Clients experience the Bowen Technique in many ways and each person feels something different usually, but one of the best ways to describe it is "a gentle form of bodywork using subtle moves performed over the muscles and connective tissues while applying a light pressure, that sends messages deep into the body, creating an energetic surge on deep levels to get a response, retrieving cellular memory of a relaxed balanced body, which promotes a healing response". Clear as mud? Okay let’s try a couple of others.

Here’s another way to think of it….

If you take a guitar and strum one string, you’ll feel it vibrate throughout the whole instrument. A Bowen therapist move is like that to your body, once a move has been done on you it is literally felt through out your whole body, going up and down your nervous system, even though I may have only worked on a little area on your back. Each move is given a couple of minutes to settle into your body, so I pop in and out of the room at regular intervals, doing moves throughout your body and specific ones for your particular needs, say for a bad back or frozen shoulder, the most common ones.

Your body has cellular memory, the original blueprint from when you were born and everything was in perfect working order. Bowen therapists help to get the body to recognise that feeling of balance and energy. If you have a computer it also works like your virus scanner, going to find where things aren’t quite right and bringing them up to be dealt with. One of the amazing things about Bowen, is it can often find things that haven’t been right for years, yet you’ve just become so used to being out of kilter, your posture for example has maybe had to adapt, but has decided after all this time it’s had enough and needs to be sorted, and Glasgow Bowen therapy can help it do that.

During a session it often feels like not much is happening for most people, it’s very relaxing, there is no forced manipulations but not much else going on really, bar me going in and out of the room occasionally. The idea is to trigger your bodies own healing blueprint to work properly again.