Cherrybarn

Welcome to Cherrybarn. The building started life as a smaller shearing shed, which the treatment room is part of. This was extended in the 1980s to include the upper area. The layout of the shearing shed was sheep holding pens in the lower level and a race leading up to the upper area, where the shearing platform was located.

The building was converted into a home in the mid 1990s as a DIY project by a local farmer. We purchased the property in 2013, and by this time the building had fallen into disrepair. Anything that could leak, did, and the local wildlife had moved in. We have spent the last 5 years renovating the building, with the layout of the rooms all having completely changed along with new wiring, plumbing, windows, insulation, etc. Any of the work we were able to do, we have done ourselves in evening and weekends.

The treatment room was the last room to be completed in January 2020.

My partner Simon and I moved to New Zealand in 2009 from the UK, as we wanted both an adventure and change of lifestyle. Since then we have had our two girls and have settled into the outdoor lifestyle that The Bay of Plenty offers.

In 2020 I decided to finally bite the bullet and have a career change, and having had Bowen Therapy on myself, and witnessing the effects on my family, it was an obvious choice. I qualified through Fascial Kinetics in December 2020 and am continuing my training in complimentary modalities.