AN OPPORTUNITY TO FREE THE BODY FROM GRAVITY AND TO RETURN TO ESSENCE, IN EFFORTLESS FLOATING FREEDOM.
IT’S ABOUT ALLOWING YOURSELF TO LET GO AND TO REMEMBER HOW TO HEAL. It is also about the way we help you do it.
Discover the deeply relaxing effect of aquatic therapies. Massages and breathing techniques are conducted safely, with the support of a therapist and flotation accessories, in a pool specially built for this purpose. The water, heated to 35 degrees, is free of harmful chemicals. After a session, the body is refreshed and the mind calm.
AQUATIC THERAPIES
Water massages, breathing techniques and immersions are conducted safely by a certified therapist who is your caretaker throughout the whole experience. With the help of floaters and a nose clip, we will lead you through the whole experience in a pool specially built for this purpose. The water, coming from natural source, is heated to 35 degrees and treated only with hydrogen peroxide and UV light, making it free from harmful chemicals. Sessions are tailored according to your needs, limitations, backgrounds and various states of mind.
SESSION BENEFITS
A session in warm water facilitates movement and flexibility, helps reduce muscle and joint pain, as well as stress, anxiety or water related fears. It increases the blood flow in the body and is also very beneficial in surgical recovery and throughout the pregnancy and postpartum process. It can also simply be a floating holistic experience that will bring you to a profound state of liberation and relaxation.
WATER MAGIC
Water is an ancient source of health and well-being. It is an essential element of life, with countless therapeutic potentials. The planet and human body are made up of about 70% water. Knowing and taking good care of this fluidity determines the vitality of our health and of the world around us. In any of its states, water not only hydrates and nourishes: it cleans, vibrates, reverberates, stores memory, transforms, and allows for the existence of life.
Types of sessions
Regardless of whether you want to relax or treat a physical condition, a session in the water will help to relax the body and revitalize the organism. The experience will allow a new perception of the senses and the awakening of liquid memories. A forgotten link to the water element and how beneficial it can be for us. From undulating movements, massages, floating and submersion, the guided body relaxes and flows with a river of warm and comforting temperatures.
All mothers-to-be are grateful for an experience like this! Pregnancy is a phase in which the body gains a lot of tension and weight, with profound changes throughout the body – not all of them harmonious and peaceful. It is a time of hope and enlightenment, but also of some anxiety and fatigue. The benefits of water therapies for pregnant women have been recognized since ancient times. They bring a feeling of deep relaxation, in which body and mind disconnect from the outside and free themselves. The legs and arms lengthen, the head floats on a special pillow, the movements help to relax. Inside the belly, the baby will feel the flow of water and the mother’s well-being. It has been proven that massages during pregnancy are also beneficial in preventing postpartum depression or states of extreme fatigue. They will be a relief for cases of back pain, migraines and sleepless nights. The same applies to the postpartum phase.
It is one of the most beautiful experiences in the water, watching a baby surrender to the warmth and comfort, the feeling of returning to the womb, lightness and total relaxation. Babies have a recent memory of non-gravity movements and this gives them immediate well-being. The sounds of the water are familiar, they are a home, a warmth, a memory. These sessions promote a more gradual and harmonious encounter with the outside world.
A newborn baby has a very recent memory of the comfort of warm water, the feeling of lightness and weightlessness, without external stimuli. The softness and warmth that these sessions provide will bring your baby great peace of mind, after the shock of coming out of the womb and facing a whole challenge of movement and gravity. There, with the therapist and one or both parents accompanying, it will be a time for them to start building their self-confidence, independence and healthy relationship with water. In addition to effortlessly strengthening the body, sessions for babies up to two years of age offer a great sense of freedom and connection between the intrauterine world and the outside world.
Types of events
Do you still remember your last formative experience in the water?
We therefore open our doors to all aquatic bodywork practitioners who want to continue their training.
Our Guided Practice classes are the best way we have found to help you throughout the training process and that is why you are invited to participate by registering for the next practice.
In each 120-minute meeting, you will be able to give and receive sessions, give and receive feedback from other practitioners, and receive feedback from the facilitator to have the full experience as a student but with the aim of better preparing yourself for a professional environment.
If it is your first time visiting us, before registering for the event, inform us by email [email protected] about your details (name and email) and training level.
If you are a practitioner or student of aquatic bodywork then you already know what we are talking about, but if you have never heard of this type of dance meeting, then we feel we owe you a brief explanation.
The water dance meetings that we promote are for all people who are more or less connected with dance or some type of conscious and authentic movement. In these meetings you can provide your body, together with the other participants, with a language, an action, a memory or even an intention in interacting in the water. With rules but no obligations, this is a space to let your imagination run wild.
If it is your first time visiting us, before registering for the event, inform us by email [email protected] about your details (name and email) and your desire to participate in this event and we will send you a an answer on how to prepare for this moment – Guide on how to be in a Water Dance Jam.
The Waterdoulas approach is designed by the therapeutic qualities of water: releasing tensions and memories from the body, moved with flow, confidence and intimately linked to the beginning of life. These practices are opportunities to explore the healing power of water combined with the mother’s connection with her baby, body and emotions. Pregnancy in the Water or Pool Naissance ™ is a collective class for pregnant women and/or couples, designed for small groups of 3 to 10 participants. Our proposal is quite different from prenatal water aerobics in the sense that we essentially seek to give pregnant women back their sovereignty.
If it is your first time visiting us, before registering for the event, inform us by email [email protected] about your details (name and email) and your desire to participate in this event and we will send you a an answer on how you should prepare for this moment – PREGNANCY PRACTICES in Water.
AQUATIC BODYWORK TECHNIQUES
First of therapies, mother of all others. Watsu derives from two words: water (water) and shiatsu (finger pressure). Muscle stretches, effortless push-ups, twists, a feeling of lightness and an enormous mental tranquility. The combination of these factors developed in an aquatic environment is due to the North American Harold Dull.
Developed by Arjana Brunschwiler and Aman Schroter in the 1980s, it is also known as Wasser Tanzen or WATA. It is characterized by more dynamic movements, coordinated with breathing and massage elements, Aikido, undulations, inversions, dancing and gentle immersions (with the help of a nose clip).
It is at the Quiet Healing Center, in Auroville, India, a space that brings together various therapies related to well-being, that resident therapists Dariya and Daniel developed this aspect of aquatic movements. Liquid Flow is inspired and based on the forms and qualities of Watsu, OBA, Healing Dance and WaterDance.
Oceanic Bodywork Aqua is a session that starts very smoothly as the body and mind gain confidence in the therapist. It grows into a combination of stretching, massage and joint mobilization. It is one of the techniques whose experience is enriched with submersion, using a nose clip. It was created by Kaya Femerling and Nirvano Martina Schulz.
It’s like receiving a dance in ten steps, without any kind of effort, just enjoying it. The name of the healing comes from this ability to revitalize the body through a sequence of movements. This treatment was initially developed by Alexander George in 1993.
With wisdom enriched and developed for over 20 years, Shantam has become one of the people who knows the therapeutic effects of water better. She developed Fluid Presence, the most holistic of therapies, which understands the body and movements as a whole, in and out of the water.
In Japanese, Hara means the center of everything, the focus and origin of movement. Aguahara was created by Alex Sieberstein and explores the individuality of each one and their connection with their surroundings. It involves us in the silence we find in the water and in the way the body creates its own underwater flight, albeit always guided by a therapist.
Some describe the sensation that one experiences in an aquatic session as a return to the womb, a submersion that brings us security and frees us from the weight of gravity. Flydeeper is one of the therapies in which we can most easily reach this state of surrender and lightness. The sequence of movements is slow and intuitive.
Created by Kfir Kol in 2005, this technique was developed while observing and working with newborn babies in the water. Over the years, he has improved not only his movements, but also his baby’s cognitive, ergonomic and sensory knowledge. The experience provides the activation of recent memory and the return to a natural and protected aquatic environment.
In a series of harmonious movements, this “rebirth therapy”, as it is also called, returns us to a feeling of coziness and relaxation, a return to a state of calm and tranquility. The word Janzu means peaceful river. And that’s what happens: the body lets itself go like a river that carries us gently.