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Pain Doesn’t Have to Be Your Normal

Natural, evidence-based relief for chronic pain, injury and persistent pain conditions using Bowen Therapy and Yoga Therapy in Camden, NSW.

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Understanding Chronic Pain

Living with chronic pain can be exhausting, physically, mentally, and emotionally. Pain can affect sleep, mood, concentration, and even confidence in your body’s ability to move. Over time, the nervous system becomes more sensitive, amplifying pain signals even when there’s no new injury.
Yoga Therapy offers a gentle, science-informed approach to help you understand these changes and gradually retrain your body and mind toward balance and relief.

How Bowen Therapy Helps with Pain

Bowen Therapy is a hands-on, technique that works directly with the musculoskeletal and nervous systems to relieve pain and restore function. It is particularly effective for pain that has not responded to other treatments, or that keeps returning despite short-term relief.

Bowen works by making precise, rolling moves across muscles, tendons and fascia with short pauses built in that allow the body to integrate each move. This resets the nervous system, releases fascial restrictions and reduces muscle guarding that often perpetuates pain patterns. Treatment takes place fully clothed on a massage table and is deeply relaxing.

Bowen Therapy is well-suited for:

Acute and chronic back, neck and shoulder pain
Sciatica and nerve-related pain
Joint pain, including hips and knees
Headaches and migraines
Sports injuries and post-surgical recovery
Frozen shoulder and rotator cuff issues
Postural pain from desk work or repetitive strain

How Yoga Therapy Helps with Pain

Yoga Therapy for pain takes a different approach. Rather than working on the body directly, it teaches you to work with your body developing a new relationship with movement, breath and rest that gradually reduces pain and builds resilience.

Yoga Therapy for pain combines evidence-based movement, breathing techniques, mindfulness and relaxation practices to calm the overactive stress response that often keeps pain patterns alive. Each session is one-to-one and tailored entirely to your body, your condition and your goals. You do not need any yoga experience, and sessions are never about stretching further or doing more.

Yoga Therapy is particularly valuable for:

Chronic pain conditions that have a significant nervous system component
Fibromyalgia and widespread pain
Arthritis and inflammatory joint conditions
Pain accompanied by anxiety, depression or poor sleep
Those who want to build long-term self-management skills
Recovery from cancer treatment-related pain

Yoga Therapy

Evidence-based movement, breath and mindfulness practices to retrain your nervous system and rebuild your relationship with movement

Specialised Bowen Therapy

Experience the hands-on technique that targets specific pressure points, fascia and muscle to relieve pain.

Ayurvedic Consultation

Addressing the lifestyle and dietary patterns including inflammation, sleep and stress, that contribute to persistent pain

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What is Research Showing About Yoga in Pain Care?

The evidence for yoga therapy in chronic pain is strong, and now formally recognised at professional and government levels.

The International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT), the global peak body for yoga therapy, published a dedicated White Paper on yoga therapy and pain (Pearson et al., International Journal of Yoga Therapy, 2020). It states that yoga therapy can make a meaningful contribution to solving the overlapping public health crises of chronic pain, opioid misuse and mental health disorders, describing it as a patient-centred intervention that addresses body and mind and focuses on overall wellbeing and quality of life.

The research is particularly strong for:
– Arthritis and joint pain: An 8-year clinical trial at Johns Hopkins University (Moonaz et al., 2015) cited by IAYT, found that yoga improved arthritis pain by 40%, alongside improvements in physical fitness, psychological functioning and quality of life
– Chronic lower back pain: Multiple systematic reviews confirm yoga reduces pain intensity and improves function, with one 2023 RCT finding yoga therapy significantly outperformed usual care at both 1 and 3 months
– Tension headaches: A systematic review and meta-analysis (Anheyer et al.) found statistically significant improvements in headache frequency, duration and pain intensity
– Fibromyalgia and widespread pain: Yoga consistently improves mood, sleep and pain tolerance

A 2023 paper in Frontiers in Pain Research (Chopra et al.) explored yoga as a mind-body system for pain, identifying its capacity to address both the physical sensations and the neurological sensitisation that keeps chronic pain patterns alive long after the original injury.

In 2024, the Australian Government’s NHMRC Natural Therapies Review included yoga in its evidence evaluation, acknowledging its role as a complementary approach for chronic pain conditions.

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What you’ll experience in a session?

Your first session begins with a thorough conversation about your pain history, what you’ve already tried, how pain affects your daily life and what you’re hoping for. Rebecca will listen carefully before recommending an approach.

Depending on your presentation and goals, your sessions may focus on Bowen Therapy, Yoga Therapy, or a combination of both. Rebecca will explain her reasoning and work with you to find the right fit.

Bowen Therapy sessions take place fully clothed on a massage table and typically run 60 minutes. Yoga Therapy sessions are one-to-one and seated, standing or on a mat, no prior yoga experience is needed.

Sessions are held at 12 McCrae Drive, Camden NSW, easily accessible from Narellan, Campbelltown, Oran Park and across the Macarthur region.

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