"Distance Bowen"* Testimonial     - May 2020 
Various Issues

* :- "Distance Bowen" is undertaken with the Client and myself located miles apart

My Experience with Stephen Ludbrook’s Distance Bowen Therapy Sessions   8 May, 2020   This may take getting your mind around a bit, the thought that somebody could give you effective Bowen Therapy sessions without actually being present in the room with you, but that’s actually been my experience with the two sessions I have had with Steve in the last three weeks, a time since we’ve been in lockdown.  
Before the session it did make sense to me that this could work.  Many of the most effective therapies I’ve had, that have been the most helpful in my life, including Bowen Therapy, Network Chiropractic, and Homeopathy, have been therapies that one might think, from a purely mechanical and materialistic level, should and could not work at all or have any effect, and yet they do.  Perhaps it is because these therapies work on a different, more vibrational level, on a level that is more integrated and connected, a way of communicating information and receiving information that is more like how radio waves or the Internet allow us to get a signal and have effective communication. (If I try to explain why that works, I cannot, but because I know it does work, it’s easier to believe it.)   Anyhow, before my first session with Steve, I had a few minor physical complaints, which I shared with Steve.  Among them were a slightly frozen, uncomfortable left shoulder, slightly different problems with each of my ears, (a left ear that felt partially blocked, and a right ear that occasionally had this fluttering motion and sound in it, like a little tremor in the ear), and, off and on, a slightly sore throat.  I told Steve about all these issues. As usual, once he had noted the needs I was presenting to him, he explained to me how he would conduct the session, concentrating on and actually doing the moves from his home that he would normally do if he were with me in person, and  suggested I lie down in a comfortable place for my session.   In this first session, I didn’t fall asleep as readily or completely as I have usually done in a Bowen session, but I did become totally relaxed; dozed off and ‘lost myself’ by the end of the hour.  Steve phoned to check on me at the end of the time, and, as usual, reminded me to take it easy, drink plenty of water, and not to take a shower until the following day.   He followed up a week later.  He had to remind me of the sore throat I had previously, because it was gone. The problems with my ears were cleared.  My shoulder issue was very much improved, although, I could still find a hint of it if I looked for it.   We had another session, and I remembered another problem, something that had been a  problem long before lockdown, but it had become a problem;  I had generally not been sleeping as well at night, had been waking up quite early in the mornings with some anxiety and concern about how to navigate these changing times, wondering how to take care of income-producing work, how to prepare for possible changes coming.  I told Steve of these issues, and also with his thorough questioning, we agreed that my left shoulder could still use some attention.   I lay down comfortably to receive his information/communications, as we had done the previous session.  This time I definitely fell completely asleep.   Now, a week later, I no longer have any issues with my shoulder, and I have been sleeping longer and better, a good 8 hours a night, remembering my dreams, feeling better rested and more at peace during my days.  It’s not that I’ve stopped thinking about how to make sense of, and work out the best way to be effective during these changing times.  But I find that such thinking has become more productive, less fraught, more calm and positive.   In summary, amazingly, these distance Bowen sessions with Steve have proven just as effective for me as if we had done them in person.  Thank you Steve!   
​C.M. Witney, Oxfordshire