A Holistic Path to Wellness with Bowen Therapy, Kinesiology, and Qigong – Ben Calder on the Healers Café

In this episode of The Healers Café, Manon Bolliger, FCAH, RBHT, speaks with Ben Calder about his transformative journey into integrative healing, exploring how personal challenges led him to embrace modalities like kinesiology, Bowen therapy, and Qigong to empower others in their health journeys.

Highlights from today’s episode include:

Ben Calder  They would have a logic, okay, if we’ve got a mind component, do we need to do anything with the mind? If we’ve got a body and behavior component, do we need to do something with that? And that might have included diet and nutrition.

 

Ben Calder  You know, I see quite a number of people in their 60s and 70s. And almost the number one thing that they will tell me is that the doctor has told them that they can expect it because of their age. And at that point, I want to slap that doctor and just say, No, that’s not true.

 

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Ben Calder  You know, give yourself a decade to master a level of Qigong, and it’s not a quick fix, and you may not even feel it in the first 2,3,4 sessions. You know, the Chinese would traditionally say 100 days of practice to start feeling your chi and then the rest of your life to master it.

ABOUT BEN CALDER:

I have for many years had an interest in how people tick & the ability of the body and mind to restore its self naturally to optimum health given the right motivation.
I specialise in assessing health and well-being and generating solutions to improve your vitality, functionality and capability so we can deliver 100% of the passion that drives us in a vehicle; your body/mind; fit for purpose.

I can provide both physical and mental health re-training to help you be an effective captain of your industry using a range of integral and holistic approaches in a bespoke program to suit your aims and needs.

I can offer classes and training in mindful movement, meditation, personal and relationship dynamics and communication to help make you and your team better at doing what they do best.

I run regular meditation and LifeForce Qigong classes. I facilitate Shadow Self workshops on the hidden aspects of communication dynamics, Integral Relationship groups and have also lead classes on personal development, self-help techniques and a men’s support group.

I have delivered keynote speeches to support groups, development circles, business networking groups, medical and health conferences. I can speak on a range of health-related topics to illuminate how a focus on personal health can liberate and elevate business and life.

Core purpose/passion: I’m really passionate about people taking responsibility for their health choices and how their behaviour has a direct impact on not only themselves, but on the world and life around them.

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ABOUT MANON BOLLIGER, FCAH, RBHT

As a recently De-Registered board-certified naturopathic physician & in practice since 1992, I’ve seen an average of 150 patients per week and have helped people ranging from rural farmers in Nova Scotia to stressed out CEOs in Toronto to tri-athletes here in Vancouver.

My resolve to educate, empower and engage people to take charge of their own health is evident in my best-selling books:  ‘What Patients Don’t Say if Doctors Don’t Ask: The Mindful Patient-Doctor Relationship’ and ‘A Healer in Every Household: Simple Solutions for Stress’.  I also teach BowenFirst™ Therapy through Bowen College and hold transformational workshops to achieve these goals.

So, when I share with you that LISTENING to Your body is a game changer in the healing process, I am speaking from expertise and direct experience”.

Mission: A Healer in Every Household!

For more great information to go to her weekly blog:  http://bowencollege.com/blog

For tips on health & healing go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/tips

 

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* De-Registered, revoked & retired naturopathic physician after 30 years of practice in healthcare. Now resourceful & resolved to share with you all the tools to take care of your health & vitality!

TRANSCRIPT

Introduction  00:00

Welcome to the Healers Café. The number one show for medical practitioners and holistic healers, to have heart to heart conversations about their day to day lives, while sharing their expertise for improving your health and wellness.

Manon Bolliger  00:20

Welcome to the Healers Cafe, and today I’m with Ben Calder. He’s from north Wales, and he’s an integral health practitioner with all kinds of modalities like kinesiology, epigenetics, Bowen technique, or Bowen therapy, MSTR, integral, transpersonal psychology, shadow work, integral relationship facilitator, and he teaches life force Qigong. I know there’s a lot more that I haven’t covered here, but I just wanted to welcome you and really just have an open discussion about the type of practices or the therapies that you offer, your life as a practitioner, what is it like? And yeah, anything you’d like to share. So welcome first of all.

 

Ben Calder  01:15

Thanks, Manon, it’s great to be here and really glad to be talking with you today.

 

Manon Bolliger  01:21

Well, actually, you know, my first question really is, how did you get into all of this, like, how did you know or self select, or did somebody throw you in this path? How did it all begin for you?

 

Ben Calder  01:36

If I, if I really look back at it, was down to a very disrupted childhood. You know, as as many of us do, I think, who come into doing health work, healing work of some kind, we’ve got a history of something we’re trying to fix in ourselves. And, you know, I can go all the way back to birth trauma. You know, my birthing process for a start off wasn’t easy, and then there were kind of adverse childhood experiences when I was quite young, and I think especially as a an adolescent, if I was around these days, I would just be classed as neuro diverse. I was a very restless, disrupted, jittery young man, and I was, I was really quite lucky that my mom could see there was something a little bit different about me, and didn’t make it anything negative. And in fact, we started, she started taking me to personal development, like psychic development, stuff when I was 15 years old. And through that, through the lady that ran those classes, we got involved in these big New Age exhibitions that were taking place in the early 90s, where we were growing up, and we were helping there, and I would be at the workshops and taking tickets on the doors, and I had a chance to either sit outside a door to stop people disturbing the experiences, or I could go inside and I could sit and listen. So as a 15 year old, I started listening to people talking about all sorts of practices, and actually, the one of the first things I ever learned I was listening to an introduction to shiatsu and the lady there taught us a technique for helping with insomnia, which was something I had just by massaging the kidney one point on the base of the foot. And that night, I started employing it, and within a couple of days, my insomnia went and I’ve never had a problem with it since, and even the following year, I can remember teaching it to my summer job, my boss’s mother would come and stay, and I remember showing it to her because she complained about not being able to …..

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  * De-Registered, revoked & retired naturopathic physician, after 30 years of practice in healthcare. Now resourceful & resolved to share with you all the tools to take care of your health & vitality!