Michael Burgess has been a practising therapist since 1983.

He qualified in acupuncture at the College of Traditional Acupuncture and after post-graduate studies in the UK attended the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu China, where he practised in an out-patients clinic and studied herbalism, dietetics, Tui Na massage and Tai Chi.

He co-founded a multidisciplinary clinic which he managed for 10 years at the same time as studying  various approaches to the healing arts, Bowen Therapy being the most significant. He runs seminars in an advanced form of Bowen Therapy in the UK and internationally.