Aquatic Bodywork / WATSU® - Waterdance®
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Video showing a watersession session with me
WATERDANCE FUNDAMENTALS WORKSHOP near Sion (Wallis, Switzerland), 21-25th August 2019 with Manou Blanchard, flyer
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.
WaterShiatsu® is also totally appropriated for pregnant women: the soft, warm, wellcoming quality of the massage is a good preparation for giving birth, for letting go. The floating gives a sensation of weighlessness and leaves the back accessible for massage, and it is possible until the due date.
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 1000 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, then WATA® teacher in 2018. 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.) and to develop her own method, "Aquatic Bodywaves".
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, "Learning Love" training, 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 : between 40.-/70.- depending the pool. Manuela mainly gives her sessions in a therapy pool (35°C) in Bern, but could arrange it somewhere else, like in a SPA closeby.
Next possibilities of water sessions in Bern :
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Also possible in a public (or private) therapy pool in Bern, Lyss, Burgdorf, Fribourg, Geneva or Schöhnbühl (mainly during the week at day time). Please contact me to make an appointment. You can send me a few date proposals by email
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 CHF. 160.-/170.- (including entrance in a private therapy pool or a SPA). If the person prefers, she can also receive an Esalen massage (bodymassage on table with oil) instead. If you want to offer a session without the pool entry, the voucher costs CHF 100.-.
More informations and pictures on aquatic bodywork : www.iaka.ch , www.watsu.com and www.healingdance.org
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She did more than 1000 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, then WATA® teacher in 2018. 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.) and to develop her own method, "Aquatic Bodywaves".
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, "Learning Love" training, 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 : between 40.-/70.- depending the pool. Manuela mainly gives her sessions in a therapy pool (35°C) in Bern, but could arrange it somewhere else, like in a SPA closeby.
Next possibilities of water sessions in Bern :
please click here
Also possible in a public (or private) therapy pool in Bern, Lyss, Burgdorf, Fribourg, Geneva or Schöhnbühl (mainly during the week at day time). Please contact me to make an appointment. You can send me a few date proposals by email
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 CHF. 160.-/170.- (including entrance in a private therapy pool or a SPA). If the person prefers, she can also receive an Esalen massage (bodymassage on table with oil) instead. If you want to offer a session without the pool entry, the voucher costs CHF 100.-.
More informations and pictures on aquatic bodywork : www.iaka.ch , www.watsu.com and www.healingdance.org
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