Class Schedule 2011 and 2012 White Stone La Center:

Mary Seamster LMP Basic Watsu ® - Cost $350
12/09/2011 - 12/11/2011 24 hrs
La Center Washington near Portland OR

Mary Seamster LMP Intro to Watsu® - Cost $250
1/28/2012 - 1/29/2012 16hrs
La Center Washington

Mary Seamster LMP Intro to Watsu - Cost $250
02/11/2012 – 02/12/2012 16hr
La Center Washington

Mary Seamster LMP and Bill Carroll Basic Watsu - Cost $350
03/16/2012 - 03/18/2012 24 hrs
La Center Washington

Mary Seamster LMP continuation of Watsu 1 Cost $350
03/23/2012 – 03/25/2012 26 hrs
La Center Washington

Mary Seamster LMP Watsu 1 - Cost $750
04/17/2012 – 04/22/2012 50 hrs
La Center Washington

Mary Seamster LMP BCST Amnion® Basic - Cost $400
05/03/2012 – 05/06/2012 26 hrs
La Center Washington

Mary Seamster LMP Watsu II- Cost $750
06/05/2012 – 06/10/2012 50 hrs
La Center Washington

Wendy Ward LMT and Mary Seamster Shiatsu and Water - Cost $850
06/16/2012 – 06/22/2012 50hrs
La Center Washington
Wendy has taught at NCNM and Massage schools in Portland… We are very luck to have her join us

Harold Dull, Watsu Tantsu Explore Flow - Cost $850
7/31/2012-8/5/2012 50 hrs
La Center Washington

Ray Castellino Womb Surround Closed as its full
8/14/18th
www.castellinotraining.com

Minakshi Waterdance II - Cost 850
9/12-16/2012 50hrs
La Center Washington

Peggy Schoedinger P.T. Watsu 3 (Adapted) - Cost $850
11/02/2012 – 11/07/2012 50hrs
La Center Washington

Peggy Schoedinger P.T. Advanced Trainings three days, curriculum to be announced as participants sign up.
11/08/2012 – 11/10/2012 24hrs
La Center Washington

 

Class Information:

Basic Watsu with Mary Seamster

This courses focuses on the Basics of Watsu, on how, like in Tai Chi, you can stay grounded in your stance while you float and stretch someone to the rhythm of your connected breath. You will be led through a simple but complete form. You can take this course to deepen your meditation, your relationship to water, and your connection to others. There will be no pressure to 'learn' the form, but those who choose to, can follow this with the Transition Flow that expands this Basic Flow to complete a Watsu 1. As in each stage of our program, the form learned has its own organic unity and can be repeated over and over without losing its freshness or benefits for both giver and receiver. There is a total of 10 hours in a warm pool and 6 hours on land where you will explore further the different levels of your being that the Watsu is helping you access.

Watsu 1 with Mary Seamster

In the first stage of Watsu 1, you learn Watsu's Tai Chi-like Basic Moves and positions and how, staying grounded and connected with the breath; you can let the water do the work. In its continual return to the Water Breath Dance, you find the stillness that is the ground of presence. In the second stage you learn to connect these basic moves and positions with long gracefully flowing transitions into the Transition Flow. You learn to adapt this to people of all sizes, shapes and dispositions. You learn about your own body mechanics - how to support and move each person as effortlessly as possible in the water. On land you will be introduced to both Co-Centering and Tantsu and explore and share what being held means to you and others..

Watsu 2 with Mary Seamster

Watsu 2 expands the Transition Flow taught in Watsu 1. You learn additional moves and bodywork in each position and how to incorporate them and other moves, as needed. You learn about the meridians and points in Watsu and explore following the client's tendency to move, and how to creatively explore your own movements. Practicing the pointwork, the lifts, the pushes and pulls introduced at this stage, helps develop the ability to explore and play with energy. Because you now have so much to work and play with, it is recommended you practice many sessions before going on to Watsu 3 or anotherform.
Prerequisites: Watsu 1.

Watsu 3 (Adapted) with Peggy Schoedinger PT

Watsu 3 is for people who have given enough Watsu sessions to develop a comfortable intuitive awareness of how to be with another person in the water and who are ready to further adapt and explore outside the form of Watsu 2. Powerful stretches and advanced techniques including work at the pool wall and on the steps are introduced. Rolls that require a spontaneous adaptation to the new positions they lead you into are presented as a gateway into "Free Flow”. The Adapted versions focuses on the application of Watsu to those with specific conditions.
Prerequisite: Watsu 2, completion of 20 practice sessions, and a recorded demonstration of mastery.

Watsu 4 with Harold Dull

This Inner Watsu course is for those who have studied what they can and cannot do with others, and are ready to return to what Watsu can do for them. The body being freed in the Watsu book subtitle, "freeing the Body in Water", has always been both our own and the one in our arms. The oneness we discover in Watsu is the foundation of that freedom. This course is a return to the wonder and joy in that discovery, and the Free Flow that is its creative expression. Besides learning and putting into practice the major principles and techniques of Free Flow, you will join in experiencing and exploring the principles and techniques of Watsu by Two and other powerful combinations. You will also explore the energetic phenomenon that can accompany Watsu such as the Heart Body Wave when joyful waves in the heart's rhythm entrain those in our brain, our breathing and the body itself. Rolls introduced in Watsu 3 are further explored as well as using your legs in Free Flow. Watsu becomes more than ever a dance. Two on one Watsu is explored. By deepening your own experience of Watsu and its benefits, you will increase what you have to share with others and develop your creativity. To maintain this course's spontaneous flow and individualized attention, no more than twelve first time students will be admitted.

Prenatal Journey with David Sawyer

In this class we use Watsu and Waterdance to explore life inside the womb and to heal prenatal and birth trauma. In each stage of prenatal development, from conception to birth, the evolving Self can be found in patterns of movement and energy. These patterns range from subtle flows of the craniosacral tide to the powerful kicks of the neuromuscular system. In Prental Journey, bodywork in water is combined with prenatal and birth psychology.

Waterdance 1 with Minakshi

Waterdance (or "Wassertanzen", the original German name) is a form of aquatic bodywork developed by Arjana Brunschwiler and Aman Schroter in 1987. Like Watsu, it begins with the client held in the practitioner's arms above the surface of the water, where the body is cradled, stretched, and relaxed. In Waterdance, the client is then given nose clips and gradually and gently taken entirely under the water. Once freed from the bounds of head support and gravity, the client's body can be moved, stretched, and worked in literally unlimited ways. Waterdance incorporates elements of massage, Aikido, dolphin and snake movements, rolls, somersaults, inversions, dance, and much more. The effects of this work include deep physical release and can induce deep states of relaxation, meditation, bliss, and even visions. A prerequisite for participating in Waterdance classes is that you have training in Watsu or other forms of above-surface aquatic bodywork, such as Jahara Technique. In Waterdance 1 we explore the art of breath connection that enables you to establish a deep rapport with your clients, inspire their trust and offer the attentiveness that is necessary when bringing someone below the water's surface. You learn the Waterdance short form which includes learning to establish a rhythm that works with each client's breathing needs and to move all body types through the water with security, ease and graceful fluidity, giving the receiver a profound sense of freedom and joy.
Prerequisites: Watsu 1 or Watsu 100