Summer of Watsu® 2025

WATSU® is a holistic approach to healing that encourages the opening of the heart, the quieting of the mind and the nurturing of the spirit. The whole body is in continuous fluid movement which amplifies the deepest state of waking relaxation.

Dates: June 19th to October 11th 2025

Location: private, outdoor salt water pool near Sheppard & Bathurst, North York

Schedule: Thursday, 10:30am to 6:30pm; Saturday 11am to 6pm

Cost: $150 for 60 minute WATSU® in a 90 minute healing session

“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

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

📞 Or call/text me at 416-579-9423. 📞

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Let me introduce you to Watsu®

Watsu® is 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.

“My head rested against Sarah’s shoulder weightless in water. The level of beauty I experienced I am still integrating.  When the Watsu® was finished I was left with an extraordinary appreciation for myself for I had found the level of nurturing and caring I’ve been seeking all of my life. Thank you Sarah for gifting me access to the depths of my own bliss. Nothing is as beautiful as the love within each of us.“

~ Jonathon

New this year! For those who want to explore beneath the surface of the water I can incorporate underwater moves in your Watsu® session.

Part way into a session you are given a nose clip and are then gently eased into a gradual submerging of your head and body in brief rhythmic and swaying movements. As your comfort and breath increases with each visit beneath the water’s surface, the supported dives extend for longer periods of time in larger and more flowing and freeing movements.

The suspension of breath brings a tremendous sense of peace and the surrender to carefully crafted, safe, flowing movements, a sense of freedom and liberation. Some people see vibrant colours through closed eyes, others feel an ancient connection to the water and their ancestors. It’s an experience unlike any other.

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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.

Healing Dance®

Healing Dance® was created in 1990 as an improvisation to Watsu® by Alexander George, and was influenced by ballet and Trager work as well as by how bodies move in water. I often incorporate techniques and movements from Healing Dance in your Watsu® session including beneath the surface dives if requested.

“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

📞 Or call/text me at 416-579-9423. 📞

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“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®

📞 Or call/text me at 416-579-9423. 📞