10/12/2025
🌿 My Bowen Journey — How It All Began
I know what it feels like when your body hurts and nobody can tell you why.
My back troubles began when I was only 18. The pain was so intense that specialists put me on painkillers, antidepressants, and sleeping pills — and told me to “learn to live with it.” They even warned that I might end up in a wheelchair in my early 20s. After countless tests, and a very thick medical file, the conclusion was always the same:
“We can’t find anything wrong.”
Yet I could barely function.
My first sign of hope came when my mum took me to a chiropractor. After just three sessions, the pain disappeared. It felt like magic.
But in my late twenties, the pain returned — worse than ever. Chiropractic care now made my spine hypermobile. Other therapies helped temporarily but nothing lasted. I was determined to keep searching.
Then Bowen Technique found me.
I had my very first Bowen session just before flying to the USA for a seminar. The long flight was agony — I arrived feeling like “the crooked man” from the nursery rhyme. Then, by a stroke of fate, Ozzie and Elaine Rentsch — trained directly by Tom Bowen himself — were there giving a talk and demonstration.
I received two Bowen treatments from them.
When I returned home…
🌟 No jetlag
🌟 No back ache
🌟 No pain
I signed up for their very first UK practitioner training in 1993 — and I have never looked back.
Bowen soon played a major role in my family’s life. My daughter Amber was born prematurely at just 26½ weeks gestation, weighing 1 lbs 8 oz. She received Bowen in her very first week of life. Her paediatrician was astonished — she could lift her head… something unheard of for a baby born that early.
Over the years, I’ve supported clients from like my daughter a few days old to 91 years young — with many needing only 1–3 sessions to experience a significant difference. I later trained in Equine Bowen Technique and have helped horses, dogs… even birds! (One of my chickens loved her Bowen sessions after being stepped on by a horse!)
Bowen transformed my life when it felt like the medical world had run out of answers.
It helped me move freely again… and live again.
Today, it is my joy and purpose to share this remarkable healing modality with others who are ready to feel relief, balance, and renewed hope in their bodies.
Bowen restored my quality of life.
Now, with gratitude, I offer it to restore yours too. 💚
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