Quiet Healing Center

Reiki Level 1 with Tania
2020-01-20 - 2020-01-21 | Quiet Healing Center, India
Reiki is an ancient, non-intrusive therapy. As a hands-on healing art, it enhances the body’s own innate ability to heal itself and restore harmony to the body, mind and spirit. Anyone can learn Reiki. One need not have any special healing skills, unique gifts, or prior experience. Reiki Level 1 will attune you to effectively channel the Universal Life Force for healing and transformation. In this workshop you will learn:

the history and 5 principles of Reiki;
the human aura and chakra system;
how to channel Reiki energy for self-healing and healing others;
Reiki Level 1 initiation, which opens up the flow of Reiki energy;
hands-on practice and Reiki Level 1 manual.

Tania
Tania initially pursued Reiki for her own personal healing, and then felt guided to become a practitioner. She completed her Reiki master level, in the traditional Usui system, in 2016. Since then Tania has been offering Reiki healing sessions and Reiki intensives in India and in Europe. Timings: 9.00 AM – 5.30 PM
Price: ₹ 6,900 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Ancient Vedic Healing Course with Swami Omkar
2020-01-18 - 2020-01-19
In this workshop 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.

Adapted Watsu® with Gianni De Stefani
2020-01-17 - 2020-01-19
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: ₹ 14,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Foot Reflexology Training with Ananda
2020-01-15 - 2020-01-19
“Feet have roots to touch the heart of the earth…
hands have wings to reach the mystery of the sky… “ What is Holistic Reflexology ?
Holistic Reflexology is deeply relaxing, healing & balancing tool for body-mind-energy. With meditative presence, loving energy & by activating and relaxing nerve endpoints, lymphatic nodes and energy points in hands and feet, we support harmonizing internal organs, blood circulation, nervous, hormonal, lymphatic systems and boost immunity.

What is Holistic ? I don’t believe in this Holistic stuff ?
Holistic means whole. Healing happens if we tune our body-mind-energy with whole of our potential. Body-mind-energy has natural, self-balancing, self-healing capacity. The healer simply plays the role of a channel/catalyst using effective techniques, loving energy and meditative presence.
There is nothing to believe blindly but scientific tools to learn, experience and integrate. What do we learn in this training ?
Welcome to intensive journey to explore and deepen with:
• anatomy of physical and energy body and yogic science
• warmup, self-healing techniques and use of supportive tools
• reflexology techniques & sequence for organs, nerves, hormones
• specific sequence for lymphatic flush drainage & energy balancing
• reading various body types and variations in approaches to apply
• meditations to be open channel of sensitivity, presence and loving energy
• effective ways to give deep healing sessions effortlessly. Ananda is a meditator, facilitator and therapist, focusing on wellness and connecting with inner essence through body, mind, emotions and energy.
He started his journey long ago to travel inside and outside, exploring various forms of yoga, meditation, mystics and energetic spaces. Practicing healing sessions for over 10 years, Ananda is professionally trained with international certifications for various forms of healing such as Watsu, Aquawellness, Foot Reflexology, Hypnotherapy, Pranic Healing, Alchemy of Touch – Rebalancing.
Having left behind his profession as a software architect 5 years ago, he shares his meditation retreats and rebalancing across India, Vietnam and Europe to connect with the essence of love and freedom inside. Timings: 9.00 AM – 4.30 PM
Price: ₹ 14,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Water & Dance with Dariya & Daniel
2020-01-15 - 2020-01-16
A 2-day celebration for ALL lovers of movement and flow.
We will playfully explore and express ourselves through movement and dance on land and in warm water, on our own, with partners and in group. From self-connection to allowing movements to emerge, no one deciding where to go, the doors open for non-verbal communication and deep sharing… Connecting on land to our deeper longings, we give the body permission to find its own way of expression and possibly contacting others. Warm water with its sense of weightlessness and fluidity invites us to let go and experiment with our own organic and fluid way of movement.
Let’s celebrate this journey together!

Prerequisites: No previous experience required (also no need to know how to swim).
Credits: Water & Dance gives 15 hours of credit for registration as a supplementary class with Watsu India. Dariya (as WABA facilitator) & Daniel
Have been sharing their passion for aquatic bodywork with groups since 2004. Besides the belief that a solid technical base provides possibilities for ease and lightness in further personal growth, their main focus is to create spaces for flow, deepening and connection. Timings: 9 AM – 6 PM
Price: ₹ 7,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Somatic Movement with Maggie
2020-01-11 - 2020-01-12
A 2-day neuromuscular re-education (mind-body training) course in the tradition of Thomas Hanna.
Somatics is a system of slow mindful movements. It is a gentle, easy and effective way to help you manage chronic and acute pain. Other benefits include more ease in the body, better posture and deep relaxation. It teaches you to recognize, release and reverse chronic pain patterns resulting from injury, stress, or habituated postures. We will begin with a short introduction – what Somatics is, why it’s unique and how it works, and then experience a variety of fun, easy and gentle movements designed to help you create a deeper sense of awareness as to the places where you hold tension in your body.
At the end of the course there will be time for questions and a review of specific movements which can be practiced at home.
Handouts of the home practice will be given.
For further information on Somatics please visit: Association for Hanna Somatics, Novato Institute for Somatic Research and Training and International Institute for Somatic Movement Education. Maggie
Originally from London, Maggie joined Auroville in 2005 where she lives and works as a massage therapist and course facilitator.
She is a professionally trained Somatic Movement Educator and offers classes, courses and individual therapies.
Timings: 9.30 AM – 5.00 PM
Price: ₹ 5,650 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

From Fear to Love – a Guided Journey with Julia & Svenja
2020-01-10 - 2020-01-12
The more we allow ourselves to acknowledge our inner parts that are not “all that pretty”, the more we will start taking charge of our lives and move towards our real strength and personal power. Those inner parts of us have often been kept in the dark.
What if…
… we start to open that door and shed some light on them?
… we could accept them as an important part of ourselves?
By embracing them we can eventually live more from a place of love, trust and courage.
Let’s try, see, feel and live our Fears and Control patterns and let them move out of their frozen state and melt into Love and Trust.
To experience your being in a holistic approach, we guide you using tools such as bodywork, dance, creativity and meditation, while creating a safe space for reflection and sharing. Who is the target audience?
People, who have a serious interest in interacting with themselves and are curious to learn more about their patterns and belief systems and on how to expand their opportunities. Hardly anyone lives to their own potential; there is much that holds us back and limits us. It is important to remove heavy stones, which hide the entrance to the treasury.
What is the workshop about?
We want to offer an opportunity of therapeutic work on oneself, which uses the power and dynamics of a group. It’s about dealing with your own patterns and blockages and inviting more freedom and ease into your life. The therapeutic, self-reflective and exploratory work that you undertake is guided and supported by two experienced therapists and coaches. In selecting and applying suitable methods, we draw upon years of experience in working with individuals and groups in the context of therapy, training and counseling.
What are the goals?
The aim is individual growth in terms of self-development and healing. Letting go of the old and explore new inner ways, of which we are often only partially aware. We invite participants to embark on an inner voyage of discovery and awaken the wonders that dwell in all of us. Through a trustful and supportive atmosphere, you can reach your goals easier and in a more direct manner through the collective field activated by the open-heart energy of the group dynamics.
Which methods do we use?
Our repertoire of methods includes therapeutic bodywork, talk-therapeutic methods, free and guided movement/dance, imaginative creativity, meditations and dream travel, introspection and reflection, exchange with a partner, and small and larger group work. All methods used have been professionally acquired, tested and refined over many years of practice. Julia
Julia is a graduate Psychologist specialized in Clinical and Organizational Psychology. She is also a trainer in communication, a Hypnosystemic coach and consultant (Milton Erickson Institute), a mediator and facilitator (Artop Institute), as well as a certified dance teacher (Terramedus School).
She has followed further education and acquired experience in various therapeutic methods e.g. The Wholeness Work® and Core Transformation by Connirae Andreas, Generative Trance by Stephen Gilligan, Systemic Body Therapy and Systemic Constellation Work.
For about 12 years, Julia has been counseling individuals and groups in developmental, healing and change processes. She is fascinated and enthusiastic about the depth and ease with which healing can happen, when we are open to turn within and around us in love and acceptance. For her, the central element is love. Julia recently joined Auroville. Svenja
Svenja is a Psycho-Somato Therapist certified at L’École du Corps-Conscience, Montpellier, France. She has been practicing as a therapist since 2005 and started teaching Somato Therapy in France from 2009.
The method is an original mix, comprising several manual techniques and psychotherapeutic tools such as Gestalttherapy, Bioenergy, Rebirth, Creativity and Visualisation combined with verbal exchange and mental healing. Breathing helps creating the link between body and mind, while touch can act as a healing and transformative tool; verbal exchange allows integration of freed emotions. As such, Somato Therapy is based upon a holistic vision of the human being.
Svenja lives in Auroville since 2017 and devides her time between her therapy sessions (Inner Body Work under the LEAD umbrella) and the Auroville Housing Service. Timings:
Friday: 2 – 7 PM
Saturday: 9 AM – 12 & 2 – 7 PM
Sunday: 9 AM – 12 & 2 – 5 PM
Price: ₹ 8,950 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Liquid Flow Essence with Dariya & Daniel
2020-01-08 - 2020-01-14
A 7-day course.
Liquid Flow is an aquatic bodywork modality given in a warm water pool (ideally 35°C). Developed at the Quiet Healing Center, Auroville, Liquid Flow is inspired and based on the forms and qualities of Watsu, OBA, Healing Dance, and WaterDance.
With a complete sense of presence and attention, the practitioner moves, folds, stretches, and massages the receiver’s floating body on the surface, inducing a profound state of both physical and mental relaxation. Depending on the choice of the receiver, a session can also include an underwater part (with nose clip), which offers a unique experience of being moved under water. The flowing interaction with water, its fluid support and warm embrace, and the practitioner’s presence provide a space for the receiver to experience the multilayered benefits of this powerful and softening bodywork. Liquid Flow 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 receiver and to each session. This intense course with the main Liquid Flow sequence is for students of different aquatic bodywork modalities, who wish to dive deeper into their practice.
In combination with practices on land, you will experience the profound effects of this powerful, yet softening, work.
Liquid Flow Essence is the favourite elective of many students. Inspired by different aquatic bodywork modalities, it offers a wonderful new sequence of essential mobilisation possibilities in a flow with ease and continuity.
Together with a deepening presence and unconditional holding, this course improves your therapeutic work and leads towards the essence of any aquatic bodywork: being deeply in touch with one’s essence, and experiencing a sense of timelessness and connection to ALL.
Prerequisites:
Watsu & Liquid Flow Basic or Watsu & OBA Basic, and number of practice sessions given according to teachers’ recommendation.
Credits: Liquid Flow Essence 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 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 (plus 1 evening!)
Price: ₹ 30,500 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® Yoga Round with Gianni De Stefani
2020-01-07
Watsu Yoga Round is a powerful tool for deep relaxation and inner peace. It focuses on listening to the body and presence; it represents a way to come back to our heart, to an inner silence that is fully alive and vibrant. It is an invitation to feel, awaken and celebrate the energy of our being. When immersed in warm water during the Watsu Yoga Round, the body does not suffer from the effects of gravity; the flow of movements and stretching alternated with moments of stillness invite a progressive well-being: body and mind become free to dance!
Prerequisites: No previous experience required (also no need to know how to swim).
Booking: 0413 2622329 / 9488084966 or E-mail: quiet@auroville.org.in 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 – 12.30 PM
Price: ₹ 300
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Watsu® 1 (Transition Flow) with Dariya & Daniel
2020-01-02 - 2020-01-06
A 5-day course on the surface only. In this course you will be taught to connect the basic movements and positions you have learned in Watsu Basic with long, gracefully flowing transitions and to adapt this work to people of different sizes, shapes, and dispositions. You will also learn about your own body mechanics and how to support and move each person as effortlessly as possible.
On land, you will be introduced to both Co-Centering and Tantsu, and explore what being held means to you and others.
Prerequisites:
Watsu & Liquid Flow Basic or Watsu Basic & OBA Intro or Watsu Basic.
Credits: Watsu 1 is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu training program and gives 34 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. Dariya (as WABA facilitator) & Daniel have been sharing their passion for aquatic bodywork with groups since 2004.
Besides the belief that a solid technical base provides possibilities for ease and lightness in further personal growth, their main focus is to create spaces for flow, deepening and connection. Timings: 9.00 – 6.00 PM
Price: ₹ 21,250 (lunch included)
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Anatomy for Aquatic Bodyworkers with Gianni De Stefani
2020-01-01 - 2020-01-06
A 6-day course, mainly on land with parts in the water.
A basic knowledge of anatomy is required for a Watsu practitioner, working with a client’s body in many different ways. This course offers a theoretical and experiential overview of a model of traditional anatomy for Watsu, focusing on planes and axes of movements, mechanics of articulations, physiology, metabolism, and on muscles & their lengthening. Theory and practice take place on land and in water. Through massages and specific exercises, you learn the functionality of various body structures and the possible applications in Watsu.
About one-third of the course is dedicated to theory, one-third to practice on land, and one-third to practical applications in water. Prerequisites: Watsu 2 plus 100 hours of aquatic bodywork training or Watsu 1 plus 200 hours of aquatic bodywork training.
Credits: Anatomy for Aquatic Bodyworkers 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 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: 10.00 AM – 1.30 PM & 3.00 – 7.30 PM
Price: ₹ 27,950
Please read the General Information before you apply for this course.

Conscious Touch with Bodhi & Verena
2019-12-28 - 2019-12-29, 2019-09-07 - 2019-09-08
A workshop to explore how to touch with simple massage techniques. It is designed to enhance the quality of Conscious Touch.
Being aware of yourself while giving attention to another person is a fundamental practice for all flourishing and sustainable relationships; this is especially important while giving and receiving touch through massage. Conscious Touch is a powerful tool for deepening your connection in all kinds of relationships.
During this workshop you will experience different ways to get into a deep heart-connection and to practice essential elements of massage.
These massage techniques can be shared with children, family and friends.

Goals:

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

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

Bodhi

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

Verena

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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