WATSU® Aquatic Bodywork and Therapy

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WABA is aware of conflicts happening across the world. It condemns violence of all kinds happening among humans owing to geopolitical and religious reasons. WABA takes on the side of internal stability, and peace across the conflicting parties. WABA wishes resolution of conflicts at the earliest and allow humanity to strive. As a professional aquatic body, with the scope of promoting and supporting growth of aquatic bodywork across the globe, WABA will remain apolitical as per the vision, mission, and values stated on the website waba.pro.

Let the spirit of water guide us to be humble, grounded, flexible and to stay in solidarity with people of all countries, religions and race in the phenomenon called life.

In ancient Egypt water was compensation for the freedom that the soul
loses in its bodily form. Find, explore, and share
that freedom in the body in water.

Bodywork

WATSU® is the world's first form of Aquatic Bodywork. Like massage, it can be applied professionally or shared with family and friends. Warm water, unconditional holding and treating the body as a whole, create space safe enough for the one in our arms to access every level of their being. Adapting WATSU® therapy's established form to each, and Free Flow, engages our whole being.

Classes

Programs

Therapy

WATSU® is the principle form of Aquatic Therapy for rehabilitation. It promotes deep relaxation, quieting the sympathetic and enhancing the parasympathetic nervous systems. It has profound beneficial effects for trauma, both physical and psycho-emotional, with therapeutic application for neuromuscular injuries, stress, chronic pain, discomfort during pregnancy, and special needs.

Applications

Research

Community

The WATSU® Round brings people together. Take turns as holder, held and helper whose oversight frees the holder to explore with WATSU® therapy's basic moves, eyes closed, how deep we are connected. End each turn with Tandem WATSU®, containing and stretching the one held between you. Bring everyone's creativity into play on the Explorer Path. Bring unconditional whole body holding to everybody.

WATSU® Round

Tandem WATSU®

Harold Dull

Harold started WATSU® in 1980 at Harbin Hot Springs in California where he taught the Zen Shiatsu that he had studied with its creator, Shizuto Masanaga, in Japan. In Zen Shiatsu stretching someone unblocks and balances the energy flowing through their body more than Shiatsu's traditional work on points. Harold found warm water to be the ideal medium for this. He also found that the holding required to float someone takes them to a level of healing beyond that of touch. The same year Harold brought WATSU® therapy's unconditional holding, back onto land in TANTSU® In WATSU® and TANTSU®, while being stretched, someone's whole body is so contained, they find it safe to access every level.

WABR

The Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Registry. When Harold, and others who joined to help develop WATSU® and TANTSU®, were invited to teach around the world, Harold began a Registry to list classes and practitioners on the internet, and to store authorizations to practice and teach. Today more than 20,000 from 90 countries have transcripts on the Registry. Find practitioners, classes and instructors on the Registry to ensure they are fully trained and that their classes can be added to your transcript and applied to becoming authorized to practice or teach WATSU®, or one of the other forms of Aquatic Bodywork whose authorizations are also listed on the Worldwide Registry.

Find Practitioners Classes Instructors

Aquatic Bodywork

Many forms of aquatic bodywork have developed out of WATSU® such as Waterdance™ and HEALING DANCE®. All of their authorized instructors appear on the Registry. Find the descriptions of these forms when you select a class on the Registry. Besides leading to authorizations in their own form, these classes appear on the student transcripts on the Registry as electives in the WATSU® programs.

WABA

The Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association (www.waba.pro) oversees aquatic bodywork training and certification programs and their ethical application; coordinates research; and helps provide access to the benefits of aquatic bodywork. Practitioners, Instructors, and Training Institutes are members of WABA. Other individuals and organizations who want to help are welcome to become WABA members.
Submit any complaints to the WABA Ethics Committee with a pdf or a Word document.