Harold Dull is the president of WABA and the creator of Watsu®, Tantsu® and the Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Registry which stores the transcripts of students around the world. Harold trained with the creator of Zen Shiatsu in Japan, Shizuto Masunaga, and the teachers who brought Zen Shiatsu to America, Reuho Yamada and Wataru Ohashi. The profundity and effectiveness of the bodywork forms he has created reflect his passionate practice and deep understanding of energy and the body; the creativity of these forms reflects his background as a poet in the San Francisco Renaissance. His three Watsu books, a new Tantsu book and a collection of his poetry as well as several of his DVDs are available. Harold speaks several languages,which helps him teach his work all over the world. He has been awarded by Water Fitness and Aquatic Therapy associations. Once he completed developing the forms needed in clinics and spas around the world, Harold turned his attention to developing complementary paths that can make Watsu and Tantsu's potential for connection and the creative engagement of our life force universally available, a new humanism in which everybody can float or hold each other without intention.

In Watsu, floating someone level with our heart, our heart center becomes as much engaged in movement as our body center. In this course we explore how the continuum of breath connected moves that rise from the emptiness at the bottom of the breath lead to stillness. And how in that stillness our heart is engaged in movements from within that spontaneously draw other moves into their flow. 

In the year Harold started developing Watsu he created Tantsu to bring Watsu’s nurturing holding back onto land. Now Harold has created a new Tantsu whose whole body holds contain someone’s heart and body centers as one core. In this course you learn a complete Core Tantsu that can be comfortably shared with anybody. What you learn about accessing the movement within with your own core follows you back into the water. 

On the Explore Flow Path inner movement and the spontaneous take you beyond sequence. Instead of a form you learn a format, the Team Round, in which you explore in groups of three. The instructor assigns a simple theme that can be applied in different ways, such as presses or the use of the knee or a crossing to the other side. 
The Team creatively explores all the possible ways the theme can be applied with each other with copious feedback as to what pressure and depth, etc., is most comfortable to each. This Explore phase is followed by each one receiving a complete session in a Round that has the following format:

First Floater:
1. Opening Moves, the Waterbreath Dance and a continuum of breath coordinated moves that lead to deep stillness.
2. Stillness- Heart Based Four phase Explore Flow
3. Theme done in whatever way the above Flows into.
4. A crossing to the other side
5. Spontaneous movement (Each crossing is made without any idea of what will follow. The spontaneous can be a move previously learned or something new in the moment)
6. Theme done in a way the Spontaneous leads into.
7. A crossing back to the first side (usually done in some way different than the first crossing.)
8. Spontaneous movement.
9. Stillness- Follow Movement.

Second Floater: When the First Floater’s Follow Movement is complete, the second Floater joins from the second side and, starting with the Stillness- Heart Based Four phase Explore Flow continues through the above progression. When the second floater completes the Follow Movement on their side, the first floater joins from the first side.

Both floaters: The first floater explores how they can apply their theme while the other supports the receiver. Then, floating the receiver between them, they explore how to coordinate their moves so closely they flow as one. Three become one. 

When you complete this class you will have learned the above format well enough to meet with two others on the Explore Flow Path outside of class, each bringing your own theme to explore together.
In Harold Dull’s new book: 
Watsu as a Path of Meditation, Connection, Exploration and Flow
There are twenty stations on the path, each with its own theme that will be made available to students. Students of this class can find others through the Registry who want to meet and explore the potential of Watsu in Team Rounds.

Watsu III with Harold Dull August 24 - August 29, 2010 

  Watsu III