MY EXPERIENCE WITH WATSU

I find water relaxing to a point but I still have some basic fears of the water.  When I first heard about Watsu, I decided to give it a try – I was curious.  During my first experience, it took me a little while to relax but I trusted my provider and I was soon able to benefit from the session.  I felt so relaxed almost like what I would imagine a fetus must experience in the womb.  Areas of my body that were tight or painful seemed to release the tension during the session.  I especially noticed that lower back and hip areas were more comfortable afterward.  I still enjoy therapeutic massage but I feel that adding Watsu to my plan for good health is of great benefit.

MAS, Nurse Practitioner

As a Continuum Movement Teacher, I believe in the transformative and healing powers contained in the fluid body.  By enticing, invoking, and stimulating the streams of our fluid nature, we awaken a life force, an intrinsic vitality, an undulating wisdom.  It is often stated  that we are fluid beings who have arrived on land…a wonderful history. Each Watsu session with Cathy was exciting and satisfying…Cathy and water, working in harmony, moving me down and around.  Her graceful support and guidance created a rich movement exploration into sensation, and the opportunity to dissolve much of my physical and mental tension.  With her lead, I was able to follow my body’s appetite for movement.  It was truly a non-linear experience. I would breathe, then drop down again into a deeper dissolving…enjoying the exquisite sensations and creative shaping’s.  After each Watsu session, I felt  an ease in my body,  an energetic renewal, and slept soundly."  

Rebecca Amis Lawson, MA, R-DMT, CMT
Authorized Continuum Movement Teacher
Chapel Hill, NC

So excited that I had the opportunity to get Watsu.  Anyone that hasn't tried it is really missing out.  It is AWESOME!  I felt more relaxed than I had in a very long time.  It is such a graceful, melting of the entire body.  Thank you so much for offering this modality to the community and surrounding areas.

J. Morgan, Ladson, SC

I have enjoyed the Watsu treatment several times and each has been an enriching opening into a familiar kind of rebirthing of my body, mind and soul. The intimacy shared in an unspoken manner with Cathy, the water and complete relaxation contributes to a kind of embryonic recollection that can orientate itself according to my needs. If a rebirthing is desired or simply an occasion to trust and feel at a profound level  the opportunity to go with the flow can produce surprising results  If the body is 90% water and is received therapeutically in the water by a seasoned practitioner the level of healing possibilities is relative to what the body can induce. I love it and feel completely at home from one session to the next. After all, I’m a crab.

Amanda Ford     

Greetings Ashima,

Don’t know if this will promote your practice but it fairly describes my experiences.

From the very first moment, Watsu was a delightful opportunity for my soul to get up and dance.  I had no aches, pains, maladies or injuries when I came to Cathy, just the usual burning yearning to access the Light.  Cathy is exceptionally well-versed at allowing that space of tranquil trust to emerge.  So even though this was my first dive, I immediately learned that something very primal occurs when embraced within the fluid environment that is not so readily accessible under the restraint of gravity.  There was a deeply rooted thrill that rose up as soul realized it suddenly had an unfettered chance to express itself .  It seemed like the emotional adhesive I apply to all my accumulated baggage was dissolving in the dance and a feeling of freedom like no other swept through me.  All movement was initiated from forces within me.  This was the observer state that I strive for in meditation and the wild ride I watched was a paradox of explosive serenity.  After a brief interlude for grounding the elation settled into an internal exploration of Oneness.  My heartbeat seemed like the pulsing of the universe.  The sounds of my breathing were the hush of time travel.  While it is a marvel to look at in retrospect, it was a perfectly natural state of being at the time, adrift in the sacred.  That’s all I recall.

My residual effects can be compared to the aa-haa feeling of finally grasping a sutra, the comfort of dawning truth that was there all along the perfect complement to my meditative practice.

Feel free to include my name and use this as you see fit, Ashima.  Thanks for the opportunity to assist!

One  in Her Cosmic Embrace,

Marty

Martin Levisen    levisenm@dnr.sc.gov

As a practicing Shaman, the mystical is the world I walk in a great deal of the time. Never, the less, my Watsu experience just astounded me! It was like having the perfect birth experience. I have never had another experience like it. My frequent experiences have been powerful as well. Kathy makes you feel completely safe in the water, and I can not recommend this experience highly enough.   Harriet Watson, M.S. Practicing Shaman

The Watsu experience is like no other you will ever have! The healing effects of the water, coupled with the mystical effects of the experience bring you into another world other than this one. Do not delay in giving yourself this gift.

Harriet Watson, M.S. Practicing Shaman