International Bowen Conference
Biographies of Presenters

Alastair Rattray

Alastair Rattray started training with the Football Association in 1969 in sports injuries and qualified in 1972. He was with a semi-professional club for 10 years and was selected as one of the first regional instructors in treatment of injuries by the FA. He trained in the Bowen Technique in 1997 which he now mainly uses. He ran a weekly clinic at the Blenheim Project which offers support to people with drug and drink problems in west London for over three years. The success of Bowen was so noted that two other helpers trained in Bowen making Bowen a significant therapy in this difficult area.

In 2003 he supported one of the six competitors in the 1000 Mile Challenge, long regarded as one of the hardest sporting challenges, which formed part of the London Marathon that year where he mainly used Bowen to great effect (and walked 175 miles himself!). After a remarkable result with a two year old asthmatic in 1999, he started to study the effects of Bowen on asthma and other respiratory conditions and has treated hundreds of cases, some even by e-mail in countries where there are no Bowen practitioners. He has two web sites; www.Bowen-for-Asthma.com and www.relieve-childhood-asthma.com. His work in this area has featured in the Sunday Times twice and in many articles in other publications.

He has been teaching Bowen since 2001 and that year appeared in Discovery Health Channel’s “Complementary Kids” series. In May he was invited to talk on his work at the Asthma, Eczema and Cerebral Palsy Conference at the Birmingham Children's Hospital by the Freshwinds Charity who run the Children’s Complementary Therapy Network. (CCTN). He was elected an Associate Member of the Royal Society of Medicine and is an advisor on education and training for the Bowen Forum

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