You are suitably draped with a light cotton sarong in the warmer weather and a blanket for our cooler months.

You will be lying on your tummy on the table, appropriately draped and I start the Bowen treatment with two moves performed either side of your lumbar spine. If you have difficulty lying prone (on your tummy), I can do the Bowen moves with you sitting up.

I will get you to really focus on any sensations that you may notice after the first two Bowen moves. Sensations such as tingling, heat, warmth, fluttering, pins and needles or a general awareness of an area of the body are all good descriptors of what you can notice after a set of Bowen moves are performed.

These sensations can travel anywhere in the body and not necessarily where you have been experiencing your symptoms. An example of this would be a client coming in for help with their migraine headaches. After the initial two Bowen moves they experience a lot of heat and tingling around their coccyx (tailbone). This is a good guide that there is probably tightness around the fascia and ligaments of the tailbone which is causing the migraines. Upon further investigation the client then remembers that they had a number of falls on their tailbone as a child and “have always had headaches”. This is a great example of the body showing where I need to focus the Bowenwork on.

That is the beauty of Bowen Therapy that I do not just focus on where you are feeling your pain or symptoms, but looking further afield and looking for clues which the body is showing, that other areas need attention from Bowen.

After the first two Bowen moves are performed, I leave you alone for 2 or 3 minutes (sometimes longer), which allows you to switch off and gives your nervous system time to process the Bowen.

When I return, and after any sensations have settled, I perform the next set of Bowen moves. This sequence of moves and pauses continues to flow for 45 minutes to 1 hour.