Elisa Muñoz Blanco completed her diploma in Physiotherapy by the third promotion of the European University of Madrid and graduated from the same University in 2012. She studied the Expert in Craniomandibular Dysfunction and Orofacial Pain with Prof. Mariano Rocabado, and the Postgraduate in Manual Lymphatic Drainage at the European University of Madrid and the Vodder School, Austria. Both specialties will mark her clinical practice and her enactivist approach to pain.

She integrated Craniosacral Therapy and SomatoEmotional Release® into her clinical practice between 2000 and 2002, beginning to explore from that moment with its application in the aquatic environment in a sensory isolation tank during her residence in the Canary Islands, where she also made her very first experience of Watsu®. 

In 2005, she began a journey through Europe, Asia, and Oceania to complete her training in Thai Yoga Therapy, and to begin her training in Watsu®, a technique of which she is today an international reference, one of the few Senior Instructors and the third instructor in the world accredited by the Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association (WABA) to teach Clinical Watsu® 3, the only one In Europe.

Upon her return to Spain, because of the integration of her knowledge and experience, she created Craniosacral Therapy in Water™ (CST in Water™) and was immediately invited to share her knowledge through WABA.

This concept, CST in Water™, is her trademark and intellectual property since 2012 and its training program has been present in the Aquatic Therapy Expert degree at the European University of Madrid, at the University of Comillas and later at the King Juan Carlos University of Madrid. It is applied today by multidisciplinary teams in Aquatic Therapy Units of multiple rehabilitation centers and hospitals in Spain, as well as in several countries on the European continent, the United States and Latin America.

In 2012 she qualified as an Expert in Osteoarticular Physiotherapy by the Autonomous University of Madrid and Myofascial Induction® with Prof. Andrezj Pilat and continued years later with training in Craniosacral Biodynamic Therapy at Trust the Tide with Javier Rodriguez.

In 2014 she founded Watsupath™ Training Institute, a WABA accredited institute that she currently directs in constant collaboration with a team of world-renowned therapeutic centers, professors, and clinicians.

She begins in 2015 to work in the field of special education, with children with cerebral palsy. In 2017 she completed the University Master’s Degree in Physiotherapy in Pediatrics at the San Pablo-CEU University of Madrid, consolidating her orientation to neuropediatrics in the aquatic environment, and publishing a high-impact qualitative research on the experiences of these users, their families and the professionals who accompany them. 

She is co-author of the book “Aquatic Therapy. Approaches from Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy in the aquatic environment”, in its first and second edition, co-author of the book “The Heart of Watsu®: Therapeutic Applications in Clinical Practice”, author of several scientific articles and speaker at numerous national and international congresses and conferences. 

She is a member of the Spanish Society of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy and is currently studying for a master’s degree in Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the University of San Jorge.

On leave of absence as associate professor of Physiotherapy Degree at the University San Pablo-CEU and professor in the Master of Physiotherapy in Pediatrics at the same University, she currently combines her clinical activity in the Aquatic Therapy Unit of the Hospital Fundación Instituto San José with her work as an international lecturer.