Quiet Healing Center

Watsu® 2 with Dariya
2024-10-02 - 2024-10-08 | Quiet Healing Center, India
A 6-day course on the surface.
Watsu 2 expands the Transition Flow taught in Watsu 1. You will learn additional movements and bodywork for each position and how to incorporate them in your practice sessions.
You will also study the meridians and acupressure points, which are relevant in Watsu, and creatively explore your own movements, while following the receiver’s natural tendency to move. Practising acupressure massage, as well as lifts, pushes, and pulls introduced at this stage, will help you develop the ability to play with energy and further explore this amazing water therapy. 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.

Dariya
Dariya is a WABA facilitator and Liquid Flow co-founder. She has been teaching aquatic bodywork since 2004.
Her believe is, that a solid technical base provides ease towards her main focus, which is creating & holding spaces for flow, deepening and connection.

Timings: 8.30 am – 6.00 pm
Price: ₹ 31,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® Yoga Round with Fred & Ellie
2024-09-29, 2024-08-01
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: 9488084966 or E-mail: quiet@auroville.org.in Timings: 3.00 – 6.30 pm
Price: ₹ 750
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® 1 (Transition Flow) with Dariya
2024-09-24 - 2024-09-28
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 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
Dariya is a WABA facilitator and Liquid Flow co-founder. She has been teaching aquatic bodywork since 2004.
Her believe is, that a solid technical base provides ease towards her main focus, which is creating & holding spaces for flow, deepening and connection. Timings: 8.45 am – 6.00 pm
Price: ₹ 22,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® & OBA Basic with Fred
2024-09-17 - 2024-09-22
A course of 6 half days. A Watsu & OBA session offers 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.
In Watsu Basic, during which the receiver’s face remains always on the surface, you will learn the qualities and body mechanics required to work with someone in water.
During the OBA Basic part you will bring your receiver under water (with a nose clip), thereby offering a unique experience. In this beginner’s course, you will learn and practise basic techniques and qualities such as grounding, presence, stillness, movement, and attention in moving another person in water. You will experience floating others and being floated, both 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.

Fred
Fred has been teaching for the last 30 years many topics (physical education, learning how to learn, cooperation).
The art of transferring knowledge has always been his passion.
He is a Watsu Basic, OBA Basic, OBA 1 instructor and a Watsu Practitioner. Timings: 1.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Price: ₹ 19,950
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® Yoga Round with Roberto & Ellie
2024-09-14

WaterDance Fundamental with Roberto
2024-09-03 - 2024-09-08
In this course, we will focus on three fundamental aspects of WaterDance: vertical grounding, posture of both giver and receiver, and the breath.
The key movement is Water Breath Dance, in which you will float someone in your arms allowing them to gently sink as they exhale and rising with them as you both inhale. This creates a profound connection that carries through all other surface and underwater movements.
Throughout the course, you will also learn in a playful and yet attentive way how to bring your partner under water (with a nose clip). Sufficient time will also be given for integrating fears or apprehensions to go under water. In addition, you will learn and practice the basic WaterDance movements, which form the essential core of this powerful aquatic-bodywork modality.
On land, various tools such as guided meditations, body & energy work, active breathing exercises, and practising effective communication skills will offer opportunities for connecting deeper with yourself and others.
Prerequisites: No previous experience required.
Credits: WaterDance Fundamental is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 50 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India.

Roberto
Roberto is a certified Watsu®, WaterDance and OBA® practitioner. He teaches WaterDance Fundamental since 2023 and holds space for Watsu Yoga Rounds.
He is also a swimming instructor, works with neurodivergent kids in water, and helps people overcome their fear of water. Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm
Price: ₹ 31,500
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® Basic with Pooja
2024-08-30 - 2024-08-31
A 2-day course on the surface only. Watsu is an aquatic bodywork modality given in a warm water pool (ideally 35°C).
Watsu, 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.
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 offers 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, 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.

Pooja
From being fearful of water to discovering her love for water through Watsu, Pooja Gautam has been a pioneer in introducing and spreading Watsu in Mumbai and other parts of India.
Being among the foremost Indians to become WABA-certified Watsu practitioners, she’s now also the first Indian-origin Watsu instructor and teacher of Woga ITC (Water Yoga – Instructor Training Course).
Over the last few years, she has worked with 3,000+ clients, including a majority of non-swimmers and aquaphobes, for needs ranging from stress management, relaxation and rejuvenation to dealing with mental health issues, including anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, among others.
Pooja serves as a visiting practitioner with marque hospitality and wellness brands such as St. Regis (Maldives), Six Senses, JW Marriott, Hilton, among others. Her work has been covered by renowned media brands such as The Times of India, Mid-day, Mumbai Mirror, TimeNowPlus, New Indian Express, CNN Travel, and Global Spa Magazine.
Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm
Price: ₹ 10,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Woga® 1&2 (Yoga in Water) with Pooja
2024-08-28 - 2024-08-29
A 2-day course.
Woga is a combination of two words: water and yoga. It is based on classic yoga poses and stretches, modified for standing in water that is waist-to-chest height. Woga focuses on Hatha Yoga in water, including asanas performed in standing position, against the wall, in floating position, and under water. The course also includes pranayama and meditation. Classes follow a structure similar to land-based yoga: breathing exercises, warm-ups, a series of poses, and a relaxation period. The key difference is that you are in a warm water pool! Swimming skills are not required.
By reducing the effects of gravity, water allows ease of movements, unblocks joints, lengthens and relaxes muscles, alleviates negative tensions, and prevents stress, insomnia and anxiety. Prerequisites: No previous experience required (also no need to know how to swim).
Credits: Woga 1&2 (Yoga in Water) gives 12 supplementary hours of credit for registration as international Watsu practitioner within the Watsu India learning program. Pooja
From being fearful of water to discovering her love for water through Watsu, Pooja Gautam has been a pioneer in introducing and spreading Watsu in Mumbai and other parts of India.
Being among the foremost Indians to become WABA-certified Watsu practitioners, she’s now also the first Indian-origin Watsu instructor and teacher of Woga ITC (Water Yoga – Instructor Training Course).
Over the last few years, she has worked with 3,000+ clients, including a majority of non-swimmers and aquaphobes, for needs ranging from stress management, relaxation and rejuvenation to dealing with mental health issues, including anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, among others.
Pooja serves as a visiting practitioner with marque hospitality and wellness brands such as St. Regis (Maldives), Six Senses, JW Marriott, Hilton, among others. Her work has been covered by renowned media brands such as The Times of India, Mid-day, Mumbai Mirror, TimeNowPlus, New Indian Express, CNN Travel, and Global Spa Magazine.
Timings: 8.45 am – 6.00 pm
Price: ₹ 7,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

OBA 1 Fluid Body with Fred
2024-08-13 - 2024-08-18
A 6-day course on the surface and under water.
“Dive into the wonderful world of memories, where we, as embryos in the protective belly of our mother, floated, surrounded by warm water. Dive into a weightless world and explore a timeless vastness, feeling free and secure”.
In this first 50-hour OBA course, we will continue to approach water in a playful, friendly and secure way. You will build upon the basic movements you already learnt in OBA Basic and further explore the various techniques of this wonderful aquatic bodywork. You will learn the three phases of an OBA session: working on cushions and floats and working both on the surface and under water.
Upon completion of this course, you will have acquired enough material to offer a basic OBA practice session to friends and family. More about Oceanic Bodywork@ Aqua (OBA):
Developed by Kaya Femerling & Nirvano Martina Schulz, OBA is a deeply relaxing form of aquatic therapy, which takes place in a warm water pool.
It combines elements of soft stretching movements, aquatic deep tissue massage, and joint release, as well as energy and breath work in a unique way above and below the water surface. Specially designed movements allow your whole spine to swing and energy to flow again.
This form of aquatic therapy invites you to experience the healing energies of water in a new way. Chronic physical pain as well as emotional tensions can be released. Special positions may remind you of how you felt to be held as a child.
You might dive into a wondrous world of memories, of floating weightlessly in the protective womb of your mother, of diving right back into that very space where you were surrounded by soft warm water.
OBA invites you to experience again the nurturing qualities of being held and loved, and to rediscover trust, peace within yourself, and a sense of coming home. Prerequisites: OBA Basic or WaterDance Fundamental or Watsu 1 or Healing Dance 1.
Credits: OBA 1 is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 50 hours of credits for registration with WABA and Watsu India.

Fred
Fred has been teaching for over 30 years, sharing his knowledge across a variety of subjects including physical education, learning strategies, and cooperative practices.
The art of transmitting knowledge has always been his true passion.
He is a certified instructor of Watsu® Basic and OBA (Basic, 1, 2, and 3). Timings: 8.45 am – 6.00 pm
Price: ₹ 32,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

OBA Basic Liquid Joy with Fred
2024-08-10 - 2024-08-11
A 2-day course on the surface and under water.
OBA (Oceanic Bodywork@ Aqua) is an aquatic bodywork modality given in a warm water pool (ideally 35°C). OBA (formerly called Aquawellness) was developed by Kaya Femerling and Nirvano Martina Schulz in the mid 80’s.
It combines elements of light movements and stretching, massage and mobilization of the joints in connection with breathing and energy work conducted both on the surface and under water.

During this OBA Basic Liquid Joy course, you will experience how to work in the water and on land. You’ll learn a number of simple movements, on the surface (with and without cushion and noodle), as well as underwater. Afterwards, you’ll be able to share them with friends and relatives, creating unforgettable moments.
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.

OBA offers 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.
Prerequisites: No previous experience required.
Credits: OBA Basic is part of the Watsu India training program and gives 15 hours of credit for registration with Watsu India and 15 supplementary hours with WABA.

Fred
Fred has been teaching for the last 30 years many topics (physical education, learning how to learn, cooperation).
The art of transferring knowledge has always been his passion.
He is a Watsu Basic, OBA Basic, OBA 1 instructor and a Watsu Practitioner. Timings: 8.45 am – 6.00 pm
Price: ₹ 9,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® Basic with Fred
2024-08-03 - 2024-08-04
A 2-day course on the surface only. Watsu is an aquatic bodywork modality given in a warm water pool (ideally 35°C).
Watsu, 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.
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 offers 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, 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.

Fred
Fred has been teaching for the last 30 years many topics (physical education, learning how to learn, cooperation).
The art of transferring knowledge has always been his passion.
He is a Watsu Basic, OBA Basic, OBA 1 instructor and a Watsu Practitioner. Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm
Price: ₹ 10,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® 1 (Transition Flow) with Petra Buschfeld
2024-04-22 - 2024-04-25
A 4-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 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. Petra Buschfeld
Certified acupuncturist, WABA facilitator for Watsu Basic, Watsu 1 and co-facilitator for Shiatsu for Watsu. She also facilitates OBA Basic, OBA 1 and Woga 1 & 2. Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm
Price: ₹ 22,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® & OBA Basic with Dariya
2024-04-16 - 2024-04-21
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

Dariya is a WABA facilitator and Liquid Flow co-founder. She has been teaching aquatic bodywork since 2004.
Her believe is, that a solid technical base provides ease towards her main focus, which is creating & holding spaces for flow, deepening and connection. Timings: 1.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Price: ₹ 19,950
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® Yoga Round with Fred & Roberto
2024-04-15, 2024-03-18
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: 9488084966 or E-mail: quiet@auroville.org.in Timings: 3.00 – 6.30 pm
Price: ₹ 500
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Instructor Training Course (ITC) Woga® with Petra Buschfeld & Pooja Gautam
2024-04-09 - 2024-04-14
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. Petra Buschfeld
Certified acupuncturist, WABA facilitator for Watsu Basic, Watsu 1 and co-facilitator for Shiatsu for Watsu. She also facilitates OBA Basic, OBA 1 and Woga 1 & 2. Pooja Gautam
Pooja is a Watsu Practitioner and a Woga instructor. She is based in Mumbai, but offers Watsu and Aqua Yoga sessions in various parts of India. Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm
Price: ₹ 26,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Woga® 1&2 (Yoga in Water) with Dariya
2024-04-07 - 2024-04-08
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: 8.45 am – 6.00 pm
Price: ₹ 7,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Inner Watsu® with Watsu India Team
2024-03-30 - 2024-04-05
This 7-day course 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 course. 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. In this intense course you will be exposed to different topics, including Art of Touch, Boundaries/Intimacy, Chakras & Pranayama, Communication skills, powerful Meditation techniques, Quality of Relation, Rebirthing, Self-Awareness/Breath-Awareness, and Shiatsu.
Please be aware that this is a deeply touching course, and therefore avoid other activities during the time of the course!

Prerequisites: Watsu 2 or an equivalent course.
Credits: Inner Watsu 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.

This course is guided by a collective team of teachers. Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm (plus at least one evening!)
Price: ₹ 31,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Adapted Watsu® with Gianni De Stefani
2024-03-26 - 2024-03-28
A 3-day course, on the surface only.
In this course, 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 course you will learn 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.

Prerequisites: Watsu 2 plus 100 hours of aquatic bodywork training or Watsu 1 plus 200 hours of aquatic bodywork training.
Credits: Adapted Watsu is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu training program and gives 25 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. Gianni De Stefani
Travels worldwide since more than 30 years as organizer and WABA instructor. He teaches 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: ₹ 15,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Amnion® 2 with Mary Seamster
2024-03-19 - 2024-03-24
A 6-day deepening into the principles of Biodynamic Cranial Sacral therapy in water and on land.
Amnion combines elements of prenatal somatic therapy, attachment theory, and cranial sacral unwinding.
Through Amnion, we tap into implicit memories, creating the potential for releasing stored imprints within the body’s tissues, muscles, and organs. By allowing the body to simply be, these imprints manifest as meaningful gestures telling the story of our preverbal awareness.
Building upon the basics learned in Amnion 1, this course will take your understanding to a deeper level and enrich your therapeutic skills. Prerequisites: Amnion 1.
Credits: Amnion 2 is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 50 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. Mary Seamster
Mary Seamster, LMT, RCST, Integrative Aquatic Therapist, Amnion and Watsu Instructor. Currently serves as the Executive Director of White Stone Medical Inc in La Center, WA, and is the developer of Amnion. Timings: 8.45 AM – 6.30 PM
Price: ₹ 31,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® 2 with Dariya
2024-03-12 - 2024-03-17
A 6-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 incorporate them in a session.
You also learn about the meridians and acupressure points in Watsu and 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.

Dariya (as WABA instructor) & 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: 8.45 am – 6.00 pm
Price: ₹ 31,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Woga® 1&2 (Yoga in Water) with Petra Buschfeld
2024-03-09 - 2024-03-10
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, Watsu 1 and co-facilitator for Shiatsu for Watsu. She also facilitates OBA Basic, OBA 1 and Woga 1 & 2. Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm
Price: ₹ 7,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Amnion® 1 with Mary Seamster
2024-03-03 - 2024-03-08
A 6-day intro into working with embryological patterns and attachment imprints.
Being in a warm pool seems to spontaneously evoke many prenatal and preverbal gestures that emerged inside the protective matrix of the amnion (a membrane that closely covers the embryo when it’s first formed). In order to set the intention for calm and grounded contact, this course starts with a brief exploration of cranial sacral therapy principles. The training includes both land-based components as well as explorations in water, incorporating experiential exercises, informative lectures, engaging videos, and sacred creative expressions.
This is a time to let go of whatever aquatic techniques you have learned and be prepared to unfold, unmask, and delve into your own deeply rooted imprints. Prerequisites: Watsu Basic or an intro to Cranial Sacral therapy.
Credits: Amnion 1 is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 50 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India.
Mary Seamster
Mary Seamster, LMT, RCST, Integrative Aquatic Therapist, Amnion and Watsu Instructor. Currently serves as the Executive Director of White Stone Medical Inc in La Center, WA, and is the developer of Amnion. Timings: 8.45 AM – 6.30 PM
Price: ₹ 31,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® & Breathing with Dariya
2024-03-01 - 2024-03-02
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… Prerequisites: Watsu Basic or Watsu & Liquid Flow Basic.
Credits: Watsu & Breathing is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu training program and gives 15 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. Dariya
Dariya is a WABA facilitator and Liquid Flow co-founder. She has been teaching aquatic bodywork since 2004.
Her believe is, that a solid technical base provides ease towards her main focus, which is creating & holding spaces for flow, deepening and connection. Timings: 8.45 am – 6.00 pm
Price: ₹ 9,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® 3 with Gianni De Stefani & Mary Seamster
2024-02-23 - 2024-02-29
A 7-day course 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 learned as a gateway into Watsu’s “Free Flow”.
You can only participate in this advanced course after having shown and passed your Watsu 2 mastery! Prerequisites: Watsu 2 and Watsu 2 mastery.
Credits: Watsu 3 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. 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. Mary Seamster
Mary Seamster, LMT, RCST, Integrative Aquatic Therapist, Amnion and Watsu Instructor. Currently serves as the Executive Director of White Stone Medical Inc in La Center, WA, and is the developer of Amnion. Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm
Price: ₹ 31,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Birenda Massage Course with Jean-Louis & Sivacoumar
2024-02-23 - 2024-02-25
This massage training consists of six days, divided into two times 3 days (23 – 25 February) and two days (11 – 13 March). Birenda Massage is a unique Indian massage therapy, which was developed by Birenda, an accomplished therapist from Bengal with 50 years of experience.
To facilitate the learning process, the course material consists of three sections: the first part is dedicated to back massage; during the two other sections, you’ll learn how to massage the legs, arms and front of the body.
You’ll also learn how to prepare yourself before massaging a person, create a trusting relationship with your client, and offer relevant information afterwards.
Manual and certificate upon completion of the course! Jean-Louis
After receiving a long, in-depth personal training from Birenda himself, Jean-Louis has been offering massage treatments over the past 25 years. As an accomplished therapist, he has also been teaching this innovative body treatment to both beginners and experienced therapists in India and abroad. Sivacoumar
Sivacoumar has been working as a Birenda massage therapist since 2018. During this period, he was personally trained by Jean-Louis to become a Birenda massage instructor and will co-teach this course together with him. Dates:
* 23 – 25 February 2024 (part 1)
* 11 – 13 March 2024 (part 2)
(36 hours in total)
Timings: 9.00 am – 5.00 pm
Price: ₹ 20,950 (including manual and lunches)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Shiatsu for Watsu® with Petra Buschfeld
2024-02-16 - 2024-02-21
A 6-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. Petra Buschfeld
Certified acupuncturist, WABA facilitator for Watsu Basic, Watsu 1 and co-facilitator for Shiatsu for Watsu. She also facilitates OBA Basic, OBA 1 and Woga 1 & 2. Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm
Price: ₹ 31,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® & OBA Basic with Dariya & Daniel
2024-02-16 - 2024-02-21
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 instructor) & 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: 8.30 am – 1.30 pm

Price: ₹ 19,950
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Liquid Flow Deepening with Dariya & Daniel
2024-02-08 - 2024-02-14
A 7-day course, on the surface as well as under water. Liquid Flow Deepening is an extension of Liquid Flow Essence with a focus on process work and refinement of flow and touch, both on the surface and under water. It also includes free movement and contact dance in water as well as acquiring tools for deeper listening and expressing yourself with the help of compassionate communication. During previous courses, required as prerequisite to join this course, you have accumulated a wide spectrum of moves. Even though Liquid Flow Deepening offers some new material and variations of already known moves, it is basically about refining what is already there.
In addition, you’ll learn connecting deeper through working with the breath, sequencing your session, and finding your own combinations and adjustments according to your personal abilities and circumstances – away from right or wrong or perfect – to accommodate different sizes, shapes, and body types. You’ll also be encouraged to create your own sequences and moves, present them to other students, and learn from their creations. Ample practice time will be given, allowing you to refine the flow and smoothen transitions from one move to another, while at the same time improving your quality of touch.
Also, learning to take your client under water without using a sign will allow you to establish a deeper connection.
A wide variety of practices offering possibilities for self-inquiry in groups of two or three, sharing in pairs and with the bigger circle, self-connecting meditations and movement-oriented practices alone and as a group. Tools will be offered for deeper listening, learning from feedback, and holding your own process and that of others. All this will hopefully lead to a better understanding of yourself and allow more empathy for your client’s process, thereby fostering personal healing for yourself as well as your client. Prerequisites: Liquid Flow Essence.
Credits: Liquid Flow Deepening is part of the Watsu India training program and gives 50 supplementary hours of credit for registration with WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and as an elective with Watsu India. Dariya (as WABA instructor) & 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 am – 6.00 pm (plus one evening)
Price: ₹ 31,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.
