During our two months back-packing through China in 1996- where we didn’t see The Great Wall or the Terra Cotta Warriors, or any other popular major sites- we had the opportunity to demonstrate our work at the huge Chengdu Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. This came about after a nice man at a little restaurant introduced […]
Showing Bowen to the Bodywork Masters. Chengdu 1996. Read More »
A big topic in the manual therapy world for the last decade or two has been just how each technique/system/method/whatever, impacts on a person’s fascia to help resolve a physical issue. It is commonly accepted, at least by me, that as a result, resolution of other issues may follow, which may be a hint at
Bowen Therapy and Fascia Read More »
Stories within stories that may not agree with ‘General Knowledge.’ Above is Tom Bowen’s AMF enrolment form from August 1940, with nice cursive text filling out the whole form. Except for the signature. There are some stories within stories here. The addresses on the form, Belgrave and Mount Dandenong, tell a story that contrasts widely
Tom’s complicated army enrolment Read More »
It’s nice that a little statue commemorating Tom Bowen was placed in the Geelong park near where he once worked.
For the uninitiated, my book researching the history of Bowen Therapy and the man after whom it is named, Tom Bowen, caused a few wrinkled brows in the Bowen world internationally when it was released in 2010. Bound to happen when you point out the errors, omissions, and downright lies associated with the growth of
Outrageous Claims, a Feel-good Fairy Tale and Generational Change in the Bowen World Read More »
