🇦🇺 Australia · Modern
Bowen Techniqueボーエン・テクニック
A gentle system developed from the 1950s by Tom Bowen (1916–1982) in Geelong, Victoria, combining light rolling moves over fascia and tendon with pauses; taught worldwide from 1986 as 'Bowtech' by his student Oswald Rentsch.
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Fact sheet
- Origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Era
- Modern
- Classification
- Modern bodywork
- Techniques
- Fascia
- Practitioner body parts
- Thumb / Finger
- Medium
- None
- Clothing
- Clothed
- Setting
- Table
- Also known as
- Bowtech · Bowenwork · Bowen therapy
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