The Story of a Session
Standing, facing each other, in a pool full of warm water bathed in light, we close our eyes.
Suddenly, our attention is drawn inward and we are confronted with another set of senses: as we contact the skin, touch becomes all-important. With each breath and the slightest movement, the water circulates around our bodies in loving caress. It is as if this marvelous touch brings us to the very doors of “Being”.
Together, we breathe: slowly, deeply, and consciously as two musical instruments finely tuned. There is no precipitation. Breathing is restored to its fundamental place, the breath of the Divine, the Essence of the Great All. This solid link of profound confidence, that must be created, is now woven. I breath with the other; I welcome her rhythm; I understand her as our bodies intertwine, as our breath becomes One. She guides me and I allow myself to be guided as I take one step away from my ego. No one is observing, there is only the observed. There is no one who feels, only the felt. Here is emptiness and the plenitude of the empty.
Now the other may let go, held in my arms, supported by the water, floating in the Universe. When one recognizes this instinctively and one allows it, one becomes a microcosm of the Universe, the Universal that is always there, in ones inner being – A drop of Consciousness in the great ocean of the Supreme Consciousness. All is one! We breathe as one, synchronized, the coming and going, joined by the breath of the Universe, the coming and going.
I am simply there, fully attentive. Nothing goes unnoticed: each sensation of the body, each feeling, each movement, each sound; I welcome it all. I accompany myself; I accompany the other, in this instant, all of my senses: my hands, my body, my spirit lend service. Every moment reveals its energy and with it its light, love, and divine Consciousness… nothing to seek, nothing to wait for. All is in the here and now.
She permits me to take her under the water, there where it is no longer possible to breath normally. I help her to connect with her original confidence, in taking her delicately and intuitively under the water and then to the air in a natural rhythm according to her needs. She is shown that here the world, in this water, in my arms, is reassuring. This small universe in globed in the great is, in every moment supportive, confidence inspiring. A relation of sacred healing may be created.
She now begins to adapt to the creation of my movements; undulating movements, wandering, serpentine. The dance alternates between timeless slowness and acceleration, carried by the thread of fluidity. The seed of change, of letting go, of expansion begins to germinate. The spirit opens. Energy acts of it own accord. Cellular memory is activated. The soul returns to its original state of peacefulness, simplicity and being in the moment.
Like a piece of music composed of sounds that rise and descend, that vibrate and resonate, we as well compose our own music. Our two qualities of body, spirit and soul dance their unique dance that can only flower in the uniqueness of the moment.
In the cycle of movements born in the great profundity of two souls that dance in harmony, calm is progressively installed taking its place. We are completely open and naked in our being, touched both inside and out by the fine veils of water. We feel completely protected in the tender and reassuring arms of the aquatic womb. All hardness in our being is dissolved; the rigid and the fixed, the density and sharp corners are transformed into joy and softness.
The dance has found its end naturally. We look deeply into each other’s eyes. The feeling in our souls is altered as well as our own gaze. In healing ourselves we heal the world; you and I, a part of the great All on our sacred path in light and beauty.
<blockquote>Note:
Each WATA session follows its own rhythms, its own codes. What is above described is often recounted and expressed after a session. It goes without saying that there are sometimes tears, some painful sensations, fears and other emotions that come to the surface. All of this, is part of the path to healing and liberation of ancient wounds and pains that each one carries in ones inner being.
When WATA is practiced with consciousness and sensitivity, it offers a magnificent opportunity to live states of surrender without entering into passivity or controlled activity. The giver as the receiver may together celebrate a “letting go” in the present moment with what is.</blockquote>