Taught by Alexander & Kathrin George
RELATING & MIRRORING (24 hrs) in San Sebastian, Spain
(24 hours credit hours with Watsupath™ Training Institute https://watsupath.com and the Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association http://watsu.com)
What is Healing Dance®?
Healing Dance® is a powerful and beautiful aquatic technique developed by Alexander George in 1993. It consists of ten trainings. In seven, techniques are taught in which the receiver remains on the surface of the water. The three remaining trainings are subaquatic, featuring a variety of submergings. The guiding philosophy of the work is that …movement is the “medicine” and in the experience of “received dance” the healing process in the body is activated.
- Students learn to create the sensation of lightness and weightlessness, to generate a rhythmic field, to find the various “rhythms of awareness” for clients and even to channel movement.
- Physical and emotional blockages are resolved in the polarity between freedom and security.
- Advanced body mechanics are taught to create movements of greater subtlety and sensitivity.
As the vocabulary of movements expands students become more confident to improvise and better respond to the needs of the client.
How Healing Dance® works
Healing Dance® has many aspects, all based on the healing power of movement. The practitioner establishes an empathetic connection with the receiver and is trained to mirror any incipient kinetic impulses. Movement is understood as medicine and carefully dosed, intermixed with restful pauses in quiet positional sanctuaries to allow for integration of its effects. The practitioner ‘dances’ the receiver, who has an experience of grace and beauty, sometimes leading to deeper emotional releases. Healing Dance could be understood as silent music, consisting of rhythmic impulses of pressure, touch and movement played upon the body’s proprioceptors. The dance is between the subliminal message within each movement and the receiver’s subconscious mind. That which has slowed down or ceased to move within the psyche is inspired to awaken into playful participation. Thus, the healing comes from within.
- Healing Dance®’s wide variety of original techniques reflects how water and the body naturally move together.
- Blocked energies are opened up by more than thirty hydrodynamic waves and spirals, as well as various spatial mandalas in the form of circles, figure 8’s and releases, freeing and re-animating the body.
- Healing Dance® takes advantage of the full three-dimensionality of the water with broad dynamic movements.
- A variety of advanced body mechanics techniques such as moving by example, creative imbalance and traveling through the pool help to create not only bigger movements, but also subtler and more sensitive ones.
- The essence of Healing Dance is flow, freedom and lightness.
As the vocabulary of movements expands, students become more confident to improvise and better respond to the needs of the receiver.
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COURSE CONTENTS (24 HORAS, 3 DÍAS
Relating & Mirroring is a three day course focusing on perhaps the most important aspect of aquatic bodywork: that our receivers feel felt, and that as givers we are able to truly feel and mirror them in all dimensions—physical, emotional and spiritual. The recent discovery of mirror neurons in the brain has provided our generation with a scientific basis for empathy. In the training we will delve into this neurophysiological phenomena underlying our social interactions before focusing on how it translates into the water. On land we will experiment with dance mirroring exercises, authentic movement and exercises to fine-tune presence. In the water we will develop the skills and perceptual framework to follow and support receivers in their movement and stillness. The principles we will explore include using the water, joining, extending, supporting, taking over, keeping up, staying in flow, setting impulses and giving space.
Not only will the course train us to better accompany our receivers, but it will also offer a setting in which we ourselves as receivers may allow our own unwinding and soul dance to unfold. Additionally, we will practice the verbal skills to create the invitation and safe framework for our receivers to flow into their own movement impulses.
PREREQUISITES
Watsu® 1 or Healing Dance® 1. The class will be taught in English with Spanish translation. If you have been student in any of the IS-Watsu Instructors classes, please, email us to info@watsupath.com.
QUALIFICATIONS
You will receive a Certificate issued by Watsupath™ Training Institute, unique training institute credited in Spain by W.A.B.A. Wolrdwide Aquatic Bodywork Association to teach Watsu®.
WHERE
The class will be taught with at Centro Guna, San Sebastián, España. (see details below).
WHEN
- Commencing on Monday, the 26th of August 2019 at 8:30 H
- closing on Wednesday, 28th of August 2019 at 18:00 H.
We recommend arriving at least fifteen minutes before beginning of the class to complete your registration and familiarize yourself with the facility. The daily class schedule will be communicated to you on the first day of class (indicatively every day from 9:00 to 19:00, with a lunch break).
We will need every single hour of the class, so please do your best to arrive in time and organize your travel back home in such a way that you won’t need to leave before the end of class. Any hour missed during the class must be recovered with individual supervisions.
INSTRUCTORS
Alexander George came to the holistic arts in the final third of a 25-year career as a ballet and modern dancer, teacher and choreographer. In 1980, he began the study of holistic massage at the International School of Professional Bodywork in San Diego, completing the 1000 Hour Massage Therapist Training in 1983 and Associate of Science degree in 2004. Alexander qualified as a Trager Practitioner in 1986, subsequently studying with Milton Trager himself.
In 1990, he became a Watsu® Practitioner at Harbin Hot Springs in northern California under the tutelage of Harold Dull, the originator of Watsu®. In 1993, he studied WaterDance from one of its co-founders, Arjana Brunschwiler. Alexander went on to develop the techniques of Healing Dance® and Flowing Touch Massage. He is a certified instructor of the Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association, and for nine years taught at the School of Shiatsu and Massage at Harbin Hot Springs. Alexander has led over 300 week-long 50-hour intensives in Anatomy, Massage, Barefoot Shiatsu, Watsu®, Healing Dance® and WaterDance. Alexander presently leads trainings in Germany, Holland, Italy, France, Portugal, Spain and the US. He has written over seventy-five articles on teaching and aquatic bodywork, a selection of which are available for free download at www.aquaticwritings.com. The official web site for Healing Dance® is www.healingdance.org. Alexander lives in Germany with his wife, Kathrin.
Kathrin George is a Watsu, WaterDance and Healing Dance Practitioner. Besides Healing Dance she teaches the Introductory Weekend and Basic Seminar courses in the German system. For over 20 years she has worked as a physical therapist. In her own words, “Water was always my element, and the discovery of the water work was love at first sight. It combines my passion for water and movement, as well as the joy of meeting and caring for others. Beyond this the water work is an ideal complement to my physical therapy. Both receiving and giving are a blessing in my life, providing me with an island of tranquility in an often turbulent everyday life.”
REGISTRATIONS
Registration fee is 490 Euros. See below for discounts and reductions.
The registration fee includes all tuition fees, learning materials and the assistance during class hours. It does not however include travel expenses, food and lodging costs, or the use of all class related facilities. (See the following paragraph Facility Cost).
Registrations will be accepted on a first come – first served basis. The registrations will be valid only upon completion of the Registration Form and online deposit.
REDUCTIONS
Early bird discount: Students sending their registration and payment receipt before the 20th of May 2019 will get 15% discount. Not cumulative with other discounts. COUPON: relating15
Auditor discount: The students that have attended this class before will get a 30% discount of the course fee. Not cumulative with other discounts. COUPON: auditor30
CANCELLATION POLICY
COURSE VENUE, MEALS and ACCOMMODATION
CENTRO GUNA
C/Gloria 3-5 Donostia 20001
Facility Cost:
Centro Guna will make available their facilities for the exclusive use of registered students on this course. Students are required to pay a facility fee of 20,5 Euro/day (_a total of 102,5 Euros_) to access the pool and use the group room for land classes. The balance must be paid the first day in cash directly to th Facility management.
Meals:
We are in Gros, an area plenty of bars and restaurants, pintxos, portions, menus. There is so much offer and temptation… but we’ll coordinate a nearby, most practical place. If you want us to count on you to book and eat together, let us know on your registration form.
Accomodation:
Closest:
- Hostal Koda
Calle Carquizano 5, bajo 20001
Teléfono: (+34) 943165817
Email: info@kobahostel.com
Web: https://www.kobahostel.com
- Hotel Monte Ulia
Avda. Alcade José Elósegui 21,
20013 Donostia – San Sebastián
Teléfono: (+34) 943 32 67 67
Email: contacto@hotelmonteulia.com
Web: http://www.hotelmonteulia.com
Close and economic:
- Pensión Uzturre
Peña y Goñi Kalea, 13, 20002 Donostia, Gipuzkoa
Teléfono: (+34) 943 14 27 10
Web: https://hostel-uzturre.negocio.site
Most economic:
- Alberge la Sirena
Igeldo Pasealekua, 25
E-20008
Teléfono: (+34) 943 310 268
Fax : (+34) 943 214 090
Email: ondarreta@donostia.eus
- Albergue Ulia
Paseo de Ulia nº 297,
E-20013
Teléfono: (+34) 943 483 480
Fax: (+34) 943 291 360 Email: ulia@donostia.eus
HOW TO GET THERE:
PLANE:
Nearest airports:
Bilbao connecting with buses (PESA.NET)
First one: 6h15 and last one: 23h45, 1h15 trip
Biarritz connecting with buses (ALSA.ES)
First one: 9h00 and last one: 21h35, 45min trip.
Hondarribia – San Sebastián connecting with buses E21 (EKIALDEBUS.EUS)
First one: 6h00 and last one: 20h15
TRAIN AND LONG DISTANCE BUS:
From the train station or long distance bus station (they are opposite each other) take the intercity bus on line 27 or walk 10 minutes.
BY CITY BUS, THE NEAREST STOPS
Miracruz K: E01 / E02 / E05 / E09 / E20 / E26 / E27/E71 / E72 / E75 / E77/ E79
Eskal Herria /Vasconia: 13 / 14 / 27 / 29 / 31 / 33 / 36 / 37 / B6 / B10
G Via – G Nagusia: 17/ 33 / 40
Galtzara Nagusia – Gran Via: 8 / 14 / 29 / 41
BY CAR:
FROM WEST: Ap 8 – GI 20 – Salida A9 Amara – Centro FROM EAST: Ap 8 – GI 20 – Salida 5 Centro Comercial Garbera – GI 40
HEALING DANCE® UNDERWATER BASICS
