. Having clients out to the farm for their care is definitely less professional, more messy (the dirt road, the occasional chicken, the home environment). Maybe “home” is not where my work belongs.

Yes, I do doubt myself, I’m basically the same as everyone else.

And then I remember. Pain does not happen solely in a sterile, clinical setting. Pain is not linear…nor does it happen in a vacuum. Pain is holistic, spherical, with te****les that can encroach upon every facet of our lives.

I know, because I’ve lived it myself. And I’ve learned a few things.

Sometimes it’s not just “shoulder pain”…there may also be a te****le of approaching empty-nesthood, which brings into stark relief the fact that your relationship with your partner needs redefining or completing.

The knee pain that’s been your constant companion on your jogs…that pain could have its source in a hip that misaligned when your youngest was born. And then your youngest had colic, which kicked off your postpartum depression. Which, as some of us know, is absolute hell.

Usually, it’s not *just* pain.

Because we are not just bodies.

We are made up of all things messy, twisty and turny, ups and downs, past/present/future, dark, bright and alarmingly beautiful. We are our obligations to others *and* to ourselves. We are our hopes, dreams, fears and magick.

We *all* have magick.

And now that I really stop to think about it, one of the really cool things about caring for my clients out here on the farm is that I can SEE your magick so much faster than I could at my office in town. I can see the holistic you-ness that permeates even your pain.

Because you aren’t just a body. You are ✨you ✨.

I know, because I have been there. And I still am. I still live through every day, just like everybody else. The days of giving myself pep talk after pep talk to keep going, keep trying, keep doing as much good as I can with the resources I have…those days still happen…but they are less frequent and more productive because of everything I’ve learned.

Maybe the only difference between you and me is that I’ve learned a few things in my own journey through many kinds of pain and I’ve learned how to help others learn it too.

I’ve learned some techniques that have helped me move through pain a bit more swiftly with a bit more ease. I’ve learned how self-compassion is integral to our healing. And I’ve learned that when you do not yet possess self-compassion, you can borrow it from others until you have your own. I’ve learned how our connection with our Earth is central to our own grounding and wellbeing and I’ve learned how to foster that connection in myself and others. I’ve learned some things about fueling our physical bodies appropriately so our mental and emotional selves stay vibrant as well. I’ve learned how to (mostly) stay out of others’ drama and maintain an open, growth-oriented mindset.

Is it perfect? Hell no. It’s a mess. And that’s life. A beautiful mess. Some days less beautiful, some days more. For me, today was more beautiful. Yesterday was not. See? A lot like you.

And I guess, after all, having my office out here at the farm is damn appropriate. It’s where Life happens. It’s where Hope happens. And there is Beauty to be seen every day when you know where to look. And you, my beautiful friend, deserve all of that Life, Hope and Beauty.

So, if you want help seeing your magick, feeling more ease and hope, grab my hand. Send me a message. Or just give me a call. We can be real together.

04/01/2023

Am humbled by this review written by a happy client! My clients are my greatest and most treasured teachers. Thank you, S! 💜

"Wendy is amazing at Bowen! My body always feels like a huge weight has been lifted after every session. I'm not sure how she does it, but she finds the places I didn't even know were needing help. Wendy's Bowen work is better than a massage and for me the benefits lasts longer! This is the best "care" I gift myself! Thank you Wendy! You are a tremendous gift!"