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Tom Bowen

an extra-ordinary ordinary working class Victorian

A humble carpenter at the Geelong Cement Works in the 1950’s, Tom Bowen developed a deep interest in physical injury despite having no formal training in any of the health sciences. Being profoundly deaf his after-work ‘clinics’ were busy but notoriously quiet; perhaps it was this quiet that enabled him to really ‘see’ the body both before and after his treatments. He could perceive a physical imbalance in the individual, and enable their body to start fixing itself; hearing wasn't needed.

Bowen Therapy

The treatment is a gentle stretching, movement, and manipulation (by fingertips alone) of the fascia – the thin but multi-layered connective tissue beneath the skin that plays a complex dance in supporting your tissues, your internal organs, both eases and when needed tightens up your muscles. The fascia carries within its incredible complexity blood vessels and nerves and thus contributes to biochemical messaging, hormone transport and sensory perception – including pain.

Tom Bowen’s insight appears to have been an early awareness of the fragility and importance of this delicate layer of tissue many decades before modern imaging modalities confirmed its uniqueness in connecting body and mind.


“the fascia is a matrix of fibres, a freeway between the surface and deeper structures”

(Esther Garcia-Cuellar, 2018).

Bowen therapy is gentle, calm & quiet

There is no forceful manipulation & no dramatic bone-cracking; Bowen therapy is the art of understanding the client’s issues and needs and making use of gentle yet precise finger-tip movements that stimulate the body’s own nervous system receptors to begin to self-heal. The ‘moves’ practiced by your therapist follow the pattern of the lines of the fascia, and there are set, natural pauses during the therapy that allow your body to rest and adapt and for your practitioner to assess your changes.


Given the gentle nature of Bowen it lends itself to everybody; pregnant women, children and infants, the older person and sports-fanatics.

What can Bowen therapy treat?

This is not an exhaustive list, and Bowen therapy can help with many of the mind-body inter-connected disorders of 21st century living that are not obviously ‘physical’ yet affect the body as well as the mind; chronic and acute anxiety, depression, body repetitive disorders, headache and tic behaviours. Bowen sees no separation between body and mind, simply the being as one organism.

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