Healing Dance

Healing Dance® developed by Alexander George 
is a graceful and powerful form of aquatic bodywork, 
conducted in body temperature warm water,
integrating elements of Watsu, WaterDance,Trager Work, 
movement and dance.

Alexander is one of the first Watsu® practitioners that were trained by its founder, Harold Dull.
In 1990, practicing Watsu in the water while being a resident at Harbin Hot Springs in northern California, 
Alexander began experimenting and improvising, discovering new ways the body can move in the water 
using elements from his background as a professional ballet dancer,choreographer,
Trager Work practitioner, and a WaterDance practitioner. 

This work is based on the philosophy that movements and touch are therapeutic, 
so the remedial process in the body is activated by experience of the "received dance". 

The technique combines beautiful movements characterized by spaciousness, flawless, freedom, lightness,
and three dimensionality. 

The Healing Dance is first and foremost based on three-dimensionality wave movements for the entire body,
quiet embraces, releases, traction, smooth transitions, joint mobilization and massage,all woven 
together in the flow. 

What started as a playful movement investigation, refined itself from the pure delight of movement 
to the realization of its full healing potential.

In the session

Empathetic connection is established between the practitioner and the receiver 
as the practitioner follows the receiver’s rhythmic field at the beginning of the session 
through breath, movement, and state of mind.  

A Healing Dance practitioner is trained to use mindfulness 
that enable mirroring and following any initial kinetic impulses. 

Movements are dosed with awareness and are blended and intertwined with restful pauses 
with quiet positional sanctuaries to allow for integration of its effects and intentions. 

Dancing the receiver, who experiences grace and beauty, 
can sometimes lead into deeper emotional releases as the receiver feels the psychological reverberations 
of the movement in their being. 

The dance between the subliminal message within each movement and the receiver’s subconscious mind 
awaken many therapeutic levels. Thus,the healing comes from within. 

Healing Dance attracts people that are passionate about movement, water, stretching and touched by grace. 
The physical experience of freedom is especially beneficiary for the handicapped that are unable to stand or walk. 
For the sportsman,athlete,martial artist,swimmer,diver,and dancer,the movements of Healing Dance 
are an invitation to joyful participation by allowing their own movement impulses expression. 

Studying Healing Dance

Students learn a variety of original techniques which express and implement how water 
and the body naturally move together to create the sensation of lightness and flying, to generate a rhythmic field, 
to find the various "rhythms of awareness" for clients, and even to channel movement. 

Students explore how blocked energies can be opened up by more than thirty hydrodynamic waves and spirals, 
as well as various spatial mandalas in the form of circles, figure 8’s and releases,freeing and re-animating the body. 

Advanced body mechanics are taught to create movements of greater subtlety and sensitivity.
As the language of movement expands, students grow to be more confident in improvising, 
and better respond to the needs of the client.  www.healingdance.org is the official web site of Healing Dance.

The training consists on five classes:

• Introduction to Healing Dance  (16 hours)
• Basic Healing Dance, (50 hours)
• Advanced Healing Dance  (50 hours)
• Above and Below (underwater class - 50 hours)
• Shape and Space (underwater class - 50 hours)

All the classes above are available at AQUANAT.

To book a session or get more information about training please call Anat 040- 8905476