 There are dozens of different kinds of bodywork professionals. Everyone knows about massage and chiropractic, and most have heard about Tai-Chi and yoga, but disciplines such as Rolfing, Graston Technique, Feldenkrais, Heller, Chi-gong, Trager, Rosen and others also keep many people moving well...without drugs...without surgery...without pain.
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by Tom Cooley
Watsu is a form of aquatic bodywork developed in 1980 by Harold Dull at Harbin Hot Springs in California.
The work arose from his taking the stretching and bodywork from the Zen shiatsu classes which he taught at Harbin, into the body temperature hot springs.
Since 1980 Watsu has spread around the world and is now offered in a variety of settings, both clinical and spa, and has been found to have many therapeutic benefits as well as being a wonderfully relaxing modality.
Watsu combines bodywork, stretching and movement while being floated, supported and held in the warm water.
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Imagine yourself floating in body-temperature water, eyes closed, ears immerse d and skin lapped in warmth. You are aware of a gently supportive presence that follows and facilitates your own body's tendencies to movement or stillness. Noticing your breath moving with your body, you sink into deeper and deeper levels of awareness and begin to dream...
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Oriental medicine is a non-invasive healing modality that facilitates the body’s natural ability to heal itself by restoring harmony and balance to the entire individual. Originating in China more than 3,000 years ago, the medicine is one of the most common medical systems in the world, used by one quarter of the world’s population. What is Chinese medicine and how does it work?
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Oriental medicine is a non-invasive healing modality that facilitates the body's natural ability to heal itself by restoring harmony and balance to the entire individual. The medicine originated in China more than 3,000 years ago and is one of the most common medical systems in the world, used by one quarter of he world's population. Although it has been offered in the United States for more than 150 years, most Americans were exposed to it in 1972 when New York Times columnist James Reston used acupuncture during a trip to China to provide pain relief from an emergency appendectomy.
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