Integral Health with Ben Calder

What a wonderful opportunity we have here today, speaking with Anne Schubert, who developed the Mind/Body and has been exploring Bowen for over 38 years. Anne shares with us her history of how she went from school teaching to Bowen and the development of the Mind/Body approach she has been using now for many years. We discuss the value of letting the inherent wisdom of the body guide the process a...

Hi everyone, another great interview for you today, speaking with one of the longer-standing members of the Bowen community in Australia, who was chair of the Bowen Association of Australia for 15 years and is the chair of Bowen Training Australia, he is also the voice of the Bowen Buzz Podcast. Chris and I explore his history and what took him from being a successful chef into the field of bodywo...

Hi everyone, I have another exciting interview with you today with a real master of fascial work, Steven Goldstein. Steven has been in professional practice for almost 40 years now, starting in massage and holistic medicine in the 1980's and then developing a specialism for Integrative Fascia Release from the 90's with over 30 years of teaching fascia work. He founded the Fascial Therapy Institute...

Hi everyone, todays interview has got to be one of the most powerful and moving stories I've heard regarding Bowen Technique. Today we are speaking with College of Bowen tutor and Mindfulness teacher Kathryn Hamer. Kathryn shares her incredible story of how she started to have Bowen from her mum, also a Bowen practitioner, for the advanced carpal tunnel syndrome she had, having been told that surg...

I have another really interesting episode for you here today with Bowen Practitioner and Life Coach Sharon Scholfield, who has over 35 years of experience in HR, training, coaching and career guidance. Sharon has found she is especially good at working with people with neurodiversity and offers coaching calls and support as well as helping practitioners understand simple ways they can coach their...

Hi everyone, I've got another great interview for you today, with holistic podiatrist and Bowen practitioner Mitchel Mosher, who is based in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. Mitchel is celebrating 30yrs of Bowen Therapy this year after being taught by Milton Albrecht. He's the author of the book "Bowen Therapy: A Complete Practitioner's Guide" We explore Mitchel's career development from being a co...

I am really excited to bring you another great interview in our series of discussions with Bowen Teachers from around the world, today we bring you this really interesting discussion with College of Bowen Studies Introduction Course Tutor Annie Hall.  Annie's story is unique in that she lives on a fairly small island off the coast of Scotland UK, the Isle of Mull. She moved there to support her fa...

Welcome to the next of our exciting interviews with Bowen Teachers from around the world. Today I have a great interview with Bowen College UK teacher Jun Chow to look as his CPD workshop the Neurological Approach to Bowen. Jun takes us through his history, starting with his degree in Animal Science and his ideas of working with horses and how that led to training in Bowen (without having had a se...

Hey everyone, great to see you again. I have another very interesting video for you, with pain and movement specialist and founder of the Bigger than Pain program, David McGettigan. David has a really interesting history of trying to solve the chronic pain issues he developed in his teens, which led him to a degree in sports rehabilitation, which, disappointingly, did not help him solve his issues...

I'm very excited to bring you another wonderful interview from the world of Bowen Technique. Today I am speaking with Russell Sturges, the founder and developer of Fascial Kinetics, perhaps the original offshoot from the initial form of Bowen Technique taught by Bowtech. Russel explores his early start in the world of bodywork from doing osteopathic massage as a teenager, through to the training a...

Welcome to the next in my series of interviews with leading voices in the world of Bowen Technique and manual therapy. Today we have a topic I know many people on the Bowen forums ask about regularly, is it safe to do Bowen Technique with clients who have a cancer diagnosis? Eleanor guides us gently through this while highlighting the need for training and understanding, empathy and compassion. Sh...

I have a wonderful interview for you today with Helen Dobra, the co-founder and co-ordinator of the Natural Therapy Institute, organiser of the Bowen Global Summit and producer of the Bowen documentary "These Two Hands" which takes a beautiful exploration through the Life of Tom Bowen. Helen talks about how she found Bowen as a way of dealing with injuries acquired through her Himalayan adventures...

Welcome to the next of my interviews of 2025, where I am joined by Visual Artist, Breathing and Bowen Techer Laura van Tattenhove.  In this interview, we explore the importance and the simplicity of breathing and why it is such a useful skill to master. We also explore the relationship of art and creative expression in the understanding of anatomy and why there is so much difficulty in becoming a...

Hello again everyone, I am really pleased to bring my next interview with leading voices in the Bowen and bodywork world. Today we are talking to Alastair McLoughlin, ex-Bowen Teacher and developer of McLoughlin Scar Tissue Release and The Art of Bodywork training. Alastair has a long career, starting in massage in 1983, and after building a highly successful practice, went on to qualify in Bowen...

A Holistic Path to Wellness with Bowen Therapy, Kinesiology, and Qigong – Ben Calder on the Healers Café  In this episode of The Healers Café, Manon Bolliger, FCAH, RBHT, speaks with Ben Calder about his transformative journey into integrative healing, exploring how personal challenges led him to embrace modalities like kinesiology, Bowen therapy, and Qigong to empower others in their health journ...

Hello everyone, wow have I got a wonderful interview lined up for you today. It is with great gratitude and respect, I get to share my interview with world leading anatomist Gil Hedley, founder of Integral Anatomy. Gil has been teaching “integral anatomy” in the dissection laboratory, via keynotes and speaking tours, and online via his extensive website and subscription portal, www.gilhedley.com,...

Welcome to the next of my interviews looking at leading voices in the world of Bowen Technique. I am really excited to share this next instalment, where we interview Ross Emmett, who many of you will know as the founder of EMMETT Technique, a worldwide technique for helping with pain and movement issues. Ross has also been involved in the development of Bowen Technique and taught for 8 years from...

Welcome along to the next in my series of interviews with some of the leading voices in the Bowen Technique world right now. In this episode, I am really grateful to have Lindsay Holder, lead UK tutor for Smart Bowen. Lindsay takes us through her history from studying Equine Sciences at University, her introduction to Bowen, which came just from wanting to use it with horses, to why she rates Smar...

Welcome along to the next in the series of interviews with leading figures in the Bowen world right now. I'm excited to share this episode, where I talk to Joanne Hewitt of Bowen College UK who has the vision of seeing a Bowen Practitioner in every GP surgery. She was inspired while working as a practice manager in a GP surgery by Paula Esson and decided to make a career shift and train in Bowen (...

Welcome to the next in my series of interviews with leading figures in the world of Bowen Technique. I am grateful to share some time with the founder of The Bowen College Canada - Manon Bolliger, who aside from her wonderful work in Bowen Technique, is also a published author, TEDX speaker and a deregistered Naturopath. In our interview, we talk about how Manon worked with Ossie and went on to de...

Hello once again from me as I bring you the next of the interviews with the BTPA. In this episode I'm very excited to be interviewing Jihan Adem of the Bowen College UK. We talk about her history and how she got into Bowen before getting into why she is so passionate about teaching this work and what her deep interests are; TMJ, Breathing and their relationship to sleep. We also talk to her about...

Here we are with the next in our series of interviews with leading teachers in the field of Bowen Technique. Today I am really excited to have the (infamous) Gus de la Querra of the Body Rewired. Any of you who have been following Gus's social media will know he's the King of Vagus (no Elvis puns intended - honestly). Gus and I talked through his history and how he found Bowen Technique before exp...

In the next of the series of interviews with prominent teachers and thinkers in the world of the Bowen Technique, I am really excited to share our latest interview with Canadian Bowen teacher and Homeopath Jonathan Damonte. Jonathan has been involved in the founding of Bowen Canada and the Bowen Therapy Clinics, the North American Bowen Teaching College and Bowen Online. He is a registered homeopa...

Welcome everyone to another of the interviews in this series to speak with some of the renowned teachers of Bowen around the world. In this episode I'm grateful to be joined by John Wilks of Our Birth Journey, a well known and well regarded teacher of Bowen for many years who gave attended the BTPA AGM in 2023 and gave a fascinating workshop on considerations around pregnancy and birth for mother...

In the next of our series of interviews with key figures and teachers in the world of Bowen, it is our great pleasure to share our interview with Paula Esson. Paula has been an exceptional example of tenacity and diligence when it comes to getting Bowen into the more mainstream focus and use in the NHS. Having pioneered the Northern Integrative Health Practice (NHIP) a collaborative partnership be...