Healing Dance Underwater Practitioner Certification in the United States

    The Healing Dance Underwater Practitioner Certification is an advanced certification including WaterDance I, Above and Below, and Shape and Space, an additional 150 water hours in total.

    It is necessary to first become a Healing Dance Practitioner before becoming a Healing Dance Underwater Practitioner.

    You may take the Introduction to Healing Dance Underwater or WaterDance I anytime after completing Watsu I or Introduction to Healing Dance.

    Above and Below and Shape and Space may be taken in either order.

Water Courses and Sessions

Prerequisites

Hours

1. Introduction to Healing Dance Underwater or WaterDance I

Watsu I or Healing Dance Introductory Weekend

16 or 50

2. Above and Below

Healing Dance I and WaterDance I or AQUATHERICS® class AQUATERNATIVES® foundation or Supervision with Senior HD Instructor

50

3. Shape and Space

WaterDance I or AQUATHERICS® class AQUATERNATIVES® foundation or Supervision with Senior HD Instructor

50

4. Integration Weekend

both Healing Dance underwater courses and 30 logged sessions

16

5. Final Supervision

Integration Weekend

2

6. Send copies of course, integration and supervision certificates, as well as session log form to WABA with $50.

Successful
Final Supervision and being a Healing Dance Practitioner

Total: 168

Additional Requirements:

1) 16 hours of dance /movement courses, such as Continuum, Contact Improvisation, Authentic Movement, etc.

Additional Explanation:

    Passing on to the next stage of the training track is dependent on a successful outcome of the previous stage. You may be asked to audit a course, do a supervision or do extra sessions if the instructor feels it is necessary before continuing.

    A requirement of 30 sessions altogether in a ratio of 20 given to 10 received. These sessions to be completed and logged before the final supervision. The sessions given could be in any underwater modality studied. The received sessions all be of Healing Dance, up to four received from peers and a minimum of six from Practitioners.

    The Final Supervision may be done with Inika Spence, Alexander George or Mary Thomas.

    Underwater Practitioner status gives you a certificate, a listing on the Healing Dance website and the right to say and advertise that you are a Healing Dance Underwater Practitioner. For instance, "I am a Healing Dance Underwater Practitioner."

    For those living in the US and Canada to stay current on the WABR registry as a Healing Dance Underwater Practitioner, one would pay a $50 fee for a two year listing, thereafter $25 per annum. For those living in Europe there is a one-time $50 fee for a permanent listing.

    You may study Healing Dance wherever you wish, but to work as a Practitioner or Underwater Practitioner we ask you to follow the Healing Dance guidelines established in the country in which you live. At most, this means logging in a few extra hours of training and sessions should you move to a country with a more rigorous program than the one in which you qualified.