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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...
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...
Are We Addicted to Being Sick
“Oh, you didn’t sleep last night? That’s nothing. I’ve been working overtime for three days in a row.” Some people treat their pain like battle scars. They try to prove themselves by powering through the day. When they’re tired, they take caffeine. When they’re sick,...
3 Pain Triggers You May Not Know
Pain, believe it or not, serves an important purpose in our bodies. It warns us of dangerous things like sharp objects and fire. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to gauge safety. Like a fire alarm, it alerts us when things go wrong. Yes, there are rare cases where a...
Information to Help Us Therapeutically
If you are in a continual state of stress, like in PTSD, this greatly affects your interoceptive ability. To foster interoceptive accuracy, it is important to move the client from a sympathetic state into a parasympathetic or vagal state, which is what happens with...
Does Healing Demand Hard Work?
Healing demands hard work. We all know just how physically demanding certain body therapies can be. Healthcare practitioners work long hours putting constant strain on their joints and muscles. Many body therapists overextend themselves depleting their energy and...
Do you have Health-Promoting Boundaries with your Clients?
Do you have health-promoting boundaries with your clients? Do you suffer from a limited understanding of your role as a therapist? Unhealthy boundaries where we are taxing our own bodies may actually stem from a genuine desire to heal our clients despite knowing that...
Do You Believe that Sacrificing Yourself is of Service to your Clients?
Taking the wellbeing of our clients as our own is far more common than you think. Actually, it stems from the belief that we can fix everything. That your patient’s story and their pain is literally yours, to the point where you have neglected or disconnected from...
Bowen College UK: Making Strides in the News
Three Elements You Can Apply to Your Practice Right Away
Today I have three elements that you can apply to your practice right away. #1. Less is more. #2. Trust that the body can heal. #3. Learn to be as relaxed as your clients while serving them more fully. If you are already a healthcare practitioner, check our...
What’s Your Back Pain About?
I recently treated a patient who was suffering from back pain. She had seen a chiropractor and tried other therapies before someone told her that I could help her. I asked her, “What’s your back pain about?” To which she responded, “Well, no one has asked me that.”...
Why is Interoception so Significant?
The nervous system extends a vast network of nerves that runs through the fascia, becoming part of the fascia itself. The result is a fluid nervous system with neuropeptides and neurotransmitters that communicate chemical, emotional and biological information from one...