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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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By Marge C. Enriquez
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 21:10:00 09/15/2008
MANILA, Philippines—After a car accident in 1983, Andrew Zoppos, a Greek émigré to Australia, wore a neck brace for five years. He studied myofascial release therapy, deep tissue therapy, hypnotherapy, energy works (reiki, pranic healing, universal healing), universal pendulum healing and even acquired the basics of physiotherapy.
But none of them helped his condition.
Then he underwent the Bowen method. He was freed of his neck brace for life.
The Bowen technique involves gentle manipulation by the hand of specific points, retuning the body to heal itself. “The only difference is we do not force the body to do what we want. We are facilitators; we give the work to the body and it is responsible for its own healing. Like homeopathy, we reset the body to heal itself.
“It is a simple technique developed by a simple man. Tom Bowen was a carpenter who worked in a cement factory. His wife had asthma. After several sessions, it stopped,” he explains.
Zoppos studied traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, trigger point therapy, massage and opened his own practice and worked in three clinics.
Zoppos then studied at Bowen Therapy Academy of Australia, under Oswald Rentsch, the only person authorized by Tom Bowen, founder of this technique, to teach his work after his death.
Body as a whole
“The Bowen technique was introduced as a holistic therapy, addressing the body as a whole, as a complex structure of interconnected systems. I had my own experience with my muscular problem, but it was hard for me to believe this therapy could address internal organ conditions, emotional issues and chronic diseases,” says Zoppos.
After his first Bowen class, Zoppos treated an old patient with lumbar disc hernia. None of the manual healing modalities had helped her. After a few sessions of Bowen, she could walk by herself with no pain; after two months, she resumed her activities.
He had also treated an asthmatic and a seven-year-old with bed-wetting problems.
Effectivity
Zoppos could attend to as many as 100 clients a week—with all sorts of problems, from organic to breathing abnormalities, sports injuries, emotional issues, muscle and skeletal problems and chronic ailments.
The method is recommended for pre-surgery and post-surgery, for faster healing, for pregnancy and childbirth, so that infants upon delivery will not feel as much trauma.
“Not many explanations were given when I first took the course. I learned mostly from experience and had to accept the reality and believe the obvious: everybody was feeling better with Bowen!” says Zoppos.
He says scholars explain that Bowen becomes effective once the body is totally relaxed. “Then the inner ability of the organism to take care of problems existing in the system is activated.”
In the early ‘50s, Bowen discovered the method to reinstall the original blueprint of the body. He believed man has the necessary tools for self-healing. The modern lifestyle, with its unhealthy environment, processed food or stress, weakened the natural defense mechanisms. The aim of Bowen technique is to reactivate the cell memory in healing the body.
“Bowen’s treatments always start with two moves over the erector spinae muscles, that were proven to be exactly overlapping the most important memory centers of the body. Studies showed that patients usually report memories from their childhood, previous trauma or long forgotten actions, just after the first moves of the Bowen procedures. Most probably, the body is using the same principle as induced hypnosis: bring back to surface the trauma from the past, so the system can identify it and eliminate it.”
Zoppos, registered senior international instructor and honorary life member of the Bowen Therapy Academy of Australia, will again conduct workshops on Bowen Therapy in January 2009. Call 0919-4556746 or e-mail bowentechnique.bacolod@gmail.com. Discounted rates might be possible if you let them know we referred you.
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