02/09/2026
The other day I had a lady say she’d read you cannot have a colonic if you have IBS, or irritable bowel syndrome. And so I wanted to talk about that - because the thing about irritable bowel is that the name is actually describing what it is. There’s something irritating the bowel.
And in the medical world, they’re officially calling it a functional disorder now - meaning there’s a gut-brain miscommunication. A disorder of the gut-brain interaction is what they’re saying. So you’re having the symptoms of bloating, cramping, unpredictable toilet times and stomach discomfort.
You’ve done the tests. The tests are clear. There’s nothing structurally wrong. But there is just something unsettling the gut. The nerves in there are a little bit over-sensitive, and the chatter between the gut and the brain is getting quite noisy. And so they can’t actually find the single cause - so they’ll call it irritable bowel syndrome.
But what I find really interesting is this: if the medical world itself is calling it a gut-brain issue - talking about the conversation between the gut and the nervous system that’s gone a bit haywire - then to me, that’s even more reason to consider a colonic.
And yes, it mustn’t just be any colonic. It really does need to be a very gentle one - like the Rojas technique we use at Bottoms Up. We are not pressurising. We are not forcing. We are looking to help the body calm down.
Because when the gut isn’t being irritated, it isn’t firing those distress signals up to the brain. So you’re not going to have those symptoms - or we’re going to ease them. The very thing medicine is naming as the problem is the very thing this technique is designed to soothe.
So it’s not about yes to a colonic or no to a colonic. It’s about the timing and the technique. If you’re in a flare, we’re not going to do a colonic - because we want you to come in when the body is a little bit calmer. We want to work with you. We want to work with your nervous system. And when it’s settled and you’re feeling a little better, that’s the time.
The structured water hydrates and softens what’s sitting there. So a sluggish, backed-up colon can now let go and move the irritants out - and that eases the bloating, the pressure and all the symptoms.
And because the Rojas technique is slow and unhurried, the body is able to shift out of that stress response and into rest and digest - which is exactly what an over-sensitive, wound-up gut is crying out for.
We are not forcing anything, and we’re not fixing IBS overnight. We are just giving the gut a calm, hydrated space to settle - creating the calm, hydrated space your body needs to settle and rebalance.