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Australian Training - Equine

SMART BOWEN® offer two training programs the Equine Essentials and the Diploma.

I can think of no greater gift than to help another ‘being’ back to health - the Professional Equine Bowen Therapist will have chosen a very rewarding career path enabling horses a return to improved health and wellbeing physically, mentally and emotionally.  Bowen Therapy is a ‘stand alone’ modality that has a deeply, profound and lasting effect on all soft tissues.

The Equine Bowen Therapist will feel empowered to assist with many issues of varying presentation and will have learnt a valuable modality that can be employed many times over in a day without the usual wear and tear to the therapists’ body that is so often associated with other physical therapies such as massage.

Equine Essentials Bowen Therapy

The Equine Essentials program offers guardians of their equine companions an amazing opportunity to learn a dynamic modality with fundamental Bowen moves that may relieve the aches and pains that are so commonly found in horses but often over looked to the untrained eye.

Whatever inner urge led you to this page, follow your heart and experience a life changing opportunity to become involved with one of the most rapidly expanding industries within the Complimentary Animal Health arena.  We accept students as young as 15 (with parental approval) with many of our students coming in at retirement age - anyone can learn Bowen Therapy!

Diploma of Equine Bowen Therapy

This program is available to persons choosing to undertake training to become a Professional Equine Bowen Therapist.

Pre-requisites - apart from the desire to learn Bowen to a professional standard, applicants must have some prior horse ground handling skills and be capable and competent around horses in a safe and respectful manner. 

Students attend a total of 4 intensive training seminars varying between three and four days duration.  The program is designed to be comfortably delivered over a 12 month time frame (for variations please refer to the information provided under Forms).  Students also complete a series of case studies and workbooks between the intensives, and are being continually assessed on their practical and theory knowledge.

Completion of an appropriate human or equine anatomy and physiology course (see Forms) is required, as is the successful completion of senior first aid and some common competency units (Some of these are available through Smart Bowen Pty Ltd).

Qualified persons may obtain membership with the Bowen Therapist Federation of Australia Inc., and carry professional Public & Products Liability & Indemnity Insurance.
   

General Outline of Material Covered 

  • History or Bowen Therapy
  • History of SMART BOWEN®
  • Foundations of Bowen Therapy
  • Medical/Veterinary Terminology
  • Theory of Bowen Therapy
  • Anatomy Associated with Bowen
  • Contra-indications and Cautions
  • Applying Treatments
  • Reactions to Treatments
  • Horse Assessment
  • Palpation Techniques
  • Foundation Bowen Moves
  • Basic Body Balance
  • Remedial Bowen Moves
  • Advance Bowen Moves
  • Fascia
  • Trigger Points
  • Bio-Mechanics of Movement
  • Stretching Theory & Techniques
  • Vibrational Medicine Concepts
  • Lymphatic Theory and Practical Techniques
  • Understanding the TMJ
  • Understanding the Hoof
  • Principles of Saddle Fitting
  • Rider Related Problems
  • Complimentary Therapies
  • Record Keeping
  • Practice Management & Presentation

Other animals that may be treated by the Professional Equine Bowen Therapist are those that fall within a ‘large animal’ category, namely Llamas, Alpacas, Cattle, Donkeys and Mules.  Please note that to treat outside of what is indicated as a professional may void insurance coverage.

Qualified, registered and insured Professional Equine Bowen Therapists may do a bridging course to gain qualifications in Small Animal Bowen Therapy.  This is a 3 day program (dependent on course participants) and is called a “Post Graduate”.


Professional Equine Bowen Therapists wanting to undertake future training to qualify in Human Bowen Therapy, if they have not already done so will have to complete training in human anatomy and physiology.  There for we ask you to consider at length where your ultimate interests may be.  You can save time and money in the long term by undertaking a human anatomy and physiology program as part of your requirement to become a Professional Equine Bowen Therapist, this will then cross reference back to meet the requirements of the Human Bowen program and will also cross reference back should the student choose to undertake training in the Small Animal Bowen Program.  There may be cross referencing of some other units of study also, that will both shorten the course down and reduce the overall investment.



More About Equine Essentials

This program is available to anyone who has an interest to learn more about Bowen Therapy, but may be unsure of their intention to pursue a professional path.   They have a desire to be able to treat their own horse/s successfully addressing a wide range of common muscular/skeletal problems.
 
The four day intensive seminar is also the starting point to the Diploma and is a compilation of all the Bowen Moves/Procedures that are taught within Modules 1 to 4.   When the   conscious step to proceed forward into the Diploma has been decided on, the student would then go onto complete the remaining core units of study.    The Equine Essential program is a ‘must do’ if you are serious about wanting to manage the health and wellbeing of your own horse/s.   As the saying goes ‘an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure’.

Pre-requisites - apart from the desire to learn Bowen, applicants must have some prior horse ground handling skills and be capable and competent around horses in a safe and respectful manner. 

Please be advised that the knowledge gained in this seminar is not a replacement for professional care or veterinary advice and is not to be used for financial gain.

We differ from most other training organizations by providing a smaller class size to maximise the attention to detail, coaching and support that the Instructors can give to individual students, in doing so we have manage to create, dynamically exciting and educative training programs with an excellent investment return.


For more detail and information on all of our training programs, please contact the head office or go to Forms and download  The Diploma of Equine Smart Bowen Information Sheet


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