Learn WATSU® BASIC & Aqua Body Works
 

Having received the benefits of a session, you may wish to train so that you can share this work with clients, with your partner or friends.
If you are a health professional you can include this technique with your own healing modality.
Shiatsu, rebalancing, cranio-sacral, reiki, massage for example can be incorporated into your own water work.
The possibilities are endless.

The Aqua Body Works is effective when working with:
* Release of neuromuscular tension/ balancing body structure
* Trauma & head injuries
* Unreasonable fear of water
* Hyperactivity, anxiety & panic issues
* Easing the body stresses of pregnancy
* Exploration of consciousness, wholeness and creativity.

This training is appropriate for therapists, including:
physical & occupational therapists; massage therapists & body workers;
psychotherapists, trauma and head injury specialists.
Also those seeking a first step into the health care professions,
or just to have a beautiful gift to give to others.

In these trainings you can learn:

Watsu® Basics (Certified by WABA – Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association)

Aqua Bodyworks Basics

… and after attending a Basics course you can move onto advanced levels.

The WATSU® and Aqua Body Works training support the trainees to enter into a partnership with water.
It allows the basic characteristics of water - such as flow, current, buoyancy and adaptability to support your work.
Each trainee meets the water in his or her own way and develops a relationship with it.

In both trainings you learn in a small, supportive environment with not more than 8 participants.
You will receive extensive hands-on practice and guidance.
There are several distinct aspects of these trainings that weave together to support your work.

WATSU® BASIC

You learn:

-       Watsu's Basic Moves and positions and how, staying grounded and connected with the breath,
you can let the water do the work.

-        Water Breath Dance and find the stillness that is the ground of presence.

-        To connect basic moves and positions with long gracefully flowing transitions into the Transition Flow.

-        To adapt this to people of all sizes, shapes and dispositions.

-        You learn about your own body mechanics.

-        How to support and move each person as effortlessly as possible in the water.

-        How to provide the best possible alignment for your clients’ bodies as well as your own.

-        About emotional responses to Watsu for both the receiver and the giver so we can create a healthy, healing environment for each and every person.

Aqua Body Works Training
You learn:

-        Basic movement principals of the hydrodynamic forces working in water. For example spins and counter spins with partial release and full release etc.

-        Different supporting positions for example the triangle support for the head, elongating the neck.

-        Simple water moves that graduate toward more complex ones, and their appropriate application.

-        Yoga-like stretches.

-        Theoretical/cognitive material is offered, but direct personal experience is the most important aspect.

-        Practical ways to relate to the people you are working with.

-        Clear positive feedback modalities.

-        Basic Hypno-therapy language.

-        Movement that inspire improvisation in the water.

Certification requirements include:
1. Completion of a written exam.
2. Each trainee will give 20 Aqua Body works sessions, documented with notes.
3. Each trainee will receive 12 aquatic bodywork sessions, 8 of these to be Aqua Body Works sessions.
4. Each trainee will give a session to Masta

There four to eight participants in each class allowing time for one-on-one training.
The interests within the group flavour each training.
To deepen your own training you can gather a group of 4-8 trainees that share your special interests.

Accommodation is available close by.
While doing the training you can stay on the property in Gondwana Sanctuary.
If you have transport you can stay in a hotel or a resort in Byron Bay.

For dates and places, go to Program.