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Portland, Oregon, United States 97217

Over the last couple decades, Cobalt learned a multitude of bodywork modalities. Not one modality was as effective as she liked to serve her broad range of clientele, until Cobalt discovered Bowenwork. The results are the most efficient and effective way to address the body’s needs while engaging its own ability to heal.

As someone active in her community, Cobalt was inspired by how Tom Bowen helped people and immediately resonated with his precise way of addressing imbalance in the body. She has experienced the healing benefits in her own body and seen it in so many of her client’s. Cobalt has seen bound toes soften and unwind, TMJ surgery avoided, and chronic pain managed. Bowenwork has been a changing force in her life.
It was a natural path to pursue teaching this phenomenal work. Cobalt’s love for teaching and sharing Bowenwork comes across in her classes. Cobalt has an amazing sense of humor, teaches to many different learning styles in an adaptable format, is charismatic and personable. Becoming an Instructor has created an opportunity for her to empower future practitioner’s, to give the gift of self-correction to the people they touch. What a powerful ripple of positive change. Bowenwork has created a simple balance in her life.

Cobalt is currently teaching in Portland, OR and is willing to travel.
Licensed Massage Therapist #15170 in Oregon. NCBTMB member, AMTA member.
Modalities of bodywork include:
Bowenwork, NVR, Tensegrity Medicine, Craniosacral Therapy, Swedish Massage, Myoskeletal Release, Thai Massage, Psychotheraputic Massage, Energy Work, and Shiatsu.

Certified Massage Therapy Certification. Praxis College of Healing Arts and Sciences. 1998.
BS in Physical Education. Oklahoma Christian University. 1995.

Tara Johnson, PT

Vancouver, Washington, United States 98685

360-358-2580

Teresa Peterson

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 80525

928-380-5168

Teresa’s love and interest in the healing arts and belief in living a holistic healthy life has been with her for over 50 years. After 45 years of experience as a business professional at the university, not-for-profit and entrepreneurial level, she moved to Flagstaff, Arizona and started her final career. Now she is living her dream and sharing the joy of hope with clients as a Certified Professional Bowenwork Practitioner in Colorado .

Twenty-five years ago Teresa’s medical challenges, including a diagnosis of fiber cystic breast disease and structural issues from sitting at computers for many hours, led to research into holistic health solutions. No one had the answers to relieve the symptoms she suffered, and after 15 years the thought of developing breast cancer via the cysts loomed heavy. Through faith, research and persistence she discovered the truth about the imbalances of her body and implemented several holistic approaches making her recovery a reality. Finally, after 25 years and her first normal mammogram, she has found Bowenwork is her first choice for overall bodily balance and wellness.

Teresa has been a past member of Flagstaff’s Parkinson Support Group,a Northland Hospice volunteer, Further Shore Pre-Hospice Practitioner and she received additional end of life training through Danion Brinkley’s Twilight Brigade. She has also completed workshops on aging and animal bowen as a continued commitment to the knowledge needed to serve her clients.

In her twenties, spare time was spent studying herbal medicine and yoga, which then led to procuring knowledge as a Reiki and Shamballa Reiki Master. Continuing on in recent years she became a Reconnection Healing Practitioner and Medicinal Oils Certified.

Teri Cordeiro Noack

Lake Havasu City, Arizona, United States 86403

949-212-1444

Teri Rogers

Laguna Beach, California, United States 92651

949-376-8820

Teri Rogers, Acupressurist, Holistic Health Practitioner, Writer, Healer, and Naturopath — has been studying massage and Eastern healing arts since 1980 and teaching massage since 1983. Teri has taught Acupressure for three different colleges, massage conferences and exclusive spa groups here in the U.S. She has also traveled extensively throughout Asia studying and teaching with various schools, teachers, Masters and healers. Some of those locations have included China, Hawaii, Mexico, Bali, Lombok, the Philippines and Thailand. In 1990 she lived in Chiang Mai and was the second foreigner ever to teach Traditional Thai Massage in Thailand (after Asokananda) – at the Old Medicine Hospital – The Foundation of Shivago Komarpaj. She also studied extensively with all of the great teachers and masters throughout Thailand and has taught, studied and traveled there for several months a year since that time. Teri currently maintains a successful practice working with Doctors (both Eastern & Western), Chiropractors and Healers. Her clients are people of all ages, and all walks of life. She loves working with animals as well. Along with all of her teaching, practicing, educational videos and writing – she also takes students on annual study trips throughout the Far East.

Terra Sutton

Kapaau, Hawaii, United States 96755

808-896-0074

Teaches in Hawaii, California, Nevada and Alaska. If you don’t see a class listed near you, reach out. Inspired at an early age by the ability to affect change in people’s bodies, restoring mobility and reducing pain, Terra Sutton pursued a career in healing, fitness and massage therapy, offering a blended approach of structural bodywork. Terra studied with Dr. Leonard Laskow in Holoenergetic Healing from 1993-1996, The Swedish Institute in NYC 1996-1997 and gained Fitness Trainer Cert. in 1997 from ACE and ECA. Miss Sutton shifted her practice primarily to Bowenwork in 2005 when she first witnessed the elegance and efficiency at which the body can recover and reorganize with specific and gentle support of Tom Bowen’s unique Australian modality. Terra now practices and teaches the Practitioner Certification Training for the American Bowen Academy primarily in California, Nevada and Hawaii. She looks forward to bringing the Bowen Training to Alaska and where the invitation arises.

Theresa Rutherford

Orangevale, California, United States 95662

916-849-3820

Tracy Surrett

Skull Valley, Arizona, United States 86338

928-231-2978

Vanessa Davis

Carlsbad, California, United States 92008

760-809-8099

Vicki Mechner

Springfield, Virginia, United States 22153

703-455-0111

I have been a Bowenwork practitioner since 1996 and an instructor for the Bowen Therapy Academy of Australia since 2001. I teach primarily in the area around Washington, D.C., and maintain a private practice in Springfield, Virginia.

I discovered Bowenwork quite by chance in 1995 while recovering from a repetitive stress injury. Amazed by the results, I took the first available training I could. At first I split my practice almost equally between Bowenwork and Rubenfeld Synergy (a type of body-oriented psychotherapy I had trained in previously). But after observing that Bowenwork was often effective with complaints ranging from anxiety and panic attacks to depression, my practice evolved to where it is now exclusively Bowenwork.

My original training in curriculum design and educational technology gave me insight into the way that different people learn, which I find invaluable to my effectiveness as an instructor. I keep my classes small in order to ensure ample individual feedback. My students have included massage therapists, acupuncturists, chiropractors, homeopaths, occupational therapists, osteopaths, and physical therapists, but I especially enjoy empowering lay-people to be able to deliver the benefits of Bowenwork to others.

Unlike most Bowenwork instructors, I studied anatomy, physiology, massage and bodywork after I had become a Bowenwork practitioner, rather than before. If I could learn this, anyone can!”

In 2002, I was an invited speaker at the Australian BTAA Conference in Adelaide, on the topic of research into Bowenwork, and became an advisor to the Tom Bowen Legacy Trust Fund, an Australian charity that benefits children with disabilities. In that capacity I reported on the activities of the Trust Fund at the International Bowenwork Conference at Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) in June 2006.

Thanks to Shirley Strachan’s “Healing Hands: Unsung Voices Anthology,” which chronicles the experiences of many of Tom Bowen’s former patients, as well as others, I am currently developing a continuing education class that clarifies “Tom Bowen, Facts and Fiction.” Stay tuned.

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