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HEALING TOUCH |
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relaxation and body awareness in water.
massage and aquatic handling of the body. meditation,
creative visualisation. breathing techniques and water
dance. |
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| Aqua Healing Touch is a gentle and loving method to
help all of those who are afraid or feeling uneasy of being in water. |
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| Aqua Healing Touch facilitates our awareness of how
we relate in an aquatic environment either in ocean waters or a swimming
pool. |
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| Aqua Healing Touch is not focused on swimming skills. |
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| Depending on the client's progress it can take several
sessions to become confident in water, to really enjoy getting the
face wet, even becoming playful under water. It's main focus is to
build up confidence in water and to bring a sense of freedom into
our aquatic experiences. |
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Aqua Healing Touch helps us
to reconnect with water.
Learn to trust water because it is here to support us.
Don't fight the water, become one with the water. |
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| Benefits of Aqua Healing Touch |
| Experiencing water
beyond fear
Exploring the element water on deeper levels
Releasing tension and stress from the body
Increasing the capacity of learning and co-ordinating
Stimulating deep breathing
Increasing energy
Activating the healing process
Improving sleeping patterns
Helping to let go of old patterns
Improving changes in life
Helping the body to remember its natural state of health
Expanding consciousness and facilitates spiritual awareness |
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| Cost |
| First session is on land - consultation and various
exercises. (£35) |
| £35 per pool session plus entrance. |
| £50 per session, when booked on the dates for extra warm pool sessions. |
| Book a course of special warm pool sessions, click here for dates. |
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| Testimonials |
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| JOHN'S STORY to help him with his parlysed leg |
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Thank you, thank you, thank you!" |
John R. writes, having come all the way from Plymouth June 2009 to book four water sessions in two days to help his paralysed leg and increasing the out breath under water.
" Yesterday morning was like a marvellous dream - I just wanted to go
under the water again and again.
On the way home, I wondered if being in water, and especially underwater, might be a good situation in which to experience 'satori'? I
know we can't create that state, but being absorbed in one's
surroundings and one's actions is a good basis.
( MY comment:Yes, satori surely can be achieved. Roger did, having had a session one night for an hour in the total darkness)"......I'm delighted to hear that, but not surprised as I did feel the boundary between myself and the water getting less definite yesterday morning. I think having no goggles or noseclip helped the effect. Maybe one day.........
When I am next in my local pool I'll try your suggestions and let you
know how it goes." |
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A day later, having been in his local swimming pool John reports:
" I went to the pool today and put some of your advice into practice.
First, breathing exercise and relaxation. There's a little toddlers' pool that connects with the main one by a step, which I was able to use
the same way as the steps at Boswedden. I did more of the same, but
lying face up in deeper water and lifting my arms to put my head under.
Then off to play underwater - twisting and turning face up and face
down. Much easier and more fun after the sessions with you! Really going
anywhere while submerged is still a problem, because as you know, my
upper body is very buoyant, especially when full of air. I may have an
answer, though - upside down breaststroke -
http://www.goswim.tv/entries/3664
I haven't yet got the knack of starting the stroke, from floating on my
back, but we'll see.
General benefits from your therapy - my arms, back, hips and the good
leg are much more flexible. I was having stiffness and pain in the back
and sides of my neck, but your massage of that area has cured it.
During the underwater phase of at least one session, you had me face
down about a foot or so under the surface, and pressed down strongly on
my back. I think that's been very beneficial."
Paralysed after after a severe car accident 20 years ago
Andy had weekly water massages for three months now.
"I find it very relaxing, especially for my muscles. They used to be very tied,but after the massage became very subtle and relaxed.
I tend to fall off into a sleep, it gives me calming effect all over, especially for the mind and the body. I would recommend this to anyone, whether disabled or ordinary. I certainly look forward to continue my weekly treats." |
| Andy Nutzlader. |
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| "I met Delphiris last year, when she was looking
for someone with a fear of water as part of her studies. My problem
was that, although I could swim quite well, I would panic, if water
splashed into my face. Delphiris worked with me in a physiotherapy
pool, which was very warm. First I practised putting my face in the
water on an out breath, to help me co-ordinating my breathing. I did
breathing exercises out of the water, wearing a nose clip, which I
then did in the pool using a clip and goggles. That progressed to
games, such as playing at being a dinosaur. I loved the classes, because
they were such fun. I had about eight sessions, by which time I could
do somersaults, without wearing the nose clip. Now I even enjoy swimming
in the sea". |
| Cindy Pearce. |
| Taken from "Fitness and Health". November
2001 issue, page 120. |
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"I had the pleasure and privilege of taking the Water Confidence and the Aqua Healing Touch with Delphiris. Until I had done this I never knew how lovely it was to be in the water and I will always be grateful to her for the loving treatment she gave me. I highly recommend her theraputic sessions to anyone."
Ainsley, Tregeseal, Cornwall (see his story below) |
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"I have a walking disability and once or twice a year I fly over to Dephiris in cornwall for water treatment and more she is a great healer"
Gerry Ellis, Dublin |
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| AINSLEY'S STORY |
| "HELP, I'M FRIGHTENED OF WATER". Ainsley’s story of becoming 'dolphin like'.
"I have never been in a swimming pool. I was drowned in at
least one other life and am terrified to lose the ground from under
my feet, particularly in the water. can’t bear to put my head
under water. Can you help me?”
After having met Ainsley on a dolphin oriented workshop he called
me months later – having been nudged by his hyperspace "dolphin
pod" to do something about his fear. I gave him a rough outline
how I could be working with him, releasing his fear of water and
find the joy in being caressed and supported by water. After only
three sessions and an insatiable will to progress Ainsley was for
the first time in the deep end of the swimming pool, under water,
totally spacing out. It felt to me he was going off into another
world, feeling totally safe.
Ainsley's progress: |
After the first session:
A little quote from my diary:
"I have
been wondering if, now that i have started the aqua healing sessions,
the various water issues I have been having will now end.
Over the years there have been many water things happening to me;
back in London a pipe under the bath leaked, the water heater leaked,
the toilet cistern leaked and the toilet bowl broke – in a different
toilet in the same house the cistern leaked. here in Cornwall the
seal around the bath leaked, the shower unit leaked, the walls leaked,
the window leaked. the toilet cistern valve broke and water leaked
down the walls, flooding the kitchen; is it my imagination or is there
a pattern here?"
Could it be that all I really needed to do was connect with the water
element and embrace it, take it into myself fully and accept it, just
so that it could stop having to shout at me?
After the second session:
"Thank you for your congratulations;
I really feel that I have truly accomplished something here, I never
thought that I would enter the water so willingly and, to be quite
honest, for all those years I could never see the point of immersing
myself in water - except to bathe and even then there were some parts
of me that would stay essentially dry."
After
the third session:
"I did not realise that I was so
far gone, if only I had realised how much fun being underwater was
I would have done this years ago. then again - if I had, then I would
not have found your connection and the loving assistance that you
are giving me. From that point of view I am glad not to have learned
before."
After the fifth session:
I sent Ainsley to have a pool session without me.
" Well
I did it! In the pool by myself without any aids of any kind, other
than goggles and nose clip. My lower end still has a tendency to sink
but I am getting the idea of using my legs and feet to propel myself
through the water.
I don't think I need any more water confidence sessions but I would
love to have at least one more water massage, I did miss that today." |
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Ainsley tells his story:
"I had never been in a swimming pool. When I was in the sea
the water did not pass my mid-thighs and once when I was sitting
in the water near the edge of a large pond my partner swam past
and the waves sent me into a panic which made me spend the next
fifteen minutes picking the mud out from under my fingernails. Even
having a shower had me in a panic situation if water went into my
ears.
Several meditations I undertook showed me that I had drowned in
at least two previous lives and I realised that this was keeping
me from wanting to enter any watery place: however, I did not feel
that I was actually missing out on anything.
Another workshop introduced me to the idea of a spiritual dolphin
pod-mate: she took me to places that I had never even dreamed about
and told me and showed me some beautiful things. Recently I attended
another workshop, this was dolphin related and my pod-mate took
me again into places that I found wonderful. Another attendee at
this workshop was Delphiris, whom I had met several times before
but there had been no "connection" between us, this time
however my pod-mate gave me a push and we talked for a while, I
found that there was a spiritual connection between us, the teacher
that I had been looking for was here with me. After this I had a
few other things to do but within three months I was contacting
Delphiris to ask if I could have the water confidence treatment
that she offered.
Delphiris gave me an outline of what she was going to offer me and
ask me to do; she insisted, quite correctly, that everything that
she said was only suggestion and not an order. So at no time did
I feel that I was "under pressure" to perform yet since
I had decided to gain the confidence to be in the water I really
wanted to get on with all of this work.
I was, of course, terrified
and in my first wet session this caused me to miss my footing on
the bottom step in the pool and I plunged into and was completely
immersed in the water. Delphiris said when she saw this that I had
taken myself to the second level of her training before she had
even given me the first. It was actually at this point that the
real fear vanished and I was left with only the residual nervousness
about entering the pool and the water.
Just a couple of weeks later there is something I would like to
quote from Delphiris. 'After only three sessions and an insatiable
will to progress Ainsley was for the first time in the deep end
of the swimming pool, under water, totally spacing out… it
felt to me he was going off into another world, feeling totally
safe.'
This was indeed how I felt; I really could not understand why I
had not related to water before and there was a real comfort involved
in being completely enclosed and almost cocooned by water. Delphiris
was there to protect me but she had to surface three times to breathe
while I was staying underwater. Over the next couple of weeks Delphiris
gave me a few new techniques to integrate the movements of my upper
body with my legs and....
This week I went to a private swimming pool alone, unsupervised
just to play in the water by myself, lovely. Thank you Delphiris,
for showing me what I can do if I just have the confidence and will. |
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| Read more about Ainsley on his new blog: |
| http://ainsley-dolphindancer.blogspot.com/ |
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