Jonathan Damonte
Homeopath & Bowen Therapist
Now located on Salt Spring Island since 2016. Jonathan continues to teach Bowen Therapy through his School of Bowen and has opened the Be Well Now Centre on Salt Spring Island where he sees clients for both Homeopathy and Bowen Therapy. Clients usually come following ‘word of mouth’ mentions seeking relief from long standing or difficult to treat conditions. Since locating to Salt Spring Island Jonathan can offer his clients more time and focus in resolving the unique challenges of their health.
Bowen Therapy and Homeopathy on Salt Spring located in Merchants Mews (next to Jana’s Bake Shop)
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Jonathan’s bio
Jonathan opened the first Be Well Now centre in Toronto in 2001 and the Bowen Therapy Clinics chain in 2008. He is the founder of Bowen Therapy College also in 2008, an accredited member of The North American Society of Homeopaths (NASH) and a Certified Classical Homeopath as per the Council for Homeopathic Certification (CHC) since 1998. He is a founding member of the Canadian Council for Homeopathic Certification and was the founder of the Bowen Canada Registry in 2001. Also, was key to the formation of the first Canadian Equine Bowen Instruction School, Equi-Bow™ Canada.
Jonathan first learned Bowen Therapy from Ossie Rentsch and has now created an online training system for Bowen Therapy called Bowen-Online to complement the North American Bowen Teaching College, this is the only school in the world endorsed by the family of Tom Bowen, who developed the therapy named after the founder of the modality.
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Jonathan currently teaches Bowen Therapy across Canada & the US as well as maintaining a practice on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. He remains instrumental in the growth and success of Bowen Therapy in Canada. His practice provides a rich source of experience that he bring to his enthusiastic and encouraging teaching methods.
Most clients come at a time of health crisis and it is in that moment that Damonte shines brightest. His clients praise comes via the patient referrals he receives. Notable to his practice is his ability to target the real issues in a persons health concern. His caring and compassion are clearly evident when he speaks and the pragmatic approach to the health and progress of each person he works with is refreshing. Damonte treats many patients suffering from chronic pain and complex diseases with an approach that utilizes Bowen Therapy for most structural and postural problems, along with or followed by homeopathy and if necessary or applicable a dietary and nutritional approach to their disease. He assesses a patients’ needs for these through in-depth assessments.
His father John Damonte was a renowned British Homeopath and is often credited with the current resurgence of homeopathy in Britain. Jonathan Damonte’s background in Homeopathy and Orthomolecular Medicine led him to study and practice Bowen Therapy with The Bowen Therapy Academy of Australia, he holds a diploma from the Toronto School of Homeopathic Medicine. He has also studied with the Bombay School of Homeopathy, Massimo Mangiolavori, The New England School of Homeopathic Medicine, amongst others. Interestingly, he is now more adherent to the classical homeopathy of the founders of homeopathy. These include, Hahnemman, Boenninghausen and Lippe. All great homeopaths who were also great teachers who have the purest information about this form of healing.
Clients from the Mainland should know that Siân Rackham CBT will continue at the Vancouver & White Rock locations to provide Bowen Therapy.
After three months, I could walk around a mall,” says Carde, a coordinator in the digital art department of the British Columbia Institute of Technology. “It makes me cry to think of it now. I had no faith but as I got better, I thought ‘holy crap, this is working!’ I’m feeling about 80 per cent to what I was before.