NATIONALLY RECOGNISED TRAINING SMART BOWEN® Leaders in Equine Bowen Therapy Training We offer two training programs:        Equine Essentials         Diploma in Equine Smart Bowen Therapy 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, down to the skeletal system. 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 The Equine Essentials is Module One  and 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! More About Equine Essentials The Module One 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 the fundamental Bowen moves and procedures accompanied by  history & other  theory.  When the  conscious step to proceed forward into the Diploma has been decided on, the student would then go on to complete the remaining core units of study.     The Equine Essentials 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 managed to create, dynamically exciting and educative training programs with an excellent investment return.

Diploma of Equine Smart Bowen Therapy

This Nationally Recognized training 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 'Hands On' seminars, of  4 and 2  days duration.  The Equine Essentials program as outlined above, is Module One of the training in the Diploma, thus followed by Module Two, Three and Four and then the Final Assessment.  In addition to the training intensives, the student has other outlined units of study to complete as mentioned below.

Training Intensives Delivering Bowen Technique and Related Subjects

Equine Essentials - Module One  /  4 days 'Hands On' intensive Home User & Diploma
Module Two / 4 days 'Hands On' intensive Diploma
Module Three and Four -delivered together / 4 days 'Hands On' intensive Diploma **
Final Assessment / 2 or 3 days (dependent on participants) 'Hands On' intensive Diploma **

**PLEASE NOTE: Training intensives - Modules Three and Four will only be available in Melbourne -Victoria as of the beginning of 2010.  These modules will be delivered towards the end of the year and we are also looking at mid year.

The entire Diploma program is designed to be delivered over a 12 to 18  month time frame.

In addition to attending the training intensives, students are required to complete a series of Case Studies and Log Book (for treatments), Open and Closed Workbook Assessments (theory) & Practical Assessments between each of the training intensives, enabling the student to be continually assessed on their practical and theoretical knowledge. 

The student is also required to complete (or have qualifications already) in an appropriate human or equine anatomy and physiology course (see Forms and information below).  Completion of Senior First Aid and some Common Competency units (some of these are available through Smart Bowen Pty Ltd, see information below).

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

General Outline of Material Covered 

Bridging Course To Small Animal Bowen Therapy

Common Competencies 

To obtain the Diploma of Equine Smart Bowen Therapy, along with the core units of Bowen Theory and Practical, the student will be required to complete:

Unit Code          Unit Outline

1) VPAU218        Apply the Principles of Basic Anatomy and Physiology to Horses (as mentioned below)
2) HLTFA301B     Apply First Aid (as mentioned below)
3) HLTIN301A     Comply with the Infection Control Policies and Procedures in Health Work
4) HLTCOM406B  Administering a Practice
5) HLTCOM6A     Making Referrals to Other Health Care Professionals When Appropriate
 
Units 3 to 5 are delivered via a training intensive Smart Bowen offer called 'Common Competencies', available throughout the year in differing states.   

To obtain more information on the individual units of study that make up the Common Competencies, please contact the office of Smart Bowen, either Lea or Brian on info@smartbowen.com

Anatomy and Physiology