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在巴厘瑜伽节前的教师聚会上，朋友向我推荐了一位白衣清瘦的男子，他卷曲的头发碧蓝的眼睛，翩翩风度让人印象深刻，离别时他说：“Ronan, Make sure you come to the pool!” 朋友后来说他是教授watsu的老师，我当时不知道watsu是什么，只知道这玩意跟水有关系。

我对水的情感是比较复杂的，从小对水有本能的恐惧，小学二年级之前都不敢洗淋浴，每当水流过眼睛和鼻子时内心便升起难以抗拒的恐惧和不安。一次暑假去舅舅家玩时，看到堂弟洗着淋浴笑嘻嘻的跟我说话，那一刻我才破处了一部分心理障碍。我自认为有运动天赋，任何运动都一学就会，唯独游泳花了最长的时间，尤其在深水区时，看着深蓝的水体内心就难以名状的慌张揪紧，气息也会散乱，自己内在对水的恐惧一直都未根除。到初中毕业才在大海里进一步客服了对水的恐惧，学会了游泳。那是在涨潮时，我站在齐胸深的海水中，每个浪都会高出我至少两头，所以每次浪打来我都如临大敌，每次要奋力的跳起，手脚并用的扑腾几下....大约四十分钟后，我发现自己可以一直浮在水面。对水的恐惧算是消除了，但也说不上很享受在水中的感觉，即便会了游泳，内心深处还是有一点紧张！

大会期间课程精彩纷呈，同一时段有好多不同的课程，只恨自己分身乏术。大会都进行一半了，总能听到朋友们说“Go to the pool,man! Join Michael's class.This is the class you don't wanna miss!” 他们都说上Watsu课超级放松，感觉棒极了！终于这些外在的声音和内在的声音形成呼应，几天下来自己已然连续上了10多堂课，尤其来巴厘岛后流汗量超多，体能消耗很大，确实需要休息了。终于在大会第3天的上午我来到了池边，感受人生第一堂Watsu课程:

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穿白衣的便是Michael老师，戴黑色帽子的是Satya老师，他们的Watsu课程让我受益匪浅

课程的开始部分是在岸上进行的，老师简要介绍了Watsu的历史、安全要点、以及在水中练习的步骤。Watsu是Water和Shiatsu构成的合成词，可以大致译成水中按摩。闲言少叙，直接说下水后的步骤。先给伙伴在双腿绑上漂浮带，然后离开池边面对面的站好，调整呼吸到同步的状态；然后从面对伙伴的方向侧上步来到其身旁，用臂弯托着对方的后脑枕骨，另一只手托着骶骨。这样就完成了第一个标准watsu动作--水中平躺漂浮。由于水的浮力作用，平躺的人周身肌肉可以完全放松，脊柱在水平向得到了充分的伸展。

很奇妙的是，平躺在水中时耳朵是在水面下，外面的声音需要通过水的震动才能传到耳内，外面的声音很是模糊；有趣的是，身体内的声音反而很容易被自己听到，尤其是呼吸声以及细微的心跳声。这种感觉既陌生又熟悉，同学们在温暖的光中水中放松着、伸展着、蜷缩着、扭转着，始终被伙伴温和的双手支撑保护着，内心非常的安定，好似重回母亲的子宫（好多朋友在体验Watsu课程后也不约而同的用了这个比喻），睁开眼睛后发现周围的一切都是那么清新美好，好似重生一般！我融化在光与水中，我即是光，我即是水；我在光与水中获得了最美的享受！

以下内容节选自网络：（实在翻不动了，请同学们见谅：）

下文主要谈的是watsu的发展历史以及它的功效和益处，概括讲就是说Watsu非常好，大家都来试试：）

Since 1980 when Harold Dull first floated and stretched people in warm water and started developing Watsu, the number of those that benefit from it continues to grow. Today, in more than 40 countries, Watsu is proving its effectiveness with chronic pain and a widening range of conditions. It has been welcomed as a primary modality in Rehabilitation by Aquatic Therapists and is taught in universities around the world. In addition to the physical benefits derived from the movements and stretches warm water facilitates, Watsu's power to reduce stress underlies both its effectiveness with those conditions in which stress is implicated and its growing popularity among the general public.

The greater sense of connection that most feel with Watsu results from the fact that in order to be moved and stretched in a Watsu you must be floated in someone's arms. Our trainings focus on how to make a safe enough place for everyone to let go in our arms. The Watsuer learns to connect all the movements and stretches to the breathing of those they float. Because every level of our being can be effected in a Watsu, they also learn to not try to lead anyone into any particular level or state, but to just be with them.

Watsu promotes a deep state of relaxation with dramatic changes in the autonomic nervous system. Through quieting the sympathetic and enhancing the parasympathetic nervous systems, Watsu has profound effects on the neuromuscular system. The sympatholytic effects of Watsu lead to enhancement of the parasympathetic nervous system. Physiological changes then occur throughout the body. These changes may include:

• Decreased heart rate.
• Decreased rate of respiration
• Increased depth of respiration
• Increased peripheral vasodilatation
• Increased smooth muscle activity (digestion)
• Decreased activation of striated muscles (skeletal)
• Decreased spasticity
• Decreased muscle spasm
• Decreased Reticular Activating System activity
• Enhanced immune system response

Watsu helps decrease muscle tension and increase range of motion. The support of the water provides relief from compression forces in the joints. The movements through the water provide gentle stretching into all ranges for the spine and extremities while these joints are unloaded.

Clients report decreased pain as Watsu decreases their muscle spasm and muscle guarding, increases their range of motion, and promotes profound relaxation. Many clients also report a decrease in their emotional pain.

Therapists utilizing Watsu as part of their aquatic therapy treatment programs report the following improvements in their clients:

1. Immediate Benefits With First Session

• increased range of motion
• increased muscle relaxation
• decreased muscle spasm
• decreased spasticity
• decreased pain

2. Long-term Benefits After Multiple Sessions

• improved sleep patterns
• improved digestion
• improved healing and immune system response
• greater decreases in pain
• decreased anxiety
• many clients report a decrease in their emotional pain

Watsu is being incorporated into aquatic therapy treatment programs in hospitals, clinics and rehabilitation centers around the world. Therapists are impressed by the benefits for so many of their clients. Some of the many populations who have benefited include those with

• traumatic brain injury
• spinal cord injury
• strokes
• Parkinson’s Disease
• arthritis
• cerebral palsy
• chronic pain
• fibromyalgia
• ankylosing spondylitis
• post mastectomy
• post thoracic surgery
• post traumatic stress disorder.

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