Bowen 4U

Bowen work...!

Since opening the clinic in Seabourne Road back in 2006 I have seen the growth in Bowenwork and improved health and wellbeing of some clients.

The marvellous gift that Tom Bowen had and passed on to those of pure Bowen- Heart continues to grow and aid many in every nation and still surprises time and again.  I was the biggest sceptic ever of treatments until trying them for myself and studying to share with everyone who wanted to enjoy life and improved state of wellbeing.

I recall thinking, "This is not going to do anything.  The moves are so gentle and touch so light,"  as she left the room for the third time after making precise but gentle moves.  Little did I know how the gentle giant of a therapy works when I suddenly felt these weird movements or ripples and pulses going through my body or limbs.  The wave of energy soaring through my whole body was most intense.  It also had a response of pelvic and hamstring realignment and when I stood up from the couch I felt taller.  One of the strangest feelings was the one where it felt as if someone took hole of my thigh and pulled on my limb from hip to knee and knee to ankle.  In Bowen responses have to be experienced to be appreciated and many of my clients have since December 2006 reported classic and surprising responses to their Bowen work.

There is no other therapy that I have looked at or investigated which provides such experience of response and improvement to the wellbeing and improved state of health of the individual.

Bowen is at first a little strange to get used to as your therapist leaves the room after making moves or groups of moves and allows your body to adjust according to the tune of Bowen in its orchestration of the piece to enhance your bodies natural balance and alignment,

Don't dismiss it right away.  Try it and complete the course and then use top ups to maintain your improvements to any physical or health and wellbeing.  If it can convince one of the biggest sceptics of alternative therapies before I studied them and found more than an oddball belief or energy system of healing and improvement to the natural balance of the Universal source we all are.  Then it should and must be tried in full before judging for yourself.

Bargain Hunter...!
Dorset and surrounding areas of Bournemouth...!

A new Bowen offer is available until 12th December 2013 as well as saving money you can improve your health and wellbeing at the same time.  All you need do is contact Bowen 4U at Essential Therapy Centre, Southbourne.

Visit the Website at WWW.essentialtherapycentre.org or WWW.bowen4u.org Find out how Bowen can help you...?

Gary has been at the Centre seven years and this little gem of a therapy has provided the most lasting results for majority of clients.  Don't suffer with Pain... See how it can help you...?

How long have you been in Pain...?  Have a look to see what some client's have said from weeks, months or seventeen plus years...  There will never be a better bargain promoting your health and wellbeing...!  Don't delay...! Book this bargain course NOW...!

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Course of Bowen sessions at best prices...!

Wishing you all good health.

Gary

Bowen Offer Ends

13th March 2014

Still putting off doing something about those aches and pains or disheartened at nothing working...?

The Waiting Game...!

One of the most common concerns my clients have when back home after their initial treatment of Bowen and their experience of responses on the couch with that common denominator of feeling taller and for some in much less pain, is the occasional discomfort and aches that may be felt which can be intense at times but generally never last long and is part of the course.  Following each session of Bowen there is a period of 5-10 days when the Bowen continues doing what it does best and that is communicating with the body.  The body adjusts and monitors postural alignment and determines priority because it was designed so with the intelligence and programing that will always better anything we manufacture because the brain and the body store everything required to maintain itself but as usual we get in the way.

For some it is simple and quick and they never look back.  For others it may take a little longer but for some it may take even longer and patience is required along with the commitment and possible changes in lifestyle.  Those in this category may be diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, MS, ME, Parkinson and unexplained headaches.  The sessions may have to be shorter but over 8-12 and possibly a few more although this can vary.  It is a pattern for those I saw using Bowen experiencing Fibromyalgia and a few MS and ME client's.  I have only worked on two Parkinson clients but hope to do more work with all these groups.

Working on clients suffering from Fibromyalgia is good experience as Bowen initiates communication through the fascia tissue and autonomic nervous system as well as over muscles, Skeleton, Tendons and Ligaments.  Sufferers of this condition will know and identify with the flare ups of discomfort, aches and pains and the pinging or sharp surges they experience.  It is linked with the fascia and Bowen also communicates using this which can be overwhelming in a client not sure if their treatment is working as they follow advice for aftercare, especially over the period of 7-10 days.  It is often important to make the moves gently and with least increases of pain when executing moves and to possibly leave longer gaps between the moves.

My most recent case had a great first session and was pain free for the first time in quite a while.  She was so pleased and it remained so for a few days then started to return her second was good and she was going on holiday which had stress and tension build up due to having personal items stolen.  The flare up was painful when she returned and since then she has done well but then emotional stress, employment and family commitments plus that unmentionable word REDUNDANCY all take their toll on the person who feels there is nothing wrong and strides to work through pain trying to beat the condition.  Trouble is this often adds to the flare ups because along with Bowen they may have to change their life.  Less hours, better diet, light and regular exercise but most of all let others do for themselves at times and take time out for self.  They aim to get over the ten foot wall ten miles in front of them but don't realise they have already done so at five feet.



My very first client with Fibromyalgia was a middle aged Gentleman who had some relief but only did four sessions and although it helped he wanted to manage it by going back to the Doctor.  To be referred for pain management.

My first success was with a female client in her thirties who had been suffering with the condition for sometime and had been off work with many sick days but often after struggling to keep up because of taking on more and more and the majority of which was extra duties from others to be helpful.  This was not helping her.  She sang in a choir but had to stop that too as energy levels dropped.  She had her Bowen and did around 8-12 sessions and over the next three years a few top ups 7 altogether and never looked back.  She had more energy and felt less stress at work and returned to singing with the choir.  Her driving had been one of being over cautious for her age and driving skills but she also described her confidence in driving improved, she described it as driving like a boy racer.  She had gone from feeling nervous on the roads to feeling more confident.  It was also interesting that her confidence had gone following a car accident some years before.  Again and again I come across this as a common denominator with clients suffering from nervous, neck and shoulder or pelvic injury.  The rear shunt.  How many people seek treatment within 24 hours, within a week, I have found it to be the case where it will be as much as 6-8 weeks before they seek medical help for whiplash or other discomfort and pain that hasn't shown itself other than niggles until around six weeks.  The time when postural alignment might be affected.

One of the most interesting cases I had was following treatments with a lady who came after seeing the advertisement in local magazine for Bowen.  She tried to convince her daughter to take her granddaughter to have Bowen.  She had been suffering with headaches for years and was originally fourteen or fifteen when I saw her grandmother.  She was seventeen when she came to see me and Bowen was helpful.  Most of the shoulder and back areas she had concerns with improved.  Her headaches had lessened and she went from being a teenager with the world on her shoulders and looking like giving up on education because she was told there was nothing else to offer but the medication and an MS or ME group meeting to manage her suspected condition.  I was surprised to find that she wanted to go to London for University as I suspected it would not help to be under the stress and strains of the hustle and bustle.  She has returned following her initial 12 sessions on few occasions namely half term and before going back after summer term vacation for top ups and all has been good and kept under control.  Headaches occasionally now when studying.  However I had to email her in the middle of this as had not heard for six months.  I wanted to include an update as the next possible return for top up would be around September before going back to University.

Her reply came back today a few days after starting this so held up posting until received. 

"Hi Gary,

Sorry for the delayed reply, I only back form Uni  a few days ago and its been a bit hectic! 

Overall I have been feeling much better than I was when I first started attend Bowen. 

I have had frequent headaches recently, mainly quiet mild ones, but this has probably been due to a full time university timetable with exams and a work placement, which has been stressful, so I am hoping that these headaches will reduce soon.

Before this, I only very rarely had bad headaches, with dull headaches also occurring less then they used to, a few times a week. 

I recently had a very bad headache that lasted  about two days, about one week ago, but this was around the time of an exam, and this went away once the exam was finished. 

Now that I am home, and have much less stress on me, if the dull headaches which I am experiences throughout most of the day don't go away soon, then I will contact you for a top-up Bowen appointment.

Thank you."

RH

The three W's are Waiting, Walking and Water.  Let's deal with the Water first because this is suggested from one extreme to the other as to being good for you or not.  Forgetting any tea and coffee or squash you drink think: Blood, Lymphatic, Kidney and Liver.  Try to avoid coke, and the other tempting branded drinks which will not help but may contribute to your condition.  Check for Aspartame and avoid.  Remembering each individual will be different there is a golden rule of 6-8 glasses per day and this may have to be increases a little if exercising or if very hot.  Do not let your body dehydrate.  I would also suggest a half glass to start and aim for mornings and evenings if you don't remember at other times.  Be sensible and you can always request the 10 good reasons for drinking water from the centre.  The next is Walking.  You do not have to walk miles and miles but it is good to have light exercise and walking is a good way of doing that but for those unable to go very far just standing or walking around at home to kitchen and back, (perhaps to sip some water) is often enough during your 7-10 days after the Bowen work.  And finally because you may experience responses that are similar to what aches and pains you had or even more intense although never for long and that is why the Waiting is so important to allow time for your body to make the adjustments and settle.  Be patient and walk about or find something to do to take your mind of it and you will soon feel it subside and be more relaxed.

It is no good spending money on Bowen to go and then have another treatment within the period/s following your sessions or until ten days after your final treatment.  This is a waste of your money and my time.  The final treatment may vary and for some it may take longer to get to where you feel greatest improvement.  Always discuss with your Bowen practitioner the details of your diagnoses of any of the above and see your GP if advised to do so by your Bowen practitioner.  Take note of what happens and how you feel so you can report this back and write it down if necessary for otherwise it will be forgotten or confused as to which day you experienced what.  Better sleep may be one of the changes you notice.  More energy at work or in general and better focus.  Various responses that you experienced when on the couch and some that you didn't.  This feedback is useful information and along with how you are when you return will determine some of the procedures used.

Don't suffer with Pain.  Find out how Bowen can help you...?

Lightworkers...!



There are many Lightworkers and at present they are spread far and wide with various qualifications in numerous therapies and some even without therapies or coaching qualifications but who have become lightworkers because that is their purpose and generally without having to advertise that they are providing this service they are sought out by people searching for guidance as to their purpose, life qualities or direction.

It is reassuring that in one country after another their are beacons of light to draw people to discover their own path and without judging help them search and find the road for them to become the unique person they are and desire to be.  Lightworkers encourage and point the way.  They are not indoctrinating or giving instructions but allowing the person to explore and decide from an abundance of resources from which they will find what resonates within themselves.

It is great to know that this work is going on and that people are beginning to understand that they hold the key to their own creative abilities and manifestations of what they profess to seek or desire.  The path in getting there by mastering the manifesting part varies enormously because some people may believe fully being present whilst others feel they can never achieve the change because they are not fully present but blocking and continuing to self sabotage the outcome, proving themselves right.  I know for I have been there and still experience myself doing this.  But you need to reach for a higher vibration, or a better vibration and don't give up.

Your situation can change instantly and sadly for some they sit on their laurels again feeling the shift has started.  They stop working on their affirmations, reading their dream vision and their appreciation and gratitude thus sabotage themselves as doomed to fail.  Keeping the momentum going is the fun part, trying to establish the pattern over the 90 day period for most of the coaching courses in getting to your abundant life whatever that is for you.  Loving relationship, Wealth and prosperity, Employment you love and enjoy...?  But remember its a way of life and one that will change your life....!  You don't just get it and that's it.  Your life shifts and you find all just drops into place and without you having to kill yourself working all those hours that enslaved you.  You are experiencing a new vibration and a new way of allowing instead of blocking but remember keep being grateful and appreciate your new life.  And be an abundant giver of your time, knowledge, encouragement and wealth to others.

I am now seeking to hear from interested lightworkers who want to meet up to share
some spiritual energies and growth who live in and around the Dorset area.  I will be looking to explore more areas at later dates but I wanted to conduct this exercise to establish interest and arrange a few meetings for this area first and to find out how we can help one another to maintain our work and remain awake to the silence in stillness that I keep talking about since my vision of 1997.

Anyone interested in meeting up with other lightworkers in the Dorset area please email me with your details: Name, Email, Tel: No.  And suggest best days for you.  Then I will arrange meeting/s for best two dates depending on numbers wishing to attend.  There will be a small charge of £5 for covering the centre's costs and a snack lunch.  Please also state if you are Vegetarian or Vegan as this will help when choosing lunch.  The first dates I am looking at are the end of July or the beginning of August 2013.

If held at weekends Saturday or Sunday the time will be 11am until 4pm
Weekdays the times will be between 10.30am and 2.30pm.

I look forward to hearing from any interested lightworkers.

essentialtherapy2@gmail.com

 

The Energising Forests

 

 

Picture taken from Poetry Book 'Shout of Doubt.'
Not yet published

 

The forest is but one of the energy giving forces that we can tap into.  The ocean is another and our Sun.  It is remarkable how insignificant we feel when dwarfed by tall trees and how perfect a place for meditation and losing ourselves from our busy and noisy daily lives.

Meanderings and ponderings alter thoughts from all the things you had to do.  To how wonderful this place is?  There is no escaping its magic and mystery.  Its living energy mingling with yours.  The sun dances between branches and highlights the denser pathways with those feelings you had as a child when playing and acting out your adventures.

Days of long hot summers and play nearby your home before the diggers, bricks and mortar built new village or town.  The noise of excited children calling out, commanding and pretending to be their hero's.  Treasure was sought in pine cones and strange objects with no fear or thought for safety.  No need for we defended one another even amongst ourselves when it got heated.

If you need to think through what is going on in your life try using the forest as a place to start.  The path above was the main path but there were many trails and spots to rest for contemplation and meditation as you enjoyed the silence and stillness at times which was so loud it deafened.  But the re boost of energy from a day in the woods is highly addictive.

There is a silence that will enter your life in stillness as you project unity of thought and the time is near for you to enjoy the peace and experience the power of silence.  Be still and keep your own counsel as you stop judging others and more importantly yourself.  Deal with everyone openly and honestly and from the heart centre which cannot hurt another.  Learn to trust more and hate less.

Capture that elation you take back with you to deal with what you had left behind for a brief time.  See it disappear as you tackle what you were putting off.  Arrange your life, work and play so you all benefit be it family, relatives, friends or work colleagues.  See how things change and start to fall into alignment with your new energised and vibrant self.

Search for interests you have to gain more insight in to further aids for promoting better health and prosperity.  To help create better relationships and those all important family homes which need time effort and most of all love to see them through.  It is difficult dividing up your time and you may need help with time management.  These days you can get help with and for anything.  Enjoy the journey as you experience life as you were meant to savour.

MOT  TRANSFORMATIONS

The children are OK, the dogs fine but you are worried about your partner who has been working too much, taking on extra shifts and feeling tired or complaining of physical aches and pains starting or lingering and causing muscular tension and problems straightening up.  The car has been MOT'd but what about you or your partner...?  When was the last time you had a check up and the last time you refused overtime so you could enjoy time with the family...?

It is not easy because it is geared up for pushing yourself and having to struggle for unless you do you will not get what you want.  This concept is outdated and re-enforces slavery.  Shackled to something that keeps you from enjoying the freedom to be who you truly are.  Their hold on you molds your character and once convinced or brainwashed it is difficult to clear that self doubt and fear that has been instilled in you in order to keep control of your working life.  They have already kept control of your first eighteen years now.  But when starting work you find there is a whole new yet basic concept of carrot and stick to encourage loyalty.

The children or partner is ill and you try to help them take time to mend or get well.  But struggle on yourself until your body says... NO...!  It might be too late for full recovery.  You may have a breakdown or suffer with depression with feelings of inadequacy and out of your depth totally unable to function as before or cope as you did only a short time before.

The GP is probably best person to go to first as you need to know what is wrong with you by way of diagnoses.  You may need short course of medication.  But don't be afraid to talk to your Doctor about the medication and any side effects or if there are alternatives.  All GP's should be able to answer their patients questions with reassurance and confirmation of best possible medication for presentations showing.  They will always send you to see a specialist if they suspect you may benefit from further investigation.  But they need to rule out what it is not.  This might mean a few trips to the surgery.  Always ask if you don't feel sure about medication or the experiences you are going through with symptoms.  Take note of when and where symptoms are most severe if changeable and if they keep you awake or cause you anxiety and keep in mind high levels of stress over a prolonged period may also result in physical symptoms.

Fine Tune Your Body...!  Don't worry and put off niggles about your health...!  If you have concerns act and put your mind at rest, for in many cases the stress has manifested physical aches and pains which are not life threatening and can easily be dealt with.  Get an MOT...!

Be in good spirit and share the feelings of joy and love that comes from within bringing peace to your troubled mind and allowing you to shine and encourage others to open their hearts to the possibility that we are all connected and having an experience, in fact sharing the experience.  Be the unique you that you are and allow others to be themselves.  Everyone will arrive at the state of consciousness as they awaken themselves through meditation, mentoring or self help and development because wisdom is at work and never sleeps it just needs to be tapped into for you to recall the perfection of it all.  The miracle of life and the acceptance that as a perfect being you arrived and gave up all knowledge to experience the journey which is what all humans do.  For there is no separation and we all contribute to the way things are.  And as to how we want them to be.

Be the change you want to be in the World. (Gandhi)  Book your MOT and put into motion your contribution instead of moaning and hating and finding fault.  Make the changes needed to enjoy the art of living and being a creative source of pure energy in motion conscious of the complete again.

No one likes to feel helpless, to feel aches and pains constantly for many years, to feel they can never achieve anything they set out to do or go back to work after long term sick leave.  Transform your life and enjoy breathing again.  The breath of life is indeed ever in motion.  Reignite that spark to living and feeling better and more energised.  Be the you.  You want to be?  Find out how?  Which Therapy will help you move into gear.  Email: essentialtherapy2@gmail.com



Complementary Treatments Following Bowen

Including Bowen Top-up To Maintain

Good Health and Wellbeing



No matter what anyone said as I came across Reflexology and Massage being discussed or offered I was sceptical and suspicious of how these treatments could ever make a person feel so different and possibly even start life changing decisions and improvement of health and wellbeing.  This was all for the Fairies and New age crazy people.  In fact I was one of those protesting that under no circumstances should my feet ever be touched and I mean never.  I also felt that I didn't want a male or female therapist to touch my body for unless it was the person I was in a relationship with all others were outside of my then thoughts and beliefs.

I had gone through injuries and stress and never had any treatments.  However when working for the NHS myself and a colleague were allowed to go on a mini Massage and Aromatherapy course that would allow us to use the skills within the service area we worked.  As this was Learning disabilities there were mine fields of proper channels and care plans to follow and our treatments could also benefit other staff members.  The one thing that struck me was that in all the progressive accessing of the community better health and wellbeing was not promoted or offered for all to have the choice to access or not.  One young lady we had on the unit had a therapist come to do regular Reflexology.  The lady would always be stressed about going out, not going out, others going out and staff coming and going.  When she had her Reflexology session her whole demeanour was different and was more calm and relaxed.  It would help with her anxieties and allow her behaviour to be labelled anything other than challenging.  Prior to her starting the treatments she had displayed the grabbing at or hitting out at other clients in the unit and staff.  Most of the time drawing blood by scratching her victim.  She was also the victim of boredom and frustration at the lack of communication understood by some staff members.  Which is in my belief and experience a number one reason for what is labelled Challenging Behaviour.

When my colleague and I started the mini courses I felt how massage helped relieve tensions and De-stressed the week of hectic shifts I'd just finished.  I started thinking about the Reflex treatments this lady was receiving and wondered about trying it myself.  Yes I was going to allow someone access to my feet.  It wasn't until six months later however, that I finally allowed this to happen and it was while in Chester that I walked by a hairdressers with Reflexology poster in the window and  popped in to enquire and booked a session there and then for an hour later.  I went to have a coffee and people watch to kill the time and I could feel a little apprehension but was determined to give it a go.  From the moment I sat back on the couch my body started relaxing and Sarah the girl doing my treatment was informative and explained how she would do the treatment and then she covered my feet by folding a towel over them.  Undoing towel one foot at a time she worked through the various areas that would help re balance my system and body.  Sarah asked me to start with a few deep breaths and then she had occasionally asked me to take a few deep breaths which I later understood was during the work she carried out over the chest and lung area and then the diaphragm and again just before the end.  Somewhere in the middle I was drifting in and out of being aware of my feet being touched at all but feeling relaxed and floating like a feather.

This was all quite strange to me and that these responses can be experienced from having your feet massaged or pressure points of tenderness to sharp painful twinges which released tension and allowed a deeper sense of relaxation to engulf you, beggared belief.  I had a great discussion after the treatment with Sarah and she showed me this book on Reflexology that she had used when studying.  I bought the book and later discovered it was on the reading list of books for my own Reflexology course.  Yes I took on Reflexology and Massage course in same year.  My tutors could have synchronised modules so I did the same systems as I ended up doing two systems a week to everyone Else's one.  But I was enjoying learning about the science and history of these subjects and after all they had been around from centuries back.  I was still floating on my Reflexology session when I returned home and booked my courses.  The feeling of lightness and new spring in my step was impossible to ignore I had to now find ways to help people with their health and wellbeing rather than be looking after them when all has gone wrong, failed and to pot, health wise.  For as well as the position I had full time I also did agency work in care homes.

The discovery of how these treatments could help lift peoples spirits and take them from being in pain or discomfort and experiencing even low energy to feeling light and floating for anything from 24 hours to a few days or even a week or so.  Many of my clients use Massage, Reflexology and Aromatherapy after their Bowen Course to help maintain their wellbeing with occasional Top-up Bowen sessions which seem to work. The other thing I try to do is encourage clients to read their bodies so they don't allow the tension or postural problems to build up again if in employment where repetition might antagonise the presentations they originally came to see you about.  Also if re injured or a new accident or injury to try and deal with it before 6-8 weeks.

I have many client's who have gone three months, six months, a year, even two years and my most surprising was an 84 year old who telephoned me one day and said she needed to return for a top-up Bowen.  I looked at her consultation sheet and she had not been for Four years.  I was quizzing her as I know Bowen works and understand the Bowen process but even I could not believe she had remained so good for so long, because as you get older you generally experience much more discomfort in joints and anything from niggles to aches and pains.  This lady was very agile and walked her dog helped with grandchildren and walked along the road as if power walking before it ever became fashionable.  'I had been fine until making the bed that morning when I overstretched.' She told me and I was still quizzing her to be sure she had been relatively pain free and her original presentations had not returned.  My eldest client was 93 and my youngest a two month old baby suffering with colic.  Bowen has been the therapy with most lasting results at the Centre and I have been really pleased to have personally experienced and qualified in Bowen.  It still remains the best and most popular treatment offered at the centre and has remained so for seven years.

Fix and maintain...?

How can Bowen Help You...?

Why not call or pop in and find out....?

If in pain or when in doubt of finding relief.  Think Bowen...?

Check out the website at Original Bowen UK or my website below...?

www.essentialtherapycentre.org