The Bowen Technique, once known as Bowtech was the "gift given" to Tom Bowen who left his legacy to the world through the teachings of Ozzie and Elaine Rentsch. Mr. Bowen was a laborer in a cement factory in Geelong, Victoria, Australia in the early 1950's. He was highly interested in anatomy and physiology and understood nervous system function, having worked as a volunteer for a year massaging polio patients. He believed that any muscular dysfunction within the body played a major role in preventing the whole body from functioning at an optimum level. He felt that treating just the symptoms rarely addressed the root cause of the dysfunction.
In 1979 Elaine Rentsch was treated by Tom Bowen and this is where it began to spread to the world. Ossie and Elaine began training with Tom Bowen in 1980. The first USA class was taught in Auburn, California in 1989. No notes had been taken nor charts existed before Ossie and Elaine joined Mr. Bowen. He allowed them to document his work.
It is said that Tom Bowen broke the code of communication in the body. No interpreter is needed. The body understands the technique and knows the language. Every molecule of tissue in the body is neurologically wired to the brain. One set of moves sends the message needed. Pure Bowen.
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We dedicate this page to Mr. Bowen who simply and elegantly recited, "I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now for I shall not pass this way again."
Thomas Ambrose Bowen (1916-1982)
Oswald "Ossie" and Elaine Rensch, Seattle Advanced Bowenwork and Practitioner's Course 05
