From musical keys to balance and wellness

FOR twenty years Ros Jennings, worked as a professional pianist and singer, tinkling the ivories in hotel piano bars across Europe.

As a teacher, musician, composer and performer music has been her life.

Upon her return to Australia she was looking for a change, something that would motivate and inspire her.

“I wanted to come back home and continue enjoying the freedom and flexibility of working for myself,” Ms Jennings said.

Setting up a new business as a piano teacher in Ballarat meant she maintained her ongoing love of music.

Then she realised her new love was to qualify as a Bowen therapist.

“Over the years each time I came home I’d have a couple of Bowen therapy sessions and my body would be back in balance and I would feel great,” she said.

“I recognised this was the other field I wanted to move into now I had retired from performing and travelling.”

When she undertook studies in her late 40s at Bowen Training Australia she found that a lot of the students were coming out of other fields of work just like herself.

Health and wellbeing is a sector that attracts a lot of people seeking a change of life or career.

Bowen therapy is used to bring the nervous system into equilibrium by stimulating the thin layer of connective tissue known as the fascia.

Through applying soft pressure to the fascia and nerve receptors, the therapy allows the body to unwind from long-held tension and to revert to its original state. The experience of a treatment is gentle, subtle and relaxing.

As a full member of the Bowen Association Australia, Ms Jennings took the plunge establishing a home-based Bowen therapy practice as her second business.

“I’ve never been afraid of uprooting and starting over,” she said. “Keyed In Music, my piano teaching business, is one year ahead of Always Bowen so I am busily working on building my clientele.

“My aim is to spread my time equally across both endeavours as they help people, one creatively and the other physically.”