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I was born in March 1976 in Campia Turzii and at the age of only 6 months my life was seriously threatened by a wrongly administered vaccine due to a medical error. I survived 4 of the 5 children who were victims of the same error. The entire medical system saved us, through another doctor, ambitious, persevering and very well trained.
I grew up with the story of this miraculous rescue and in the spirit of respect for the well-trained people in the medical system and always aware that a system is composed of the people who make it up and therefore its functioning depends on the training and responsibility of these people.
All my childhood I played “doctor” and I always knew that I wanted to be a very good doctor who saves children. It was like a promise to my savior and to the Divinity. However, the storm of changes in 1989 showed me possibilities that I had not been aware of until then. Among all these possibilities, the idealized image of a company manager who is the leader of his employees, who works to create development opportunities, who brings progress and well-being to the environment he is part of, to the community in which he works, stood out very clearly. And somehow, adolescence and youth aligned with this dream, I opened and developed several companies and I also tested what it is like to be an employee, on very different levels and with very different responsibilities.
Throughout this journey, the most fulfilling moments have always been those in which I worked with or for the benefit of children and especially those in which I had the role of teacher/instructor. From time to time, in the evening, but increasingly rarely, I would find the nostalgia of my childhood dream again and a shadow of regret would bring the sigh with many meanings: “it’s too late to start medicine after 25, 30 years”. And eventually, even these moments of sighing faded away, covered by the tumult of life in the Romanian community, the birth of a child and the challenges of balancing family life with the responsibilities of a company manager.
But because the childhood dream was the deep desire of my soul, the Universe played its game and brought me back to this choice. My little girl was almost 3 years old and although we had access to very good doctors and whatever treatments were necessary, we were unable to stop a rhinitis that seemed to come out of nowhere but which stubbornly persisted for several months a year, periodically turning into otitis and/or bronchitis that had to be treated quite aggressively. So it happened that, at the urging of a trusted friend, I went with my little girl to her first Bowen therapy session. The session ended, we followed the therapist’s recommendations and waited every day, watching very carefully, for something to change, but it didn’t happen. Because we already had the appointment made, although we didn’t understand much from that first session, other than that it hadn’t done any harm to the child, we went to the second session. After this one, we weren’t as tense waiting for the result, we were already ready to conclude that this wasn’t helping her either, until the 4th day after the session, when we realized with amazement that we couldn’t remember when neither of us had wiped her nose…
Because that’s how well-being and balance come, without fuss and fuss, normal and so natural that you don’t notice it right away.
From this moment on, the story flows naturally, like any river that flows in its natural bed. Seeing the results in the little girl, I chose to treat my own problems with the lumbar spine, problems that often made it impossible for me to walk even a few steps.
With my well-trained manager’s mind, I immediately made a simple financial calculation: investing in a Bowen technique course was worth it to keep my family healthy. And so I signed up for the first course, barely breaking 4 days out of my already extremely busy schedule (and planning to myself that during the course I would also solve urgent problems by phone or internet). I was very surprised to find that this course absorbed me completely, that the “problems” that appeared to be solved were actually not that urgent and could be postponed, and that in the last 2 days of the course I even forgot to check my phone… But of course, this was just a coincidence and did not reveal its true significance until much later, when after the second course, I felt how the priorities in my life were changing, how the manager’s office no longer attracted me at all, how I talked more and more about this technique, and how the friends who had allowed me to practice on them were now looking for me to help them because they had felt the results on their bodies, and what’s more, they were asking me to work with their friends who also had health problems. After this moment the story gets compressed, I started spending more and more time in the classroom, as I advanced in my training I re-attended all the courses in parallel with the modules I had already completed, reviewing the information, I always discovered something I had missed, a detail that I could have done better. Quite quickly I started translating for Professor Andrew Zoppos, and for 6 years I translated many of the courses held in Cluj and Timisoara.
Andrew Zoppos and Carmen Zoppou guided me throughout this journey, helping me to understand, learn, practice, develop and “grow” in practicing the Bowen technique. They became my second family, reliable friends, while at the same time being strict teachers and my permanent supporters.
Thus, in 2011 I quit my job as a manager, left my own company and opened my first Bowen practice together with 2 other colleagues. In 2012 I moved to another, larger practice, because I could no longer cover all the requests I received for Bowen therapy sessions. In parallel, whenever the teacher was in Cluj, I was permanently in the classroom, translating or simply attending the classes, observing the teaching.
In 2013 I took over the responsibility of organizing the courses in the Bowen Training Center in Cluj and since then I have also had the responsibility of supervising practice days for the trainees who were in training. I have worked with over 1000 trainees both in Cluj and Timisoara, and for a shorter period in Iasi.
During all this time I have not interrupted my activity at the office, where I have gained vast practical experience, working with over 5000 adult and child patients and over 2000 babies under 6 months. Of these, the most dear to me has always been working with couples who were medically declared “infertile” by helping through the Bowen technique to conceive and give birth to over 40 children; I feel just as much joy working with pregnant women and new mothers who are facing specific problems and of course, with all those babies who after just one Bowen therapy session no longer cry from tummy aches and have peaceful and happy days and nights.
This entire journey led to enrolling in the Bowtech instructor training program within the Bowen Therapy Academy in Australia, continuing to assist in both Professor Andrew Zoppos’ and Professor Carmen Zoppou’s courses, working with students during practice days, and supporting them in their work with patients through mentoring and supervision on the cases they work with.
The Bowen Technique changed my life! It brought health to my family, balance in my private life, incredible satisfaction through the cases I work with in my office, and the spiritual fulfillment of being able to respond to my childhood dream and my deep promise to give back what I received, health for children and babies.I am deeply grateful to my teachers who have guided me throughout this process and continue to do so, I thank all those who have trusted me as a therapist and especially to all the parents who have trusted me to leave their most precious treasures in my hands to be the intermediary for their comfort and well-being.
I continue, with joy!