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A 2-day course on the surface and under water.

OBA (Oceanic Bodywork@ Aqua) is an aquatic bodywork modality, developed by Kaya Femerling and Nirvano Martina Schulz in the mid-80’s and practiced in a warm water pool (ideally 35°C).
It combines elements of light movements, soft stretching movements , aquatic tissue massage and joint release as well as energy and breath work in a unique way both above and below the water surface.

During this course, you will learn a series of simple movements and techniques, both on the surface (including floating with cushion and pool noodle) as well as under water (with a nose clip).
You will also practice basic qualities such as grounding, presence, stillness and attention, while moving another body in water. You will experience floating other people and being floated, on the surface and under water, thereby creating space for deep relaxation and nurturing body, mind and spirit.
This basic course is for everyone interested in a first exploration into the joy of aquatic therapy work.

More about Oceanic Bodywork@ Aqua (OBA)
This form of aquatic therapy invites you to experience the healing energies of water in a new way. Chronic physical pain as well as emotional tensions can be released. Special positions may remind you of how you felt to be held as a child.
You might dive into a wondrous world of memories, of floating weightlessly in the protective womb of your mother, of diving right back into that very space where you were surrounded by soft warm water.
OBA invites you to experience again the nurturing qualities of being held and loved, and to rediscover trust, peace within yourself, and a sense of coming home.

Prerequisites: No previous experience required.

Credits: OBA Basic is part of the Watsu India training program and gives 15 hours of credit for registration with Watsu India and 15 supplementary hours with WABA.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 10,950 (lunch included)

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A 2-day course on the surface only. 

Watsu is an aquatic bodywork modality given in a warm water pool (ideally 35°C). 

Watsu, where  the client’s face stays always on the surface, introduces the qualities and body mechanics required to work with someone in water in order to create a profound state of both physical and mental relaxation. The flowing interaction with water, its fluid support and warm embrace, and the practitioner’s presence provide a space for the client to experience the multi-layered benefits of this powerful and softening bodywork. 

Watsu offers an opportunity for profound relaxation and letting go, for building trust, for being nurtured and held, for expanding inner and outer boundaries, for releasing emotions and traumas – ultimately, for freeing body and mind in a flow unique to each client and to each session. 

In this course, you will practice basic techniques and qualities (grounding, presence, stillness, movement, attention) of being and moving another body in water. You will experience floating other people and being floated on the surface, thereby creating space for deep relaxation and nurturing body, mind and spirit. 

Participants in this course often appreciate the group space, which fosters deep, meaningful and nurturing connections. 

Prerequisites: No previous experience required. 

Credits: Watsu Basic is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu training program and gives 16 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. 

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm 

Price: ₹ 12,500 (lunch included)

A 4-day course on the surface. 

In this 34-hour course, you will learn to connect the basic movements and positions you have learnt in Watsu Basic with long, gracefully flowing transitions. 

You will also learn to adapt this bodywork to people of different sizes, shapes, and dispositions, and to adjust your own body mechanics in order to support and move each person as effortlessly as possible. 

On land, you will be introduced to both Co-Centering and Tantsu, and explore what it means to be held for yourself and others. 

By the end of this course, you will have learnt the complete Watsu 1 sequence for further practice sessions till you feel ready to move on to Watsu 2. 

Prerequisites: Watsu Basic. 

Credits: Watsu 1 is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu training program and gives 34 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. 

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.00 pm 

Price: ₹ 27,000 (lunch included)

A 6-day course on the surface and under water. 

"Dive into the wonderful world of memories, where we, as embryos in the protective belly of our mother, floated, surrounded by warm water. Dive into a weightless world and explore a timeless vastness, feeling free and secure”. 

In this first 50-hour OBA course, we will continue to approach water in a playful, friendly and secure way. You will build upon the basic movements you already learnt in OBA Basic and further explore the various techniques of this wonderful aquatic bodywork. You will learn the three phases of an OBA session: working on cushions and floats and working both on the surface and under water. 

Upon completion of this course, you will have acquired enough material to offer a basic OBA practice session to friends and family. 

Prerequisites: OBA Basic or Watsu 1 or Healing Dance 1 or WaterDance 1 

Credits: OBA 1 is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 50 hours of credits for registration with WABA and Watsu India. 

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.00 pm 

Price: ₹ 36,500 (lunch included)

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Tandem Watsu for Couples is a unique and deeply connecting aquatic experience in which two providers support and guide two partners simultaneously in warm water. Moving in harmony, the practitioners create a shared flow that allows both receivers to remain in subtle connection with each other throughout the session. This form of bodywork invites couples to explore trust, communication, and presence beyond words, in an environment where movement, breath, and touch become the primary language.

The experience is designed to foster a sense of unity while still honouring each individual’s needs. At times, partners may be gently brought closer together, allowing for moments of contact, synchronized breathing, or shared stillness. At other times, they may be guided apart, creating space for personal integration before reconnecting again. This dynamic interplay between togetherness and individuality mirrors the natural rhythm of a healthy relationship.
Tandem Watsu® is not about performing synchronized techniques, but about cultivating sensitivity and attunement—both between the practitioners and within the couple. The quality of presence, the timing of movements, and the subtle awareness of each partner’s state all contribute to a coherent and nourishing experience. The water supports a sense of weightlessness and safety, making it easier to release tension and access deeper levels of relaxation.
For couples, this practice can be profoundly enriching. It offers an opportunity to reconnect in a non-verbal, embodied way, to experience mutual support, and to rediscover a sense of flow together. Whether approached as a therapeutic session or as a shared journey, Tandem Watsu® opens a space for intimacy, trust, and renewed connection.

Prerequisites: Watsu 2 mastery.

Credits: Tandem Watsu for Couples gives 32 hours of credit for registration as a supplemental class with Watsu India.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 25,500 (lunch included)

The body can be understood as a finely tuned system of levers, where bones, joints, and muscles interact to create movement, balance, and support. Each action we perform—whether simple or complex—is the result of these levers working in harmony.

By understanding the fundamental principles of levers—such as balance points, weight distribution, and the relationship between effort and resistance—you gain a deeper insight into how the body naturally moves underwater.
Universal Flow is not a method based on fixed sequences or prescribed forms. It is an exploration of principles: how to support and guide the body in water, how to listen through touch, how to follow the rhythm of breath, and how to harmonise movement with the natural flow of the aquatic environment. Attention to small nuances—such as the timing of an exhale, the quality of contact, or the direction of a subtle shift—becomes essential in creating a coherent and nurturing experience.
The course is grounded in the knowledge of biomechanics and neurophysiology, offering a scientific foundation for this intuitive work. By integrating these perspectives, participants develop both a clear understanding and a refined sensitivity, enabling them to work with the body in a way that is both informed and deeply responsive.

Prerequisites: Watsu Basic.

Credits: Universal Flow gives 25 hours of credit for registration as a supplemental class with Watsu India.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 19,950 (lunch included)

Watsu Yoga Round is a powerful tool for deep relaxation and inner peace. It focuses on listening to the body and being present, offering a way to reconnect with your heart and experience an inner silence that is fully alive and vibrant. It is an invitation to feel, awaken, and celebrate the energy of your being.  

When immersed in warm water during the Watsu Yoga Round, the body is free from the effects of gravity. The flow of movements and stretching, alternated with moments of stillness, invite progressive well-being: body and mind become free to dance!

Prerequisites: No previous experience required (also no need to know how to swim).

Booking: 9488084966 or E-mail: quiet@auroville.org.in 

Timings: 3.00 – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 750

Building on the experience of OBA 1, this course allows you to deepen your practice using neck and knee cushions, learn a full-body massage, and exchange various new underwater techniques that are deeply relaxing and energizing. 

Being surrounded by water creates a supportive environment for uncovering physical holding patterns and releasing withheld emotions. Your perception, touch, and intuition will be refined. We will discuss the body’s water balance in relation to warm water and delve into the benefits and contraindications of the OBA 2 techniques. Integration of the water experience and background knowledge are taught through both theory and practice. 

Oceanic Bodywork@ Aqua is a journey back to your origins in the endless blue depths of your inner ocean. 

Prerequisites: OBA 1. 

Credits: OBA 2 is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 50 hours of credits for registration with WABA and Watsu India. 

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm 

Price: ₹ 36,500 (lunch included)

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A 2-day course. 

Woga is a combination of two words: water and yoga. It is based on classic yoga poses and stretches, modified for standing in water that is waist-to-chest height. Woga focuses on Hatha Yoga in water, including asanas performed in standing position, against the wall, in floating position, and under water. The course also includes pranayama and meditation. 

Classes follow a structure similar to land-based yoga: breathing exercises, warm-ups, a series of poses, and a relaxation period. The key difference is that you are in a warm water pool! Swimming skills are not required. By reducing the effects of gravity, water allows ease of movements, unblocks joints, lengthens and relaxes muscles, alleviates negative tensions, and prevents stress, insomnia and anxiety. 

Prerequisites: No previous experience required (also no need to know how to swim). 

Credits: Woga 1&2 (Yoga in Water) gives 12 supplementary hours of credit for registration as international Watsu practitioner within the Watsu India learning program. 

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.00 pm 

Price: ₹ 8,950 (lunch included)

The Training in Oceanic Bodywork® Aqua 3 includes advanced techniques for both surface and underwater work.

The focus on slowness, silence, love, and compassion, as well as the expression of emotions, allows for a deeper and more authentic connection between the giver and receiver, helping them explore their oceanic body and consciousness. 

Receiving and giving Oceanic Bodywork Aqua sessions is a transformational journey that offers deep relaxation, joyful experiences, and a dissolving of boundaries. 

OBA 2 techniques will be reviewed and refined under supervision, while new OBA 3 techniques, both above and below water, will be introduced to create a seamless flow of movement. 

The deep and intimate nature of this bodywork can evoke emotions, necessitating a safe space both in water and on land for sharing and acknowledging these feelings. The training will include both theoretical and practical instruction on managing emotions. 

The course will also address how to offer a series of sessions to a client and what this entails. 

Prerequisites: OBA 2. 

Credits: OBA 3 is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 50 hours of credits for registration with WABA and Watsu India. 

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm 

Price: ₹ 36,500 (lunch included)

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A 2-day course on the surface only. 

Watsu is an aquatic bodywork modality given in a warm water pool (ideally 35°C). 

Watsu, where  the client’s face stays always on the surface, introduces the qualities and body mechanics required to work with someone in water in order to create a profound state of both physical and mental relaxation. The flowing interaction with water, its fluid support and warm embrace, and the practitioner’s presence provide a space for the client to experience the multi-layered benefits of this powerful and softening bodywork. 

Watsu offers an opportunity for profound relaxation and letting go, for building trust, for being nurtured and held, for expanding inner and outer boundaries, for releasing emotions and traumas – ultimately, for freeing body and mind in a flow unique to each client and to each session. 

In this course, you will practice basic techniques and qualities (grounding, presence, stillness, movement, attention) of being and moving another body in water. You will experience floating other people and being floated on the surface, thereby creating space for deep relaxation and nurturing body, mind and spirit. 

Participants in this course often appreciate the group space, which fosters deep, meaningful and nurturing connections. 

Prerequisites: No previous experience required. 

Credits: Watsu Basic is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu training program and gives 16 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. 

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm 

Price: ₹ 12,500 (lunch included)

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A 5-day course on the surface. 

In this 34-hour course, you will learn to connect the basic movements and positions you have learnt in Watsu Basic with long, gracefully flowing transitions. 

You will also learn to adapt this bodywork to people of different sizes, shapes, and dispositions, and to adjust your own body mechanics in order to support and move each person as effortlessly as possible. 

On land, you will be introduced to both Co-Centering and Tantsu, and explore what it means to be held for yourself and others. 

By the end of this course, you will have learnt the complete Watsu 1 sequence for further practice sessions till you feel ready to move on to Watsu 2. 

Prerequisites: Watsu Basic. 

Credits: Watsu 1 is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu training program and gives 34 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. 

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.00 pm 

Price: ₹ 27,000 (lunch included)

Watsu Yoga Round is a powerful tool for deep relaxation and inner peace. It focuses on listening to the body and being present, offering a way to reconnect with your heart and experience an inner silence that is fully alive and vibrant. It is an invitation to feel, awaken, and celebrate the energy of your being.  

When immersed in warm water during the Watsu Yoga Round, the body is free from the effects of gravity. The flow of movements and stretching, alternated with moments of stillness, invite progressive well-being: body and mind become free to dance!

Prerequisites: No previous experience required (also no need to know how to swim).

Booking: 9488084966 or E-mail: quiet@auroville.org.in 

Timings: 3.00 – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 750

A 6-day course on the surface.
Watsu 2 expands the Transition Flow taught in Watsu 1. You will learn additional movements and bodywork for each position and how to incorporate them in your practice sessions.
You will also study the meridians and acupressure points, which are relevant in Watsu, and creatively explore your own movements, while following the receiver’s natural tendency to move.

Practising acupressure massage, as well as lifts, pushes, and pulls introduced at this stage, will help you develop the ability to play with energy and further explore this amazing water therapy.

Prerequisites: Watsu 1.

Credits: Watsu 2 is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu training program and gives 50 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.00 pm

Price: ₹ 39,500 (lunch included)

A course of 4 days on the surface and underwater. 

A Watsu & OBA session offers an opportunity for profound relaxation and letting go, for building trust, for being nurtured and held, for expanding inner and outer boundaries, for releasing emotions and traumas – ultimately, for freeing body and mind in a flow unique to each client. 

In Watsu Basic, during which the receiver’s face remains always on the surface, you will learn the qualities and body mechanics required to work with someone in water. 

During the OBA Basic part you will bring your receiver under water (with a nose clip), thereby offering a unique experience. 

In this beginner’s course, you will learn and practise basic techniques and qualities such as grounding, presence, stillness, movement, and attention in moving another person in water. You will experience floating others and being floated, both on the surface and under water, thereby creating space for deep relaxation and nurturing body, mind and spirit. 

Participants in this course often appreciate the group space, which fosters deep, meaningful and nurturing connections. 

Prerequisites: No previous experience required. 

Credits: Watsu Basic is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu training program and gives 16 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. OBA Basic is part of the Watsu India training program and gives an additional 15 hours of credit for registration with Watsu India and 15 supplementary hours with WABA. 

Timings: 1.00 – 6.00 pm

Price: ₹ 23,500

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A 6-day course on the surface and under water. 

"Dive into the wonderful world of memories, where we, as embryos in the protective belly of our mother, floated, surrounded by warm water. Dive into a weightless world and explore a timeless vastness, feeling free and secure”. 

In this first 50-hour OBA course, we will continue to approach water in a playful, friendly and secure way. You will build upon the basic movements you already learnt in OBA Basic and further explore the various techniques of this wonderful aquatic bodywork. You will learn the three phases of an OBA session: working on cushions and floats and working both on the surface and under water. 

Upon completion of this course, you will have acquired enough material to offer a basic OBA practice session to friends and family. 

Prerequisites: OBA Basic or Watsu 1 or Healing Dance 1 or WaterDance 1 

Credits: OBA 1 is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 50 hours of credits for registration with WABA and Watsu India. 

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.00 pm 

Price: ₹ 36,500 (lunch included)

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In this course, we will focus on three fundamental aspects of WaterDance: vertical grounding, posture of both giver and receiver, and the breath. 

The key movement is Water Breath Dance, in which you will float someone in your arms allowing them to gently sink as they exhale and rising with them as you both inhale. This creates a profound connection that carries through all other surface and underwater movements. 

Throughout the course, you will also learn in a playful and yet attentive way how to bring your partner under water (with a nose clip). Sufficient time will also be given for integrating fears or apprehensions to go under water. 

In addition, you will learn and practice the basic WaterDance movements, which form the essential core of this powerful aquatic-bodywork modality. 

On land, various tools such as guided meditations, body & energy work, active breathing exercises, and practising effective communication skills will offer opportunities for connecting deeper with yourself and others. 

Prerequisites: No previous experience required. 

Credits: WaterDance Fundamental is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 50 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. 

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm 

Price: ₹ 34,950

A 6-day course, mainly under water.

WaterDance (also known as WATA or WasserTanzen) is a dynamic, mind- and playful movement therapy. It was developed by Peter Schröter and Arjana C. Brunschwiler in the late 80s.

In this foundational course, we explore the art of connecting with the breath and establishing a deep, trusting relationship with our partners to guide them underwater with confidence and care.
Through practice with diverse body types, we’ll learn to adapt our technique, cultivating greater safety, fluidity, and poetic expression in our movements.

By guiding our partners underwater using kumbhaka (breath retention from Pranayama), we invite them into deep states of relaxation, inner silence, freedom, and joy. Any fears related to immersion are welcomed with presence and compassion.

We will learn the “short form,” comprising more than 20 distinct positions and movements. Special emphasis will be placed on creating a safe, gentle, and fluid environment to foster a sense of freedom and joy.

Prerequisites: WaterDance Fundamental.

Credits: WaterDance 1 is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 50 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India.

Timings: 8.45 AM – 6.30 PM

Price: ₹ 36,500 (lunch included)

This experience offers a guided journey to overcome fear and discomfort in water by exploring movement, breathing, and floating through targeted exercises. 

Participants will gain awareness of how their bodies and emotions respond in aquatic settings, building confidence and relaxation. 

Objectives: 

– Develop confidence in both shallow and deep water 

– Learn to move intentionally and freely in water 

– Manage anxiety and emotional blocks related to water 

– Understand how the body behaves in water to prepare for swimming lessons 

– Promote relaxation, body awareness, and emotional resilience 

Benefits reported by participants include: 

– Reduced muscle tension 

– Improved concentration and mental clarity 

– Increased lung capacity and physical endurance 

– Enhanced body awareness and self confidence 

Prerequisites: No previous experience required. 

Credits: No credits for registration with WABA and Watsu India. 

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm 

Price: ₹ 15,950

Building on the experience of OBA 1, this course allows you to deepen your practice using neck and knee cushions, learn a full-body massage, and exchange various new underwater techniques that are deeply relaxing and energizing. 

Being surrounded by water creates a supportive environment for uncovering physical holding patterns and releasing withheld emotions. Your perception, touch, and intuition will be refined. We will discuss the body’s water balance in relation to warm water and delve into the benefits and contraindications of the OBA 2 techniques. Integration of the water experience and background knowledge are taught through both theory and practice. 

Oceanic Bodywork@ Aqua is a journey back to your origins in the endless blue depths of your inner ocean. 

Prerequisites: OBA 1. 

Credits: OBA 2 is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 50 hours of credits for registration with WABA and Watsu India. 

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm 

Price: ₹ 36,500 (lunch included)

See a glimpse of this course in motion →

Watsu Yoga Round is a powerful tool for deep relaxation and inner peace. It focuses on listening to the body and being present, offering a way to reconnect with your heart and experience an inner silence that is fully alive and vibrant. It is an invitation to feel, awaken, and celebrate the energy of your being.  

When immersed in warm water during the Watsu Yoga Round, the body is free from the effects of gravity. The flow of movements and stretching, alternated with moments of stillness, invite progressive well-being: body and mind become free to dance!

Prerequisites: No previous experience required (also no need to know how to swim).

Booking: 9488084966 or E-mail: quiet@auroville.org.in 

Timings: 3.00 – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 750

This experience offers a guided journey to overcome fear and discomfort in water by exploring movement, breathing, and floating through targeted exercises. 

Participants will gain awareness of how their bodies and emotions respond in aquatic settings, building confidence and relaxation. 

Objectives: 

– Develop confidence in both shallow and deep water 

– Learn to move intentionally and freely in water 

– Manage anxiety and emotional blocks related to water 

– Understand how the body behaves in water to prepare for swimming lessons 

– Promote relaxation, body awareness, and emotional resilience 

Benefits reported by participants include: 

– Reduced muscle tension 

– Improved concentration and mental clarity 

– Increased lung capacity and physical endurance 

– Enhanced body awareness and self confidence 

Prerequisites: No previous experience required. 

Credits: No credits for registration with WABA and Watsu India. 

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm 

Price: ₹ 16,750

A 2-day course. 

Woga is a combination of two words: water and yoga. It is based on classic yoga poses and stretches, modified for standing in water that is waist-to-chest height. Woga focuses on Hatha Yoga in water, including asanas performed in standing position, against the wall, in floating position, and under water. The course also includes pranayama and meditation. 

Classes follow a structure similar to land-based yoga: breathing exercises, warm-ups, a series of poses, and a relaxation period. The key difference is that you are in a warm water pool! Swimming skills are not required. By reducing the effects of gravity, water allows ease of movements, unblocks joints, lengthens and relaxes muscles, alleviates negative tensions, and prevents stress, insomnia and anxiety. 

Prerequisites: No previous experience required (also no need to know how to swim). 

Credits: Woga 1&2 (Yoga in Water) gives 12 supplementary hours of credit for registration as international Watsu practitioner within the Watsu India learning program. 

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.00 pm 

Price: ₹ 9,250 (lunch included)

A 6-day intensive.

Tantsu grew out of Watsu. Watsu is a form of aquatic bodywork developed in the 1980s by Harold Dull, floating and stretching people in warm water. In Tantsu, the unconditional holding of Watsu is brought back onto land.

Tantsu offers a deep state of listening and creates an unconditional union and cradle of connected breath and presence. The trust established by this cradle and its creative exploration make it ideal for giving a Tantsu session to anybody.

During the first four days, you will be exposed to the basics of Tantsu: cradling someone in a comfortable hold, which gives access to a deep level of relaxation and stillness. The micro-movements that appear will guide your moves, stretches and rotations of shoulders, arms, hips and legs, thereby releasing blockages in the energy flow.

The following two days will take you deeper into body-listening and exploration of various possible body movements. You will also gain knowledge about meridians, hara, and the connection between mind and body.

In this intensive Tantsu will become a joyful expression of caring love.

Prerequisites: No previous experience required.

Credits: Tantsu 1 is recognised by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu learning program and gives 50 hours of credits for registration with WABA and Watsu India.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 39,950 (lunch included)

The Training in Oceanic Bodywork® Aqua 3 includes advanced techniques for both surface and underwater work.

The focus on slowness, silence, love, and compassion, as well as the expression of emotions, allows for a deeper and more authentic connection between the giver and receiver, helping them explore their oceanic body and consciousness. 

Receiving and giving Oceanic Bodywork Aqua sessions is a transformational journey that offers deep relaxation, joyful experiences, and a dissolving of boundaries. 

OBA 2 techniques will be reviewed and refined under supervision, while new OBA 3 techniques, both above and below water, will be introduced to create a seamless flow of movement. 

The deep and intimate nature of this bodywork can evoke emotions, necessitating a safe space both in water and on land for sharing and acknowledging these feelings. The training will include both theoretical and practical instruction on managing emotions. 

The course will also address how to offer a series of sessions to a client and what this entails. 

Prerequisites: OBA 2. 

Credits: OBA 3 is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 50 hours of credits for registration with WABA and Watsu India. 

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm 

Price: ₹ 36,500 (lunch included)

See a glimpse of this course in motion →

In this 6-day course, you will first learn the basic movements and positions of Watsu Basic. Then, you will connect them with long, gracefully flowing transitions and adapt this work to people of different sizes, shapes, and dispositions. At the same time, you will practise basic qualities such as grounding, presence, stillness, movement, and attention while moving another person in water. You will experience floating others and being floated, thereby creating space for deep relaxation and nurturing body, mind and spirit.

On land, you will be introduced to both Co-Centering and Tantsu, and explore what it means to be held for yourself and others.

Prerequisites: No previous experience required.

Credits: Watsu 1 is recognised by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu training program and gives 50 hours of

credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 39,950 (lunch included)

Healing Dance® Underwater Basics (HDUB) is designed as a first underwater course for students who have already taken surface courses, such as WATSU I or Healing Dance I.

HDUB is a 5 day course that specifically prepares you to take Shape & Space and Above & Below, the two major underwater trainings of Healing Dance. The transition to submerging receivers rather than merely supporting them on the surface entails learning several skills before one can take a receiver safely underwater.

The fundamentals covered in the course include how to
a) read the breath precisely;
b) signal appropriately;
c) offer and remove the nose clip;
d) unweight the head on submerging;
e) give the head freedom underwater;
f) gauge the amount of time spent underwater;
g) maintain the absolute space;
h) soften the hands in grips;
i) use one’s weight and breath to create deep movements;
j) travel in the pool, and
k) pre-support the head on surfacing.

Participants learn a surface warm-up followed by a sequence of thirteen submergings arranged in an order that could be used in a session. A written and photo manual are provided and an MP4 of the sequence is made available. This is a core course in the Underwater Practitioner Certification.

It is 42 hours in length over 5 days and serves as a prerequisite to Shape & Space or Above & Below.

Prerequisites: Healing Dance 1 or Watsu 1.

Credits: Healing Dance Underwater Basics is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 42 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 32,950 (lunch included)

This training is a further step in the Tantsu learning process, during which you will explore additional cradles and practice how to adapt a session to individual needs.
Tantsu is usually performed on the ground, on a futon or a soft support. In this course, you will also practice how you can adapt all cradles using a massage table as support.

Creativity, intuition and deep listening are some of the qualities to which you will have access to experience the “Free Flow” on land and to deepen the qualities of being present in the moment, unconditional holding and loving care.

Prerequisites: Tantsu 1.

Credits: Tantsu 2 is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu training program and gives 50 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India.

Timings: 8.45 AM – 6.30 PM

Price: Rs 39,950 (lunch included)

Watsu Yoga Round is a powerful tool for deep relaxation and inner peace. It focuses on listening to the body and being present, offering a way to reconnect with your heart and experience an inner silence that is fully alive and vibrant. It is an invitation to feel, awaken, and celebrate the energy of your being.  

When immersed in warm water during the Watsu Yoga Round, the body is free from the effects of gravity. The flow of movements and stretching, alternated with moments of stillness, invite progressive well-being: body and mind become free to dance!

Prerequisites: No previous experience required (also no need to know how to swim).

Booking: 9488084966 or E-mail: quiet@auroville.org.in 

Timings: 3.00 – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 750

A 2-day course on the surface only. 

Watsu is an aquatic bodywork modality given in a warm water pool (ideally 35°C). 

Watsu, where  the client’s face stays always on the surface, introduces the qualities and body mechanics required to work with someone in water in order to create a profound state of both physical and mental relaxation. The flowing interaction with water, its fluid support and warm embrace, and the practitioner’s presence provide a space for the client to experience the multi-layered benefits of this powerful and softening bodywork. 

Watsu offers an opportunity for profound relaxation and letting go, for building trust, for being nurtured and held, for expanding inner and outer boundaries, for releasing emotions and traumas – ultimately, for freeing body and mind in a flow unique to each client and to each session. 

In this course, you will practice basic techniques and qualities (grounding, presence, stillness, movement, attention) of being and moving another body in water. You will experience floating other people and being floated on the surface, thereby creating space for deep relaxation and nurturing body, mind and spirit. 

Participants in this course often appreciate the group space, which fosters deep, meaningful and nurturing connections. 

Prerequisites: No previous experience required. 

Credits: Watsu Basic is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu training program and gives 16 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. 

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm 

Price: ₹ 13,250 (lunch included)

Practicing WATSU® offers the opportunity to experience deep emotions and explore hidden needs, fears, and desires. While water has the power to dissolve tensions and traumas crystallized in the body, fully accessing its healing force requires that every session takes place within a climate of welcome, containment, and safety.

Navigating emotions—recognizing and welcoming them within a safe and supportive flow—is a core competence for every practitioner.
The professional’s role is to create a protected space. To do this, technical skill must merge with a natural capacity for empathic listening. This course invites students to meet their own inner world and that of others, transforming sensitivity into a tool for conscious work.

Methodology
Through a continuous alternation between land and water, the module includes:
• Body-based and imaginative exercises
• Role plays and dramatizations
• Group sharing
The aim is to learn how to respond with integrity to dynamics that emerge in session: How do I react to another’s emotion? How do I feel when I am not trusted? What is my response in the face of criticism or emotional dependency? Sharing these experiences helps the student become more aware and confident, able to authentically support another human being on their growth journey.

Objectives
• Deep Listening: Tuning into the receiver’s subtle frequencies
• Ecological Communication: Expressing and listening while respecting the other’s space
• Relationship and Interview: Managing verbal contact before and after the session
• Chemistry and Energy of Emotions: Understanding how the body processes feeling
• Emotional Regulation: Practical tools to maintain one’s “center” during the work

Prerequisites: Watsu 1.

Credits: Emotional Process for Watsu is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 25 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 19,950 (lunch included)

This class is designed to bring the principles of Healing Dance® into the underwater experience.

Maintaining flow above and below the surface is integral; the material explores how to smooth out the moment of submerging and surfacing. When rhythm, movement shape and body position are pre-set at the surface, the receiver experiences a less radical change at the moment of submerging.

The coursework begins taking WATSU’s Basic Moves underwater and extends this idea to the whole session, introducing a variety of takedown moves from the repertoire of Healing Dance. From the feedback of practitioners working with Above & Below we know that it is indeed making going under possible for people previously unable to allow themselves to be submerged.

Taking the moves below the surface becomes a fluid dance, bringing the receiver to a place where there is no need to breathe and bringing the giver to a joy in movement and presence.

This class offers a copious toolbox of moves that are simple, elegant and intriguing to enrich your experience in the underwater world.
A written and photo manual are provided and an MP4 of the sequence is made available.

This is a core course in the Underwater Practitioner Certification. It is 50 hours in length over 6 days and may be taken before or after Shape & Space.

Prerequisites: Healing Dance 1 plus Healing Dance Underwater Basics or WaterDance 1.

Credits: Healing Dance Above & Below is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 50 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 39,950 (lunch included)

A 6-day course on the surface.
Watsu 2 expands the Transition Flow taught in Watsu 1. You will learn additional movements and bodywork for each position and how to incorporate them in your practice sessions.
You will also study the meridians and acupressure points, which are relevant in Watsu, and creatively explore your own movements, while following the receiver’s natural tendency to move.

Practising acupressure massage, as well as lifts, pushes, and pulls introduced at this stage, will help you develop the ability to play with energy and further explore this amazing water therapy.

Prerequisites: Watsu 1.

Credits: Watsu 2 is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu training program and gives 50 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 39,950 (lunch included)

We invite you to explore this final transformative training that reconnects you with the intelligence and fluidity of your cosmic body. You will explore the most advanced and refined Oceanic Bodywork® Aqua techniques with the unique experience of the „Aquatic Body Wave“. It’s the core of the OBA Practice, rooted in the same intention: presence, connection, playfulness, letting go, trust and healing.

As your body and the water is your most powerful guide, you will remember your OBA experiences from before. We will revisit and synthesise all the techniques learned throughout the program, organising them into their eight core categories for a clearer understanding of their application and impact.
Additionally, we will explore the emotional dimensions of bodywork in warm water—how these experiences can surface, affect us, and how to navigate them in a constructive and transformative way.

Prerequisites: OBA 3.

Credits: OBA 4 is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 50 hours of credits for registration with WABA and Watsu India.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 40,750 (lunch included)

Prenatal Work with Oceanic Bodywork® Aqua.

Your physical life begins at conception, which offers you a formless, boundless, and timeless existence to develop safely in your mother’s womb. This environment allows you to undergo all stages of evolution in a short time, providing love, warmth, and the freedom to move weightlessly. Even as an adult, every cell in your body, your innermost core, your soul, and your subconscious still remember this time.

Birth is a powerful transition, marking your entry into the world. It separates you from your mother and, in a broader sense, from the universe. The feeling of isolation and loneliness can persist throughout life, often repressed and buried deep in your subconscious. The warm water environment can create a receptive space where your pain and longing can emerge.

The prenatal phase and birth have a profound influence on your entire life. They shape your most important attitudes and impact your life patterns and relationships. The desire to experience original unity with the universe remains, bringing inner peace as the feeling of separation fades. In moments of surrender and unconditional love, you become one again, a flowing part of the whole.

The Process
The Cosmic Child process focuses on a meditative experience rather than learning new techniques. The challenge is in the “being” rather than “doing.” On this inner journey of discovery, you encounter yourself.

Through reflex movements, aquatic body waves, and embryonic positions, you dive deeper into memories of your birth, prenatal phase, conception, and beyond, experiencing a space of deep inner stillness.
Water work and gentle exercises open hidden inner spaces within your subconscious. The warm water, Oceanic Bodywork® Aqua, and the loving presence of the water family accompany you through this intensive process.

Prerequisites: OBA 2.

Credits: Cosmic Child is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 50 hours of credits for registration with WABA and Watsu India.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 40,750 (lunch included)

Watsu Yoga Round is a powerful tool for deep relaxation and inner peace. It focuses on listening to the body and being present, offering a way to reconnect with your heart and experience an inner silence that is fully alive and vibrant. It is an invitation to feel, awaken, and celebrate the energy of your being.  

When immersed in warm water during the Watsu Yoga Round, the body is free from the effects of gravity. The flow of movements and stretching, alternated with moments of stillness, invite progressive well-being: body and mind become free to dance!

Prerequisites: No previous experience required (also no need to know how to swim).

Booking: 9488084966 or E-mail: quiet@auroville.org.in 

Timings: 3.00 – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 750

EARTH MY BODY

Training in Oceanic Bodywork® Fire & Earth Part I

Immerse yourself in the rhythmic heartbeat of your body, enveloped in the loving atmosphere of healing hands and let your body remember what it means to move with grace, intention and joy.
Experience the relaxation and enjoyment of massaging and being massaged with scented oil.

The Training Part 1 „Earth my body“ offers a powerful combination of touch, breath and flowing movements. You will learn deep massage and long strokes using forearms and hands, as well as breathing techniques of Oceanic Bodywork® Fire & Earth. The Bodywork offers grounding and reconnecting with the earth and your body, creating a foundation of strength and stability.
Guided meditations and awareness exercises, rituals and dance will accompany the journey. No previous knowledge of massage and bodywork is required. The massage is performed in pairs on massage tables.

Please bring:
• two sheets that can become oily.
• comfortable clothing for dance and active meditations.
• comfortable clothing for massage that can get oily.
• sarong or lunghi.

Prerequisites: No previous experience required.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 33,750 (lunch included)

A 7-day course on the surface.
Watsu 3 is for students, who have given enough practice sessions to develop a comfortable and intuitive awareness of how to float another person and are ready to further explore aquatic bodywork beyond the fixed form of Watsu 2.

After mastering the complete Watsu 2 sequence, Watsu 3 will open the doors for personal creativity and “Free Flow”. At the same time, this creative openness is balanced with a careful study and attention to the different positions, ensuring safety for both giver and receiver.
A major part of this Free Flow learning process is dedicated to the advanced positions and movements that Harold created in the early stages of Watsu’s development.
You can only participate in this advanced course after having shown and passed your Watsu 2 mastery!

Prerequisites: Watsu 2 and Watsu 2 mastery.

Credits: Watsu 3 is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu training program and gives 50 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 39,950 (lunch included)

A course of 4 full days.

A Watsu & OBA session offers an opportunity for profound relaxation and letting go, for building trust, for being nurtured and held, for expanding inner and outer boundaries, for releasing emotions and traumas – ultimately, for freeing body and mind in a flow unique to each client.

In Watsu Basic, during which the receiver’s face remains always on the surface, you will learn the qualities and body mechanics required to work with someone in water.

During the OBA Basic part you will bring your receiver under water (with a nose clip), thereby offering a unique experience.

In this beginner’s course, you will learn and practise basic techniques and qualities such as grounding, presence, stillness, movement, and attention in moving another person in water.

You will experience floating others and being floated, both on the surface and under water, thereby creating space for deep relaxation and nurturing body, mind and spirit.
Participants in this course often appreciate the group space, which fosters deep, meaningful and nurturing connections.

Prerequisites: No previous experience required.

Credits: Watsu Basic is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu training program and gives 16 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. OBA Basic is part of the Watsu India training program and gives an additional 15 hours of credit for registration with Watsu India and 15 supplementary hours with WABA.

Timings:  8.45 – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 22000

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Prepare a written piece centred on a personal life experience — whether a single moment or a reflection on it — that holds significance in relation to OBA and/or water.

This experience should also highlight a personal growth goal you have achieved through or alongside it.

Prerequisites: OBA 4.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 4,950 (lunch included)

A basic knowledge of anatomy is essential for any aquatic bodywork practitioner.

This 6-day course offers both theoretical and hands-on learning about anatomy relevant to Watsu and focuses on planes and axes of movements, joint mechanics, physiology, metabolism, and on muscles and their lengthening.

Theory and practice will take place on land and in water. Through massages and specific exercises, you will learn the functions of various body structures and their applications in Watsu.
About one-third of the course is dedicated to theory, one-third to land-based practice, and one-third to effective applications in water.

Prerequisites: Watsu 2 plus 100 hours of aquatic bodywork training or Watsu 1 plus 200 hours of aquatic bodywork training.

Credits: Anatomy for Aquatic Bodyworkers is part of the Watsu training program and gives 50 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India program.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 39,950 (lunch included)

Watsu for Babies is a beautiful and spontaneous way to experience the early years of childhood. It is open to anyone, who wants to share the joy of being in water with babies.

In this course, you will discover that emotions arising from spontaneous movements in water can open extraordinary borders. These moments allow us to be in the present moment, simply listening to the baby’s breathing while being supported by the healing power of water.

Thanks to the collaboration with Gianni De Stefani, a senior WABA instructor, Dr. Riccardo Palumbo has developed a new massage, which is introduced in this course to bring Watsu into the world of babies.

Through Tantsu and Ai-Chi exercises, you will begin to listen to yourself and to the baby you hold. You will also learn possible transitions of the Watsu sequence in order to expand it creatively for babies.

Prerequisites: Watsu Basic or a degree to work with babies in water.

Credits: Watsu for Babies is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 8 hours of credit for registration as aquatic bodywork with WABA and as an elective with Watsu India.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.00 pm

Price: ₹ 6,500 (lunch included)

A basic knowledge of anatomy is required for any kind of aquatic bodyworker, working with clients in many different ways. This course offers a practical overview of the locomotor apparatus, focusing on joints and muscular disbalance and on muscles & their lengthening and massage.
Half of the course is dedicated to practice on land and the other half to practical applications in water.

We will deepen our anatomical awareness to support aquatic massage and stretching during the sessions. Various massage techniques will be introduced and practiced, along with the stretching of muscular chains.
Participants will also develop an understanding of how to work with muscular imbalances in a mindful and effective way.

Prerequisites: Watsu 1 or OBA 1 or WaterDance 1 or Healing Dance 1.

Credits: Anatomy for Aquatic Stretching gives 25 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 19,950 (lunch included)

Watsu Yoga Round is a powerful tool for deep relaxation and inner peace. It focuses on listening to the body and being present, offering a way to reconnect with your heart and experience an inner silence that is fully alive and vibrant. It is an invitation to feel, awaken, and celebrate the energy of your being.  

When immersed in warm water during the Watsu Yoga Round, the body is free from the effects of gravity. The flow of movements and stretching, alternated with moments of stillness, invite progressive well-being: body and mind become free to dance!

Prerequisites: No previous experience required (also no need to know how to swim).

Booking: 9488084966 or E-mail: quiet@auroville.org.in 

Timings: 3.00 – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 750

Ai Chi is a total body relaxation and strengthening progression used for aquatic therapy. This aquatic technique is characterised by slow movement coordinated with deep breathing.

Ai Chi consists of 19 movements or katas, performed while breathing at a rate of about 14-16 breaths per minute. The first six arm movements are based on Qi Gong, with a relatively static and symmetrical body posture. The subsequent movements are based on Tai Chi, with continuous shifting of the center of gravity.
The progression moves through a series of “regulatory conditions” of increasing difficulty, from static to dynamic, symmetrical to rotatory and asymmetrical movement, and visual to non-visual (vestibular) control.

Prerequisites: No previous experience required.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 6,500 (lunch included)

Ai Chi is a new form of aquatic bodywork that brings us the calm, dance-like movements of Tai Chi, performed in a warm water pool.

The dance of Ai Chi consists of harmonious movements that repeat the circular forms of the circle and follow the “dance” of the breath. The body is revitalised, the mind clears and “lights up,” allowing us to perceive more attentively everything that moves outside (the work of the water on our body) and inside us – sensations and emotions.

In this course, you will learn how to present a full Ai Chi sequence to public for fitness and wellness.

Prerequisites: Ai Chi Basic.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 22,750 (lunch included)

Meditation is an important tool for listening, accepting and knowing ourselves, as well as becoming more intuitive towards others.
In our understanding, the purpose of meditation is to cultivate presence and peace of mind, enabling us to connect with our unique essence and the world around us.

Through exercises on land and in water, we will cultivate awareness of the present moment, aiming to enhance the innate quality of presence within each of us.
Once we connect with this presence, we will explore ways to deepen and expand it, allowing us to welcome the presence of others in a harmonious and respectful manner.

Prerequisites: Watsu Basic.

Credits: Watsu and Meditation is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu training program and gives 15 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.00 pm

Price: ₹ 12,500 (lunch included)

Shiatsu is a modality, which originated within the oldest healing system known to humanity. It restores and maintains health by adjusting and balancing the body’s primary communication network − the energy system.

About 60% of this course is on land, during which you will learn a simple Shiatsu protocol for applying pressure along the 12 main meridians (energy pathways) along with some basic theory of Chinese Medicine (yin yang, 5 elements system, organ-clock).
Practical exercises on land and in water will let you discover your own energy system and become more sensitive to your partner’s energy body.
To become a certified Watsu practitioner, you need to have at least 50 hours of Shiatsu or 50 hours of Tantsu, another modality of land-based bodywork.

Prerequisites: Watsu 1 or equivalent course.

Credits: Shiatsu for Watsu is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu learning program and gives 50 hours of credits for registration with WABA and Watsu India.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 36,500 (lunch included)

A course of 4 full days.

A Watsu & OBA session offers an opportunity for profound relaxation and letting go, for building trust, for being nurtured and held, for expanding inner and outer boundaries, for releasing emotions and traumas – ultimately, for freeing body and mind in a flow unique to each client.

In Watsu Basic, during which the receiver’s face remains always on the surface, you will learn the qualities and body mechanics required to work with someone in water.

During the OBA Basic part you will bring your receiver under water (with a nose clip), thereby offering a unique experience.

In this beginner’s course, you will learn and practise basic techniques and qualities such as grounding, presence, stillness, movement, and attention in moving another person in water.

You will experience floating others and being floated, both on the surface and under water, thereby creating space for deep relaxation and nurturing body, mind and spirit.
Participants in this course often appreciate the group space, which fosters deep, meaningful and nurturing connections.

Prerequisites: No previous experience required.

Credits: Watsu Basic is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu training program and gives 16 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. OBA Basic is part of the Watsu India training program and gives an additional 15 hours of credit for registration with Watsu India and 15 supplementary hours with WABA.

Timings:  8.45 – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 22000

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This 3-day course offers water students and practitioners the necessary tools for giving sessions to pregnant women and gaining a deeper insight into the fascinating world of pregnancy and birth in relation to aquatic bodywork. It also offers specific indications and contra-indications in the context of pregnancy and will allow you to give precious support to future mothers.

With Watsu, we can help relieving specific pains and create psychological conditions to better prepare pregnant women for childbirth. The course also focuses on the prenatal energetic relation between parents and child and how the future father can fully participate in the pregnancy. With Watsu, the family history starts well before birth…

Prerequisites: Watsu Basic or Watsu & Liquid Flow Basic.

Credits: Watsu & Pregnancy gives 25 hours of credit as an elective with Watsu India.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 11,500 (lunch included)

A 2-day journey of exploring and discovering your breath and its applications in Watsu.
In this course, you will learn to integrate the practice of Watsu qualities and explore the power of working with your receiver’s breath.

Several topics will be discussed, including the link between breathing and yourself as a giver, as well as your energetic connection with the receiver.
You will also gain an understanding of the anatomical basis of our respiratory system to better grasp its functioning.

Prerequisites: Watsu Basic.

Credits: Watsu & Breathing is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu training program and gives 15 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.00 pm

Price: ₹ 11,250 (lunch included)

Watsu Yoga Round is a powerful tool for deep relaxation and inner peace. It focuses on listening to the body and being present, offering a way to reconnect with your heart and experience an inner silence that is fully alive and vibrant. It is an invitation to feel, awaken, and celebrate the energy of your being.  

When immersed in warm water during the Watsu Yoga Round, the body is free from the effects of gravity. The flow of movements and stretching, alternated with moments of stillness, invite progressive well-being: body and mind become free to dance!

Prerequisites: No previous experience required (also no need to know how to swim).

Booking: 9488084966 or E-mail: quiet@auroville.org.in 

Timings: 3.00 – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 750

A 2-day course. 

Woga is a combination of two words: water and yoga. It is based on classic yoga poses and stretches, modified for standing in water that is waist-to-chest height. Woga focuses on Hatha Yoga in water, including asanas performed in standing position, against the wall, in floating position, and under water. The course also includes pranayama and meditation. 

Classes follow a structure similar to land-based yoga: breathing exercises, warm-ups, a series of poses, and a relaxation period. The key difference is that you are in a warm water pool! Swimming skills are not required. By reducing the effects of gravity, water allows ease of movements, unblocks joints, lengthens and relaxes muscles, alleviates negative tensions, and prevents stress, insomnia and anxiety. 

Prerequisites: No previous experience required (also no need to know how to swim). 

Credits: Woga 1&2 (Yoga in Water) gives 12 supplementary hours of credit for registration as international Watsu practitioner within the Watsu India learning program. 

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.00 pm 

Price: ₹ 9,250 (lunch included)

In this 6-day course, you will first learn the basic movements and positions of Watsu Basic. Then, you will connect them with long, gracefully flowing transitions and adapt this work to people of different sizes, shapes, and dispositions. At the same time, you will practise basic qualities such as grounding, presence, stillness, movement, and attention while moving another person in water. You will experience floating others and being floated, thereby creating space for deep relaxation and nurturing body, mind and spirit.

On land, you will be introduced to both Co-Centering and Tantsu, and explore what it means to be held for yourself and others.

Prerequisites: No previous experience required.

Credits: Watsu 1 is recognised by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) as part of the Watsu training program and gives 50 hours of

credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 36,500 (lunch included)

A 2-day course on the surface and under water.

OBA (Oceanic Bodywork@ Aqua) is an aquatic bodywork modality, developed by Kaya Femerling and Nirvano Martina Schulz in the mid-80’s and practiced in a warm water pool (ideally 35°C).
It combines elements of light movements, soft stretching movements , aquatic tissue massage and joint release as well as energy and breath work in a unique way both above and below the water surface.

During this course, you will learn a series of simple movements and techniques, both on the surface (including floating with cushion and pool noodle) as well as under water (with a nose clip).
You will also practice basic qualities such as grounding, presence, stillness and attention, while moving another body in water. You will experience floating other people and being floated, on the surface and under water, thereby creating space for deep relaxation and nurturing body, mind and spirit.
This basic course is for everyone interested in a first exploration into the joy of aquatic therapy work.

More about Oceanic Bodywork@ Aqua (OBA)
This form of aquatic therapy invites you to experience the healing energies of water in a new way. Chronic physical pain as well as emotional tensions can be released. Special positions may remind you of how you felt to be held as a child.
You might dive into a wondrous world of memories, of floating weightlessly in the protective womb of your mother, of diving right back into that very space where you were surrounded by soft warm water.
OBA invites you to experience again the nurturing qualities of being held and loved, and to rediscover trust, peace within yourself, and a sense of coming home.

Prerequisites: No previous experience required.

Credits: OBA Basic is part of the Watsu India training program and gives 15 hours of credit for registration with Watsu India and 15 supplementary hours with WABA.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 11,500 (lunch included)

A 2-day course. 

Woga is a combination of two words: water and yoga. It is based on classic yoga poses and stretches, modified for standing in water that is waist-to-chest height. Woga focuses on Hatha Yoga in water, including asanas performed in standing position, against the wall, in floating position, and under water. The course also includes pranayama and meditation. 

Classes follow a structure similar to land-based yoga: breathing exercises, warm-ups, a series of poses, and a relaxation period. The key difference is that you are in a warm water pool! Swimming skills are not required. By reducing the effects of gravity, water allows ease of movements, unblocks joints, lengthens and relaxes muscles, alleviates negative tensions, and prevents stress, insomnia and anxiety. 

Prerequisites: No previous experience required (also no need to know how to swim). 

Credits: Woga 1&2 (Yoga in Water) gives 12 supplementary hours of credit for registration as international Watsu practitioner within the Watsu India learning program. 

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.00 pm 

Price: ₹ 9,250 (lunch included)

During this 6-day course, you will gain a fundamental understanding of Woga, enabling you to harness the benefits of yoga in warm, shallow water.

The program includes learning a diverse range of Woga exercises, as well as receiving didactic resources for conducting Woga classes or integrating Woga into your aquatic fitness classes.

The course covers:
• an introduction to yoga philosophy, encompassing the concepts and principles of Hatha Yoga and Pranayama;
• theoretical knowledge of the physical properties pertaining to water;
• effective methodological and teaching strategies for planning Woga classes.

After successful completion of this course, you will be certified as a professional Woga Instructor.

Prerequisites:
WOGA 1&2 and a certified activity as instructor in aquatic sports or as bodyworker instructor, or long time bodyworker in any kind of activity.

Credits:
Woga ITC gives 42 supplementary hours of credit for registration as international Watsu practitioner within the Watsu India learning program.

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm

Price: ₹ 28,750 (lunch included)

In this course, we will focus on three fundamental aspects of WaterDance: vertical grounding, posture of both giver and receiver, and the breath. 

The key movement is Water Breath Dance, in which you will float someone in your arms allowing them to gently sink as they exhale and rising with them as you both inhale. This creates a profound connection that carries through all other surface and underwater movements. 

Throughout the course, you will also learn in a playful and yet attentive way how to bring your partner under water (with a nose clip). Sufficient time will also be given for integrating fears or apprehensions to go under water. 

In addition, you will learn and practice the basic WaterDance movements, which form the essential core of this powerful aquatic-bodywork modality. 

On land, various tools such as guided meditations, body & energy work, active breathing exercises, and practising effective communication skills will offer opportunities for connecting deeper with yourself and others. 

Prerequisites: No previous experience required. 

Credits: WaterDance Fundamental is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 50 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India. 

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm 

Price: ₹ 36,500

This experience offers a guided journey to overcome fear and discomfort in water by exploring movement, breathing, and floating through targeted exercises. 

Participants will gain awareness of how their bodies and emotions respond in aquatic settings, building confidence and relaxation. 

Objectives: 

– Develop confidence in both shallow and deep water 

– Learn to move intentionally and freely in water 

– Manage anxiety and emotional blocks related to water 

– Understand how the body behaves in water to prepare for swimming lessons 

– Promote relaxation, body awareness, and emotional resilience 

Benefits reported by participants include: 

– Reduced muscle tension 

– Improved concentration and mental clarity 

– Increased lung capacity and physical endurance 

– Enhanced body awareness and self confidence 

Prerequisites: No previous experience required. 

Credits: No credits for registration with WABA and Watsu India. 

Timings: 8.45 am – 6.30 pm 

Price: ₹ 16,750

A 6-day course, mainly under water.

WaterDance (also known as WATA or WasserTanzen) is a dynamic, mind- and playful movement therapy. It was developed by Peter Schröter and Arjana C. Brunschwiler in the late 80s.

In this foundational course, we explore the art of connecting with the breath and establishing a deep, trusting relationship with our partners to guide them underwater with confidence and care.
Through practice with diverse body types, we’ll learn to adapt our technique, cultivating greater safety, fluidity, and poetic expression in our movements.

By guiding our partners underwater using kumbhaka (breath retention from Pranayama), we invite them into deep states of relaxation, inner silence, freedom, and joy. Any fears related to immersion are welcomed with presence and compassion.

We will learn the “short form,” comprising more than 20 distinct positions and movements. Special emphasis will be placed on creating a safe, gentle, and fluid environment to foster a sense of freedom and joy.

Prerequisites: WaterDance Fundamental.

Credits: WaterDance 1 is recognized by WABA (Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association) and gives 50 hours of credit for registration with WABA and Watsu India.

Timings: 8.45 AM – 6.30 PM

Price: ₹ 36,500 (lunch included)