The origins of NST go back to the 1950’s in Geelong, Victoria, Australia when self-proclaimed osteopath Tom Bowen commenced to develop it, at that time simply calling his work ‘soft tissue therapy’.

After Bowen’s death in 1982 interpretations of his earlier work sprang up and have been in use since that time. Of noteworthy mention is the Bowen Technique developed in 1986 by Oswald Rentsch one of Bowen’s early students.

However, it was not until 1991 that practising Applied Physiologist, Michael J. Nixon-Livy from Australia recognised the urgent need for much of the unique later work of Tom Bowen to be organised into a practical, usable and teachable system.

Importantly this system would have to retain the high level of clinical effectiveness that characterised Bowen's later work when he was alive.

Intensive clinical trials and experiments were undertaken in Melbourne, Australia, over a four year period on hundreds of individuals, to establish the most effective and reproducible interpretation of Bowen's work.

In 1995 Nixon-Livy’s work had achieved the status of a truly integrated and effective system, and was given the name Neurostructural Integration Technique (NST) being deemed representative of the later advanced style of Tom Bowen’s work.

It is important to understand that the qualities which make the NST style so unique essentially set it apart from all other original and previous interpretations of his work, currently being taught. NST is clearly and emphatically in a class of its own.

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