Megan Bowser (she/they) is a Licensed Massage and Bodywork Therapist (NCLMBT #13426) offering integrative massage therapy, mindfulness-based bodywork, and embodiment coaching. Megan began their practice soon after completing the Massage Therapy Diploma Program at the Body Therapy Institute in 2013. Centering the healing and wellness of BIPOC and queer folk, Megan’s practice is trauma-sensitive and rooted in liberatory politic. Megan is also an artist who’s work centers connection with our place in this living world through poetry and speculative fiction writing, collaborative projects, and participation in the Southern art visioning collective Art Ain’t Innocent. Their creative and healing arts work both aim to support an ever deepening and expanding connection with our aliveness and the life of all beings. Megan is currently working in private practice in Durham, NC.

EXPERIENCE AND lineage

I have a BA in Humanities and Fine Arts

I gave birth to my child, Ruby, in 2013

Some of the teachers who inform my practice are: Ruby Jones, Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Toni Cade Bambara, Fernando Flores, Malidoma Patrice Somé, Thomas Hanna, Ida Rolfe, Moshé Feldenkrais,  Bessel van der Kolk, Daniel Siegel, Staci K. Haines along with other Strozzi-trained practitioners/teachers, Manuela Mischke-Reeds, Deb Dana, Bayo Akomolafe, my AAI co-conspirators.

Foundational Credentials 

I graduated with a Massage Therapy Diploma from Body Therapy Institute in 2013. I studied with the Center for Embodied Teacher Education, in both the Spirit of Learning & Somatic Educational Leadership programs. I have facilitation training through Technology of Participation Facilitation Methods Training and the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute Immersion. I’m a somatically trained coach through The Embody Lab’s Mind-Body Coaching program. 

Further Education in Somatics & Working with Trauma

Brain, Body & Trauma in the Therapeutic Relationship with Michael Shea

Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness with David Treleaven

The Somatic Practice of Pure Awareness and The Somatic Practice of Bodhicitta with Dharma Ocean 

Traumatic Stress and the Breath with Jane Clapp and Jennifer Snowdon

Race and Resilience for Healers with Michelle C. Johnson and Kerri Kelly

Movement for Trauma Level 1 and Neurobiology of Embodied Spirituality with Jane Clapp

Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy with Julia Corley

Roadmap for Liberation training with Rev. angel Kyodo williams 

Clinical Somatics with the Somatic Movement Center

Relevant Further Education in Massage & Bodywork Modalities

Biodynamic Cardiovascular Therapy with Michael Shea

Reiki Attunement, Usui

Nuad Thai Massage, Chaloeysak style with Chutikan Hoover

ACE Massage Cupping Certification 

Integrative Reflexology with Claire Marie Miller