How to make a character BOW. Bend from hips

Hello. We are looking for suggestions on how to get a character to Bow.  We thought of ideas, like using body turner to achieve that or worst case, use cycle layers on a flat puppet but then we lose all of the functionality on the bowing puppet or would have to do a lot to get the bowing puppet to be able to turn its head or use the mouth.  Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions.