The Five Stages of a Watsu Training

Each stage has an organic unity. Rather than being the first step towards something to be achieved later, an achievement is completed at each stage. The sequence or kind of session learned at each can be repeated over and over without losing its freshness or benefits for both giver and receiver. That is because what each has to teach us - presence, flow, form, adaptation, and creativity - is something we continue to learn throughout our life. And rather than just being a step, each becomes a platform that supports and sustains the next.

• Basic Watsu (first 16 hours of Watsu 1) introduces the body mechanics, and the heart and breath connection, that ground our presence with another in the water.

• Transition Flow (last 34 hours of Watsu 1) introduces Watsu’s timeless continuity through the beauty and grace of its flow from one position to the next.

• Expanded Flow (Watsu 2) creates a complete Watsu form by introducing in each position of the Transition Flow additional moves and point work.

• Advanced Flow (Watsu 3) fills the Watsuer’s toolbox with powerful stretches, stepwork, rolls and other ways to adapt each session.

• Free Flow (Watsu 4), an inner Watsu course, opens the gateway to the deepest levels of our creativity.