Bowen SA

Bowen SA is the Bowen Association of South Africa. We want to inform about Bowen Therapy in South Africa and our courses.

29/10/2025

The vagus nerve connects your brain to your body — regulating everything from inflammation to calmness.

Research shows that activating this pathway can help reduce stress responses and support recovery.

Bowen Therapy’s light touch and mindful pacing may help engage this same calming network — helping your body shift from survival to healing ( as best it can).

17/10/2025

When life drains your battery, gentle makes sense. 🔋

14/10/2025

Bowen has a specific vagus nerve procedure — not to override the body, but to invite it back to calm.

Like all Bowen work, it speaks the language of the parasympathetic nervous system: subtle, slow, and steady.

06/10/2025

Trauma isn’t just “all in the head.”

It’s not just memories or thoughts — it lives on in our bodies, in the way we move, breathe, and feel. The lingering effects can show up as chronic pain, tension, fatigue, emotional imbalances, illness, and much more.

While talking therapies can offer valuable insights and emotional release, they may only address only part of the picture.

Trauma isn't just stored in our minds; it’s stored in our tissues, muscles, and fascia.

And that's where Bowen Therapy can come in.

Bowen Therapy works with the body’s soft tissues. Through precise, gentle moves, Bowen can help facilitate a deep relaxation response, allowing the body to reset and restore balance as best it's able. It’s a holistic approach that acknowledges the mind-body connection, helping you heal from the inside out.

If you’ve been doing the mental work but still feel stuck, maybe it’s time to include your body in the healing journey. Bowen Therapy might be the missing link in your journey.

Because healing is more than just a bandaid.

29/09/2025

While it may feel magical, Bowen Therapy is grounded in physiology, not mysticism.

It's not magic, nor a magic pill... it's a physiological response to sensory input.

25/09/2025

Bowen Therapy is a holistic approach to healing that goes beyond treating isolated symptoms. It recognizes the interconnectedness of the mind, body, and spir...

22/09/2025

Meet your vagus nerve — our body’s great communicator.

It connects our brain to our heart, lungs, gut, and more — helping regulate mood, digestion, heart rate, breathing, and even our voice.

This incredible “wandering nerve” is part of our parasympathetic nervous system — the part that supports rest, repair, and balance.

Bowen Therapy invites moments of stillness that can help our nervous system shift out of stress mode and into a state of calm, as best it's able — creating space for our body to do what it does best.

📸 Polyvagal Institute

15/09/2025

Trust your body’s intelligence.

It’s always communicating with you — Bowen Therapy listens and works with your body, not against it.

10/09/2025

At the heart of Bowen Therapy lies a simple but profound belief: the body has within it the wisdom to heal, balance, and flow.

Tom Bowen gave us the tools to listen and respond to that wisdom.

07/09/2025

Your body and brain are in constant conversation.

Bowen Therapy adds a gentle whisper to the dialogue.

05/09/2025

Fascia — the body’s connective web — wraps around and supports every muscle, bone, nerve, and organ, holding the whole body together.

When it’s healthy, it helps us move with ease, stability, and flow.

When it’s tight or restricted, the whole body can feel it.

Gentle therapies like Bowen work with fascia, supporting the body’s ability to release tension and restore fluid movement, to the best of its ability.

Because when fascia feels free, so do you.

28/08/2025

Stress isn’t always the enemy. A little stress can help us grow, adapt, and rise to life’s challenges.

But when stress becomes constant — when the “on” switch gets stuck — it can start to echo through the body.

🧠 Foggy thinking, poor sleep
💓 A racing heart or tense jaw
🍽️ Digestive changes or skin flare-ups
😖 And that feeling of always being on edge

Acute or chronic, stress speaks through the body.

Bowen Therapy offers a quiet space for shifting stress responses, as best our bodies can.

It invites the nervous system into a slower rhythm.

Its gentle, hands-on approach doesn’t override the body — it listens.

Because sometimes, it’s not about doing more —
but about softening into less.

📸 The Pharmaceutical Journal

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