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Show Feature wdten has the touch By Barbara Pyles portance of keeping their lives trouble Having convincing and bodies in balance in order to to a yourself get massage? Youre assist in their own healing. not alone. Many people have Unless the client requests a never experienced a full body certain type of massage, Bowden massage. Yet, it can be one of the decides what technique she will most exquisite sensations in life. use from the interview, tailoring Having every muscle in your body the massage technique to the cliloosen up at the same time is a ents needs. In certain cases, she wonderful experience. But mas- will check with the clients doctor sage is nothing new, references before giving a massage. to its value dates back 3000 years What to expect during your before the Christian Era. massage: After being greeted by Chris Bowden of Fredonia, a friendly Bowden, you will be who has been serving the com- interviewed. Next, she leaves the munity since 1989, is a certified room while you remove your massage therapist. By combin- clothing. You lie on the massage ing proven therapeutic methods table under several blankets with her years of experience, while soft music fills the air. she has built a following in the Bowden enters the room, and Fredonia-Kana- b with warm oil in her hands starts area. Bowden offers several types of the massage. Only the area masTherapeutic Massage: Swedish, saged is exposed. For the next Stress Reduction, Sports Mas- hour or so there are no interrupsage, Touch for Health, Reiki, tions. After the massage is finand Reflexology. She is also ished, you are asked to lie still trained in Pregnancy and In- for a few minutes. When you feel fant Massage. grounded get dressed, and go According to Bowden massage face the world. is for nearly everybody. Her cliI have been trained to look ents range in age from five years upon my clients as more than a old to over 80, and they come to physical body to be manipulated. her for a variety ofreasons. Many I approach my work from a hopeople may just want to relax listic viewpoint, addressing the completely for an hour. Others body, mind and spirit of my clihave strained backs or tendinitis ents, discussing their diet, their or other injuries and want relief exercise or lack of, their daily from pain and to speed the heal- stresses and tensions. When I ing process. Others may have an give a massage Im not just rubillness and understand the im bing oil on their skin. Im not . SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 21, 1996 just bringing fresh blood into their muscles and clearing them of metabolic wastes. Im touching them more deeply than the reflexive action from skin to organs. I am helping them achieve a peaceful state of deep relaxation. As the body relaxes, the mind slows down its constant chatter, and space is created in which the spirit can do the healing work the body needs. Physiologically, when the body is relaxed, the digestive system can operate smoothly and efficiently, the immune system is enhanced, and the body can devote its energy to maintaining and repairing itself. Massage helps to bring ones awareness back into ones body. Bowden says that the art of giving a good massage develops over time and with experience. I have developed my art over the last seven years and hundreds and hundreds of massages. For me it is learning to set myself aside and to let myself become in tune with the body I am working on. That body can tell me what it needs. When I am giving a really good massage, I am hardly even present. My hands are doing the work, but the body on the table is guiding my hands to do what need to be done. I usually lose track of time. Russian Massage Therapist 90 DAYS FREE! LOCAL INCOMING CALLS AND UNLIMITED WEEKEND USE OR TOLL FREE UTAH to-..- . ruuteeUttf Sv&upMe: . . SvenycuAene! Certified 1989. A massage therapist Chris Bowden has been serving the area since massage can be one of the most exquisite sensations in your life. Photo by Barbara Pyles. Bowden added: We all have Zhenya Wine told Bowden that in Russia massage therapists are a lot to offer and we are all part of the medical team in hos- limited in our scope of practice. pitals. They begin massage Pills will not cure a muscle within 10 minutes following sur- spasm, massage will not repair gery. In Europe and China as tom cartilage; acupuncture may well, massage therapists work cure your migraine, but you will in hospitals and are an integral need physical therapy to restore part of a patients care. The full use to your shoulder after U.S. has some catching up to do surgery. Herbs are superb for in regard to the medical benefits maintaining health and supof massage, she says. porting the body during illness, Bowden is looking forward to but if you have a serious bactethe day when all forms of heal- rial infection you need antibioting are made readily available ics. We as health care providers to everyone, and will be included have a role to play in helping in health insurance plans. And people to stay healthy. And the to when all health care practi- biggest role is played by the tioners will respect what each individual: Each of us has the other has to offer to the care of birthright and responsibility to take care of ourselves. We are their patients. I am deeply distressed that our own best health care proconventional health care pro- vider! Bowden grew up in New Jerviders have felt so threatened of the alternative sey. She attended Boston Uniby presence health care providers that they versity for two years. She conhave tried to limit our scope of tinued her education at the Unipractice, limit access to our ser- versity of Arizona in Tucson vices, and lobbied the insurance where she received a masters in companies to deny coverage of Science. She studied her chosen many alternative therapies, profession at the Harold Reilly she says. Until recently chiro- school of Massotherapy in Virpractors were excluded from ginia Beach, Virginia. Bowden encourages people to hospital and insurance covernow is begin- get a massage. It is one of the age; massage just into ning make roads into hos- nice ways you can maintain your pitals, but the vast majority of health, she says. 4 for an appointCall insurance companies specifioffice ment. is in the FreHer exclude from massage cally donia Medical Clinic. their coverage. 643-723- CELLULAR! Zion Lutheran Group meets for Worship at 7:00 p.m. on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday each J1 month at the Rancfios Firehouse. 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