Quiet Healing Center

Woga® 1 & 2 (Yoga in Water) with Dariya
2018-12-22 - 2018-12-23 | Quiet Healing Center, India
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.

Somatic Movement with Maggie
2018-12-21 - 2018-12-22
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.

Lomi-Lomi Massage Basic with Claudia
2018-10-22 - 2018-10-27
A 6-days’ course for anyone, who likes to be introduced to massage and bodywork. Lomi Lomi is an ancient Hawaiian massage style which uses long fluid rhythmic strokes to treat the whole body. The practitioner uses the hands as instrument of the heart. Energetic, emotional and muscular blockages are released allowing oxygen, blood circulation and life to flow more freely. This massage brings balance and a heart-opening peace to body, mind and spirit.
During this course, you will:
* be introduced to an ancient Hawaiian massage;
* expand your ability to be here and now through meditation;
* give and receive a series of healing massages;
* experience the body in acceptance and compassion;
* discover the sacred alive in us and in all we touch.
Number of participants?
14 people max. Claudia
Offering Lomi-Lomi massage since many years, teaching Lomi-Lomi as well as Kahuna massages. Timings: 9 am – 6 pm
Price: Rs 27,000 (lunch and snacks included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Kahuna Basic with Sang & Claudia
2018-09-03 - 2018-09-08
A 6-day residential massage course
Welcome to the KaHuna Basic, the ancient Hawaiian healing art for mind, body and spirit! This Hawaiian massage technique focuses on using hands and arms as an instrument of the heart. What to expect?
We will learn and explore the body through yoga exercises, beautiful meditations, Hawaiian dance-movement, Huna philosophy, and lots of KaHuna massages.
Food: healthy vegetarian food and snacks will be served throughout the course.
What to bring?
• Clothes and towels for one week personal use.
• 2 single sheets (to cover the massage table with)
• 2 small towels (for the headpiece)
• 2 sarongs/ lungis (to cover the body)
• Clothes for massage (tight singlets, lose pants)
• Swim suits
• and most importantly-your beautiful self……
Number of participants?
20 people max. Sang
Offering and teaching Heartwork Lomi-Lomi and Kahuna massages since many years all over the planet. Claudia
Offering Lomi-Lomi massage since many years, teaching Lomi-Lomi as well as Kahuna massages. Timings: full day residential
Course check-in first day: 8 – 8.45 am.
Course start: 3 September 9 am with a welcoming ceremony, for which you please bring a song to sing for the rest of the group.
Course end: 8 September at 6 pm.
Price: Rs 45,000 including accommodation (shared only!) PLUS Rs 1,250 if you arrive on 2 September already.
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Somatic Movement with Maggie
2018-08-17 - 2018-08-18, 2018-03-08 - 2018-03-09
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 5,400 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® & OBA® Basic with Dariya & Daniel
2018-04-09 - 2018-04-14
An intensive 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 intensive, 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 intensive often appreciate the group space, which fosters deep, meaningful and nurturing connections. 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: Rs 17,000
Please read the General Information before you apply for this intensive.

Couples in Flow with Dariya & Daniel
2018-04-07 - 2018-04-08
Welcome couples to this 2-day journey of relaxation, connection and celebration on land and in warm water.
We offer you a safe space and simple explorations where you can rediscover one another in new ways of intimacy. You will acquire easily applicable skills to hold space for each other, fun ways to be together, and connect with others in the group. This intensive is inspired by aquatic bodywork (Watsu, Liquid Flow etc.), Tantsu (simple ways of holding and massaging on land), free dance, deep listening, and our innate longing to play, connect and simply be.
Space is limited to 8 couples. 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 AM – 6 PM
Price: Rs 9,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this intensive.

Watsu® 2 Integration Day with Dariya
2018-04-06
Integration Days are excellent opportunities to refresh, adapt and further explore the techniques and sequence learned in Watsu 2 and their effects on both giver and receiver. Special attention is given to details of the movements and their necessary adaptations according to the size, buoyancy and flexibility of the receiver.
By refining the gracefully flowing transitions of Watsu’s major positions and perfecting your own body mechanics, you will support and move each person as effortlessly as possible.in water. 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 – 5 PM
Price: Rs 3,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this intensive.

Facilitator Intensive Watsu® with Watsu Team
2018-03-29 - 2018-04-05
An 8-day intensive.
This facilitator intensive is based on Watsu India’s vision, gained over decades of practice, while respecting the spirit of learning Watsu by Harold Dull. Your goals during this intensive are to be able to:
• prepare and offer Intro and Basic Watsu intensives;
• perform individual tasks and provide the expected intensive;
• organize, guide and assist participants in line with Watsu’s vision;
• provide a suitable environment, which promotes co-operation based on equal partnerships;
• create conditions for both welfare and safety of participants;
• ensure quality facilitation in order to foster a positive impact for developing personal skills;
• promote intensives and adapt to the market realities of your region.
You will be entitled – after a positive evaluation – to offer Watsu Basic and Watsu Introduction intensives. The Watsu Team with its coordinator Gianni De Stefani considers Watsu to be a:
– bio-natural practice with the purpose of maintaining personal well-being and vitality;
– inner growth discipline, which through listening to others promotes awareness of the Self;
– instrument of social transformation, which may help to recognize our real needs and consider ways to live in harmony with nature and others.
Watsu is a healing art in which the practitioner is centred and acts in a meditative state, without any intention. A Watsu practitioner operating from this state allows the receiver to experience:
• oceanic feeling (through the absence of limitations)
• non-action state (thanks to the absence of normal gravity)
• full acceptance (of any part of the body at any time)
• fluidity of movement and transparency of the inner Self, which allows recognition of our true being This intensive is guided by a collective team of facilitators. Timings: 8.45 AM – 6.30 PM
Price: Rs 39,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this intensive.

Watsu® Basic & OBA® Intro with Petra Buschfeld
2018-03-26 - 2018-03-28, 2018-02-05 - 2018-02-07
A 3-days intensive.
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 intensive, 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. 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: Rs 13,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this intensive.

Adapted Watsu® with Gianni De Stefani
2018-03-23 - 2018-03-25
A 3-day intensive, on the surface only.
In this intensive, you will apply the qualities and techniques of Watsu to persons with special needs or disorders, whether physical or mental. You will also start using pool noodles and working with people, who are particularly rigid or afraid to be held due to trauma, culture or water fear. In regular Watsu, you acquire the necessary confidence to allow people to relax in your arms. In this intensive you will acquire an indispensable basis, on land and in water, about the functioning of the body, so that you can adapt and offer a pleasant session to persons with special needs. 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: Rs 14,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this intensive.

Watsu® & Breathing with Xavier Boisson
2018-03-21 - 2018-03-22
A 2-day journey of exploring and discovering your breath and its applications in Watsu. You will also integrate the practice of Watsu qualities and the power of working with your receiver’s breath. Several topics will be discussed such as the link between breathing and yourself as a giver, but also breathing and your energetic connection with the receiver. You will also be exposed to the anatomical basis of our respiratory system to better understand its functioning.
To incorporate all these elements into your water work, you will practice, explore, share your feelings, and practice again and again… 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: Rs 8,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this intensive.

Facilitator's Assistant Intensive Watsu® with Watsu Team
2018-03-19 - 2018-03-21
A 3-day intensive geared towards aquatic bodywork practitioners, who would like to become facilitator assistants in Watsu. This intensive is offered by experienced facilitators, who over more than a decade of experiance have gained a deep knowledge of passing on these aquatic bodywork techniques. While remaining respectful to the spirit of Harold Dull, the founder of Watsu, they have developed their own vision and methodology.
In this intensive you will be exposed to the basic principles of facilitating, such as the theoretical and practical methodology for adult-learning, and apply them to aquatic bodywork modalities like Watsu. This intensive is guided by a collective team of facilitators. Timings: 8.45 AM – 6.30 PM
Price: Rs 19,000 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this intensive.

Watsu® 2 with Xavier Boisson
2018-03-14 - 2018-03-20
A 7-day intensive on the surface only.
Watsu 2 expands the Watsu 1 Transition Flow. Additional movements and bodywork in each position are shown to incorporate them in a session. You will gain insights about the meridians and acupressure points in Watsu, as well as creatively exploring your own movements, while following the receiver’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. 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: Rs 29,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this intensive.

Watsu® & Pregnancy with Xavier Boisson
2018-03-10 - 2018-03-12
This 3-day intensive offers water participants 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 intensive 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… 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: Rs 14,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this intensive.

Watsu® 1 Integration Day with Xavier
2018-03-09
Integration Days are excellent opportunities to refresh, adapt and further explore the techniques and sequences acquired in Watsu 1 and their effects on both giver and receiver. Special attention is given to details of the movements and their necessary adaptations according to the size, buoyancy and flexibility of the receiver.
By refining the gracefully flowing transitions of Watsu’s major positions and perfecting your own body mechanics, you will support and move each person as effortlessly as possible. 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: 9 AM – 12 PM
Price: Rs 1,750
Please read the General Information before you apply for this intensive.

Shiatsu for Watsu® with Natacha Laborde & Petra Buschfeld
2018-03-03 - 2018-03-09
A 7-day intensive.
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. This system directs our growth, body functions, and activities as well as our awareness from conception till death.
About 60% of this intensive 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. 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: Rs 29,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this intensive.

Watsu® & Liquid Flow Basic with Dariya & Daniel
2018-03-03 - 2018-03-08
An intensive of 6 half days. Watsu & Liquid Flow are both aquatic bodywork modalities given in a warm water pool (ideally 35°C). While Watsu is the mother of all water therapies, Liquid Flow was developed at the Quiet Healing Center, Auroville, and is inspired and based on the forms and qualities of Watsu, OBA, Healing Dance, and WaterDance. Watsu, the part where the receiver’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 & Liquid Flow 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 receiver and to each session. In this intensive, 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 intensive often appreciate the group space, which fosters deep, meaningful and nurturing connections. 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: 1.30 – 6 PM
Price: Rs 14,950
Please read the General Information before you apply for this intensive.

Tantsu® 1 with Xavier Boisson
2018-02-25 - 2018-03-02
A 6-day intensive.
Tantsu grew out of Watsu. Watsu is a form of aquatic bodywork developed in the 1980s by Harold Dull, floating and stretching people in warm water. In Tantsu, the unconditional holding of Watsu is brought back onto land.
Tantsu offers a deep state of listening and creates an unconditional union and cradle of connected breath and presence. The trust established by this cradle and its creative exploration make it ideal for giving a Tantsu session to anybody. During the first four days, you will be exposed to the basics of Tantsu: cradling someone in a comfortable hold, which gives access to a deep level of relaxation and stillness. The micro-movements that appear will guide your moves, stretches and rotations of shoulders, arms, hips and legs, thereby releasing blockages in the energy flow.
The following two days will take you deeper into body-listening and exploration of various possible body movements. You will also gain knowledge about meridians, hara, and the connection between mind and body.
In this intensive Tantsu will become a joyful expression of caring love. 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: Rs 29,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this intensive.

WaterDance 3 with Arjana
2018-02-25 - 2018-03-02
A 6-day intensive, mainly under water.
Free-Flow-Dance: Are you ready to take the next step into a new dimension?
WaterDance resembles many other forms of art. Take the example of the musician who is studying for years fingering-exercises and basic studies before he will become a gifted virtuoso able to express himself. With WaterDance, there will come the moment when the practitioner is ready to leave technique to step into a new dimension, in which the creative aspect is invited to unfold in its beauty and full potential. In WaterDance 3, we invite you on a journey, which will lead you to more creativity and spontaneity. In Free Flow, you expand on the foundations of WaterDance 1 and 2, taking your repertoire of movement into the realm of a true dance.
You will be guided to create your own underwater moves and to link them in endless new ways. We intend to open a space in which we focus and absorb the moment with all our senses. With this kind of presence, our dance will be directly connected with our partner; it becomes creative, spontaneous, playful and perhaps different from all that we have done so far with WaterDance.
Breath and rhythm are for both giver and receiver important guidelines. In this intensive, we will listen carefully to the intimate connection between breathing, rhythm and movement. When we succeed to be deeply connected with the essence of breath on the most profound level possible, spontaneous moving impulses will be created, expressing the poetry of the soul of both giver and receiver.
The water, the present moment, you and your partner, both of your breathing, the movement, will become one fluent unity.
Besides playing in the water we will spend time in the group room or in the nature to explore free flow on land. Sharings from heart to heart, silent and active meditations, breath work and communication skills are possible supporting tools to create synchronicity in the group and to give a healthy counterpoint to the dissolving and melting qualities of the work in the warm water. Arjana
“Take a drop of water. If you know how to listen to it, it will tell you about the earth, the sea and the sky… “. 30 years ago, Arjana discovered the beauty and the healing powers of Aquatic Bodywork and since then she is sharing this gift as an international facilitator of WaterDance and WATSU (Europe, USA, Hawaii, New Zealand, Israel, Czech Republic, Poland, Bali…).
Important professional milestones:
– Studying and practicing different forms of bodywork since 1985
– Co-Founder of WaterDance (1987)
– Certified WATSU facilitator (1992)
– Co-Founder and director of the Institute of Aquatic Bodywork Switzerland (1992-2004)
– Founder of the Aquatic Bodywork Center in Belgium “Le Centre” (1996)
In addition to her work in the water, Arjana has been trained in Hatha Yoga (Mexico and Belgium), Hormon Yoga (Switzerland), perineology (BeBo Switzerland), Natural Systemic Therapy (SNT Switzerland), Federal Adult Eduction (SVEB Switzerland), and Subtle Energy Healingwork (Energy Mastery School USA).
Timings: 8.45 AM – 6.30 PM
Price: Rs 29,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this intensive.

Vedic Healing with Omkar
2018-02-23 - 2018-02-24
In this intensive you are exposed to the ancient art of Vedic Healing through Prana Vidya or the Knowlegde of Prana, the universal life force which permeates all creation. Prana Vidya offers the knowledge of gaining, restoring and uplifting Prana in our body. It also explains how to transfer this life force to other people, as Prana can be given to others, who are sick or in an imbalanced state.
Human beings are driven by five types of Prana that reside in different parts of our body. If our body contains all five kinds of Prana in a sufficient level, we are in good health, feel happy and fulfilled, and experience unlimited love and compassion. If there is an imbalance, problems manifest in body, mind or soul. Prana Vidya was already used in Vedic times and its concepts are clearly described in the ancient writings of the Vedas and Upa-Vedas. Whereas most of the common spiritual healing methods deal with chakras and kundalini, Prana Vidya works with the Prana body. Advantages of Prana Vidya:
♦ Simple to learn and practice.
♦ All types of life styles can experience and practice Prana Vidya.
♦ Healing based on Prana Vidya does not have any side-effects for the healer.
♦ While learning Prana Vidya, its healing power can already be experienced.
♦ All kinds of mental and physical problems can be cured.
♦ Character, memory power, and thought processes can be improved.
♦ Can also be used for success in education, wealth, peace, and relationships.
♦ Purifies our inner being and uplifts our spiritual life. Swami Omkar

Founder of “Pranava Peetam Trust”, has been teaching Prana Vidya in India and abroad and likes to share his knowledge with everyone, who is eager to learn this ancient Vedic Healing method.

Timings: 10.30 AM – 5.30 PM
Price: Rs 6,750 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® & Meditation with Dariya
2018-02-23 - 2018-02-24
A 2-day intensive.
Meditation is an important tool to listen, accept and know ourselves, and to become more intuitive towards ourselves and others. The purpose of meditation – besides the physical and psychological benefits – is to build a connection with our soul and with the divine in and around us, in whichever spiritual or religious form we prefer to understand.
It also encourages the development of our intuition and perception through the heart and not only through the rational mind. This permits us, in certain life situations, to operate on a higher level and make better choices. Meditation helps us essentially to develop our capacity for personal introspection and is the basis for our ability to listen to the person we float in our arms during a Watsu session. In this way we can work with a genuine empathy, thereby stimulating the flow of subtle energy. 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: Rs 8,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this intensive.

Somatic Movement with Maggie
2018-02-19
A 1-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 2,700 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Inner Watsu® with Watsu Team
2018-02-17 - 2018-02-22
This 6-day intensive is for experienced water students, who want to dive deeper in the different layers of Watsu.
“When your psychological energy returns beyond the period of the first childhood and penetrates in the heritage of your ancestral life, it is here that your deep spiritual world, whose existence you had never suspected, opens itself wide.” C. G. Jung With this beautiful citation of Jung, we want to indicate the direction of the deep inner work that is carried out during this Inner Watsu intensive. Through an interdisciplinary approach and discussion on issues related to aquatic bodywork and personal growth, you will deepen your experience and understanding of working with human beings in warm water. You will gain skills into introducing Watsu to receivers and be introduced to the role of chakras (especially the heart chakra) as instruments of psychosomatic awareness.
You will deepen your knowledge of Watsu for disabled receivers and persons with special needs. You will also explore underwater work in new ways, and experience the joy of gaining insights about Watsu in relation to pregnancy, birth and breathing.

This intensive is guided by a collective team of facilitators. Please be aware that this is a deeply touching intensive and therefore avoid other activities during the time of the intensive! Timings: 9 AM – 6.30 PM (plus at least one evening!)
Price: Rs 28,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this intensive.

Watsu® for Babies with Dariya
2018-02-11
A 1-day intensive.
Watsu for Babies is a beautiful and spontaneous way of experiencing the first childhood years and is open to all those who would like to experience the joy of being in water with babies. In this intensive you will discover that emotions arising from spontaneous movements in water open extraordinary borders. They allow us to be in the present moment, simply listening to the breathing of the baby while being supported by the healing power of water.
Through some Tantsu and Ai-Chi exercises, you will start listening to yourself and to the baby you hold in your arms. You will also be exposed to possible transitions of the Watsu sequence in order to expand it in a creative way for babies. Thanks to the collaboration with Gianni De Stefani, certified WABA facilitator, Dr. Riccardo Palumbo has been able to develop a new massage, which is introduced in this intensive to bring Watsu into the world of babies. 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: Rs 4,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this intensive.

Watsu® 1 (TF) & OBA® 1 - Fluid Body with Gianni De Stefani
2018-02-08 - 2018-02-16
A demanding 8-day intensive (with a one day break after 3 days) on the surface as well as under water.
During the Transition Flow (TF), you will acquire the skills to connect the basic movements you have been exposed to in Watsu Basic with long, gracefully flowing transitions. You will also acquire knowledge about your own body mechanics and how to support and move each person as effortlessly as possible. OBA 1 – Fluid Body focuses mainly on underwater movements, where the whole body can be moved in playful new ways. Especially designed movements allow the whole spine to swing and let the energy flow again. Because of the weightlessness of the body in water, the radius of joint movements becomes wider and the whole body can be moved in a playful and new way. Chronic physical pain as well as emotional tensions can be released. This form of therapy invites you to experience a completely unique way of healing in water and undertake a journey back to your origins, into the endless depth of your inner ocean.
On land, you will be introduced to both Co-Centering and Tantsu, and explore and share what being held means to you and others. 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 (day off on 11 Feb.)
Price: Rs 35,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this intensive.

WaterDance 2 with Arjana
2018-01-30 - 2018-02-04
A 6-day intensive, mainly under water.
In WaterDance 2, we deepen the work of WaterDance 1, using the same principles while expanding the material with a fuller repertoire of underwater moves and techniques. We continue to listen and deeply connect to the breath, which is the linking thread throughout a WaterDance session. We also explore the “WaterDance Extended Form”, which involves new moves and ways of linking sequences. These expanded techniques guide us deeper into a space of fluidity and grace.
By the end of this intensive, you have been exposed to enough material to give full secure sessions and to initiate profound healing. WATA becomes a real dance in meditation, for both giver and receiver.
The intimacy and gentle bonding that a group creates in the water opens the door to authentic exchanges also on “dry land”. In sharing circles, the participants learn to trust the healing field that the group soul gradually is creating.
Various tools like guided meditations, body- and energy work, active breathing exercises, communication skills and a conscious contact with the earth, shall help to balance the four elements in and around us. Consciously including the other 3 elements during land work helps to counterbalance and to reharmonise the dissolving and melting qualities of the work in the warm water. Arjana
“Take a drop of water. If you know how to listen to it, it will tell you about the earth, the sea and the sky… “. 30 years ago, Arjana discovered the beauty and the healing powers of Aquatic Bodywork and since then she is sharing this gift as an international facilitator of WaterDance and WATSU (Europe, USA, Hawaii, New Zealand, Israel, Czech Republic, Poland, Bali…).
Important professional milestones:
– Studying and practicing different forms of bodywork since 1985
– Co-Founder of WaterDance (1987)
– Certified WATSU facilitator (1992)
– Co-Founder and director of the Institute of Aquatic Bodywork Switzerland (1992-2004)
– Founder of the Aquatic Bodywork Center in Belgium “Le Centre” (1996)
In addition to her work in the water, Arjana has been trained in Hatha Yoga (Mexico and Belgium), Hormon Yoga (Switzerland), perineology (BeBo Switzerland), Natural Systemic Therapy (SNT Switzerland), Federal Adult Eduction (SVEB Switzerland), and Subtle Energy Healingwork (Energy Mastery School USA).
Timings: 8.45 AM – 6.30 PM
Price: Rs 29,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this intensive.

Watsu® 3 with Gianni De Stefani
2018-01-22 - 2018-01-28
A 7-day intensive on the surface only.
Watsu 3 is for people who have given enough practice sessions to develop a comfortable, intuitive awareness of how to float another person and who are ready to adapt and further explore aquatic bodywork outside the fixed form of Watsu 2. Powerful stretches and advanced techniques are introduced while rolls that require a spontaneous adaptation are shown as a gateway into Watsu’s “Free Flow”. 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: Rs 29,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.
