Books about
Watsu (Water Shiatsu)

1. Watsu: Freeing the Body in Water (2004)
2. Bodywork Tantra on Land and in Water (1993)

Watsu: Freeing the Body in Water
by Harold Dull

Paperback: 202 pages (August 30, 2004)
Publisher: Trafford Publishing; ISBN: 1412034396

 

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Synopsis
This edition culminates the author's development of the world's first Aquatic Bodywork. Sixteen therapists document effectiveness with all ages and conditions. The text includes forms the public can share in pools and hottubs.

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About the Book (from Trafford Publishing)
This is a book about water, about our bodies in water and how, floating and stretching one another to our shared breathing pattern, we achieve new levels of peace and oneness. 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.

This third edition completes the first 25-year evolution of what came into being when Harold Dull started floating people at Harbin Hot Springs in Northern California, applying the stretches of the Zen Shiatsu he had studied in Japan. It illustrates, step by step, the major positions and forms of Watsu. It introduces Watsuchanics (the body mechanics of Watsu) and other developments that help students learn Watsu.

More than sixteen therapists and practitioners have added contributions detailing the use of Watsu with all ages and the growing number of conditions that Watsu is proving to alleviate in clinics and spas around the world. New chapters feature Watsu with children and a form of Watsu that can be used in home spa/hot tubs. Also illustrated step by step is a complete form of Tantsu which brings Watsu's nurturing power back onto land.

More than a thousand images have gone into this book to give as clear an illustration as possible of the movements and forms of Watsu and Tantsu.


About the Author (from Trafford Publishing)
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. His book, Watsu: Freeing the Body in Water, now in its 3rd edition, is an eloquent testament to the power of both his writing and his bodywork. 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.


Reader Review
Relaxing the tightest of muscles and oldest of pains, November 30, 1999
Reviewer: Lorraine Stockton from Oregon, USA - See all my reviews at Amazon.com
If you live in pain, withor without pain meds, Watsu will improve quality of life and function in mind, body and spirit. Being floated in body-warm water by a practitioner who moves you and allows your body to painlessly move, has turned my rock-hard body and shouting pain receptors way down in an accumulatively more bearable life (body, mind & spirit) This book makes sense, is intuitively and therapeutically meshed, admirably presented, and invaluable to anyone in skin, in my opinion (and in experiencing bi-weekly sessions in the past 11 months). Most cities have warm pools through the Easter Seals' pools where the book's teachings can be tried. Call them! Get this book! Give this book away and get more, if you have ever benefitted from body work or not. In '87 my body began to hurt. The neck to the shoulders to the arms and hands, then the whole back and finallly, everywhere. Over time. I have now been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, myofascial pain syndrome, chronic pain syndrome, chronic fatigue immune-deficiency syndrome (CFIDS), irritable bowel syndrome and many more. I've tried anything and everything, from Shiatsu massage, cranial-sacral therapy, myofascial release to faith- healing and Native-American healing ceremonies. Through all, pain continued almost unabated until Watsu. I still need pain meds because the damage is so vast, but after giving up on life, my husband and I leave for winter & spring in Belize, towing our sailboat, in two days. After this review, I leave for my last millenial Watsu in the US - with this book.


Amazing, profound, beautiful work! World peace next?, December 9, 2004
Reviewer: Evan Ernest Smith "Watsu believer" (Bend, Oregon USA) - See all my reviews at Amazon.com

I just finished taking Watsu 1 at Harbin Hot Springs in Middletown, CA, from the creator of the technique and author of the book, Harold Dull.

I am a massage therapist with over 1200 hours training and have received hundreds of professional massages; I will always love land massage. But let me say that I was profoundly moved with my experience with Watsu, and intend to become certified within the first half of 2005 and add it as a modality to my practice. I don't cry easily, but I had tears of joy four different times on my drive home while processing my experience in the water.

I learned through the grapevine that Harold Dull used to hang out with the beat poets. After reading his book, which is in its third edition celebrating 25 years of existence, the poet side of Mr. Dull became crystal clear to me. Harold not only created one of the most exciting and therapeutic forms of bodywork of our times, but also is a gifted author, poet, and self-publisher. Harold Dull is truly a renaissance man and a gift to our planet. In his 60s and entirely computer literate, he is even the webmaster for WABA, the nonprofit group that trains Watsu practitioners!

The book is not only full of the techniques and keys to the work, but a thing of beauty to behold and look at. It has time-lapse, digitally overlapped pictures, similar to the stop-motion chronological movement pictures used during the last Olympics. A jewel! I treasure my autographed copy from Mr. Dull!

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Bodywork Tantra on Land and in Water
by Harold Dull

USA: Paperback: 111 pages; 1st ed edition (June 1, 1991)
Harbin Springs Publishing; ISBN: 0944202004
UK: Paperback - 111 pages (June 1993)
Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Assn.; ISBN: 0944202004

 

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