Watsu® at Dalton Brown’s Gym

SoHo Hotel

An unforgettable, sublime experience of deep relaxation and flow in the warm healing waters of an elegant and refined pool in the heart of Toronto’s Entertainment district.

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.

Location: Dalton Brown’s Gym in the SoHo Hotel, 318 Wellington St. Toronto

Pool: Indoor, warm (94°F), bromine pool with ladder entry

Weekly Schedule: Tuesday and Thursday mornings and afternoons

Cost: $185 for 60 minute Watsu in a 90 minute healing experience 

Your visit includes additional time to luxuriate and integrate after your Watsu® in the poolside hot tub and steam room. Couples and friends are welcome to book together and enjoy the elegant facilities.

“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

Some of the many benefits of Watsu® include:

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, gentle release and integration.

I invite you to join me in the warm 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.

“Being floated in bathtub temperature water in the most graceful and powerful movements was an experience unlike anything I have known before. Sarah has magic in her, following the guidance and frequency of the moment as she cradles, spins and bends you in the midst of the womb-like nothingness. The body expands into gratitude for such gentle release. You are safe with Sarah.”

~ Adi Kanda

The Origins of 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.