Bowen Therapy in the Philippines

Bowen Therapy and RDTs

For someone so used to mind-bogglingly fast functional results with OMT and a synthesis of Manual Medicine, I have recently gained an unexpected new respect for Bowen Work (Bowen Therapy). I have also regained foothold on the concept that, yes, it also matters who you learn your techniques from.

We've had the good fortune of leaning directly from Andrew Zoppos. Andrew learned Bowen's work from "Ozzie" Oswald Rentch, who was charged with spreading the techniques by the man himself, "Tom" Bowen. Having progressed in my Bowen work studies, i can now wholeheartedly agree with Andrew -- Tom Bowen was a genius. That the work came to Tom without osteopathic or mixed manual method training is truly astounding.

Recent findings in fascia reseach amplify my respect for the work of Tom Bowen. The fascial system is more and more being shown to be linked intimately to the neuroendocrine system. By example, the results of fascial therapy are different when a patient is anesthesized to unconsciousness. They do not hold as well. So, yes -- There really seems to be an intelligence we interact with when we move fascia. Then again, we've always known that the human body is an incredible machine. Kudos to the Brilliance of its Creator. Now, however, we regain a no-holds-barred astonishment at how profoundly complex the human body is.

How Tom knew which points to access in order to talk to the body in the way Bowen Work appears to do is beyond me. Perhaps it truly was a Gift from God. God is closer than most people would accept, anyway.

I can now understand how important it is to learn Bowen work the way it was passed on by Tom Bowen.

Rapid De-afferentation Techniques, as remarkable as they are, are still evolving. Unlike RDTs, Bowen work appears to have been born fully evolved.

My patients deserve to have someone on their side who knows what he's doing. Plus, I'm a curious fellow. So I'm likely to look at what everyone else is doing. Despite the proliferation of a swarm of personaliities offering some form or other of supposed modification or advancement of Bowen Work, however, I'd love to master the unaltered gift first. It's amusing, as i think of it now.. I've grown up in the age that gave us the Photocopier. I love that machine. But i still rarely see a copy as clear, organically detailed and unflawed as the original.

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