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HOW TO FIND A BOWEN PRACTITIONER
To locate a practitioner in the US as well as
other countries: www.bowendirectory.com
Visit the Instructor page of the Bowen
Directory if no practitioners are listed in your area , you
should contact directly instructors or schools & organizations
involved
with teaching the Bowen Technique as they should be able to tell
you if they have trained anybody who practice in
your area.
*Web site in French/Site en Francais:
Information for France: Bowen France
Information for Quebec, France and other
French speaking countries. www.techniquebowen.com
My experience as a former Bowen Therapy instructor is that
like Zen calligraphy, the Bowen technique looks very minimalist
and it
seems
that there is
not much to it but it takes a lot of practice to capture its refinements
and many subtleties.
The finesse and the art of knowing
how to choose and combine the different procedures can take years
of practice. On the other hand I have seen new practitioners
obtain frequently
outstanding results even before having completed their training.
I remember a student practitioner in the middle of her basic
training who was able in
one session to
totally alleviate the pain of a women who had been suffering
chronically for 20 years from acute
lower back pain due to herniated disks. This woman had tried many
different forms of therapy and seen various kind
of practitioners for years. They all came to the conclusion
that she
had to live with it. Some days her pain was so bad that she couldn't
get out of bed, walk or dress herself unassisted. I personally
met
this women months after and she was still totally symptom free!!!
That one session changed her life. All this to say that
as a patient,
if no experienced long time practitioners are available in your
area, it is still worth trying a new practitioner, even
a student
practitioner still in training as the Bowen Technique often achieve
what some of us refer to as "ordinary miracles".
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