About
I am a massage and bodywork therapist (NCLMBT #13426) and somatic educator. I work individually with people on their path of self-discovery.
Time does not heal all wounds,
but presence might.
I’m an artist and bodywork therapist
My name is Megan Bowser (she/they) and I’m an artist and bodywork therapist offering integrative massage therapy, embodiment coaching, and body-based practices that honor the healing wisdom you have inside and support you in better aligning your actions in the world. I have over a decade of body-focused healing practice and a lifelong curiosity about how we live.
I care about how we are.
My favorite questions start with how. How do we relate to each other? How do we hold our experiences? How do we shape ourselves around and within our histories? How do we connect with what is meaningful and move through change?
Our lives and histories shape us, and with presence we can shape change* in our lives. Through systemic and personal traumatic stress we are taught that it is safer to not feel our experience, to separate our mind from our body and to disconnect from our felt-sense. But it’s through our felt-sense that we can know how to move towards transformation. Positive, pleasurable experiences are some of the wisest teachers on this path. My work focuses on supporting our capacity to connect with our felt-sense by practicing being present.
WE CAN IMAGINE AND LIVE INTO NEW FUTURES, NOT ONLY IN OUR MINDS BUT THROUGH OUR BODY.
Connecting with our embodied presence is one gateway to transforming our inner relationship and shifting the possibilities we have as a society. Through presence we can know what it is to be whole and work towards building communities that honor our wholeness. This work requires a kind of rigorous love and is not work we do only in solitude. To imagine generative futures, we need to build supportive practices within ourselves and within community. I work with folks individually so that you can show up inside of your communities with more of you. When we can feel more and stay present, we have a greater capacity to move towards the creative, liberatory futures we need, right now.
“Navigating grief this year has been hard. I used to be very unaware of my own emotions and struggled with identifying my needs. Thanks for being another avenue and giving me the platform to tune into how things are feeling in my body.”
—B
Background
I am a genderqueer, asexual, mixed-Black, single/supported parent living with epilepsy. I’m grateful to be living inside of a lot of intersections. My own practice and healing work in community helps me to honor the power in multiplicity and difference. I work to honor a Black feminist and trauma-sensitive framework for myself and all of the folks I have the gift of being in relationship with and working alongside.
I found my way to the South in 2005 and moved to Durham in 2010. While I was born in California and raised in Florida, North Carolina is where my people are from (Lumbee/Chowanoke lands of eastern NC). This place feels like home. I'm grateful to be here and committed to learning this land and growing with this community.
I work out of a shared space at Radical Healing, an intentionally BIPOC centered and LGBTQIA+ affirming campus for healing and wellness. My bodywork practice is rooted in respect and an ongoing study of the body and our aliveness. My offerings are informed by deep listening, somatic practices, myofascial and structural integration, energy healing lineages, and both somatic and mindfulness based meditation. You can learn more about my experience and formal training here.
Other Work in the World
Mentorship & Consulting
I care about how we work and how we learn.
I offer mentorship and consulting for personal and business development including embodiment practice, strategic and action planning, emergent and trauma-sensitive frameworks. In over 10 years experience incubating, launching, and operating community-based businesses and collectives I’ve learned that the best work is possible when we are well resourced.
Art Practice & Cultural Work
I care about our collective healing and imagination.
I’m an artist and my creative work centers connection with our place in this living world through writing, collaborative projects, and participation in the local arts advocacy group Art Ain’t Innocent.
My training is in visual art and I’ve been writing my whole life, primarily poetry. I write to hear myself feeling. While poetry is and will always be part of my personal practice, I'm currently working on a speculative fiction project.
BIPOC Meditation Group
I care about practicing together
I’m part of a meditation group for folks who identify as Black, Indigenous, People of Color –no meditation experience required. This is a peer-led group that includes a ~20 minute meditation followed by a reading and circle share.
Every 2nd and 4th Monday, 6:30-8pm
People's Solidarity Hub
Free / Donation only to cover cost of the space