What is Touch Balancing/Animal BowenTM?
Benefits
A Touch Balancing/Animal BowenTM session

Touch Balancing/Animal BowenTM is the adaptation of the human Bowen Technique to the physiology and anatomy of animals.

Touch Balancing/Animal BowenTM, as developed and taught by Carol Bennett, is endorsed by Bowtech and the Bowen Academy of Australia, the recognized world authorities on Bowen. The Bowen Technique was developed (for humans) in the 1950’s by the late Thomas Bowen of Geelong, Australia.

"The Bowen Technique uses a series of gentle, manipulative procedures which re-align the body, balancing and stimulating energy flows, and thus empowering the body’s own resources to heal itself." Bowtech Manual

Touch Balancing/Animal BowenTM successes include use in animals large and small, domesticated and wild; those in competition, rehabilitation, or suffering from injury, abuse and/or disease; working animals and loved companions. It is currently used in veterinary clinics in the U.S. and Canada, as well as rehabilitation facilities, sanctuaries, and homes across the U.S.

Touch Balancing/Animal BowenTM is not diagnositic nor meant to be a replacement for veterinary care, but rather as an adjunct to it. Touch Balancing/Animal BowenTM is a hands on, hands off therapy and is a minimally invasive, highly relaxing and low stress therapy that compliments conventional and alternative veterinary care.

Benefits

The purpose of Touch Balancing/Animal BowenTM is to relax inappropriate muscle tension which can be the cause of an animal’s poor performance, or the beginning of a more serious health challenge, and to facilitate balance of the body from a cellular level.  Benefits  include:
 

While Touch Balancing/Animal Bowen TM appears to help tremendously in the areas of injury and disease, the affect it has in improving negative emotional states and behavior is without exception. One simple move can reverse mistrust and fear in some animals; in others, it may take several full treatments to achieve the same result. Usually within several moves the animal grasps that this is beneficial to them and they relax into their treatments.   Return to top of page.

An Animal BowenTM Session

During a Touch Balancing/Animal BowenTM session, Jill applies a carefully orchestrated series of gentle rolling movements of connective tissue across the body. Wait periods between each series of moves allows time for integration of the work by the body. Touch Balancing/Animal BowenTM  stimulates a sense of deep relaxation which acts upon the body's autonomic nervous system creating homeostasis at the cellular level and frees the animal's body to find its own natural balance. 

A session usually lasts half an hour to an hour.   A series of three sessions, scheduled at seven-day intervals (ideally), is suggested initially. Follow-up sessions are determined upon evaluation during the third visit.  Many owners schedule maintenance sessions to aid in prevention of disease and injury. Response to Touch Balancing/Animal BowenTM varies. The therapeutic effects are significantly enhanced  when other factors of the horse's lifestyle are brought into balance with its nature.  For horses, this includes a natural approach to nutrition, hoof care, parasite control and turnout, dentistry, as well as biomechanically correct saddle fit and rider balance.

Reminders for successful Touch Balancing/Animal BowenTM :

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