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Eyewitness News' Lauren Glassberg

            What's A Watsu Pool? …

(New York-WABC, July 20, 2005) -

Eyewitness News report Lauren Glassberg has the story…

Fuad Osceola, the Watsu practitioner showed me just how the Watsu pool works.

First Fuad helped me relax so I could lie back and float. With the help of flotation devices and the water's high salt content - floating was easy.

I almost lose my sense of time, space and touch. Then I stretched, turned, and was given a glorious Shiatsu massage….

 

 

The Boston Globe Magazine

BY MOPSY STRANGE KENNEDY

 

              ROCK-A-BYE GROWNUP

Watsu is a form of massage and movements in water.

Fuad Osceola  L.M.T, C.M.T., M.Ed. practices in a specialized pool or in your own pool.

 

Watsu, a combination of  “water “ and  “shiatsu” involves an aquatic experience that makes you wonder why you ever foolishly left that bygone paradise of the womb.  Fuad Osceola, a Watsu practitioner, meets you in a cozy-warm 96-degree pool.  With an unthreatening demeanor, he takes you into his arms and initiates a mutual deep breathing, inhaling while he lifts you and exhaling as he lowers you.  Then, as you float receptively, this liquid,-suspended Fred Astaire initiates motions that seamlessly combine lateral flexion with vertical movements.  Stretching and continuous movement make you feel uncannily, pool-fillingly tall.  Osceola even incorporates some acupressure massage without breaking the flow.

Watsu incorporates both good, non-clutching connection and un-wounding separation in a way that offers pleasant metaphors for life on land.  “Watsu makes people bloom like a flower” says Fuad.

 

 

New York Times Magazine

THE REMIX

 

                 Watsu Me

FLOAT BACK . . . BACK . . .BACK . . BACK

                AND YOU’RE IN YOUR MOMMY’S WOMB. AH.

 

Do hot-stone massages leave you cold?  Is Lomi-Lomi over-over?  Jaded spa-goers may want to consider Watsu, the aquatic body work making a splash… The floating massage lasts an hour and takes place in a small, heated salinated pool, a womblike environment you share with your instructor ( mine was a serene man who calls himself Fuad).  The session begins with the two of you eyeballing each other until you’re comfortable enough for him to cuddle you with your eyes closed.  Then he gently spins you around the water like a laundry spin cycle.  Watsu does away with the pull of gravity, and proponents claim it reduces tension and pain.  It’s also meant to be a healing process in which you bond with your instructor, who can sometimes unlock childhood memories.  I found the flowing movements and mild manipulation calming...

 

 

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