Wasser Tanzen | Water Shiatsu |
WATA (WaterDance)
«Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water, yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it»
Tao Te Ching
A glimpse into the world of
AQUATIC BODYWORK
Aquatic Bodywork embraces Watsu® and a wide array of disciplines from clinical interpaly such as Aquatic Integration™ with Cameron West, Watsupath-Cranio Sacral Therapy in Water™ with Elisa Muñoz to new horizons like Palliative Aquatic Programs™ to life coaching and third generation psychosomatics. It also applies to sports medicine and embraces poetry to rebirth as in WATA, Aquahara and Healing Dance. Therfore it provides a safe therapeutic net to apply a full spectrum of techniques that splash their fullest potential within a complete and comprehensive framework of well-beingness.
Bits of History on Watsu
Watsu® was presented to the international community as the first form of Aquatic Bodywork in 1980 by Harold Dull, a loved poet and visionary and a revolutionary for a new humanism. He studied with the creator of Zen Shiatsu in Japan Shizuto Masunaga. Watsu® combines the therapeutic benefits of warm water with the harmonizing effects of Zen Shiatsu. There is a merging edge of 3D «body gates access» and a gentle resemblance to earlier stages of life.
Read some of the inspiring benefits a Watsu session holds for you.
Bits of History on WATA
WATA is the abbreviation of “WasserTanzen” a German abbreviation that means WaterDance. WATA was first conceived by Arjana C. Brunschwiler who brought the dance into play in 1987 and Peter Schröter, who brought the movement of Aikido in a type of sub aquatic underwater dance choreography of submergence and emergence free movements wearing a nose clip. Over time, it has developed with alternative names but the core practice remains with Arjana and Minakshi, a senior WATSU® Practitioner who was there from the embrionary early stages of the work and saw its reaches.
IMAGINE A NEW UNFOLDING
My responsibility as a certified WATA, TCSA™ and Watsu®practitioner is to ensure a safe environment, offer unconditional support «holding space» often necessary to facilitate the body’s own mechanisms scope of co-regulation.
Once we tune with a deeper understanding of our whole beings…
- A real type of awareness begins
- Synchronicities spontaneously arise.
- There is a sense of the world outside and inside as filled up with the abundance of all possibilities. Submerge and emerge out of your body own´s latent inner resources in the embrace of water.
Find out more about the «waterful dynamics»
- Coming to terms with that innate sense of belonging is the landmark of an intro to a WATSU® session.
- If you can make up no excuses for continuing to explore further depths for broader limits to new paradigms on the span of the breath proceed for the all encompassing WATA to take you into further stages of breath awareness.
- Surrender to the sublime CranioSacral Therapy in Water™ sessions to reveal the reservoir of your innermost resources.
“The victory if ever there was one, is stolen from me”.
Dull, Harold. Finding Ways to Water: Collected Poems 1955-2007 (p. Sec1:106). Kindle Edition.
Harold Dull
Creator of Watsu®
"Although from the beginning I knew this world is impermanent not a moment passes when my sleeves are dry" Ryokan
