Rowland Benjamin

Rowland Benjamin has worked as an osteopath for thirty-eight years and in the health and massage field for over forty-five years. In the late 1970s he established yoga schools in Australia and the U.K, and worked with yoga and massage for several years before training as an osteopath at the N.S.W. College of Natural Therapies and the Pacific College of Osteopathic medicine, Sydney, Australia. He set up his first osteopathic practice in July 1985 in Sydney, Australia. In 1987 he moved to Liverpool, UK and worked for a year there, and used the time for postgraduate studies at The British School of Osteopathy.

Rowland started working as a lecturer in 1987 teaching ‘Natural medicine’ for Liverpool City Council and ‘Natural living’ at Burton Manor College, Cheshire, U.K. Since then, he has lectured in Alternative medicine, Natural living, Soft tissue technique, Surface anatomy, Transverse friction, Deep tissue massage, Contemporary health issues, Life skills, Hydrotherapy and Advanced massage at various colleges in Perth, Western Australia.

During his career as an osteopath Rowland has worked in Australia and the UK in private practice and as a locum. He has written several books. In 2002 he wrote Myofaction – Myofascial Manipulation and sold one hundred copies. He only made it available to a worldwide readership using online publishing in December 2022. In 2015 he published ‘Safe Stretch’ that looked at individual differences in flexibility and took them into account when prescribing the right stretches. www.safe-stretch.info. In 2022 he published Massage Yourself, which describes a series of self-massage techniques for muscles, tendons and ligaments www.massage-yourself.com.

Rowland worked as an environmental activist for forty years and runs Information for Action www.informaction.org. He also authors environmental books that use cartoons to explain the issues www.ecofreakocartoons.com

In the 1990s he engaged in a short musical career, writing and performing his song in Australia and the UK. He has travelled extensively throughout Australia, New Zealand, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, North America, Central America and South America.

Since 2010 he has been working on the construction of a Permaculture based orchard and nature area, Bridgetown Hillside Garden in Bridgetown, Western Australia www.bhg.org.au where he resides and practices osteopathy. He continues to practice anatomy based manual therapy using self-help systems such as stretching and self-massage to empower his patients.