Bowen Technique

The Bowen Technique is one version of a group of technical interpretations of the work of Australian self proclaimed osteopath Tom Bowen 1916 - 1982 known as Bowen Therapy which is a holistic system of healing. The Bowen Technique was limited to Australia until 1986, four years after Bowen's death in 1982, when it was named, and spread to other countries around the world by Mr. Oswald Rentsch a massage therapist of Hamilton, Victoria Australia who observed Mr. Bowen at work one morning a week for two years.

It has since been developed and furthered by many others and is now one of the nine therapies involved in the move towards voluntary self regulation in the UK.

It should be highlighted that the three other surviving students of Mr. Tom Bowen - Keith Davis, Kevin Ryan and Romney Smeeton - all have similar methodologies that vary significantly from the way Oswald Rentsch teaches the technique. Dr. Kevin Ryan teaches his interpretation of the Bowen Technique to Osteopathic students at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.