FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Frequently Asked Questions About Yoga Therapy and Bowen Therapy
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Common Queries Addressed for Informed Wellness Choices
At Serene Wellbeing Therapies, we understand that exploring new therapeutic practices can raise questions. To support your journey towards holistic well-being, we’ve compiled answers to frequently asked questions about Yoga and Bowen Therapy. Our aim is to provide clarity and insight, empowering you to make informed decisions about incorporating these therapies into your health regimen.
What is Bowen Therapy?
Bowen Therapy is a bodywork technique that supports the body’s natural ability to heal and realign. Using subtle, rolling movements over muscles, tendons, and fascia, it stimulates the nervous system and encourages deep relaxation and structural balance.
Developed in Australia by Tom Bowen, this therapy is designed to address both musculoskeletal and nervous system dysfunction. It’s often used to relieve pain, reduce tension, improve mobility, and support recovery from injury or chronic conditions but is also effective in treating headaches, migraines, hormonal imbalance, infertility and women’s health issues.
How It Works
It involves physical movements across specific points of the body that triggers release of restricted muscles especially along the spine. It’s suitable for all ages, from babies to older adults
What to Expect
Sessions are typically conducted with the client fully clothed. Unlike massage, Bowen Therapy involves pauses between movements to allow the body time to respond and reset.
Can I keep my clothes on for Bowen?
Bowen works very effectively through clothing, but lighter clothing is best.
What can Bowen Therapy help with?
Bowen Therapy is a great modality for pain management/relief, headaches/migraines, injuries, fertility, hormone issues, jaw problems, sciatica and back pain to name a few things, but there is so much more this modality can do. If you want to know if it can help you, just send me an email.
How many Bowen Therapy sessions will I need to fix my issue?
This will depend on the issue, how long you’ve had it for, what caused it and what you’re doing in your day to day life that continues to contribute to the problem.
How long will my Bowen session be?
Your first appointment will last between 45min and 1hr and will include physical assessment and further questions on your health history. Further session will be between 20-45 minutes depending on what your body needs for that session.
What is Yoga Therapy?
Yoga therapy is a self-empowering process, where the care-seeker, with the help of the Yoga therapist, implements a personalized and evolving Yoga practice, that not only addresses the illness in a multi-dimensional manner, but also aims to alleviate their suffering in a progressive, non-invasive and complementary manner. Depending upon the nature of the illness, Yoga therapy can be both preventative and curative, and also serve as a means to manage the illness, or facilitate healing in the person at all levels.
– TKV Desikachar
What can Yoga Therapy help with?
Yoga Therapy works across the 5 layers of the body, they being the annamaya (physical), pranamaya (energetic), manomaya (mental), vijnanamaya (wisdom/emotional) and anandamaya (bliss) bodies and because of this, it can assist with a range of issues including physical, mental and emotional problems.
What will happen in my Yoga Therapy session?
When you book you will be sent a form to complete online. When you arrive for your first appointment, we will discuss the answers on that form and go through the key areas you’d like to address.
Toward the end of the session I’ll show you some of the tools you need to practice and within 2 days of your appointment, I’ll email you a full plan.
How effective is Yoga Therapy?
Results from one meta-analysis demonstrated that yoga therapy is an effective adjunct treatment for several psychiatric disorders (ie, depression, anxiety, PTSD, and schizophrenia) meaning that yoga therapy is a great support to more common treatments such as medication and psychotherapy. Other research has shown yoga therapy to be highly effective in the treatment of chronic and disease induce pain and also as an excellent support for adults undergoing cancer treatment. Evidence supports recommending yoga for improving psychological outcomes, with potential for also improving physical symptoms.
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