Bowen Hands to Heal®

Thomas Ambrose Bowen (1916-1982) developed his technique in the 1950s in Australia. He noticed his wife's asthma attacks.  After soft tissue manipulations which he had perfected over time, she no longer needed drugs for her asthma.  He was very interested in ways to alleviate pain.  Bowen therapy was self-taught and he developed a unique way of treating friends suffering from back pain.  Tom Bowen opened a clinic as his treatments became a growing demand.  He performed about 13,000 treatments a year.  An extraordinary number of clients passed through his clinic which benefitted greatly from his gift.  Tom Bowen believed in the principle that the body has the ability to self-regulate.

In 1974, Oswald Rentsch began to study with Tom Bowen at his clinic for the next 2 1/2 years.  During the next few years, with Tom's permission, he documented Tom Bowen's techniques as he observed.  Oswald and Elaine Rentsch then founded the Bowen Therapy Academy of Australia in 1987.  They teach these techniques in Australia and also in the United States, Canada and Europe.  It was Tom Bowen's wish that this technique be taught all over the world after his death.  Ossie and Elaine named it The Bowen Technique.

Health professionals are impressed that the Bowen Technique is so effective with problems addressed by it.

Written on Tom Bowen's Clinic Wall: "I expect to pass through this world but once: Any good thing therefore that I do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now.  Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."

 Left is a picture of the late Tom Bowen and to the right, his friends Ossie and Elaine Rentsch, who tooks notes on his procedures.