Watsu® & OBA Basic with Dariya
2025-04-08 - 2025-04-13, 2025-10-23 - 2025-10-28 | Quiet Healing Center, India
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 as part of the Watsu training program and gives 16 hours of credits for registration with WABA and Watsu India. OBA Basic is part of the Watsu India training program and gives an additional 15 hours of credits 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 – 6.00 pm

Price: ₹ 20,500
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

OBA 1 Fluid Body with Dariya
2025-04-15 - 2025-04-20
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.

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: ₹ 34,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Woga® 1&2 (Yoga in Water) with Dariya
2025-04-25 - 2025-04-26, 2025-09-20 - 2025-09-21
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.

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: ₹ 8,750 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® Yoga Round with Ellie
2025-08-03
Watsu Yoga Round is a powerful tool for deep relaxation and inner peace.
It focuses on listening to the body and being present, offering a way to reconnect with your heart and experience an inner silence that is fully alive and vibrant.
It is an invitation to feel, awaken, and celebrate the energy of your being. When immersed in warm water during the Watsu Yoga Round, the body is free from the effects of gravity. The flow of movements and stretching, alternated with moments of stillness, invite 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® Basic with Roberto
2025-08-04 - 2025-08-05
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.

Roberto
Roberto is a certified Watsu, WaterDance and OBA practitioner. He teaches WaterDance Fundamental, WaterDance 1, Watsu Basic, 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: ₹ 12,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

WaterDance Fundamental with Roberto
2025-08-08 - 2025-08-13
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 Wata (WaterDance) Fundamental, Wata 1, Watsu® Basic, 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: ₹ 34,950
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Woga® 1&2 (Yoga in Water) with Pooja & Tamara
2025-08-16 - 2025-08-17
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 Gautam
Pooja is a certified Watsu practitioner, a Watsu Basic instructor and a teacher for Woga ITC (Instructor Training Course). Tamara
Tamara is a dedicated and passionate Watsu practitioner, certified since April 2024, and teaching Woga since August 2023. She is also in the process of becoming an Oceanic Bodywork Aqua (OBA) & Amnion practitioner and on the path to becoming a Watsu Basic Teacher. Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm
Price: ₹ 8,750 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Woga® ITC (Instructor Training Course) with Pooja & Tamara
2025-08-19 - 2025-08-24
During this 6-day course, you will gain a fundamental understanding of Woga, enabling you to harness the benefits of yoga in warm, shallow water.
The program includes learning a diverse range of Woga exercises, as well as receiving didactic resources for conducting Woga classes or integrating Woga into your aquatic fitness classes. The course covers:
• an introduction to yoga philosophy, encompassing the concepts and principles of Hatha Yoga and Pranayama;
• theoretical knowledge of the physical properties pertaining to water;
• effective methodological and teaching strategies for planning Woga classes.
After successful completion of this course, you will be certified as a professional Woga Instructor. 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:
Woga ITC gives 42 supplementary hours of credit for registration as international Watsu practitioner within the Watsu India learning program.

Pooja Gautam
Pooja is a certified Watsu practitioner, a Watsu Basic instructor and a teacher for Woga ITC (Instructor Training Course). Tamara
Tamara is a dedicated and passionate Watsu practitioner, certified since April 2024, and teaching Woga since August 2023. She is also in the process of becoming an Oceanic Bodywork Aqua (OBA) & Amnion practitioner and on the path to becoming a Watsu Basic Teacher. Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm
Price: ₹ 28,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® Basic with Pooja
2025-08-25 - 2025-08-26
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: ₹ 11,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® Yoga Round with Sheida
2025-08-30, 2025-12-14

Watsu® & OBA Basic with Fred & Roberto
2025-09-09 - 2025-09-12
A 4 day course on the surface and underwater. 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 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). Roberto
Roberto is a certified Watsu®, WaterDance and OBA practitioner. He teaches Wata (WaterDance) Fundamental, Wata 1, Watsu® Basic, 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: ₹ 21,750
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

OBA 1 Fluid Body with Fred
2025-09-14 - 2025-09-19
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: ₹ 34,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® 1 (Transition Flow) with Dariya
2025-09-23 - 2025-09-27
A 5-day course on the surface.
In this 34-hour course, you will learn to connect the basic movements and positions you have learnt in Watsu Basic with long, gracefully flowing transitions. You will also learn to adapt this bodywork to people of different sizes, shapes, and dispositions, and to adjust your own body mechanics in order 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 it means to be held for yourself and others.
By the end of this course, you will have learnt the complete Watsu 1 sequence for further practice sessions till you feel ready to move on to Watsu 2. 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: ₹ 23,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

OBA Supervision with Fred
2025-09-28, 2025-10-13, 2025-10-29
OBA Individual Supervisions are an essential part of the training path to becoming an OBA practitioner. They offer a valuable opportunity to refine your techniques and explore other key aspects of the practice, such as breathing, support, presence, body mechanics, the art of touch, and transitions.
You’ll work one-on-one with a dedicated instructor who will guide you on your personal “Water Journey.” Special focus will be given to the details of each movement and the necessary adaptations based on the receiver’s size, buoyancy, and flexibility. These sessions are tailored to your individual needs and can also include any specific areas you’d like to develop further.
By deepening your skills through these supervisions, you’ll gain valuable insights and practical tools to enhance the quality of your sessions and offer an even more enriching experience to your receivers. Prerequisites: Any OBA course.
Credits: All OBA Supervisions are recognized by OBA and give 1 hour of credit for OBA.
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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 (1 hour per student within this time frame)
Price: ₹ 3,500
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® Yoga Round with Tamara
2025-09-29

OBA 2 Aquatic Body with Fred & Dariya
2025-09-30 - 2025-10-05
Building on the experience of OBA 1, this course allows you to deepen your practice using neck and knee cushions, learn a full-body massage, and exchange various new underwater techniques that are deeply relaxing and energizing.
Being surrounded by water creates a supportive environment for uncovering physical holding patterns and releasing withheld emotions. Your perception, touch, and intuition will be refined.
We will discuss the body’s water balance in relation to warm water and delve into the benefits and contraindications of the OBA 2 techniques. Integration of the water experience and background knowledge are taught through both theory and practice.
Oceanic Bodywork@ Aqua is a journey back to your origins in the endless blue depths of your inner ocean. Topics
Bodywork in warm water
• centering and stability
• new techniques for surface work
• learning full-body massage with neck rest and knee cushion
• additional complex underwater techniques
• perception and intuition
• practicing a series of Oceanic Bodywork® Aqua sessions
Integration on land
• importance of water balance in the human body
• general benefits of water work
• recognition of projections
• communication exercises
• meditation
• sharing circles
• simple massage techniques exchange
• silence Prerequisites: OBA 1.
Credits: OBA 2 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). 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 – 6.30 pm
Price: ₹ 34,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® 2 with Dariya
2025-10-07 - 2025-10-12
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: 8.45 am – 6.00 pm
Price: ₹ 34,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

OBA 3 Oceanic Body with Dariya & Fred
2025-10-14 - 2025-10-19
The Training in Oceanic Bodywork® Aqua 3 includes advanced techniques for both surface and underwater work.
The focus on slowness, silence, love, and compassion, as well as the expression of emotions, allows for a deeper and more authentic connection between the giver and receiver, helping them explore their oceanic body and consciousness.
Receiving and giving Oceanic Bodywork Aqua sessions is a transformational journey that offers deep relaxation, joyful experiences, and a dissolving of boundaries. OBA 2 techniques will be reviewed and refined under supervision, while new OBA 3 techniques, both above and below water, will be introduced to create a seamless flow of movement.
The deep and intimate nature of this bodywork can evoke emotions, necessitating a safe space both in water and on land for sharing and acknowledging these feelings. The training will include both theoretical and practical instruction on managing emotions.
The course will also address how to offer a series of sessions to a client and what this entails. Topics
In the water:
• New surface techniques
• New underwater techniques
• Holding stillness in water
• Perception and intuition
• Being present
On land:
• Meditation
• Massage techniques from OB Fire & Earth for the neck and back
• OBA and emotions
• Elements of movement Prerequisites: OBA 2.
Credits: OBA 3 is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 50 hours of credits 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. 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 – 6.30 pm
Price: ₹ 34,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Loving Water with Roberto
2025-10-20 - 2025-10-22
This experience offers a guided journey to overcome fear and discomfort in water by exploring movement, breathing, and floating through targeted exercises. Participants will gain awareness of how their bodies and emotions respond in aquatic settings, building confidence and relaxation.
Objectives:
– Develop confidence in shallow water
– Learn to move intentionally and freely in water
– Manage anxiety and emotional blocks related to water
– Understand how the body behaves in water to prepare for swimming lessons
– Promote relaxation, body awareness, and emotional resilience Benefits reported by participants include:
– Reduced muscle tension
– Improved concentration and mental clarity
– Increased lung capacity and physical endurance
– Enhanced body awareness and self-confidence
Prerequisites: No previous experience required.
Credits: No credits for registration with WABA and Watsu India.

Roberto
Roberto is a certified Watsu®, WaterDance and OBA practitioner. He teaches Wata (WaterDance) Fundamental, Wata 1, Watsu® Basic, 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: ₹ 15,950
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® & Meditation with Dariya
2025-10-30 - 2025-10-31
Meditation is an important tool for listening, accepting and knowing ourselves, as well as becoming more intuitive towards others.
In our understanding, the purpose of meditation is to cultivate presence and peace of mind, enabling us to connect with our unique essence and the world around us. It also encourages development of our intuition and perception through the heart, complementing the rational mind. This can help us making choices from a deeper place. Essentially, meditation helps in our personal growth and enhances our ability to deeply listen to and be fully present with the person we float during a Watsu session. Prerequisites: Watsu Basic.
Credits: Watsu and Meditation 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: ₹ 10,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® & OBA Basic with Fred & Roberto
2025-12-16 - 2025-12-21
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 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). Roberto
Roberto is a certified Watsu®, WaterDance and OBA practitioner. He teaches Wata (WaterDance) Fundamental, Wata 1, Watsu® Basic, 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: 1.00 – 6.00 pm

Price: ₹ 20,950
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Woga® 1&2 (Yoga in Water) with Ankit & Pooja
2025-12-22 - 2025-12-23
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.

Ankit Shah
Ankit, along with his wife Pooja, is one of the youngest and most prominent Indian-origin practitioners and instructors of Watsu and Woga.
While building a successful corporate career, Ankit felt a deep calling to explore soul-centric therapeutic modalities—approaches that would allow him to journey inward, connect with his essence, and express his fullest creative potential.
This inner calling led him to Auroville in 2010—the international, experimental township in southern India—where he eventually discovered his path in Watsu, Woga, and other aquatic healing arts.
Since September 2024, he has also been enrolled in Dr. Gabor Maté’s professional training in Compassionate Inquiry, a trauma-informed psychotherapeutic approach that deepens his integrative and healing practice. 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: ₹ 8,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® 1 (Transition Flow) with Dariya
2025-12-24 - 2025-12-28
A 5-day course on the surface.
In this 34-hour course, you will learn to connect the basic movements and positions you have learnt in Watsu Basic with long, gracefully flowing transitions. You will also learn to adapt this bodywork to people of different sizes, shapes, and dispositions, and to adjust your own body mechanics in order 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 it means to be held for yourself and others.
By the end of this course, you will have learnt the complete Watsu 1 sequence for further practice sessions till you feel ready to move on to Watsu 2. 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: ₹ 24,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

WaterDance Fundamental with Roberto
2025-12-29 - 2026-01-03
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, WaterDance 1, Watsu Basic, 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: ₹ 36,500
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® & Breathing with Dariya
2026-01-04 - 2026-01-05
A 2-day journey of exploring and discovering your breath and its applications in Watsu.
In this course, you will learn to integrate the practice of Watsu qualities and explore the power of working with your receiver’s breath. Several topics will be discussed, including the link between breathing and yourself as a giver, as well as your energetic connection with the receiver.
You will also gain an understanding of the anatomical basis of our respiratory system to better grasp its functioning. Prerequisites: Watsu 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: ₹ 11,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.
