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ISBT Fascia Course 1

Sat, 17 Sep 2016 01:24:12 GMT

ISBT Fascia Course [Hong Kong]

Venue : To be announced

Course: Fascia course 1 - Lower Back and Bowen Therapy

Date Time : 18 - 19 Mar, 2017 / 9:30 - 17:30

To register, please contact us by email or telephone (852) 3901-2869

Upcoming Advanced Course Level 2

Tue, 15 Dec 2015 17:50:00 GMT

Upcoming Advanced Course Level 2 in Hong Kong

Venue : To be announced

Course: Advanced level 2

Date Time : Dec 20 - 21, 2025 / 9:30 - 17:30

To enroll, please fill in this online Registration Form or contact us by email or telephone (852) 3901-2869

Upcoming Advanced Course Level 1

Tue, 15 Dec 2015 17:40:50 GMT

Upcoming Advanced Course Level 1 in Hong Kong

Venue : To be announced

Course: Advanced level 1

Date Time : Feb 07- 08, 2026 / 9:30 - 17:30

To enroll, please fill in this online Registration Form or contact us by email or telephone (852) 3901-2869

ISBT-Equine Bowen treats winning horse

Sun, 01 Dec 2013 12:11:05 GMT

ISBT-Equine Bowen treats winning horse

Asian Eventing Championship a winner for ISBT’s Suzanne Baker

ISBT-Equine Bowen Therapy teacher Suzanne Baker was physical therapist, coach and trainer of the winning horse in the first ever Asian Eventing Championships held recently in Thailand.

The Gold Medal performance by Annie Ho on Supercombed, a 13 year old former Group One racehorse, has inspired the Hong Kong based team to establish a strategy to prepare for possible inclusion in the Olympic Team in Rio De Janeiro.

Suzanne said that there was a long way to go before they would be confident of being on the Olympic team but the Asian Championship performance was ‘extremely encouraging.

“The horse and rider combination has come together really well with Annie and Supercombed and the performance in Thailand was excellent. We couldn’t be more pleased,” she said, “But we have a lot more work to do before Rio where the standard will be a step up.”

Suzanne is no stranger to world class events, having been physical therapist for previous Asian Games events and physical therapist on the Physiotherapy Team at the Beijing Olympics.

Suzanne has been teaching ISBT-Equine and Canine Bowen Therapy in Australia, Germany, Austria and ISBT-Canine Bowen Therapy in Hong Kong.

Courses will be held in Hong Kong in October 2013, Australia in February/March 2014, and in Germany and Portugal in 2014.

For further information about all international ISBT-Equine and Canine Bowen Therapy courses in Hong Kong conducted by Suzanne Baker, contact us or see ISBT Animal Courses

Upcoming Foundation Course

Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:16:16 GMT

Upcoming Course in Hong Kong

Venue: ISBT-Bowen Therapy Center [Google Maps]

Course: Foundation Module 1

Date: May 16 - 17, 2026 Time: 9:30 - 17:30

To enrol, please fill in this online Registration Form and contact us by email or telephone (852) 3901-2869

For the rest of the module dates, please visit this page.

Cancer Symptom Management – The Role of Bowen Therapy seminar

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:39:45 GMT

ISBT is excited to announce that we will be bringing Eleanor Oyston to Hong Kong on August 25/26 for her inspiring seminar "Cancer Symptom Management – The Role of Bowen Therapy"

Eleanor taught her course in Germany, Austria and Australia a few years back and the feedback from therapists was excellent. We are proud to bring her in 2012 to Hong Kong to work with our many Bowen Therapists here.

* Download the Pamphlet

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Upcoming Canine Course

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:56:16 GMT

Upcoming Course in Hong Kong

Venue : ISBT-Bowen Therapy Center [Google Map]

Course: Canine Course - Level 1

Date Time : April 26-27, 2025 / 9:30am - 5:30pm

Prerequisite: ISBT Bowen Therapy Level One

To register, please visit this link, or email or by telephone (852) 3901-2869

Practice Group

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:23:18 GMT

Venu : ISBT-Bowen Therapy Center [Google Map]

Date Time : 6:30pm - 8:30pm / 26 Nov & 09 Dec, 2016

Fee : HKD 120 (free to all students who are attending the module 5 in December 2016)

This practice group is for all ISBT-Bowen Therapy students who would like to practice Bowen moves.

To register, please email or by telephone (852) 3901-2869

The-Book

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:53:04 GMT

In Search of Tom Bowen and the Therapy He Inspired and Lots of Other Stuff, a new book by ISBT Director Col Murray, has been released.

This book re-writes accepted history on Tom Bowen and the therapy.

This entertaining and informative book explores the origins of Bowen Therapy, its place in the world of manual therapies and how Tom Bowen came by the work. It also dispels the many myths surrounding Bowen and the therapy.

For the detail of the book, please visit: www.thebowenbook.com

Also available in ISBT Bowen Therapy Center (HK)

Free excerpt download: click here

ISBT-Bowen Therapy on Animals

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:07:25 GMT

ISBT is pleased to announce the appointment of leading international equine physical therapist and competitor, Suzanne Baker, to its team. Suzanne will be presenting courses in equine and canine ISBT-Bowen Therapy.

Suzanne, based presently in Hong Kong at the world-famous Sha Tin horse racing complex, is a former international three-day eventing and dressage competitor, representing England.

She grew up in a very sporting family; her father, Peter May (dec.) was one of the longest serving captains of the English cricket team and was inducted in to the International Cricket Council’s Hall of Fame in 2009, Suzanne and her mother accepting the award. Her mother and sisters also represented England and won European medals in three day eventing and dressage.

Suzanne achieved a degree in Chiropractic in 1991. She is a member of the McTimoney Chiropractic Association, and qualified to treat both humans and animals. She worked in practice in the UK, treating human patients in a busy chiropractic clinic. She additionally treated a large number of canine and equine patients, from racing greyhounds to dachshunds, and racehorses to Olympic dressage horses. There was also the occasional challenge of a farm animal.

Suzanne moved to Hong Kong with her family in 1996. A letter of introduction (from a prominent British horse owner) to a leading trainer at the Hong Kong Jockey Club, resulted in her given, as a trial, the task of rehabilitating a leading Derby winning horse that had fractured its pelvis. The horse was able to recover well enough to race and win, and Suzanne has been treating racehorses at Sha Tin ever since.

Being one of very few women working in the profession at that time, she said, was challenging at first –“they were very polite and kind, but it was very much a man’s world at that stage.” She regards herself as very fortunate to be working with the superb team of veterinarians at the Hong Kong Jockey Club and the world class equine facilities that are provided at Sha Tin. There are around 1200 horses based at the racecourse and a number of the trainers now include Suzanne in their support team.

Word soon spread to Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand where “very expensive European horses” are a big part of the competition scene, and she is now a regular visitor there to work on horses at the major equestrian centres. This led to an invitation to accompany the veterinary team for the Asia Games and the South East Asia Games. Suzanne was also honoured to be asked to assist the veterinary team as physical therapist for the Beijing Olympics, the equestrian events being held in Hong Kong.

Having a Diploma in acupuncture (which led to her working in a major traditional medicine hospital in China) and also having studied electrotherapy, it would be easy to imagine that her tool box was full. But she was “fascinated by Bowen,” having been introduced to it in England. “So I looked around and decided ISBT seemed to be the right school to approach. The rest is history.”

Suzanne was responsible for initiating ISBT’s introduction into Hong Kong, completing the human Foundation and Advanced Courses, and assisting in many courses while developing the animal courses based on the human approach.

“It has been a wonderful experience,” she said. “Everyone, including me, was amazed at how simply we could create major change in often difficult circumstances.” Soon after introducing the ISBT-Bowen Therapy work on horses, people with dogs started to find their way to her. “It was really interesting to go from working on huge horses to applying the principles so successfully on dogs. Though dogs don’t respond to being offered carrots like horses,” she said, displaying her quirky sense of humour.

It has taken several years to develop the courses on animals, much of the time taken up conducting trials then confirming the results with further trials. “I think we’ve come up with courses that seem to be a little different to the approach of other animal bodywork courses. It wasn’t just a matter of simply transferring the human concepts to horses. Certainly it’s possible to get reasonable results like that but we were looking for more than ‘reasonable’ results,” she said. “I think we’ve hit on the right formula.”

ISBT’s Equine and Canine courses are planned to commence towards the end of 2010.