|
Welcome to the Worldwide Water Family,
all who study, practice and teach Watsu®
and Aquatic Bodywork around the world. All our
transcripts are made accessible here where we meet to
share information about our work, its profound effects in
spas and clinics, and list to the public classes and
authorized practitioners.
|
|
WATSU®
is the first form of Aquatic Bodywork. Harold Dull began
developing it in 1980 floating his Zen Shiatsu students
in the warm pool at Harbin Hot Springs applying its
stretches and moves. In the years since, with the help of
countless others in classes, clinics and spas around the
world, Watsu has evolved into what many consider the most
profound development in bodywork in our time. While other
modalities are based on touch, the holding that working
in water necessitates, brings the receiver to a new level
of connection and trust. This, combined with the
therapeutic benefits of warm water and the greater
freedom of movement it encourages, creates a modality
that can effect every level of our being. Harold also
developed Tantsu
to bring Watsu's nurturing whole body holding and
stretching back onto land.
|
|
WABA, an educational
non-profit, is dedicated to making the benefits of both
giving and receiving Aquatic Bodywork available to
everybody. It maintains the Registry of the Worldwide
Water Family, recording classes taken everywhere, making
it possible for students to study wherever they want and
fulfill the requirements to be listed on the Registry as
a practitionero instructor. Any who have taken a class in
the previous 3 years can enter here and share information
about the applications of our work to different
conditions and find pools and others, etc. Anyone can
enter as a guest to look up details and hold a place in a
class. All classes posted here are authorized to be added
to your WABA transcript.
|