Water consciousness for personal and planetary health

On a desolate beach in Thailand under the moonlit skies; I was gently immersed into the phosphorescent sea. As I was cradled and held I fell into a trance like state. My breath became still and my body melted into a dancing dolphin. My tears streamed from my eyes with deep appreciation of this true, unconditional love that I was receiving. I was pulled onto the moonlit sand, awakening out the most profound experience I had ever had. This is an exhilarating extract from Tara Anstensen's diary after receiving her first waterdance in the ocean, an experience that initiated her aquatic healing path. She ... Read Full Story

It takes a lot of courage and faith to do what Kim Chamberlain , the first aquatic healer presented here, has done. The fact that she was the first person to respond to my request for this section of my blog on other Aquatic Healers says a lot about her too. Kim Chamberlain is an Holistic Health Practitioner (AMTA, NCTMB) and Aquatic Bodyworker based in Fortuna, California. Website: Akasha Bodysmith . Kim tells me that the most important thing she learned in her training to do aquatic bodywork was 'Presence of being in the moment. Allowing not doing. Yin as in not Yang .' ... Read Full Story

Along with sustainable living and a environmental sustainability, there is now the idea of sustainable health .  Sustainable implies something that lasts over time.  And water is a key ingredient for life and health.  In nature, these are not new concepts.  Here I want to make a case for another ancient concept: spa sabbatical, the foundation for sustainable spa retreat.  Bathing for social and therapeutic benefits has long been an important part of ancient cultures. Before Europeans arrived in the New World, Native Americans gathered at hot mineral springs for physical health, spiritual, and social purposes combined. They honored water in their sweat lodge ... Read Full Story

Almost two decades ago now, as a freelance editor of mainly medical books and journals who had decided to pay her way through a degree in physiotherapy, I was both burned out and disenchanted with the direction of conventional medicine. My beloved father had died of cancer aged just 57, and I was questioning everything. That's when I came across Schumacher College , tucked away in pastoral Devon not too far from where I lived at the time, in Bath, UK. I was grateful when I received a scholarship to take part in a 3-week course in 1992 entitled the ' Greening of Medicine ... Read Full Story

Please join me in this pledge to Break the Bottled Water Habit . It's easy for me since I'm not in the habit and I also have access to rural well water that tastes delicious. But it's one way that as a society, and aquatic bodyworkers, we can really make a difference. Everything we consume has a climate impact, but manufacturing and trucking water bottles to homes with clean tap water seems particularly wasteful. The Beverage Marketing Corporation reports that Americans consumed 31.2 billion liters of water in 2006 – nearly 9 liters per month for every man, woman, and child. Manufacturing all those ... Read Full Story