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SMART BOWEN® offer three training programs the Small Animal Essentials, the Certificate and the Post Graduate.
More so than ever in history our companion animals have become an integral part of our family existence. In many cases they have replaced people in the hearts of their guardians, offering a bottomless well of unconditional love. In their closeness to our world many companion animals are influenced greatly by the activities we involve them in, the foods we provide, the emotional dynamics within the home, our personal health status and our environmental pollutants to mention a few.
When we depend on an animal/s to provide us with so much, we unconsciously burden them in that role – but what would we do without them?
Today you could make a huge difference to many animals or simply to your own animal companions by learning Bowen Therapy a deeply, powerful and dynamic modality that ‘stands alone’ with lasting results on all soft tissues, but goes one step further by supporting and healing the mental and emotional fields to.
The Small Animal Bowen Therapist will find their services greatly sought after in many areas from the animal that stays close to home, those engaged in agility or other impact sports, the working animal, the show animal and ones involved in breeding. Let’s not forget also all the fauna that require care and some farm animals.
The Small Animal Essentials is an introductory program that offers the student a fantastic opportunity to learn a great skill and to be able to treat your own companion animals with a gentle but extremely effective soft tissue technique. You may provide assistance to the recovery or maintenance of many common musculo/skeletal problems or can use Bowen as a measure of prevention and to provide improved health and wellbeing.
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!
Certificate of Small Animal Bowen Therapy
This program is available to persons choosing to undertake training to become a Professional Small Animal Bowen Therapist.
Pre-requisites - apart from the desire to learn Bowen to a professional standard, applicants should be confident around dogs and cats in particular and behave in a kind and respectful manner towards them.
Students attend a total of 5 intensive training seminars, each of two days duration. The program is designed to be comfortably delivered over a 6 month time frame (for variations please refer to the information provided under Forms). Students complete a series of case studies and workbooks between the intensives and are being continually assessed on their practical and theoretical knowledge.
Completion of an appropriate human, equine or small animal 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)
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Qualified persons may obtain membership with the Bowen Therapist Federation of Australia Inc., and carry 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
- Small Animal Assessment
- Palpation Techniques
- Foundation Bowen Moves
- Basic Body Balance
- Remedial Bowen Moves
- Advance Bowen Moves
- Fascia
- Trigger Points
- Stretching Theory & Techniques
- Vibrational Medicine Concepts
- Lymphatic Theory and Practical Techniques
- Breed Related Problems
- Complimentary Therapies
- Record Keeping
- Practice Management & Presentation
Other animals that may be treated by the Professional Small Animal Bowen Therapist are those that fall within a ‘small animal’ category, namely Rabbits, Rats, Guinea Pigs, Birds, Reptiles, Sheep, Goats ,Pigs and Fauna. Please note that to treat outside of what is indicated as a Professional may void insurance coverage.
Qualified, registered and insured Professional Human and 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 Small Animal Bowen Therapists wanting to undertake 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 Human Bowen Therapist, this will then cross reference back to meet the requirements of the Human Bowen program. Cross referencing of some other units of study may shorten the course down, and reduce the overall investment.
A similar situation applies to the Professional Small Animal Bowen Therapists wanting to undertake future training to qualify in Equine Bowen Therapy, if they have not already done so they will have to complete training in equine 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 doing an equine anatomy and physiology program as part of your requirement to become a Professional Small Animal Bowen Therapist, this will then cross reference back to meet the requirements of the Equine Bowen program, but not the Human Bowen program. Cross referencing of some other units of study may shorten the course down and reduce the overall investment.
Small Animals Essentials Bowen Therapy
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 companion animals successfully addressing common muscular/skeletal problems.
The two day intensive seminar is also the starting point to the Certificate and once attended the student has completed Module 1.
If you are serious about wanting to manage the health and wellbeing of your companion animals, then this course is a ‘must do’. 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 should be confident around dogs and cats in particular and behave in a kind and respectful manner towards them.
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 Certificate in Small Animal Smart Bowen Therapy form.
Check the Calendar for Current Training Dates and Locations
Please note that due to the process of National Accredition that Smart Bowen is currently undertaking, no Small Animal programs will begin being taught through out Australia until October 2008. If you are interested in learning though, please contact the office to register your intent which permits us to keep you abreast of the latest information and proposed training dates as they come about.
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