Quiet Healing Center

Watsu® & Pregnancy with Xavier Boisson
2019-03-01 - 2019-03-03 | Quiet Healing Center, India
This 3-day course offers water students and practitioners the necessary tools for giving sessions to pregnant women and gaining a deeper insight into the fascinating world of pregnancy and birth in relation to aquatic bodywork. It also offers specific indications and contra-indications in the context of pregnancy and will allow you to give precious support to future mothers. With Watsu, we can help relieving specific pains and create psychological conditions to better prepare pregnant women for childbirth. The course also focuses on the prenatal energetic relation between parents and child and how the future father can fully participate in the pregnancy. With Watsu, the family history starts well before birth… Prerequisites: Watsu Basic or Watsu & Liquid Flow Basic. Credits: Watsu & Pregnancy gives 25 hours of credit as an elective with Watsu India. Xavier Boisson WABA facilitator for Watsu Basic, Watsu 1 and 2 and Tantsu, and a WaterDance practitioner. He is also specialized in working with pregnant women (and their partner). Timings: 8.45 AM – 6.30 PM Price: ₹ 14,500 (lunch included) Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® 2 with Xavier Boisson
2019-03-04 - 2019-03-10
A 7-day course on the surface only.
Watsu 2 expands the Transition Flow taught in Watsu 1. You learn additional movements and bodywork in each position and to incorporate them in a session.
You also learn about the meridians and acupressure points in Watsu and to creatively explore your own movements, while following the client’s tendency to move. Practicing acupressure massage, lifts, pushes and pulls introduced at this stage, helps developing the ability to explore and play with energy. Prerequisites:
Watsu 1.
Credits: Watsu 2 is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu training program and gives 50 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. Xavier Boisson
WABA facilitator for Watsu Basic, Watsu 1 and 2 and Tantsu, and a WaterDance practitioner. He is also specialized in working with pregnant women (and their partner). Timings: 8.45 AM – 6.30 PM
Price: ₹ 29,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® & Liquid Flow Basic with Dariya & Daniel
2019-03-12 - 2019-03-17
A course of 6 half days. Watsu & OBA are aquatic bodywork modalities given in a warm water pool (ideally 35°C). Watsu, the part where the client’s face stays always on the surface, introduces the qualities and body mechanics required to work with someone in water in order to create a profound state of both physical and mental relaxation.

During the Liquid Flow part the receiver is also brought under water (with nose clip), which offers a unique experience.
The flowing interaction with water, its fluid support and warm embrace, and the practitioner’s presence provide a space for the client to experience the multi-layered benefits of this powerful and softening bodywork. Watsu & OBA offer an opportunity for profound relaxation and letting go, for building trust, for being nurtured and held, for expanding inner and outer boundaries, for releasing emotions and traumas – ultimately, for freeing body and mind in a flow unique to each client and to each session.
In this course, you will practice basic techniques and qualities (grounding, presence, stillness, movement, attention) of being and moving another body in water. You will experience floating other people and being floated, on the surface and under water, thereby creating space for deep relaxation and nurturing body, mind and spirit.
Participants in this course often appreciate the group space, which fosters deep, meaningful and nurturing connections. Prerequisites:
No previous experience required.
Credits: Watsu Basic is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu training program and gives 16 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. Liquid Flow Basic is part of the Watsu India training program and gives an additional 11 hours of credit for registration with Watsu India and 11 supplementary hours with WABA. Dariya (as WABA facilitator) & Daniel have been sharing their passion for aquatic bodywork with groups since 2004.
Besides the belief that a solid technical base provides possibilities for ease and lightness in further personal growth, their main focus is to create spaces for flow, deepening and connection. Timings: 8.00 AM – 12.30 PM
Price: ₹ 14,950
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Shiatsu for Watsu® with Natacha Laborde & Petra Buschfeld
2019-03-12 - 2019-03-18
A 7-day course.
Watsu, the abbreviation of WATer ShiatSU, originates from Masunaga’s Zen Shiatsu, which was transferred and adapted to warm water by the Californian Shiatsu practitioner Harold Dull. Therefore a deeper knowledge of Shiatsu is highly recommended. Shiatsu is a modality, which originated within the oldest healing system known to humanity. It restores and maintains health by adjusting and balancing the body’s primary communication network − the energy system.
About 60% of this course is on land, during which we will offer a simple Shiatsu protocol for applying pressure along the 12 main meridians (energy pathways) and some basic theory of Chinese Medicine (yin yang, 5 elements system, organ-clock). Practical exercises on land and in water will let you discover your own energy system and become more sensitive to your partner’s energy body.
To become a certified Watsu practitioner, you need to have at least 50 hours of Shiatsu and 50 hours of Tantsu, another method of land-based bodywork. Prerequisites:
Watsu 1 or equivalent course.
Credits: Shiatsu for Watsu is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu learning program and gives 50 hours of credits for registration with WABA and Watsu India. Natacha Laborde
Certified Shiatsu facilitator and practitioner. Petra Buschfeld
Certified acupuncturist, WABA facilitator for Watsu Basic and co-facilitater for Shiatsu for Watsu. She also facilitates OBA Intro and Woga 1 & 2. Timings: 9 AM – 6.30 PM
Price: ₹ 28,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Woga® 1 & 2 (Yoga in Water) with Dariya
2019-03-19 - 2019-03-20, 2019-04-15 - 2019-04-16
A 2-day course.
Woga is the union of two words: water and yoga. It is based on yoga poses and stretches modified for warm water. Thanks to decrease in gravity, water allows greater ease of movement, unblocks articulations, lengthens and melts muscles, and removes negative tensions, thereby preventing stress, insomnia and anxiety. Water yoga is based on classic yoga poses and stretches, modified for standing in pool water, which is waist-to-chest high. You do not need to know how to swim.
Sessions are structured like their yoga equivalents on land: breathing, warm-up exercises, a series of poses, and a relaxation period. The difference is that you are in a warm water pool!
Focus of Woga 1 & 2 is Hatha Yoga in water (asanas in standing position, on the wall, in floating position, and under water), pranayama and meditation. Prerequisites:
No previous experience required (also no need to know how to swim).
Credits: Woga 1 & 2 (Yoga in Water) is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 12 supplementary hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. Dariya
WABA facilitator, has been sharing her passion for aquatic bodywork with groups since 2004. Besides the belief that a solid technical base provides possibilities for ease and lightness in further personal growth, her main focus is to create spaces for flow, deepening and connection. Timings: 9 AM – 6 PM
Price: ₹ 5,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Instructor Training Course (ITC) Woga® with Gianni De Stefani
2019-03-21 - 2019-03-26
In this 6-day course, you will:
– acquire the basics of WOGA
– be able to use the potential of yoga in shallow water
– learn a WOGA exercise repertoire
– receive didactic and methodical material to offer WOGA courses and/or incorporate WOGA into your water fitness classes. Topics addressed:

Yoga philosophy in general, background of Hatha Yoga and Pranayama
Practical and theoretical knowledge of the physical laws of water, which serves as the basis for a good general body feeling/image.
Methodology and didactics for planning lessons in teaching Woga.

Prerequisites:
WOGA 1&2 and a certified activity as instructor in aquatic sports or as bodyworker instructor, or long time bodyworker in any kind of activity.
Credits:
ITC Woga is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 42 supplementary hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. Gianni De Stefani
Travels worldwide since more than 30 years as organizer and WABA facilitator. He facilitates Watsu Basic, Watsu 1, 2 & 3, Anatomy for Watsuer, Adapted Watsu, Watsu & Meditation, Watsu for Babies, OBA, Woga, Water Gymnastics and Rehab. Timings: 8.45 AM – 6.30 PM
Price: ₹ 24,750 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

“Niramaya” Ayurvedic Therapeutic Massage Course with Dr. Sankar
2019-03-25 - 2019-03-30
Dr. Sankar developed this unique “Niramaya” Ayurvedic therapeutic massage technique, using the traditional concepts of Ayurvedic massage and marma (vital points) therapy in combination with modern anatomy and physiology.
A hands-on approach is used to learn this innovative massage, which rejuvenates the client and, at the same time, takes care of the well-being of the therapist. You will also learn to control your breathing before, during and after the massage, to protect yourself from negative energies, and to become a receptive channel for transferring positive healing energies to your client.
In addition, you will be introduced to the basic principles of Ayurveda as well as anatomy, physiology, yoga, meditation, and breathing.
Hailing from a traditional Ayurvedic doctors family, Dr. Sankar is a gifted 5th-generation doctor, who has been teaching in Asia and Europe. He also heads “Ayurtoday”, an Ayurvedic therapy centre in Guruvayur, Kerala.
Course syllabus

A brief history and philosophy of Ayurveda
Basic fundamental concepts of Ayurveda
Satva, Rajas, Tamas (Trigunas/3 qualities or properties of the universe)
Panchabhootas (5 great elements of the universe)
Vata, Pitha, Kapha (Tridoshas)
Saptha Dhatus (7 structural elements of the body)
Basic education of how to understand prakruthi (temperament/constitution) and vikruthi (present situation of the person in comparison with the tridoshas)
Some Sanskrit terminologies used during the classes
Introduction to modern anatomy and physiology needed for the course
Yoga postures needed for the course
Breathing techniques needed for the course
Rituals to be performed for the course
Protection techniques

Course materials provided by Ayurtoday

Basic booklet that includes the study material for the courses
Uniform for the course
Certificate upon successful completion of the course

Dr. Sankaranarayanan.K.P (alias Dr. Sankar) and “Ayurtoday”
Dr. Sankar was born on 30th January 1978 to an Ayurvedic doctor couple, whose family has been practicing Ayurveda for more than a century and manufacturing Ayurvedic medicines over the past 80 years.
After his studies at St. Thomas College, he was selected to pursue his education at the Ayurvedic Medicinal College in Kerala and received a university degree in 2002.
As the 5th generation doctor, Dr. Sankar became the head of the Sri Guruvayurappan Ayurveda Nursing Home, a small, but beautiful Ayurvedic centre in the temple town of Guruvayur, Kerala. The centre was founded in 1984 by his father Dr. K. R. Prabhakaran, a well-known Ayurvedic physician in those days. The Ayurvedic manufacturing unit was set up much earlier by his father’s uncle in 1924.
Dr. Sankar has been improving the nursing home and its manufacturing section ever since, while taking care that the traditional Ayurvedic values are not lost. He has also been travelling to many Asian and European countries to train students in Ayurveda and to give workshops, conferences and consultations.
With the aim of propagating this ancient Indian system of medicine and making it available to all those with a genuine interest, Dr. Sankar founded AYURTODAY. Please click on www.ayurtoday.com for more information. Timings: 9.00 AM – 4.00 PM
Price: ₹ 16,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this intensive.

Watsu® & OBA® Basic with Dariya & Daniel
2019-04-02 - 2019-04-07
A course of 6 half days. Watsu & OBA are aquatic bodywork modalities given in a warm water pool (ideally 35°C). Watsu, the part where the client’s face stays always on the surface, introduces the qualities and body mechanics required to work with someone in water in order to create a profound state of both physical and mental relaxation.

During the OBA part the receiver is also brought under water (with nose clip), which offers a unique experience.
The flowing interaction with water, its fluid support and warm embrace, and the practitioner’s presence provide a space for the client to experience the multi-layered benefits of this powerful and softening bodywork. Watsu & OBA offer an opportunity for profound relaxation and letting go, for building trust, for being nurtured and held, for expanding inner and outer boundaries, for releasing emotions and traumas – ultimately, for freeing body and mind in a flow unique to each client and to each session.
In this course, you will practice basic techniques and qualities (grounding, presence, stillness, movement, attention) of being and moving another body in water. You will experience floating other people and being floated, on the surface and under water, thereby creating space for deep relaxation and nurturing body, mind and spirit.
Participants in this course often appreciate the group space, which fosters deep, meaningful and nurturing connections. Prerequisites:
No previous experience required.
Credits: Watsu Basic is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu training program and gives 16 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. OBA Basic is part of the Watsu India training program and gives an additional 15 hours of credit for registration with Watsu India and 15 supplementary hours with WABA. Dariya (as WABA facilitator) & Daniel have been sharing their passion for aquatic bodywork with groups since 2004.
Besides the belief that a solid technical base provides possibilities for ease and lightness in further personal growth, their main focus is to create spaces for flow, deepening and connection. Timings: 1.00 – 6.00 PM
Price: ₹ 17,100
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® 1 (Transition Flow) with Dariya & Daniel
2019-04-09 - 2019-04-13, 2019-09-15 - 2019-09-19
A 5-day course on the surface only. In this course you will be taught to connect the basic movements and positions you have learned in Watsu Basic with long, gracefully flowing transitions and to adapt this work to people of different sizes, shapes, and dispositions. You will also learn about your own body mechanics and how to support and move each person as effortlessly as possible.
On land, you will be introduced to both Co-Centering and Tantsu, and explore what being held means to you and others.
Prerequisites:
Watsu & Liquid Flow Basic or Watsu Basic & OBA Intro or Watsu Basic.
Credits: Watsu 1 is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu training program and gives 34 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. Dariya (as WABA facilitator) & Daniel have been sharing their passion for aquatic bodywork with groups since 2004.
Besides the belief that a solid technical base provides possibilities for ease and lightness in further personal growth, their main focus is to create spaces for flow, deepening and connection. Timings: 9.00 – 6.00 PM
Price: ₹ 20,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Somatic Movement with Maggie
2019-04-13 - 2019-04-14
A 2-day neuromuscular re-education (mind-body training) intensive in the tradition of Thomas Hanna.
Somatics is a system of slow mindful movements. It is a gentle, easy and effective way to help you manage chronic and acute pain. Other benefits include more ease in the body, better posture and deep relaxation. It teaches you to recognize, release and reverse chronic pain patterns resulting from injury, stress, or habituated postures. We will begin with a short introduction – what Somatics is, why it’s unique and how it works, and then experience a variety of fun, easy and gentle movements designed to help you create a deeper sense of awareness as to the places where you hold tension in your body.
At the end of the session there will be time for questions and a review of specific movements which can be practiced at home.
Handouts of the home practice will be given.
For further information on Somatics please visit: Association for Hanna Somatics, Novato Institute for Somatic Research and Training and International Institute for Somatic Movement Education. Maggie
Originally from London, Maggie joined Auroville in 2005 where she lives and works as a massage therapist and intensive facilitator.
She is a professionally trained Somatic Movement Educator and offers classes, intensives and individual therapies.
Timings: 9.30 AM – 5.00 PM
Price: Rs 5,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Somatic Movement with Maggie
2019-08-17 - 2019-08-18
A 2-day neuromuscular re-education (mind-body training) course in the tradition of Thomas Hanna.
Somatics is a system of slow mindful movements. It is a gentle, easy and effective way to help you manage chronic and acute pain. Other benefits include more ease in the body, better posture and deep relaxation. It teaches you to recognize, release and reverse chronic pain patterns resulting from injury, stress, or habituated postures. We will begin with a short introduction – what Somatics is, why it’s unique and how it works, and then experience a variety of fun, easy and gentle movements designed to help you create a deeper sense of awareness as to the places where you hold tension in your body.
At the end of the course there will be time for questions and a review of specific movements which can be practiced at home.
Handouts of the home practice will be given.
For further information on Somatics please visit: Association for Hanna Somatics, Novato Institute for Somatic Research and Training and International Institute for Somatic Movement Education. Maggie
Originally from London, Maggie joined Auroville in 2005 where she lives and works as a massage therapist and course facilitator.
She is a professionally trained Somatic Movement Educator and offers classes, courses and individual therapies.
Timings: 9.30 AM – 5.00 PM
Price: ₹ 5,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Open Heart-Space Meditation Workshop with Samrat
2019-08-31 - 2019-09-01, 2019-09-21 - 2019-09-22
Open Heart-Space Meditation is a simple practice of becoming aware of the reality as it is without judgment, interpretation or reaction, and settling into its vast, luminous expanse. We learn to embrace and let go of each experience as it arises and subsides. Eventually, the mind falls silent and sinks into the open heart-space, a doorway to oneness, where the inner and outer worlds meet and merge.
We use practices from insight meditation and various spiritual traditions to help dissolve habitual patterns of closing ourselves from the reality that is ever-present in each moment.
The key pointers during this workshop will be dropping our identities and opening to an embrace of awareness and love. No previous experience needed to attend this workshop! Samrat
Samrat Das grew up in the Integral Yoga Ashram of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother at Pondicherry, India, for 21 years. He has been living in Auroville, an international township within India which aims towards human unity, for the past 20 years. Timings: 9.30 AM -12.30 PM
Price: ₹ 4,800
Please read the General Information before you apply for this wotkshop.

Conscious Touch with Bodhi & Verena
2019-09-07 - 2019-09-08
A workshop to explore how to touch with simple massage techniques. It is designed to enhance the quality of Conscious Touch.
Being aware of yourself while giving attention to another person is a fundamental practice for all flourishing and sustainable relationships; this is especially important while giving and receiving touch through massage. Conscious Touch is a powerful tool for deepening your connection in all kinds of relationships.
During this workshop you will experience different ways to get into a deep heart-connection and to practice essential elements of massage.
These massage techniques can be shared with children, family and friends.

Goals:

Acquiring a better knowledge of the body.
Learning basic massage techniques.
Growing self awareness.
Getting into a deeper contact with yourself, while giving attention to another person.

Prerequisites: No previous knowledge required. The Seminar is open to all, who would like to learn how to touch with love, care, presence, and skill. The workshop is also useful for those in healing professions.

Bodhi

Bodhi is a Certified Holistic Therapist. She has a Diploma in Shiatsu and Divine Healing Exercises (O.D.H.A. School). She is trained in Body Balancing Biodynamic Massage, Kobido Massage, Reiki and Breathwork. She enjoys sharing her skills with others.

Verena

Verena studied social work (Diploma) and is an Esalen® Massage Therapist, Wingwave® Coach and Progressive Muscle Relaxation Trainer (E. Jacobsen). She is experienced in working with groups and likes to share the approach of being in full heart-connection.

Timings: Saturday: 9.30 AM – 6.00 PM / Sunday: 9.00 AM – 4.00 PM
Price: ₹ 5,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® Yoga Round with Petra
2019-09-09
Watsu Yoga Round is a powerful tool for deep relaxation and inner peace. It focuses on listening to the body and presence; it represents a way to come back to our heart, to an inner silence that is fully alive and vibrant. It is an invitation to feel, awaken and celebrate the energy of our being. When immersed in warm water during the Watsu Yoga Round, the body does not suffer from the effects of gravity; the flow of movements and stretching alternated with moments of stillness invite a progressive well-being: body and mind become free to dance!
Prerequisites: No previous experience required (also no need to know how to swim).
Booking: 0413 2622329 / 9488084966 or E-mail: quiet@auroville.org.in Petra Buschfeld
Certified acupuncturist, WABA facilitator for Watsu Basic and co-facilitater for Shiatsu for Watsu. She also facilitates OBA Intro and Woga 1 & 2. Timings: 3.30 – 6.00 PM
Price: ₹ 300
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® Basic & OBA® Intro with Petra Buschfeld
2019-09-11 - 2019-09-13
A 3-days course on the surface and under water.
Watsu & OBA are aquatic bodywork modalities given in a warm water pool (ideally 35°C). While Watsu is the mother of all water therapies, created by Harold Dull in the 1980s, OBA (formerly called Aquawellness) was developed afterwards by Kaya Femerling and Nirvano Martina Schulz. It combines elements of light movements and stretching, massage and mobilization of the joints in connection with breathing and energetic work conducted both on the surface and under water.

Watsu, the part during which the receiver’s face remains on the surface, introduces the qualities and body mechanics to work with someone in water. During the OBA part the receiver is brought under water (with nose clip), which offers a unique experience.
Watsu & OBA offer an opportunity for profound relaxation and letting go, building trust, being nurtured and held, expanding inner and outer boundaries, releasing emotions and traumas – ultimately, for freeing body and mind in a flow unique to each client and each session.
In this course, you will practice basic techniques and qualities of being (grounding, presence, stillness, movement, attention) while moving another body in water. You will experience floating other people and being floated, on the surface and under water, thereby creating space for deep relaxation and nurturing body, mind and spirit. Prerequisites:
No previous experience required.
Credits: Watsu Basic is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu training program and gives 16 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. OBA Intro is part of the Watsu India training program and gives additional 8 hours of credit for registration with Watsu India and 8 supplementary hours with WABA. Petra Buschfeld
Certified acupuncturist, WABA facilitator for Watsu Basic and co-facilitater for Shiatsu for Watsu. She also facilitates OBA Intro and Woga 1 & 2. Timings: 8.45 AM – 6.30 PM
Price: ₹ 13,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Woga® 1&2 (Yoga in Water) with Petra Buschfeld
2019-09-21 - 2019-09-22
A 2-day course.
Woga is the union of two words: water and yoga. It is based on yoga poses and stretches modified for warm water. Thanks to decrease in gravity, water allows greater ease of movement, unblocks articulations, lengthens and melts muscles, and removes negative tensions, thereby preventing stress, insomnia and anxiety. Water yoga is based on classic yoga poses and stretches, modified for standing in pool water, which is waist-to-chest high. You do not need to know how to swim.
Sessions are structured like their yoga equivalents on land: breathing, warm-up exercises, a series of poses, and a relaxation period. The difference is that you are in a warm water pool!
Focus of Woga 1&2 is Hatha Yoga in water (asanas in standing position, on the wall, in floating position, and under water), pranayama and meditation. Prerequisites:
No previous experience required (also no need to know how to swim).
Credits: Woga 1&2 (Yoga in Water) is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 12 supplementary hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. Petra Buschfeld
Certified acupuncturist, WABA facilitator for Watsu Basic and co-facilitater for Shiatsu for Watsu. She also facilitates OBA Intro and Woga 1 & 2. Timings: 9 AM – 6 PM
Price: ₹ 5,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® & Elements of Vipassana Introduction with Petra Buschfeld
2019-09-25 - 2019-09-29
A 5-days introduction into Watsu & Elements of Vipassana in warm water.
An important part of aquatic bodywork is about BEING instead of DOING something particular. Meditation is one of the best ways to enter into that state of awareness.
Vipassana, which means to see things as they really are, is one of India’s most ancient techniques of meditation. It was rediscovered by Gautama the Buddha more than 2500 years ago. Vipassana is a way of self-transformation through self-observation. It focuses on the deep interconnection between body and mind, which can be directly experienced. Watsu is the first form of meditative aquatic bodywork, developed by the poet Harold Dull in the 80s. Considered as one of the most profound developments in bodywork in recent times, it brings the giver and receiver to a new level of connection and consciousness that involves our whole being.
In this residential retreat, we combine elements of Vipassana meditation with the depth and practice of Watsu to encourage the search for our inner being. While isolating us in silence from all external contact for 5 days, we will enter into a deep contact with our inner self.
This journey of observation and self-discovery can bring us to the roots of our mind and dissolve mental and emotional impurities, giving us back balance, love and compassion.
Please be aware that this is a 5 days residential retreat, during which we stay for the entire time in isolation on the premises of Quiet.

Prerequisites:
Watsu Basic.
Credits:
Watsu & Elements of Vipassana Intro is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 50 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. Petra Buschfeld
Certified acupuncturist, WABA facilitator for Watsu Basic and co-facilitator for Shiatsu for Watsu. She also facilitates OBA Intro and Woga 1 & 2.
Timings: 7 AM – 10 PM (residential) – first day (25th) starting at 8.30 AM
Price: ₹ 19,950
Please read the General Information before you apply for this intensive.

Watsu® Yoga Round with Dariya
2019-10-05, 2019-12-20
Watsu Yoga Round is a powerful tool for deep relaxation and inner peace. It focuses on listening to the body and presence; it represents a way to come back to our heart, to an inner silence that is fully alive and vibrant. It is an invitation to feel, awaken and celebrate the energy of our being. When immersed in warm water during the Watsu Yoga Round, the body does not suffer from the effects of gravity; the flow of movements and stretching alternated with moments of stillness invite a progressive well-being: body and mind become free to dance!
Prerequisites: No previous experience required (also no need to know how to swim).
Booking: 0413 2622329 / 9488084966 or E-mail: quiet@auroville.org.in Dariya
WABA facilitator, has been sharing her passion for aquatic bodywork with groups since 2004. Besides the belief that a solid technical base provides possibilities for ease and lightness in further personal growth, her main focus is to create spaces for flow, deepening and connection. Timings: 3.30 – 6.00 PM
Price: ₹ 300
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® & OBA® Basic with Dariya & Daniel
2019-10-07 - 2019-10-12
A course of 6 half days. Watsu & OBA are aquatic bodywork modalities given in a warm water pool (ideally 35°C). Watsu, the part where the client’s face stays always on the surface, introduces the qualities and body mechanics required to work with someone in water in order to create a profound state of both physical and mental relaxation.

During the OBA part the receiver is also brought under water (with nose clip), which offers a unique experience.
The flowing interaction with water, its fluid support and warm embrace, and the practitioner’s presence provide a space for the client to experience the multi-layered benefits of this powerful and softening bodywork. Watsu & OBA offer an opportunity for profound relaxation and letting go, for building trust, for being nurtured and held, for expanding inner and outer boundaries, for releasing emotions and traumas – ultimately, for freeing body and mind in a flow unique to each client and to each session.
In this course, you will practice basic techniques and qualities (grounding, presence, stillness, movement, attention) of being and moving another body in water. You will experience floating other people and being floated, on the surface and under water, thereby creating space for deep relaxation and nurturing body, mind and spirit.
Participants in this course often appreciate the group space, which fosters deep, meaningful and nurturing connections. Prerequisites:
No previous experience required.
Credits: Watsu Basic is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu training program and gives 16 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. OBA Basic is part of the Watsu India training program and gives an additional 15 hours of credit for registration with Watsu India and 15 supplementary hours with WABA. Dariya (as WABA facilitator) & Daniel have been sharing their passion for aquatic bodywork with groups since 2004.
Besides the belief that a solid technical base provides possibilities for ease and lightness in further personal growth, their main focus is to create spaces for flow, deepening and connection. Timings: 1.00 – 6.00 PM (First day starting at 1.15 PM!)
Price: ₹ 17,500
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Woga® 1&2 (Yoga in Water) with Dariya
2019-10-19 - 2019-10-20
A 2-day course.
Woga is the union of two words: water and yoga. It is based on yoga poses and stretches modified for warm water. Thanks to decrease in gravity, water allows greater ease of movement, unblocks articulations, lengthens and melts muscles, and removes negative tensions, thereby preventing stress, insomnia and anxiety. Water yoga is based on classic yoga poses and stretches, modified for standing in pool water, which is waist-to-chest high. You do not need to know how to swim.
Sessions are structured like their yoga equivalents on land: breathing, warm-up exercises, a series of poses, and a relaxation period. The difference is that you are in a warm water pool!
Focus of Woga 1&2 is Hatha Yoga in water (asanas in standing position, on the wall, in floating position, and under water), pranayama and meditation. Prerequisites:
No previous experience required (also no need to know how to swim).
Credits: Woga 1&2 (Yoga in Water) is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 12 supplementary hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. Dariya
WABA facilitator, has been sharing her passion for aquatic bodywork with groups since 2004. Besides the belief that a solid technical base provides possibilities for ease and lightness in further personal growth, her main focus is to create spaces for flow, deepening and connection. Timings: 9 AM – 6 PM
Price: ₹ 5,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Open Heart-Space Meditation Workshop with Samrat
2019-10-26 - 2019-10-27, 2019-11-30 - 2019-12-01
Open Heart-Space Meditation is a simple practice of becoming aware of the reality as it is without judgment, interpretation or reaction, and settling into its vast, luminous expanse. We learn to embrace and let go of each experience as it arises and subsides. Eventually, the mind falls silent and sinks into the open heart-space, a doorway to oneness, where the inner and outer worlds meet and merge.
We use practices from insight meditation and various spiritual traditions to help dissolve habitual patterns of closing ourselves from the reality that is ever-present in each moment.
The key pointers during this workshop will be dropping our identities and opening to an embrace of awareness and love. No previous experience needed to attend this workshop! Samrat
Samrat Das grew up in the Integral Yoga Ashram of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother at Pondicherry, India, for 21 years. He has been living in Auroville, an international township within India which aims towards human unity, for the past 20 years. Timings: 9.30 AM -12.30 PM
Price: ₹ 2,400
Please read the General Information before you apply for this wotkshop.

Indian Holistic Massage with Jean-Louis
2019-12-02 - 2019-12-15
This massage is a unique body work modality within the rich Indian massage tradition.
Birenda, a Bengali who developed and practiced this special massage technique over more than 50 years, personally transmitted the technique to the teacher. The massage is soft, yet profound, and needs to be practiced with heartfelt kindness and respect while the client is progressively brought into a deep state of relaxation and well-being. It is a journey within oneself during which blockages and tensions may manifest for recognition, release and transformation.
The course is divided into 3 modules of 2 days each (6 hours per day or 12 hours per module). Total: 36 hours.
The first two modules focus on the back; the third one on the front part of the body.
The modules are planned over 2 weeks to allow time for students to practice in between.
Important: It is strongly recommended to follow at least the first 2 modules to know all the posterior parts of the massage. Jean-Louis
is a certified nurse who has worked for over 20 years in hospitals, clinics and associations in France. In Pondicherry, India, he went through a 3 years massage training by Birenda, his Indian teacher and founder of the technique.
Since 2006, Jean-Louis is practicing as a massage therapist in Auroville. Dates: 2-3 December / 9-10 December / 14-15 December
Timings: 9 AM – 12 PM & 2 PM – 5 PM
Price: ₹ 21,000 or ₹ 7,000 per module (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Woga® 1&2 (Yoga in Water) with Dariya
2019-12-21 - 2019-12-22
A 2-day course.
Woga is the union of two words: water and yoga. It is based on yoga poses and stretches modified for warm water. Thanks to decrease in gravity, water allows greater ease of movement, unblocks articulations, lengthens and melts muscles, and removes negative tensions, thereby preventing stress, insomnia and anxiety. Water yoga is based on classic yoga poses and stretches, modified for standing in pool water, which is waist-to-chest high. You do not need to know how to swim.
Sessions are structured like their yoga equivalents on land: breathing, warm-up exercises, a series of poses, and a relaxation period. The difference is that you are in a warm water pool!
Focus of Woga 1&2 is Hatha Yoga in water (asanas in standing position, on the wall, in floating position, and under water), pranayama and meditation. Prerequisites:
No previous experience required (also no need to know how to swim).
Credits: Woga 1&2 (Yoga in Water) is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 12 supplementary hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. Dariya
WABA facilitator, has been sharing her passion for aquatic bodywork with groups since 2004. Besides the belief that a solid technical base provides possibilities for ease and lightness in further personal growth, her main focus is to create spaces for flow, deepening and connection. Timings: 9 AM – 6 PM
Price: ₹ 6,250 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Open Heart-Space Meditation Workshop with Samrat
2019-12-21 - 2019-12-22
Open Heart-Space Meditation is a simple practice of becoming aware of the reality as it is without judgment, interpretation or reaction, and settling into its vast, luminous expanse. We learn to embrace and let go of each experience as it arises and subsides. Eventually, the mind falls silent and sinks into the open heart-space, a doorway to oneness, where the inner and outer worlds meet and merge.
We use practices from insight meditation and various spiritual traditions to help dissolve habitual patterns of closing ourselves from the reality that is ever-present in each moment.
The key pointers during this workshop will be dropping our identities and opening to an embrace of awareness and love. No previous experience needed to attend this workshop! Samrat
Samrat Das grew up in the Integral Yoga Ashram of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother at Pondicherry, India, for 21 years. He has been living in Auroville, an international township within India which aims towards human unity, for the past 20 years. Timings: 9.30 AM -12.30 PM
Price: ₹ 2,550
Please read the General Information before you apply for this wotkshop.

Watsu® & OBA® Basic with Dariya & Daniel
2019-12-23 - 2019-12-28
A course of 6 half days. Watsu & OBA are aquatic bodywork modalities given in a warm water pool (ideally 35°C). Watsu, the part where the client’s face stays always on the surface, introduces the qualities and body mechanics required to work with someone in water in order to create a profound state of both physical and mental relaxation.

During the OBA part the receiver is also brought under water (with nose clip), which offers a unique experience.
The flowing interaction with water, its fluid support and warm embrace, and the practitioner’s presence provide a space for the client to experience the multi-layered benefits of this powerful and softening bodywork. Watsu & OBA offer an opportunity for profound relaxation and letting go, for building trust, for being nurtured and held, for expanding inner and outer boundaries, for releasing emotions and traumas – ultimately, for freeing body and mind in a flow unique to each client and to each session.
In this course, you will practice basic techniques and qualities (grounding, presence, stillness, movement, attention) of being and moving another body in water. You will experience floating other people and being floated, on the surface and under water, thereby creating space for deep relaxation and nurturing body, mind and spirit.
Participants in this course often appreciate the group space, which fosters deep, meaningful and nurturing connections. Prerequisites:
No previous experience required.
Credits: Watsu Basic is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu training program and gives 16 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. OBA Basic is part of the Watsu India training program and gives an additional 15 hours of credit for registration with Watsu India and 15 supplementary hours with WABA. Dariya (as WABA facilitator) & Daniel have been sharing their passion for aquatic bodywork with groups since 2004.
Besides the belief that a solid technical base provides possibilities for ease and lightness in further personal growth, their main focus is to create spaces for flow, deepening and connection. Timings: 1.00 – 6.00 PM
Price: ₹ 18,250
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.
