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HEALING DANCE § II 2012

1994 Alexander George

TABLE OF CONTENTS

A Short History and Overview of Healing Dance......................................2

The Healing Dance Trainings ......................................................................5

Finessing the Head ........................................................................................8

Principles of Sequence................................................................................13

Principles of Improvisation........................................................................17

Channeling...................................................................................................19

Presence........................................................................................................21

The Material in Summary..........................................................................22

The Material in Detail.................................................................................23

A Conversation with Marja Pijpers and Saskia van Rees......................40

A Conversation with Diane Tegtmeier......................................................52

Completion Assessment Form, Water Class Evaluation, Poolside Notes

Further articles about Healing Dance are available for free download at

Alexander's web site, www.healingdance.org and his original web site,

http://aquaticwritings.tripod.com. Several YouTube videos of Healing Dance

can be most easily searched under ÐGeorgeakopoulosÑ. Alexander may be

contacted directly at healingdance@hotmail.com , telephone in Germany 0049

7473 921838.

A Short History and Overview

of The Healing Dance

In 1990, while a resident at Harbin Hot Springs, Alexander studied Watsu from

its founder, Harold Dull. Following the course he began experimenting and

improvising in the Harbin warm pool, influenced by his background in dance,

by his experience as a practitioner of Trager Work, and by the qualities of water

itself. After studying WaterDance in 1993 from Arjana Brunschwiler, a new

spaciousness and three-dimensionality appeared in his experimental moves. By

then, Alexander had created a side branch of Watsu, something flowing and

dancing. Healing Dance, as the technique he innovated is now called, has had to

refine itself down from the sheer joy of movement to discover its full

therapeutic potential. Since 1999

Inika Sati Spence has collaborated

closely with him in defining and

growing the work into a distinct

technique. Mary Theri Thomas joined

the roster of teachers of Healing Dance

in 2003, having already made

significant contributions to its

development. Since 2007, Kathrin

GeorgeÓs perspective as a physical

therapist has brought further

refinements.

Healing Dance has many aspects, all based on the healing power of movement.

The practitioner establishes an empathetic connection with the receiver and is

trained to mirror any incipient kinetic impulses. Like an orchestra conductor,

he establishes a rhythmic field at the beginning of the session through his

breath, movement and state of mind. He looks for the rhythm of awareness in

each moment that allows the receiver to feel the psychological reverberations of

the movement in her being. Movement is understood as medicine and carefully

dosed, intermixed with restful pauses in quiet positional sanctuaries to allow for

integration of its effects. The practitioner ÒdancesÓ the receiver, who has an

experience of grace and beauty, sometimes leading to deeper emotional

releases. Healing Dance could be understood as silent music, consisting of

rhythmic impulses of pressure, touch and movement played upon the bodyÓs

proprioceptors. The dance is between the subliminal message within each

movement and the receiverÓs subconscious mind. That which has slowed down

or ceased to move within the psyche is inspired to awaken into playful

participation. Thus, the healing comes from within.

Healing DanceÓs wide variety of original techniques reflects how water and the

body naturally move together. Blocked energies are opened up by more than

thirty hydrodynamic waves and spirals, as well as various spatial mandalas in

the form of circles, figure 8Ós and releases that free and re-animate the body.

Healing Dance takes advantage of the full three-dimensionality of the water

with broad dynamic movements. A variety of advanced body mechanics

techniques such as moving by example, creative imbalance and traveling

through the pool help to create not only bigger movements, but also subtler and

more sensitive ones. The essence of Healing Dance is flow, freedom and

lightness. As the vocabulary of movements expands, students become more

confident to improvise and better respond to the needs of the receiver.

The first appeal of Healing Dance is to those who love water and stretching,

who wish to experience beauty and grace, and surrender to the power of

movement. More than any other aquatic technique, it is the Dance. It brings the

experience of physical freedom, especially poignant for the handicapped who

are unable to stand or walk. For the athlete, martial artist, swimmer, diver,

dancer and would-be dancer, the movements of Healing Dance are a delight and

an invitation to playfully participate by allowing their own movement impulses

expression. Healing DanceÓs waves with the receiver lying on her side are

beneficially disorienting and excellent for releasing holding patterns of a

psychological origin. These waves, with the multiple joint mobilization they

offer, are good for spinal problems; receivers often report that their backs feel

much better following a session. As receivers soon discover, there is much of

stillness and nurture in the Healing Dance, too, moments to expand into oneself

while being safely held.

About Alexander

Alexander came to the holistic arts following a 25-year career as a ballet and

modern dancer, teacher and choreographer. In 1980 he began the study of

holistic massage at the International School of Professional Bodywork in San

Diego, completing the 1000 Hour Massage Therapist Training in 1983. He

went on to become qualified as a Trager Practitioner in 1986, subsequently

studying with Milton Trager himself. In 1990 he became a Watsu Practitioner

at Harbin Hot Springs in northern California under the tutelage of Harold Dull,

the originator of Watsu. In 1993 he studied WaterDance from one of its

founders, Arjana Brunschwiler. He developed the techniques of the Healing

Dance in water and Flowing Touch Massage on land, also innovating an

advanced level to WaterDance. Alexander is a certified instructor of the

Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association, and for nine years taught at the

School of Shiatsu and Massage at Harbin Hot Springs. Alexander has led over

200 week-long 50-hour intensives in Anatomy, Massage, Barefoot Shiatsu,

Watsu, Healing Dance and WaterDance. Alexander presently leads trainings in

the US, Europe, Australia and Russia, teaching in English, German or

Portuguese as required. He has written over seventy-five articles on teaching

and aquatic bodywork available for free download at

http://aquaticwritings.tripod.com.

The Healing Dance ® Trainings

Healing Dance Introductory Weekend

This 16 hour weekend course is designed to acquaint participants with the

Healing Dance. The history, theory and applications of the technique are

covered first. Then, entering the pool, each participant is given a direct

experience of Healing Dance through receiving a mini-session. With games and

dance on land and in the water, body mechanics and body awareness are

emphasized. Students discover how to support and move their receiver in the

water. These skills enable them to learn a simple practice sequence that will

prepare them to take Healing Dance I.

Healing Dance I

In Healing Dance I the entire session takes place above the surface of the water,

yet it elicits many of the same responses experienced in an underwater session.

The giver enjoys the pleasure of her or his own dance, bringing the grace of

movement to the receiver. The form follows the natural tendencies of the body

moving in water in a variety of waves, circles and figure eightÓs with the legs

free to experience the sensation of the water flowing past. Positional

sanctuaries, releases, creative stretches, and transitions, including the Matador

and Vortex, are part of this level. Students learn the principles of relating and

mirroring, moving by example, generating a rhythmic field, and applying

advanced body mechanics to be able to travel smoothly across the pool to

create Ðvirtual currentsÑ.

Healing Dance II

Healing Dance II builds on the moves and positions already learned in Healing

Dance I and adds in spirals, some effective bodywork techniques and new

mini-sequences. These include Seaweed II for working the upper body, Come

Here! for its strong stretches and flying circles, more releases and the Easy

Eights, the tender, low key Chagal, the nurturing Klimt and some creative

stepwork. Also included in this class are exercises to help students adapt and

improvise in their work. Ideas for sequencing a Healing Dance session are

discussed, and the concept of channeling movement is explored. It delivers the

fullness of Healing Dance's surface repertoire giving participants the tools and

confidence to dance with their receivers.

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