Loren Boccanfuso, Bowen Therapist
140 Christina St N, Unit 1 N7T 5T9 Sarnia, ON, Canada

A beautiful video from my mentor Dr. Manon Bolliger, ND, founder of Bowen College, explaining the gentle touch therapy of Bowen Therapy. The goal of Bowen therapy is to trigger a response from the body and awaken the innate intelligence of the body. Her story inspires me everyday to continue to do what I love to do everyday and bring more healing to my community and the world.... Watch and enjoy.

Hang in there! Maybe 2021 didn't get off to the best start but thanks to @canopywellness there is plenty to look forward to. We are fully open for in person classes and Bowen Therapy!... Here are the myriads of reasons you should join the Canopy community this March and make 2021 the most joyful year yet! March 3 ~ Learn how to swing, clean, snatch and other strength endurance movements with our 6 part Kettlebell Fundamentals series running Wednesdays at 5:30pm. March 5 ~ Unlock your healing potential and find relief from pain, book in for the first available openings for Bowen Therapy! March 9 ~ Explore meditation with our Journey into Stillness 6 part intensive series running Tuesdays at 6:45pm. During our Introduction to Meditation series I stepped out of my teaching comfort zone and realized how much I love leading others on their meditation journeys! Will you join me? March 18 ~ Challenge yourself to get upside down and learn a new skill in our Handstand Level 2 series run by the queen of hand balancing herself @mackenzie.canopywellness Running Thursdays at 6pm. New members and new clients welcome! See you soon at @canopywellness ~ ~ ~ ~ #bowentherapy #sarnia #sarniawellness #yourbodycanheal #sarnialambton #sarniaontario #canopywellness #movementstudiosarnia #bowentherapysarnia #chronicpain #painrelief #fascia #nervoussystem #heartcentredhealer #healer #heartcentered

Heart-centred health & healing For all heart-centred health practitioners and heart-centred healers - WE NEED YOU! We need more healing vibes around here. Especially the good good vibes, you know those vibes I'm talking about.... The vibes you can see dance around you like shimmering snow falling on a sunny day. The vibes you can feel pulsate from head to toe, from heart to fingertips. The vibes that only rise up when you start sharing your unique magical gift with the community! Give some love in the comments below for a practitioner or healer who needs to hear this reminder today. I'd love to meet more heart-centred, high-vibing peeps. ~ ~ ~ ~ #bowentherapy #sarnia #sarniawellness #yourbodycanheal #sarnialambton #sarniaontario #canopywellness #movementstudiosarnia #bowentherapysarnia #chronicpain #painrelief #fascia #nervoussystem #conciousness #meditation #lightworker #ascension #goodvibes #goodgoodvibes #heartcentredhealer

Hello this is me! Thanks to @trainwithchrissy for tagging me to post 10 facts about me! Sooo at first I'm like this will be fun, then I started a note on my phone to write this post and stared at a blank screen for long while... Thinking to myself "what do the even people want to know?"... Well there's number 1 for you... I am a chronic over thinker and most days a perfectionist. After university I worked as a field engineer for an oil company in Alberta. That is where I learned that there was more to life than a good career. My first self help book was "Maximum Acheievment" by Brian Tracy, I was hooked on discovering self awareness and improvement ever since. My go to books now are "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle and "A Return to Love" by Marianne Williamson. My journey into alternative health started in university after I was prescribed a disease-modifying antirheumatic drug that actually made me feel worse than the pain from RA. I knew there had to be another way. My sidekick is Oakley and she never leaves my side (or my lap) but we actually have a second dog. Cashew follows @kvdh_ around everywhere. I have 3 sisters that I wish all lived closer to me, even the one that lives in town. When I was 3 I got salmonella from chicken eggs out at my grandparents land. It might have been cute as a small child, but I now have massive burps that have stuck with me as an adult. Oh and speaking of the land, @kvdh_ and I now live out here with our own chickens! ~ ~ ~ ~ #bowentherapy #sarnia #sarniawellness #yourbodycanheal #sarnialambton #sarniaontario #canopywellness #movementstudiosarnia #bowentherapysarnia #chronicpain #painrelief #fascia #nervoussystem #heartcentredhealer #healer #heartcentered

Joyful movement with my sidekick. Isn't it beautiful that she loves all my favourite activities: movement, bowen, meditating, reiki and reading? Coincidence... Am I Right?... Thanks @kvdh_ for teaching Oakley all my favourite activities before bringing her into my life. ~ ~ ~ ~ #bowentherapy #sarnia #sarniawellness #yourbodycanheal #sarnialambton #sarniaontario #canopywellness #movementstudiosarnia #bowentherapysarnia #chronicpain #painrelief #fascia #nervoussystem #conciousness #meditation #lightworker #ascension

MindBodyBowen When I explain Bowen Therapy I always explain the physical body, and often neglect the emotional body. But one is not mutually exclusive from the other. One may be more tangible than the other. But mind-body, body-mind are one and the same.... You cannot treat one without the other. Bowen Therapy is a physical touch therapy that works with the body, treating the whole body. We often feel lost in our minds, completely losing these thoughts or emotions in the body where they manifest as physical pains or ailments. Bowen Therapy can work with your body, by bringing you back into your body for an opportunity to stop, listen and release. This embodiment feeling that clients often describe as a sense of groundedness or calm is common after a Bowen session. When was the last time you stopped, listened and allowed your body space to release? ~ ~ ~ ~ #bowentherapy #sarnia #sarniawellness #yourbodycanheal #sarnialambton #sarniaontario #canopywellness #movementstudiosarnia #bowentherapysarnia #chronicpain #painrelief #fascia #nervoussystem

I wasn't always like this... ...This open minded, light seeking healer who uses Bowen Therapy as a tool to empower others. Before all that I was a glowing ball of light and love that used science and reasoning to cover up my true self. Dimming my light with every new cover, identity and limit I gave myself.... But then I started feeling and experiencing things beyond reason. Things my science mind couldn't fathom. Soon realizing that this was all part of my healing journey - to uncover my sensitive side. My intuitive side. My spiritual side. This side that needed to be nurtured but the skeptical mind kept making excuses: "Is true healing even possible?" "Should I go back to my office job?" "Is it all in my head? Am I actually feeling this?" "Where's the science to prove this?" I didn't need to prove it. I was feeling it. Everytimed I practice Bowen on someone I was feeling it. And now I am finally ready to embrace it. Are you ready to embrace a side of you that is covered up? ~ ~ ~ ~ #bowentherapy #sarnia #sarniawellness #yourbodycanheal #sarnialambton #sarniaontario #canopywellness #movementstudiosarnia #bowentherapysarnia #chronicpain #painrelief #fascia #nervoussystem #conciousness #meditation #lightworker #ascension

When science is there to remind you of who you are. You say thank you and start imagining all the possibilities. How will your perfect little arrangement of atoms, energy and love, change the world today? ... Will you choose to use your high vibrational frequencies to heal and nourish others? The world needs more healers. The world needs more 'real' science. ~ ~ ~ ~ #bowentherapy #sarnia #sarniawellness #yourbodycanheal #sarnialambton #sarniaontario #canopywellness #movementstudiosarnia #bowentherapysarnia #chronicpain #painrelief #fascia #nervoussystem #conciousness #meditation #lightworker #ascension

My mission and purpose here on earth with prevail As I bring healing hands to our community in the form of Bowen therapy, I hope to empower others on their own healing journey and motivate other healers to persevere. Even when times get tough. We need more healers in our community and our world.... Join the discussion this Saturday at 10am. https://Canopywellness.as.me/?appointmentType=19698695 Click the link above to reserve your spot!

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Most people in today's society are constantly in sympathetic mode, fight-or-flight stress mode Your body won't use time or energy to heal when it feels like it needs to use it to run away from that tiger, run to the next deadline or escape traffic. Your body doesn't know the difference. You can teach the body to switch gears. Teach the body to slow down. Teach the body to heal again.... Bowen Therapy allows the body to switch from a state of stress to a state of healing. Regular treatments can retrain the body's autonomic nervous system allowing more time in parasympathetic mode, your rest-digest-recover and heal mode. At Canopy we offer other ways to unlock your healing potential: Mindful Movement Breath Awareness Connection Meditation Introduction to Meditation, a 6 part intensive will start January 12th at 6:30pm and will run until February 23rd. Click the link below to reserve your spot or DM me if interested. https://app.squarespacescheduling.com/catalog.php Investment: $110 (Please note all our packages are HST if purchased before January 7th) #bowentherapy #sarniawellness #sarniaontario #sarnia #meditation #canopywellness #sarniamoves #parasympathetic #healing #meditate #movingintostillness

Support local this holiday season and give the gift of pain relief! We offer sustainable gift options including gift certificates for Bowen Therapy, private movement sessions and our exclusive packages. The Introduction to Bowen Therapy package includes 4 sessions for $260. This package is a limited time offer!... And all our packages at Canopy Wellness are HST free until the end of the year!

Pauses. In Bowen Therapy we use therapeutic pauses to allow the body to integrate after a set of orchestrated moves. I often get asked by clients why the integration periods are necessary.... They give the body time to process and respond. They honour the persons space to heal. They allow for the healing process to start. A Bowen treatment is designed to bring the body into the parasympathetic mode, think rest-digest-heal and recover. With each gentle Bowen move the local sensory nervous system is stimulated causing a reflex impulse through the entire nervous system. The integration periods give the body time to process and respond to this stimulus. And ensure the desired healing mode is achieved. #bowentherapy #sarnia #sarniawellness #yourbodycanheal #sarnialambton #sarniaontario #canopywellness #movementstudiosarnia #bowentherapysarnia #chronicpain #painreliefoptions See more

What would you use a $25 gift certificate to Canopy Wellness on? A Bowen session, class membership or a private movement session? Or maybe grab yourself our signature essential oil diffuser blend? Head over to Canopy Wellness to enter to win! Remember to like, share and tag a friend!

Look after yourself. A quick reminder from my sidekick and journal.... #bowentherapy #sarnia #sarniawellness #yourbodycanheal #sarnialambton #sarniaontario #canopywellness #movementstudiosarnia #bowentherapysarnia #chronicpain #painrelief

Joyful Client. Did you know my business partner, Mackenzie, was my first case study and my first joyful client?! I offered Bowen to Mackenzie after my initial workshop with Bowen College in 2018 because I knew she would LOVE it! And I thought she would also make an amazing Bowen Therapist.... Guess what... She did love it! With only 3 Bowen sessions she could practice handstands joyfully again after months of dealing shoulder pain. She sent me a text at 3am to tell all about it and that 95% of the pain was gone! And guess what the best part... She is now a Bowen Therapist-in-training! #bowentherapy #sarnia #sarniawellness #yourbodycanheal #sarnialambton #sarniaontario #canopywellness #movementstudiosarnia #bowentherapysarnia #chronicpain #painrelief #shoulderpain #shoulderproblems See more

Tension. Pain, tension or stiffness in the upper body is a very common concern for many of my clients. Bowen therapy can address musculo-skeletal conditions in the upper body, including rotator cuff pain, frozen shoulder, postural problems, neck and upper back tension.... The gentle Bowen moves work with the fascia around the shoulder joint, neck, head and postural muscles to enhance local healing and encourage remodelling of this fascia to promote mobility. Also, when discussing the sensation of "feeling tense" we have to look beyond the musculo-skeletal system and account for the nervous system. Bowen therapy works directly with the body's nervous system, allowing the body to release from the state of stress or feelings of tension. #bowentherapy #sarnia #sarniawellness #yourbodycanheal #sarnialambton #sarniaontario #canopywellness #movementstudiosarnia #bowentherapysarnia #chronicpain #painrelief #chronicstress #shoulderpain #upperbody #necktension #upperbackproblems

Low Back Pain. It might be chronic, a lingering, dull or achey pain. A constant pain and tension that has been there for months. Maybe you've learned to "just live with it". Or maybe you've been searching for help and nothing has worked. Or it might be acute, a sharp or shooting pain for you. It only started a couple weeks ago and pinches or shoots when you move this way or that. Maybe you've stopped your movement practice and just hoping rest will rid the pain.... Chronic or acute. Low back pain sucks. I get it. I have been there. It was actually my debilitating low back injury in 2017 that inspired me to become a Bowen Therapist. I was inspired to pay it forward and help other sufferers like myself. Learn how Bowen Therapy can help you move joyfully, without low back pain! Now offered at @canopywellness. #bowentherapy #sarnia #sarniawellness #yourbodycanheal #sarnialambton #sarniaontario #canopywellness #movementstudiosarnia #bowentherapysarnia #chronicpain #painrelief #lowbackpain

Reboot. Reboot your mind. Reboot your body. Reboot your life.... Are you interested to learn how you can reboot your body and how Bowen Therapy can help you? Book a 15 minute Education Call with me: www.canopywellness.ca/bowen #bowentherapy #sarnia #sarniawellness #yourbodycanheal #sarnialambton #sarniaontario #canopywellness #movementstudiosarnia #bowentherapysarnia #chronicpain #painrelief