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Satellite Office:
2701 Cottage Way, Suite 3
Sacramento, CA 95828

916-834-1711
bowentherapist@flexiblyfit.com

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About Us

Therapy Practitioner Background

Judy Terwilliger is a married , mother of three who has utilized her nursing skills throughout the past 25 years in a variety of venues to maintain a broad base of skills as well as advanced herself technically. Most Recently she has Graduated from The Bowen Method Center of Fair Oaks with Basic and Advanced Certification in traditional Bowen Therapy. Her current practice while limited to classical Bowen Therapy, as taught by Thomas Ambrose Bowen D.O., is based on her many years of experience across a broad range of professional opportunities.

Background Education:

Registered Nursing Diploma - Graduated 1979 - Akron City Hospital School of Nursing, Akron Ohio
Basic Nursing Science Studies - University of Akron, Ohio
Past Continuing Education - On a wide variety of subjects such as: BioTerroism, Zoonotic Diseases, Herbology, Emergency Medicine/Forensics-a Mystery, Infectious Diseases-West Nile Virus...

Current Professional Licenses & Certifications:

• Licensed to practice Registered Nursing in California, Hawaii & Ohio
• Certification in Universal First Aid from American Safety & Health Institute
• Basic Adult/Pediatric CPR from American Safety & Health Institute
• Certified Health Care Professional CPR & AED Trained from American Safety & Health Institute
• Basic Training Certificate in The Bowen Method, Bowen Method Center, Fair Oaks CA
• Advanced Training Certificate in The Bowen Method, Bowen Method Center, Fair Oaks CA
• Certified Bodywork, Nurse Therapist ABMP - Certified members have attained ABMPS most stringent requirements (including a commitment to lifelong learning through a pledge continuing professional education are to maintain the highest standards of professional conduct and strictly adhere to the ABMP code of ethics).

Ongoing Continuing Education at the Massage Therapy Institute of Davis, CA:

• Body Reading; therapeutic bodywork strategies (8 hr..)
• Ortho-Bionomy® ; exploration of movement (16 hr..)
• Infant Massage (8 hr..)
• Postural Analysis (8 hr..)
• Ortho-Bionomy® ; Isometrics (16 hr..)
• Certified Massage Therapist (CMT) from the Massage Therapy Institute of Davis, CA (500 hr..)
• Dynamic Integration bodywork (30 hr..)
• Pathology (50 hr..)
• Medical Massage whiplash (16 hr..)
• Ortho-Bionomy® by developing touch (16 hr..)
• Senior Bodywork Specifics (16 hr..)

Homestead School Inc. CA

Natures Remedies (30 ANCE-CEU's)

Western School

Pain Management; Principles and Practice. (30 ANCE-CEU's)

Glycomics Medical Conference 2005

The Endowment for Medical Research, Houston Texas (16.5 hr.. CBRN CEU's)

Institute for Natural Resources

Aging Body Aging Mind (7 hr.)

Current Periodicals/Journals:

• California Nurse Week
• Nursing Made Easy
• Advance for Nurses
• Nursing 2004
• RN Magazine
• Body Sense Magazine
• Massage and Bodywork
• Nursing 2006
• Nutrition Action Health Letter - Environmental Nutrition Newsletter
• Harvard Mental Health Letter
• Prevention
• Mayo Clinic Health Source
• Integrative Medicine - A Clinician's Journal

Work Experience:

• Hospital:
  Surgical Nursing, Major Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery, Cardiac Care Telemetry, Medical/Surgical Nursing
• Clinic Work:
  Gastroenterology, Pediatrics, Oncology, Family Practice/Internal Medicine, Otolaryngology, Orthopedics, Cardiology & Employee Health
• Community:
  Trinity Christian School, Private School Nurse, Kailua, Hawaii
• Educational:
  Private School Teacher, American Christian Academy, Citrus Heights, CA - Advanced Life Science: Anatomy & Physiology (Grades 9 -12)
• Complimentary Medical Practice Flexibly Fit:
  Ongoing practice in medically integrated Bowen Therapy/Greater Sacramento and Surrounding Communities.
  

Professional Associations:

• Certified Member of Associated Body Work & Massage Professionals

The Gift of Relief
"My Own Story"

As a Registered Nurse, steeped in the standards taught and practiced in medicine, I was a very 'hard sell'.

Bowen was a fringe (or so I believed) form of existentialist expression left over from some 60's mentality in my view. Certainly it could not be a valid form of treating myofascial pain or any related disease process.

I couldn't have been more wrong!

After being driven to the point of tears one day eight years ago by a nagging pain in my left hip from stepping off a curb, I turned in desperation to what I now call a 'life restoring treatment.'

In a matter of minutes with only a few simple moves, six weeks of pain disappeared. The follow up was minimal and the cost was so-o-o worth the gift of relief I received.

Now eight years later and many experiences with this unbelievably effective modality behind me, I am pleased to be on the giving end of the treatments. It is wonderful to be able to use those years of technical skills together with the extensive anatomy and physiology review I have received at the Bowen Method Center. Training in an atmosphere of professionalism, I gained not only a skill but the confidence to examine a client's complaint based on a firm understanding of the integrated functions involved.

From my earliest use of the basic Bowen Method therapy moves to my now advanced 'tool chest' of move combinations, I have successfully helped many others to see the life restoring benefits of this neuromuscular modality. As I continue to study the many benefits of what I have learned, as it relates to my own practice, I trust others who are skeptics will see themselves where I was and step outside of that box to experience the joy of lives restored.

At the Bowen Method Center, under the instruction of Christine Jones and Steve Sanders, I have been both challenged and encouraged to a more full potential as I seek to place Bowen Therapy at the top of my professional ladder. My practice is limited to The Bowen Method that I have been taught at both the basic and advanced levels. Many practitioners say or advertise that they use The Bowen Method but are clearly adding certain moves from it as an adjunct to their own preferred form of treatment for pain and related maladaptive syndromes.

These other forms of treatment have their place, but The Bowen Method, applied properly, requires extensive anatomical knowledge with an understanding of functional Kinesiology. This was an essential part of the extensive training that I received and was certified in at the Bowen Method Center, Fair Oaks.

Moreover, The Bowen Method is so very effective of it's own merit, in a noninvasive and comfort producing way, that I want to exhaust it's capabilities before suggesting another means of help to those seeking the 'gift of relief '.