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I’ve been doing alternative therapies for 14 years now, and I am yet to find a muscular – skeletal technique as simple and powerful as Bowen muscle therapy.  

Bowen is a gentle, non-invasive, vibrational technique that uses gentle ’moves’ to:

• release muscle spasm,
• balance the muscular skeletal system
• and at the same time, balance the underlying organs. 

The bones of a horse cannot be physically manipulated by a human, but Bowen sets the muscles up in such a way that the horse’s own brain and muscles pull the bones back into place – sometimes right before your eyes.   

In this course, I’ve added the precision of the pendulum to prioritise the Bowen moves and horse communication as an essential tool for anybody working with horses.  The combination gives you a healing course guaranteed to knock your socks off. 

This healing modality is so powerful that it is definitely not OK to do repeated healing treatments on the same horse just to get the practise – so we bring students to a large number of horses over the three days of the course.  You bring your horses and the organisers supply the rest.

I have many, many stories of amazing healing that has taken place with Bowen muscle therapy, some of them bordering on the miraculous – long term lamenesses gone, muscles moving freely, muscle spasms released, bones sliding back into place, colic instantly eased, a dog who had been paraplegic for three months walking again. 

But the best story that I have about the power of this healing modality is about one of my students.

A few years ago I ran one of these courses for dogs.  (Minus the communication work, it was before those insights) .  We need lots of subjects for students to get real, genuine practise, so I advertised in the local paper “Bring your dogs for free  Bowen muscle therapy by students under supervision”.

One of the dogs brought to us was a beautiful little Pug puppy about 5 months old I think, a ‘swimmer’ – the front legs are kind of stuck out the side and move a little like a freestyle swimmer’s arms.  The owner had worked in the kennels where he was born and had rescued him from being put down at birth because of his deformity.

So here the students were, doing their very first real treatments, testing away carefully to prioritise what moves to do on what muscles.  Everybody else’s dogs were testing up for a bunch of moves and the students were getting some great practise – all except the girl who had the little Pug puppy. 

He only tested up for one single Bowen muscle move, on the neck somewhere.  I remember her being so disappointed to get so little practise from her first healing session.  I remember making reassuring noises about trusting the testing and maybe the poor little thing couldn’t handle any more work in one go.  So she put the deformed little dog into his carry cage to wait for his owner (I can’t remember where they were).

Anyway, when we went back to the pup some time later, a perfectly ordinary, normal moving, not deformed dog was standing in the cage. 

I guess you could imagine how that blew all of us away.  What wonderful validation for that girl on her very first healing session ever…

About six months later they brought him back to me because he had got a little of that swimming movement back.  And I haven’t seen him again. 

I enjoy teaching generally and this course excites me.  You will learn how to use a pendulum.  You will learn how to do a wide variety of Bowen muscle moves for horses, with no moves held back for another time.  You will learn how to communicate with horses.  And you will learn how to do all those things in combination to produce a wonderful healing session.

Some students have used this course to add to their professional ‘toolbox’, others have used it to begin their journey as ‘healers’, others use it to bring good health and comfort to their own horses.

In November 2009, we have one course listed for Australia and another for New Zealand.   Click here for dates and contact details.