Our international team of teachers currently numbers sixteen, coming from different backgrounds including dance, swimming instruction, martial arts, physical therapy, massage therapy, Hakomi and Somatic Experiencing. Courses are held in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and German.
Alexander George teaches all courses.
I was a professional ballet dancer and teacher, then Massage Therapist and Trager Practitioner before embarking on my water journey in 1990. With the collaboration of other teachers and practitioners I have had the privilege to preside over the creation and development of Healing Dance. Read more...
Inika Spence-Whaley teaches all courses.
I am a senior instructor, teaching all the classes of Healing Dance®. I also teach WATSU® I and II and Aquatic Contact Dance. I have been an aquatic body worker since 1996, working at Harbin Hot Springs as a WATSU, WaterDance and Healing Dance Practitioner. I have over 2800 hours of training and over 4500 hours teaching aquatic bodywork. Read more...
Mary Theri Thomas teaches all courses.
Mary Theri Thomas has been everything from a corporate trainer to a martial arts national competition competitor and coach. She currently is the owner and manager of the Aquatic Bodwork Center and has been a practitioner and instructor in the areas of massage, martial arts, yoga, Nia, fitness, core awareness, nutrition, hypnotherapy and holistic health over the last 29 years. Read more...
Ahara Vatter teaches Introduction to Healing Dance, Healing Dance I, Healing Dance II, Healing Dance Underwater Basics, Above & Below and Relating & Mirroring.
My life started in water as all of ours did. I was surrounded by water early on -in pools where fractals of sunlight spoke to me beneath the surface, and later in Lake Michigan where the waves and undertows created dynamic play only a block from my childhood home. I joined the synchronized swimming team in high school.
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Ashaman Gray teaches Introduction to Healing Dance, Healing Dance I, Healing Dance II, Healing Dance Underwater Basics, Relating & Mirroring and Shape & Space.
I have been dancing and healing in the water since my first training with Alexander in 1999, when I discovered an altogether unexpected love for aquatic bodywork. I realized that I could apply postural movement awareness from martial art to this unique shared therapeutic dance in warm water, and the fluidity and dynamic grace inherent in aquatic bodywork immediately touched my center. Read more...
Kathrin George teaches all courses.
I am a Physical Therapist, Practitioner of WATSU, WaterDance, Healing Dance and Healing Dance Underwater; an instructor of all Healing Dance levels as well as the Introductory Weekend and Basic Seminar in the German IAKA training program. Water was always my element, and the discovery of the water work was love at first sight. It combines my passion for water and movement, as well as the joy of meeting and caring for others.
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Michael Hallock teaches Aquatic Basics, Flowtation, Introduction to Healing Dance, Healing Dance I, Healing Dance II and Healing Dance Underwater Basics.
For Michael it was love-at-first-float when he first experienced aquatic bodywork as a receiver over 20 years ago. As he surfaced, his first words were, “I’m going to do this!” First training as a Watsu Therapist in 2002, he went on to work with several world renowned resorts including Chivasom Thailand, Golden Door Australia, and Fivelements Bali. Read more...
Anat Juran teaches Aquatic Basics, Introduction to Healing Dance and Healing Dance Essentials.
My strong connection to the water is rooted early in my childhood. As young as a few months old, every morning, my mother used to take me on her bicycle to the nearest beach on the Northern side of the Israeli Mediterranean Sea. I strongly believe that these early life experiences wired together aquatic joy with pure unconditional love.Read more...
Bodhi Sambhava teaches Introduction to Healing Dance, Healing Dance I and Healing Dance II.
I am a Skydancing Tantra teacher and psychotherapist trained in Postural Integration and Pelvic Heart Integration. I am also the founder of the Aqua Tantra method and continue its development. I am also a WATSU and Healing Dance practitioner for over 10 years, which naturally led me to become a Healing Dance teacher. Read more...
Clairez Muskopf teaches Introduction to Healing Dance and Healing Dance I.
Clairez learned to swim before she learned to walk. Water unified and permeated most of her life. Aquatic bodywork has beautifully reconnected dance and that love of the water for her since 2007. Claire deepened her knowledge through her trainings, in Healing Dance, WaterDance, Esalen Massage and Fluid Presence. Displaced from being a Healing Dance practitioner at Harbin Hot Springs, Read more...
Deb Evangelista teaches Introduction to Healing Dance and Healing Dance I.
Deb has been a water baby for as long as she can remember. One of her earliest memories is of sitting in the shallows of a Midwest freshwater lake in the summer of 1968. In college she got the opportunity to teach adult swim lessons, private swim instruction and aqua aerobics. Deb’s journey with WATSU began in 2006, receiving her practitioner status in 2012. Read more...
Sarah Reynolds teaches Introduction to Healing Dance.
Sarah Reynolds turned to integrative therapies as a young teenager in Princeton, NJ, when conventional asthma treatments, while life-saving, no longer worked toward helping her "grow out of it." Yoga therapy, nutrition, herbal remedies and Pilates grabbed her interest while completing her degree in Women's and Religious Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder (1994). Read more...
Monika Veerman teaches Introduction to Healing Dance.
Monika comes from a varied background including gymnastics, dance, massage, and progressive muscle relaxation. In 1999 she discovered aquatic bodywork and has since become a Practitioner in WATSU, WaterDance and Healing Dance, studying from each of its founders. In 2019 she became an Instructor of Healing Dance. Read more...
Valérie Hamoniaux teaches Introduction to Healing Dance, Flowtation and Healing Dance I.
After a degree in chemical engineering and a stint in mountain tourism, life led me to the water. I started swimming in 2008 and became a swimming teacher a few years later. Subsequently I discovered Watsu and became a practitioner in 2014. I then dove into the study of Healing Dance, becoming a practitioner in 2019. Read more...
Carole Condamine teaches Introduction to Healing Dance.
My professional background began in the marketing world. I used to work in a card making and stationery company as a product marketing manager. It lasted for few years and in 2004, I realized that I wanted to work for myself and to explore something else. I wanted to find a job that I'm passionate about. As I'm a tactile person I started to learn different kinds of massages and energetic work from masters throughout the world and I also resumed studies to become a beauty practitioner. Read more...
Rui Granja teaches Introduction to Healing Dance.
Hi! I’m Rui, nice to meet you here! I’m an aquatic bodyworker, eager to give good sessions to even better receivers. I have a degree in Human Resources and Psychology of Work, also formation in Sofrologia Caycediana, Healing Dance, WATSU and complementary techniques. I spent eight years teaching swimming in my twenties and after that, ten more working in a health services company in Oporto. Read more...
Alda Lopes teaches Introduction to Healing Dance.
I'm Alda. As a swimming teacher, I worked daily in the water and with the water, for 15 years, with babies, children and adults. I also teach Hydrogymnastics, Ai-Chi and Hidrobike. In the search for new knowledge related to the water element, I discovered the Aquatic Bodywork techniques and became WATSU Practitioner (2011) and a Healing Dance Practitioner (2019). I like to see myself as an eternal student, enjoying the beginner's mind discoveries. Read more...
Ineke Van Nieuwenhove teaches Introduction to Healing Dance.
Hi lovelies! As a child I wanted to become two things: a writer and a dancer. Writing became my first profession, dancing my hobby. In 2003 I discovered yoga felt like ‘dancing my body’, giving me the right flow to write. And now I dance and write my story… in water. Read more...
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