Welcome...
Welcome to the official site of Healing Dance®, a holistic therapy practiced in warm water. May you enjoy yourself here and find what you’re looking for. The navigation links above will take you to course descriptions, a worldwide teaching schedule, teacher profiles, listings of practitioners and students, photo galleries, sample videos, and a store where MP4 videos of the sequences may be purchased.
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What is Healing Dance?
Healing Dance is an holistic, aquatic technique developed by Alexander George in 1993. It consists of ten trainings. In seven of these, techniques are taught in which the receiver remains on the surface of the water. The three remaining trainings are subaquatic, featuring a variety of submergings. The guiding philosophy of the work is that... more |
Inika Spence
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How Healing Dance works
Healing Dance has many aspects, all based on the healing power of movement. The practitioner establishes an empathetic connection with the receiver and is trained to mirror any incipient kinetic impulses. He establishes a rhythmic field at the beginning of the session through his breath, movement and state of mind. He looks for the rhythm of awareness... more |
Kathrin George
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How it was developed
In 1990, while a resident at Harbin Hot Springs in northern California, Alexander George studied Watsu from its founder, Harold Dull. Following the course he began experimenting and improvising in the Harbin warm pool. Alexander was influenced not only by his professional background in ballet and Trager Work, but also by the ways in which the body and water... more |
Theri, Alexander and Inika
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