by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | Addressing Your Pain, Advancing Your Practice, Bowen Therapy
One of the most unique aspects of BowenFirst™ Therapy is the intentional pauses that occur throughout the treatment. These pauses might seem unusual to those unfamiliar with the technique, but they play a crucial role in the therapy’s effectiveness. So, why are...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain, Advancing Your Practice
Fascia is a fascinating and often overlooked component of the human body. This intricate network of connective tissue surrounds and supports every muscle, bone, nerve, and organ, acting as a continuous web that holds our bodies together. Fascia is not just structural;...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health, Advancing Your Practice
If you’re passionate about holistic health and intrigued by the potential of BowenFirst™ Therapy, you might be considering a career as a Bowen Therapist. This rewarding path allows you to help others achieve better health and well-being through a gentle, non-invasive...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health, Advancing Your Practice
As we have seen, therapeutic effect is increased if the patient is aligned with the treatment and has positive reinforcement for the outcomes. Research confirms the beneficial effects of patients’ increased control over their health and body. Approaches to treatment...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | Advancing Your Practice
Over the course of these blog posts, I hope we’ve learned the importance of congruence, context, and expectation in treatment. These are all factors established in relationship and cannot be “objectively” measured. Further, it is not what we do that matters; it is the...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | Advancing Your Practice
This blog’s discussions of the limits of SOAP remind us that the “plan” is a journey. The destination is a doctor-patient relationship built on congruence of perception, aim and method: key to aligning for success. When discussing placebo, M.J. Simmonds (2000) states:...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | Advancing Your Practice
Over this series of blog post, I hope I’ve convinced you the SOAP form is fraught with the assumptions that lie at the base of conventional medicine. In fact, it has spawned a “relationship” between the doctor and the patient that is neither conducive to the...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | Addressing Your Pain, Advancing Your Practice
Our discussions in this blog have continually circled us back to the same set of questions. As a doctor, what is our responsibility for assessing the situation and exploring possible “prescriptions”? To how much of the patient’s story will you relate, and through...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | Advancing Your Practice
The this is a, this is a surreal moment for me. When I think back to two years ago, this was not part of my life plan that’s for certain. I, ironically enough, similar to Dr. Danesi, losing her job over a violation of what she held to be her ethics. I’m...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | Advancing Your Practice
Regardless of your personal choice to take one of the ways of diminishing symptomatic response to the then covid-virus, I am quite sure most of you realize that when it comes to the Delta variant and the many new variants that focusing so specifically on a spike...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health, Advancing Your Practice
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by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | Advancing Your Practice
People have asked me why Trademark a business name. Provided you have the url for the name, there is a degree of security that your name and brand will allow you to stay in business. If you don’t own the .com, it is always possible that traffic intended to go to you...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health, Advancing Your Practice
As our community is slowly returning to practice and as many of our supporters are hoping to receive the much needed care from our Bowen practitioners, I want to share as my message for this month a deeply resonating message that will hopefully fill your hearts with...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health, Advancing Your Practice
The Bowen Technique abides by the healing principles of First do no harm and respect for the innate healing capacity of the body. Bowen Therapy uses the smallest of interventions and results in the maximum of results. Bowen is non-invasive and gentle; works on the...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | Advancing Your Practice
Healing demands hard work. We all know just how physically demanding certain body therapies can be. Healthcare practitioners work long hours putting constant strain on their joints and muscles. Many body therapists overextend themselves depleting their energy and...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | Advancing Your Practice
Do you have health-promoting boundaries with your clients? Do you suffer from a limited understanding of your role as a therapist? Unhealthy boundaries where we are taxing our own bodies may actually stem from a genuine desire to heal our clients despite knowing that...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | Advancing Your Practice
Taking the wellbeing of our clients as our own is far more common than you think. Actually, it stems from the belief that we can fix everything. That your patient’s story and their pain is literally yours, to the point where you have neglected or disconnected from...
by secure | Advancing Your Practice
Today I have three elements that you can apply to your practice right away. #1. Less is more. #2. Trust that the body can heal. #3. Learn to be as relaxed as your clients while serving them more fully. If you are already a healthcare practitioner, check our...
