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An independent association for Bowen Therapy practitioners. Find a therapist at https://www.bowentherapy.org.uk

The Bowen Therapy Professional Association (BTPA) is a non-profit professional organisation of Bowen Therapy practitioners.

04/09/2026

Have you entered the Tom Bowen Legacy Fund Prize Draw for 2026?

Please do, it is for a great cause and with amazing prizes

This amazing charity is raising funds to help those with disabilities have specialist equipment provided for them as part of the legacy of Tom Bowen and the work he began in his special clinics.

This year's prizes include:

Prizes
FREE place on a workshop with Gus de la Querra (Details of workshops can be found at www.TheBodyRewired.com)

FREE place on an Importance of Symmetry workshop with Robert Smith (Enquire about upcoming courses at www.GoSeeRobert.com)

Half-price training to learn the ThetaHealing® Technique with Jenny O’Brien (Details of courses can be found at www.BeBetterWithBowen.co.uk)

£50 off any Smart Bowen training course with Lindsay Holder (Enquiries about workshops can be made by emailing Lindsay at [email protected])

Three months’ free access to The Body Rewired online membership. Details can be found at https://www.TheBodyRewired.com/membership)

Book and merchandise bundle: The Bowen Technique: The Inside Story by John Wilks and NST: A Better Way to Good Health by Michael Nixon-Livy, plus TBLTF stickers, stress balls and pens.

Training and workshop prizes are subject to the relevant provider’s reasonable booking, availability and any published course-entry requirements. See the full terms and conditions.

How to enter
Entry to the prize draw is free. To support the Tom Bowen Legacy Trust Fund, we invite a suggested donation of £2 per entry, but you do not have to make a donation to enter.
You may request up to 10 entries per person in total, across all entry methods. Entrants must be aged 18 or over and resident in Great Britain.

All details and entries here https://www.tombowenlegacytrustfund.org.uk/prize-draw.php

02/09/2026

WHAT IS A HEALTH HUB? A PREVENTIVE HOSPITAL.
One college, one day, every tool you need to take your health into your own hands.
If you’ve been carrying a health issue that won’t shift, if something in your body feels off and you’ve been told to just manage it, then this day is for you.

BTPA will be here offering taster sessions and information along with representatives from College of Bowen Studies and Assessment-Led Bodywork

The Wellness Way Health Hub brings together leading voices in natural health: speakers, practitioners and conscious brands with the people who want to take their health into their own hands. Built on one simple idea: the knowledge already exists; you just deserve access to it in one place.

This September’s Health Hub, Feed the Soil, Feed the Soul, traces one thread through everything: the health of our soil, the quality of our food, and the vitality of our bodies are all connected by energy.

Every speaker is here to answer the same question: what are we feeding ourselves, where does it come from and how to protect ourselves?

Join us for this exciting day of:
Keynote talks from world-class speakers,
practical, drop-in, skill-based workshops,
a wellness & conscious brand exhibitor village
1:1 appointments with leading holistic practitioners
On-site blood testing and thermography,
delicious lunch by LEON Restaurants
Livestream for those who can't attend in person
Because -The Doctor of your Future is YOU!

More details and booking via the Wellness Way website https://www.phillyjlay.com/the-wellness-way-health-hub-8th-september-2026/

01/09/2026

What a wonderful way to start the new academic year by sharing a new piece of research: a randomised controlled trial by Chen et al. (2025) exploring the effectiveness of Bowen Therapy for fibromyalgia.

The objective was to determine whether Bowen therapy can help alleviate pain, enhance functional capacity, reduce sleep and mood disturbances, and improve overall quality of life.

The study followed 78 participants split into two groups: one receiving eight sessions of Bowen therapy over 12 weeks alongside conventional care, and a control group continuing conventional care alone.

Positive Highlights & Percentage Changes
Lower Limb Endurance: An approximate 66.7% increase in successful stands from a baseline mean of 6 to 10 post-treatment, with benefits sustained for 12 weeks.

Dominant Arm Endurance: An approximate 54.5% increase in successful arm curls from a baseline mean of 11 to 17 post-treatment.

Non-Dominant Arm Endurance: An approximate 40.0% increase in successful curls from a baseline mean of 10 to 14 post-treatment.

Reduced Activity Interference: An approximate 17.5% reduction on the Brief Pain Inventory interference scale, dropping from a baseline mean of 5.7 to 4.7.

Mental Health-Related Quality of Life: An approximate 15.9% improvement in SF-36 Mental Component Summary scores, rising from a baseline mean of 33.3 to 38.6.

Safety: No serious adverse events or safety concerns were reported.

It is encouraging to see greater insight into how bodywork supports those navigating chronic conditions. We would love to hear from you if this was relevant for you.

To read the study in full, you can visit the research page on the BTPA website: https://www.bowentherapy.org.uk/evidence-for-bowen-therapy.php

28/08/2026

The organiser of the Zagreb "Celebrating Bowen" conference of 2026 Ozana Pope-Gajic talks about how she moved from using physiotherapy as her main approach to dealing with musculoskeletal issues to almost exclusively using Bowen Technique in her practice because the results spoke for themselves.

Bowen Technique has an increasing number of practitioners who were initially trained in physiotherapy who now use Bowen Technique as their primary modality.

You can see the full interview with Ozana on our YouTube Channel here https://youtu.be/CR2MPsIwifo

25/08/2026

Physiotherapist and Bowen Practitioner Darko Bilic is talking here about the importance of us looking at the whole-body approach to health rather than focusing on just the parts, and how this is a limiting approach to health.
He'd like to see all health and medical training having a better global view of body health rather than being so atomised.

What are your thoughts on this?

If you'd like to see the whole interview with Darko, where he gives some great hints about the outcomes of his PhD research on ankle injuries and Bowen Technique, all on out YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/Q3djm1RcuPo

21/08/2026

Hi everyone,

Something special for you all today: the first panel interview we have done with a group of Bowen Teachers, from different schools and perspectives, all coming together to talk about how Bowen Technique is an AI proof career.

There is significant concern from many people in the world that AI will take a lot of jobs. There are a lot of graduates from various courses that now fear their studies may be obsolete within a few years, and a lot of young people are despondent about the future job market.

Yet all of us as Bowen practitioners know that we have a career for life, one that offers great meaning and purpose, deep satisfaction for offering a great service to our communities and a significant amount of continued professional development, as all of the teachers on the interview attest to.

So dive in and enjoy this exploration of Bowen Technique as a career solution to the changing and uncertain future of careers.

Full episode here https://youtu.be/aJeAkCJx7vw?si=LpoAuY2ANizkJwJx

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this as well

18/08/2026

The wonderful Anne Schubert is talking about how Bowen can make changes in the body in places that weren't obviously related to trauma responses, and how she uses a genuine curiosity in how the body responds as a way to motivate her students in Mind/Body Bowen.

Anne talks about the relationships she has found that map beautifully into the kinesiology system "Touch for Health" where we can see the correlations into the body from various emotions, due to their relationship to the acupuncture channels.

Have you had experiences of this?

We'd love to hear about them below.

See the full interview with Anne on our YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/ruZvUIMU4AU

14/08/2026

Physiotherapist and Bowen Teacher Georgi Ilchev is talking about how Bowen can successfully treat lumbar disc herniations without the need for surgery. He talks about how Bowen can stabilise the spine and help it restore alignment to support the body in healing itself.

Have you seen similar results in your practice?
Maybe you have experienced Bowen helping significantly in conditions that are set to have surgery.

We'd love to know

You can see the full interview with Georgi on our YouTube Channel here: https://youtu.be/wup2LbIyZK0

11/08/2026

The great Dr Romney Smeeton is talking about developing our intuition and tapping into the inner voice that allows us to deepen our practice and how intuition and experience go hand in hand.

How have you experienced this developing in your own practice?

You can see the full interview with Romney in two parts, starting here: https://youtu.be/kCV_cIaCAkg

07/08/2026

It's time for another episode in the BTPA podcast

Today we're going to be talking to Anneke Loode, who has been a qualified physio since 1991 and a Bowen therapist since about 2001.

She started her own Bowen School for Healthcare Professionals in around 2003 and has been working as an EMMETT instructor since 2013, after starting to practice that in 2007.

We had a really interesting talk with her today about integrating Bowen, Physiotherapy and Emmett techniques and why she developed the work in the way she did and how she went into teaching and was a big part of developing Bowen in Eastern Europe as well as in Croatia, Slovenia, Romania and other places, and how her work is inspired by that desire to want to help people get better. We had a really interesting conversation. I hope you enjoy it.

To see the full interview, check it out on our YouTube channel here https://youtu.be/MJss1kRfInQ

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