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A bigger understanding on how our ecosystem and nature have a symbiotic relationship
As our community is slowly returning to practice and as many of our supporters are hoping to receive the much needed care from our Bowen practitioners, I want to share as my message for this month a deeply resonating message that will hopefully fill your hearts with...
Imagine how much deeper you would heal
Imagine how much deeper you would heal if you also liberated your body from the humiliating memory and the fears that lurked in your subconscious waiting to attach themselves to new pains. Notice the way you are standing. Are you really standing from a place of...
Bowen restores brain and cellular coherence
The Bowen Technique abides by the healing principles of First do no harm and respect for the innate healing capacity of the body. Bowen Therapy uses the smallest of interventions and results in the maximum of results. Bowen is non-invasive and gentle; works on the...
Stress affects your perception
Stress affects your thinking (and your perception). When you’re under stress, hills look taller and weights feel heavier than they really are. You go into automatic survival mode and creativity and adaptive problem solving thinking goes out the window. Thinking, in...
Changing an infrastructure that supports money over people
Despite a 98% survival success rate in confirmed Covid-19 in hospital study, using “tried-and-tested ingredients” reconfigured into a new methodology called MATH+ protocol, no one seems interested. Can you imagine the frustration it must be for the experienced...
The illusion of pain and the truth of inflammation
It is often stated that pain is an illusion. If your brain never perceived it, it never happened. However, it is inflammation that accounts for the chemical reactions and cascades that occur at the site of injury or irritation... whereas PAIN is a perception,...
Our Body knows that the Trauma is not over even if our mind has another version of reality
The therapeutic goal is to have our ANS experience that the trauma is over by experiencing a state of safety and calm for repair, restoration and rest. There are a myriad of symptoms that the body adopts in chronic pain syndromes such as anxiety, learned...
Pain & Trauma Connection To Body / Mind
Pain is a construct of the brain. Pain is created in order to protect us, and yet the key is to understand the mechanism of pain. Only then can you overcome it. Contrary to what you might believe about pain, there are no pain signals being sent to your brain. Instead,...
Mental Health & Body Connection (POSITIONING THE PROBLEM)
In my practice, I have treated many patients who had claims with ICBC or Work Safe and these agencies are always on the look-out for malingering. The patient/claimant is often viewed as an opportunist making a big deal out of a small incident. Questions based on the...
How do we release trauma stored in our bodies?
More and more discoveries are being made about the kinds of neural links made in the brain and how they affect our perceptions, our minds and our bodies. The brain appears to be responsible for our entire system or is that the case? On one level, any attempt to effect...
By touching a body, we touch every event it has experienced
By touching a body, we touch every event it has experienced. For a few brief moments, we hold all of a client's stories in our hands. We witness someone's experience of their own flesh, through some of the most powerful means possible: the contact of our hands, the...
COVID-19 News Release for Financial Planning
March 2020COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT & PRESS RELEASEWe at Bowen College want you to know we are thinking about you and ways to help our community andthe many challenges each of you might be facing during this time. We have all had to adjust our lives,schedules, and...
Bring Yourself Back to Your Senses
Since the World Health Organization declared the Coronavirus a Pandemic, everyone has been inundated with news, perhaps some misinformation. It’s only natural that your uncertainty, stress and anxiety are running high. How, then, are you to remain grateful, calm,...
Can Naturopathic practitioners as well as complementary health care practitioners help to prevent or treat COVID-19 while supporting Canada’s Public Health Agencies?
According to the federal government, no products or therapies have been approved in Canada to prevent or treat COVID-19. The public health Agency’s main recommendations thus far are to self-monitor, self-isolate or go into isolation for people with symptoms or...
Use Reboot to Boost Your Immune System
So glad you ended up here. Most people wait to deal with the consequences of their inaction. They wait to be sick, to be in pain, to suffer from all kinds of chronic conditions. And thank Godness, your body is smarter than you think- because of course, it can deal...
How Bowen Therapy helped him after seven years of excruciating and life-altering pain
EDWARD’S STORY, A SURGEON & A CLIENT ~ How BowenFirst™ Therapy helped him after seven years of excruciating and life-altering pain: Seven years before I met Edward, he had surgery to remove a brain tumor. His surgery lasted more than eight hours. Here is an...
Why Healing Unlocks Your Life Purpose
For more information go to: DrManonBolliger.com Children run across the playground, unbothered by life’s worries. They climb trees and hang on branches. The laugh over the simplest things. A stick can turn into a wand one minute and a sword the next. In their...
Connecting With Your Inner Wisdom
For more information go to: drmanonbolliger.com Growing up, most people are unsure of themselves. They wander aimlessly through life not knowing which direction to take. It’s like walking through a city without roadmaps. Some follow other people as their guides. Some...
No Pain, No Gain? Debunking 3 Myths About Healing
Trapped in gray cubicles, the average worker sits hunched over a desk all day. As time passes, there’s a crick in the neck, stiffness in the joints and pain all over. Yet like the artificial lights above, this becomes a “normal” part of everyday life. Most people have...
Is Self-Care A Chore?
You wake up in the morning and make a mental list. Cook breakfast. Do the laundry. Wash the dishes. Take out the trash. Vacuum the carpet. Feed the pets. Add in a family of bustling children, and you’ve got yourself a circus before you head for work. All day long...
Is Your Medicine Keeping You Sick?
There’s a pill for everything. Yet nobody seems to be getting better. Modern society wants everything fast, and they want everything right now -- fast cars, fast food, and fast relief from pain. Like instant coffee, the convenience of a pill seems like the perfect...
3 Reasons Touch Therapy Isn’t Skin Deep
“No pain, no gain” is the mantra people have stamped in their heads. Chiropractors crack bones back into place. Cupping therapy leaves behind purple and red marks. Deep tissue massage breaks apart muscle knots. Trigger points are pressed until it feels tender. There’s...
Are You What You Eat?
Can healthy food make you sick? I once spoke to a woman who suffered from a wheat allergy for twelve long years. After cutting out gluten, she discovered she couldn’t eat dairy, stock, starchy vegetables, grains or coconut. Finally, she cut down her diet until she was...
3 Ways You’re Stronger Than Criticism and Self-doubt
No matter what we do, self-doubt and/or criticism is inevitable. Like knives, words can leave us bleeding, but they can also cut what no longer serves us. Often, we’re blind to our own flaws, and it’s not until we see ourselves through other people’s eyes, that we...