Fascia Release Therapies

03/06/2025

🙌The Bowen technique- one of the most effective soft tissue therapies out there!

✅Using the skin-slack triggers a wide variety of neural receptors, providing the brain with an amazing amount of input.

✅The part of the brain that gets triggered deals with almost EVERYTHING that happens throughout the body.
Receiving input, and creating output.

That’s how the brain is able to decide on what to do with the input received by Bowen work.

That’s how change is created - very quickly!

02/02/2025

Yet another trial showing the efficacy of Bowen therapy.

🌟 Bowen Therapy: Evidence-Based Relief for Fibromyalgia 🌟

Did you know that a 2024 controlled trial explored the effects of Bowen Therapy on fibromyalgia syndrome? Here's what the study found:

✔️ Over 12 weeks, 132 participants were treated with either Bowen Therapy, a standard exercise program, craniosacral therapy, or static touch therapy.
✔️ Bowen Therapy stood out for improving quality of sleep and pressure pain threshold (the amount of manual pressure needed before pain is felt).
✔️ Even better, participants continued to feel these benefits 24 weeks after treatment!

This research highlights Bowen Therapy as a powerful option for managing fibromyalgia symptoms and enhancing quality of life.

💡 Curious about how Bowen Therapy can help you or your clients? Learn more about our programs: https://www.bowencollege.com/trainingdates/

Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S209549642400339X?via%3Dihub

21/11/2023

Best tasting “waste” I’ve eaten! And the sole reason I’m moving my practice to West Berkshire in the new year!

I am unashamedly biased! The chef patron is my son-in-law.

Snacks are always the first bite you receive here at Damson, utilising “waste” from the kitchen...

🐟 Puffed cod skin, cod brandade, lemon gel

Once we have portioned our cod from currently on our lunch menu we take the belly and create the bradade, we then dehydrate the fish skin overnight before deep frying it to create this amazing cracker!

🦌 local Venison tartar croustade, charcoal emulsion, pickled onion

We use the saddle loins from & as a main course on our tasting menu, after breaking down the saddles we take the smaller tenderloins and cure them in herbs, salt and sugar to create our tartar- served in a croustade made using 🔥

🍞 our homemade marmite, cheddar & truffle gougères

Utlising out left over sourdough bread - we make marmite! Fermenting it with water and salt before reducing the liquid down to a wonderful glossy texture - served of course with 👌

Hungry yet?! We have space this friday for lunch and dinner so if you fancy sampling these and the rest of our fantastic menu hit the link in our bio, send us an email to [email protected] or call us on 01635 248368.

Shout out to for the amazing photos!

14/10/2023

30/06/2023

Very exciting future for Bowen Therapy following the published research of its effects on chronic myofascial neck pain.

Bowen Therapy in the Treatment of Myofascial Neck Pain — a Randomized, Single-Blinded Clinical Trial (RCT) It has been more than half a century since Tom Bowen's passing, yet his legacy continues to quietly thrive across the globe. Hong Kong stands as the only country with Bowen therapists fully i...

19/05/2023

Emma is a fitness class trainer and we’ve been working in keeping her away from the surgeon’s knife and enabling her to maintain a good working fitness and mobility. As you can see from Emma’s post we’re succeeding!

17/05/2023

Bear Grylls uses Bowen Therapy to remove stress and stay in peak performance.

In his own words: “With the slightest squiggle of her fingers, it felt like petrol was being put back in my tank, and I could feel all the stress seeping away.”

Stress is one of the most significant causes of mental and physical disease. Stress can make you sick, block creativity, rob your vitality and lower performance in all areas of life.

Bowen therapy activates the parasympathetic state, which immediately relaxes the body and allows stress to “seep away”. When this happens, the body can do what it does best and heal itself.

New science is finding that the greatest pharmacy of health potential exists within all of us. Bowen therapy can help your body activate its magnificent natural healing power so that you can perform at your best, bring back vitality and feel more energised.

If it can help legendary extreme adventurers like Bear Grylls stay healthy and in peak performance, imagine what it will do for you!

We are hosting a global Bowen Wellness Summit for practitioners to connect, learn, expand and grow. If you want to attend, please register at the Natural Therapy Institute website. We look forward to seeing you there. 💗🙌🌏