Bowen Therapy for Nerve and Neurological Discomfort
Supporting calm, coordination and clarity in the body’s communication system.
When nerves misfire, life feels smaller
Nerve pain or neurological discomfort can change everything — how you move, how you think, even how you sleep. The signals that should keep your body balanced start sending mixed messages instead: tingling, numbness, sharp pain, dizziness, fatigue, or that constant background hum that never really switches off. Medication may dull the edges, but it rarely restores the body’s natural coordination or confidence.
Bowen Therapy takes a gentler route. Through light, purposeful moves over key muscles and connective tissue, it may help calm irritated nerves and re-establish clearer communication between the brain and body. When the nervous system begins to settle, movement becomes easier, pain often softens, and the mind feels clearer too. It’s quiet work with powerful outcomes — a way for the body to remember its own balance and ease.
Bowen Therapy takes a gentler route. Through light, purposeful moves over key muscles and connective tissue, it may help calm irritated nerves and re-establish clearer communication between the brain and body. When the nervous system begins to settle, movement becomes easier, pain often softens, and the mind feels clearer too. It’s quiet work with powerful outcomes — a way for the body to remember its own balance and ease.
Sciatic pain
Sciatica can range from a dull ache to sharp, radiating pain that makes it hard to stand, sit or sleep. The sciatic nerve travels from the lower spine down through the buttocks and legs. Sometimes the nerve is squashed by a vertebra, and sometimes it can be squashed by a tight muscle. The sciatic nerve can passing under, through above the piriformis muscle in the buttock. If it passes under or through, when that muscle or surrounding structures tighten, the nerve can become irritated, producing pain that mimics spinal injury.
Bowen Therapy uses light, precise moves that may calm the irritated tissues, reduce muscle tension and help the body realign itself naturally. If the problem stems from the spine, Bowen’s influence on both muscles and nerves may allow the vertebrae to settle into a more comfortable position and take pressure off the affected nerve. Because the work is so gentle, the body has time to correct itself without strain.
Bowen Therapy uses light, precise moves that may calm the irritated tissues, reduce muscle tension and help the body realign itself naturally. If the problem stems from the spine, Bowen’s influence on both muscles and nerves may allow the vertebrae to settle into a more comfortable position and take pressure off the affected nerve. Because the work is so gentle, the body has time to correct itself without strain.
Headaches and migraines
Headaches and migraines have many causes, which include hormonal shifts, jaw tension, stress, neck strain, or subtle imbalances in the cranial bones. Bowen Therapy approaches them by restoring balance through the upper back, neck and jaw, allowing freer flow of circulation and nerve communication. For many people, gentle work around the TMJ (jaw joint) brings noticeable relief, especially when the jaw or cranial bones are part of the problem. By calming the nervous system and releasing strain patterns, the body can reset from the inside out, potentially resolving or easing the frequency and intensity of headaches and migraines.
Vertigo and balance problems
True vertigo can be frightening. The world tilts or spins and it feels like you’ve lost your footing in space. Although it’s often labelled an “inner ear” problem, in my experience in many cases the issue lies higher up in the structural chain. When the sphenoid or hyoid bones lose their subtle alignment, messages between the eyes, neck and balance centres can become confused.
Bowen Therapy may help by influencing the neck, jaw and upper spine to restore harmony between these structures. For some, a single, very specific Bowen procedure can quiet the dizziness completely; for others, a series of sessions helps the nervous system retrain and find equilibrium again. Even long-standing vertigo often improves once the body’s orientation system is given the right cues.
Bowen Therapy may help by influencing the neck, jaw and upper spine to restore harmony between these structures. For some, a single, very specific Bowen procedure can quiet the dizziness completely; for others, a series of sessions helps the nervous system retrain and find equilibrium again. Even long-standing vertigo often improves once the body’s orientation system is given the right cues.
Trigeminal neuralgia and facial pain
Trigeminal neuralgia causes severe pain through one side of the face, jaw, tongue and/or eye area, and on top of that there are sharp, electric-shocks going through the area as well. People with this problem describe the pain as 10/10, and electric shocks are worse than that. It is often a terrifying and debilitating condition.
Through specialised Bowen-based work on the jaw and facial structures, developed by Ron Phelan and inspired by the late orthodontist Dr Brendan Stack, pressure on the trigeminal nerve may be eased. Because this area also influences the vagus nerve, improvements often extend beyond pain relief. Clients frequently notice calmer digestion and reduced anxiety once tension around the jaw and cranial base settles. It’s precise, delicate work with far-reaching effects.
Through specialised Bowen-based work on the jaw and facial structures, developed by Ron Phelan and inspired by the late orthodontist Dr Brendan Stack, pressure on the trigeminal nerve may be eased. Because this area also influences the vagus nerve, improvements often extend beyond pain relief. Clients frequently notice calmer digestion and reduced anxiety once tension around the jaw and cranial base settles. It’s precise, delicate work with far-reaching effects.
Post-concussion symptoms
Concussion can leave lingering fogginess, fatigue, dizziness and difficulty concentrating long after the initial injury. Clinically, it’s understood that a concussion can disrupt the brain’s ability to accurately sense and coordinate the body, so people often don’t realise how “off” they’ve been until clarity returns.
Bowen Therapy offers a way to help the nervous system re-establish communication between brain and body. The treatment sequence is quiet and measured, with longer pauses to allow full integration, and concludes with gentle work influencing the hyoid and TMJ to restore orientation and balance. While the best results are achieved when treatment begins soon after the concussion , even long-standing cases can respond remarkably well. One of the most common comments is, “I hadn’t realised how foggy I was until it lifted.”
When the brain and body reconnect, clarity and confidence return, and life starts flowing again.
Bowen Therapy offers a way to help the nervous system re-establish communication between brain and body. The treatment sequence is quiet and measured, with longer pauses to allow full integration, and concludes with gentle work influencing the hyoid and TMJ to restore orientation and balance. While the best results are achieved when treatment begins soon after the concussion , even long-standing cases can respond remarkably well. One of the most common comments is, “I hadn’t realised how foggy I was until it lifted.”
When the brain and body reconnect, clarity and confidence return, and life starts flowing again.
Nervous system reset and integration
The nervous system is the body’s command centre, but it’s also deeply sensitive to stress, injury and overload. When communication between the brain and body becomes distorted, the whole system can lose its rhythm. Bowen Therapy offers a way to bring that conversation back into harmony. By calming the body’s overactive responses and restoring coordination through the fascia and nerves, Bowen allows the system to reset from within. As that clarity returns, pain eases, balance improves, and the body feels once again like a reliable, familiar place to live in.
When the messages flow clearly, the body knows exactly what to do.
When the messages flow clearly, the body knows exactly what to do.
Book a session
If you’d like to explore Bowen Therapy for your baby or child, I’d love to chat about what might help. Sometimes even a few quiet minutes of the right kind of touch can make all the difference.
📞 0427143743
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📍 6/43 Macquarie Street, Dubbo NSW
📞 0427143743
📧 [email protected]
📍 6/43 Macquarie Street, Dubbo NSW