Watsu
® (Water Shiatsu)
Watsu is a form of aqua therapy developed by Harold
Dull in the early 1980s. It combines stretching and Shiatsu techniques with dance-
like movement applied on a client or partner while He/Her
is passively floating in warm water.
Many consider Watsu the most significant advance in
bodywork in our times. While other forms are based on
touch, Watsu creates a more profound connection through
the holding and the deep connection with the breath that
being in water facilitates.
The trust established combines with the relaxing effects
of warm water and Watsu's moves and stretches to create a
modality of extraordinary depth that has both specific
therapeutic results and healing on many levels. Besides
having countless applications in therapy, it brings new
depths of 'connection' into the lives of the many sharing
its simpler moves with family and friends.
Harold Dull BA MA is the president of the Worldwide
Aquatic Bodywork Association, and the creator of Watsu,
Tantsu and Co-centering. Harold has trained with the
creator of Zen Shiatsu in Japan, Shizuto Masunaga, and
the two teachers to first introduce it in America, Reuho
Yamada and Wataru Ohashi. The profundity and
effectiveness of the bodywork forms he has created
reflect his passionate practice and deep understanding of
energy and the body; the creativity of these forms
reflects his background as a poet in the San Francisco
Renaissance. Harold speaks several languages, which
allows him to teach his work all over the world. He has
been honored with the International Aquatics Award from
the United States Water Fitness Association; honored at
the National Aquatic Exercise Conference in Japan; and in
1998 received the Tsunami Spirit Award from the Aquatic
Therapy and Rehab Institute.
From the book:
Watsu-
Freeing the Body in Water
by Harold
Dull
Trafford Publishing (August
30, 2004)
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