July ~ August ~ September
Somatic ~ Release ~ Embodiment ~ Vitality
Quieten your busy mind, release and soothe physical and emotional pain, find peace and flow within, become more engaged, vibrant and embodied in your life.
Dates: July, August & September 2024
Location: private, outdoor salt water pool near Sheppard & Bathurst, North York
Weekly Schedule: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday
Appointment times: 10.30am, 12.30pm, 3pm & 5pm
Cost: $150 for 60 mins
If you wish to float from the warm, dreamy waters into nature, you’ll find lots of beautiful trails in nearby Bales Park.
Groups and families are welcome to book with special child rates for Watsu® available.
“I have never felt that level of relaxation in my life! How you held the space, your professionalism and knowledge and confidence with moving the body made me feel I could let go. I do not entrust my being to just anyone, but with you, your presence, it was beautiful. Thank you.“
~ Denise
Let me introduce you to Watsu®
It’s a gorgeous, heart-centred massage offered in warm healing water.
In a Watsu® session there is nothing for you to do but relax and allow the water to support you as I gently rock, stretch and move your body in a graceful dance-like flow of movements.
I listen to and follow the way your body is naturally asking to open and move, allowing tension and pain to melt, for trauma and worries to gently release and for you to experience a state of deep peace.
Watsu® provides a much needed reset for your nervous system, gentle stretches and mobilization of aching and stiff joints and muscles, and a reconnection to life force energy and vitality. A potent somatic modality, Watsu is a beautiful facilitator of relaxation, release and integration.
I invite you to join me in the warm salt water pool to experience it for yourself. Allow me to float you into a timeless and weightless space where you can lose and find yourself over and over.
“Total bliss and relaxation. Imagine floating in warm salty water, under golden sun rays, body tension floating away to other unknown places, while the therapist gently works with your various body areas, intuitively discovering your forgotten parts of self manifesting their sorrow through pain and stuckness… Words don’t do it justice – it has to be experienced… at the end I felt rejuvenated, my soul happy and worry free.“
~ Ligia
What is Watsu®?
Watsu® was created by Harold Dull in the early 1980’s when he was inspired to bring Zen Shiatsu into the warm healing waters of Harbin Hot Springs, California. Zen Shiatsu incorporates stretches which release blockages along our meridians, the channels through which our “chi” or life force flows. Stretching is an even older therapy than acupuncture which focuses on points along the meridians. It strengthens muscles, and increases flexibility and range of motion. Harold Dull discovered that these effects can be amplified and made more profound by stretching someone while floating them in warm water.
Watsu® lessens the resistance there is when a limb is worked in isolation. When the whole body is in continual movement, each move flowing gracefully into the next, there is no way to anticipate what’s coming next and build up a resistance. Without pain, the body can move beyond these limitations fear would otherwise impose. New life is stretched into long neglected connective tissue and the restricted body is shown new possibilities of freedom.
Some of the many benefits of Watsu® include:
- reduced body pain, stress and fatigue
- reduced muscle tension and holding
- increased energy and range of motion
- recovery from and release of emotional issues
- feelings of deep safety and freedom
- improved sleep
- profound experience of peace that remains with you
About Sarah
Sarah is a certified Watsu® Practitioner whose passion for Watsu® arose from a deep personal love of water and a dedication to pleasure, self-care and relaxation as pathways to connect people to their inner light and vitality.
Founder of Mellow Mermaid Massage, Sarah is dedicated to supporting her clients to connect to their body’s wisdom. She offers relaxation, release and integrated healing through Watsu®, Thai Yoga Massage and The Kore Process.
As a Holistic Practitioner working on all levels of mind, body and spirit Sarah helps clients to create powerful yet subtle internal shifts and discover greater peace, alignment and trust in their life process.
It is her pleasure and honour to bring the tranquility and peace of Watsu® to you.
“It was said in Egypt that water is given the soul as compensation for taking on a bodily form. In water our bodies find the freedom the soul has lost. Watsu is the continuing exploration of that freedom.“
~ Harold Dull, founder of Watsu®