Aquatic Bodywork / WATSU® - Waterdance®
The aquatic bodywork is a massage in warm water (34 celsius) that combines gentle graceful movements, stretching, acupressure, mobilization of the joints in connection with breathing, conducted both on the surface (WATSU®) and underwater (Waterdance®). The buoyancy of the water takes the weight off the body, facilitating movement in ways not possible on land.
A session starts with a relaxation phase on the water surface, where your body is just floated by Manuela, allowing you to relax and your breathing to deepen and flow naturally. Manuela will stretch, massage, rock, sway and swing you in a soft and effortless way. Harmonious playful movements alternate with energetical work.
When you are deeply relaxed and if you are open to it, the underwater phase begins. You'll receive a noseclip that keeps water from entering your nose while you are gently submerged. You enter the underwater 3-dimensional world while gravity disappears.
Manuela connects with your breathing, so that she can follow its natural flow and dive you on the outbreath and bring your face at the water surface just when you naturally want to breathe in. The heart rate and the metabolism decreases, so that you can totally relax.
A gentle underwaterdance starts. Manuela « is dancing you », following the impulses that naturally arrise in your body, changing the dynamics and offering some moments of complete stillness to integrate the healing energy of water. Waves, rolls, and twists, vary with inversions and moments of resting.
The receiver often experience bliss, some intense sense of freedom or even go on a spiritual journey. It can sometimes lead to deeper emotional releases. At the end of the session you will have time to integrate feelings which might have come up during the session and can exchange a few words about your experience with Manuela.
WATSU® (head above the water)
Manuela’s experience with water: the aquatic bodywork given by Manuela is a combination of the different forms she learned and then developped for herself. She discovered the joy of dancing in water doing synchronised swimming for 3 years as a teenager. After skipping to dance (see other webpages) on land for many years, she rediscovered the pleasure of water in the healing environment of « Waterdance® ».
She did more than 950 hours in WATSU® (water shiatsu), WATA® ("Waterdance") and "Healing Dance®" with Arjana Bruschwiler, Peter Schröter und Inika Sati Spence between 2005 und 2010 and became a WATSU® and WATA® practitioner in 2010. Her love for contact improvisation and aquatic bodywork has brought her to teach contact dance in water, in Switzerland and abroad (India, Israel, Russia, aso.).
Other trainings : EMR anatomy and pathology training, Esalen Massage practitioner, some elements of Shiatsu. Manuela has experience in processwork through her WATSU® and WATA® training and through her own personal development and therapy process (shamanism, non violent communication, inner child, Gestalt, psychotherapy and so on). She gives regularly sessions in water since 2005.
Price and duration: A water session lasts about 1.5 hour including the discussion before and after (speaking English and German, understanding Spanish and Italian with French mothertongue) and costs CHF 100.- + therapy pool costs : 30.-. Manuela mainly gives her sessions in a therapy pool (35°C) in Bern, but could arrange it somewhere else.
Do you wanna try ? Please contact me :
manou.blanchard@bluewin.ch, +41(0)79 641 91 19 and +41(0)31 332 50 06
A very special present: Offer a watersession for Frs. 135.- (including pool, voucher and mailing costs). If the person prefers, she can also receive an Esalen massage (bodymassage on table with oil) instead.
More informations and pictures on aquatic bodywork : www.iaka.ch , www.watsu.com and www.healingdance.org . Very nice film with Pazit Fuchs with « Healing Dance » and « Waterdance », click here. And a watersession session with me, click here.
She did more than 950 hours in WATSU® (water shiatsu), WATA® ("Waterdance") and "Healing Dance®" with Arjana Bruschwiler, Peter Schröter und Inika Sati Spence between 2005 und 2010 and became a WATSU® and WATA® practitioner in 2010. Her love for contact improvisation and aquatic bodywork has brought her to teach contact dance in water, in Switzerland and abroad (India, Israel, Russia, aso.).
Other trainings : EMR anatomy and pathology training, Esalen Massage practitioner, some elements of Shiatsu. Manuela has experience in processwork through her WATSU® and WATA® training and through her own personal development and therapy process (shamanism, non violent communication, inner child, Gestalt, psychotherapy and so on). She gives regularly sessions in water since 2005.
Price and duration: A water session lasts about 1.5 hour including the discussion before and after (speaking English and German, understanding Spanish and Italian with French mothertongue) and costs CHF 100.- + therapy pool costs : 30.-. Manuela mainly gives her sessions in a therapy pool (35°C) in Bern, but could arrange it somewhere else.
Do you wanna try ? Please contact me :
manou.blanchard@bluewin.ch, +41(0)79 641 91 19 and +41(0)31 332 50 06
A very special present: Offer a watersession for Frs. 135.- (including pool, voucher and mailing costs). If the person prefers, she can also receive an Esalen massage (bodymassage on table with oil) instead.
More informations and pictures on aquatic bodywork : www.iaka.ch , www.watsu.com and www.healingdance.org . Very nice film with Pazit Fuchs with « Healing Dance » and « Waterdance », click here. And a watersession session with me, click here.
some bodywork underwater (waterdance)
