{"id":107,"date":"2008-08-07T20:03:14","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T04:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/niasomoves.com\/Rachaelsblog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2008-08-08T17:44:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-09T01:44:03","slug":"watsu-the-sensation-of-embryonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/watsu-the-sensation-of-embryonic\/","title":{"rendered":"Watsu: The Sensation of Embryonic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2004\/2742523065_5fb28f0e61.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I received a Watsu session from my friend Sharon Dvora.\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Watsu (from &#8220;water shiatsu&#8221;) is type of bodywork done in the water. \u00a0(Find out more about Watsu <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watsu.org.nz\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">here<\/span><\/a>.) \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Talk about the sensation of being <a href=\"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/2008\/06\/08\/the-five-stages-of-self-healing-embryonic\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Embryonic<\/span><\/a>! \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You are floating in warm water, while being continuously cradled, rocked and stretched by the Watsu practitioner.\u00a0 Stillness alternates with flowing movements.\u00a0 In the water, the body is weightless yet always supported.<\/p>\n<p>Again and again during the session, I found myself thinking, &#8220;Everyone in the world should experience Watsu!&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a Watsu session, the body moves, senses and feels in ways that are impossible on land. \u00a0The sensation truly is like nothing else. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You might think, &#8220;Well, I could just have that experience in my bathtub or out swimming somewhere.&#8221;\u00a0 But no.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Floating in a body of water does provide the sensation of weightlessness that the <a href=\"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/2008\/06\/08\/the-five-stages-of-self-healing-embryonic\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Nia practice of Embryonic<\/span><\/a> brings us, and is beautiful in its own right.\u00a0 But add the deep presence of a practitioner and the gentle Watsu movements, and the nervous system and the spirit receive a profound nourishment they have never had before.<\/p>\n<p>So if you want to receive peaceful healing, if you want to receive deep relaxation, if you want to receive the experience of Embryonic more deeply into your 75 trillion cells, if you want to travel energetically within your own body, if you want to give your nervous system one of the biggest gifts possible, try Watsu.<\/p>\n<p>Watsu is like Nia: \u00a0It&#8217;s like chocolate &#8212; you have to taste it to know if you like it.<\/p>\n<p>Sharon Dvora, LMT, Certified Watsu Practitioner, can be reached at 541-482-6396.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I received a Watsu session from my friend Sharon Dvora.\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 Watsu (from &#8220;water shiatsu&#8221;) is type of bodywork done in the water. \u00a0(Find out more about Watsu here.) \u00a0 Talk about the sensation of being Embryonic! \u00a0 You are floating in warm water, while being continuously cradled, rocked and stretched by the Watsu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-five-stages-of-self-healing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}