WaTa (WaterDance)
A body and energy therapy.
WaterDance is open to anyone willing to be guided underwater and surrender to the games of breathing and the joy of dancing underwater in weightlessness.
Developed since 1987 by the Swiss Aman Peter Schröter and Arjana Brunschwiler, WaTa (from the German WAsser TAnzen, aquatic dance) is a body work modality that combines play, dance, fluidity and harmony in water.
Unlike other techniques in which the face is not submerged, a WaterDance session includes full immersion times during which the receiver, equipped with a nose clip, is taken underwater in a truly three-dimensional experience that includes an active attunement to one’s breath and a gentle exploration of letting go.
Sessions and courses take place in heated, private or thermal pools with water temperature between 34 and 35 degrees.
A session offers the possibility of an expansion of consciousness on all planes whose effects can be powerfully therapeutic.
People often come out of a session with a fresh look at their daily life and the place they choose to take in the world.
No particular lung capacity is required and it is not even necessary to know how to swim.
WaTa often creates a significant spatiotemporal shift from which modified states of consciousness can emerge with a striking sense of peace and silence.
By applying levers, using the resistance and turbulence of the water the practitioner mobilizes the major joints of the body, placing the person in three-dimensional postures whose complexity invites the recipient to let go of control.
By practicing WaTa with awareness and sensitivity, we offer a wonderful opportunity to experience states of letting go in a safe and respectful environment. Therefore, underwater work can contribute to somato-emotional expression, always with the idea of accompanying the person towards liberation, transformation, integration and be with what there is in the present moment.