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WATSU® 3

50 CEU's

Instructed by:
Ahara Vatter, Senior WABA Instructor

August 17-22, 2025
(Sunday - Friday)
Register by emailing the instructor for more information:
Ahara Vatter: 303-808-9606
aharava1@hotmail.com

Dear water loving people,
I am excited about offering WATSU® 3 August 17-22 at Harbin Hot Springs, the birthplace of WATSU®. This is the first year of having WATSU® classes at Harbin since the Valley Fire in 2015. A special thanks to Harbin and the events coordinators for making this happen. It is a special honor to teach these first WATSU® classes at Harbin in 10 years. We had our first WATSU® class at Harbin in March. It was wonderful! Come be a part of the bringing WATSU® classes back to Harbin!
 
The class is being held in one if the Harbin Dome pool. Our opening circle starts in Dome 3 on land on Sunday August 17th at 8:30am. Please arrive by 8:20 am to finish finances and settle. We'll finish our first day at 6:15pm.
All five of the full days of class will start in the water at 8:30 am and end by 6:15 pm.
We will finish class on the last day, Friday August 22nd by 1:30 pm. Individual WATSU®3 demonstrations can happen on August 21st and early morning August 22nd.

Darja Havelkova from the Czech Republic will be co-teaching this class.
 
The class is limited to 10 students.
If you are interested, please let Ahara know and she can send you more details for the class and how to enroll.
 
The cost of the class is $885 dollars. There is a $265 deposit to hold your space in class which is included in the total. The total and deposit includes an aquatic pillow from the Aqua Therapy center of Santa Fe. If you already own one of their pillows, let me know and I will drop the $65 pillow fee from the deposit and from the total amount (the class is then $825 and the deposit is $200).

There is a request to stay on the Harbin property which makes getting to class more easeful and allows you to emerge in the Harbin experience
. If you are not staying on the Harbin property, there is a $50/day weekday and a $70/day weekend charge to come onto the property. The camping fee at Harbin is the same as the daily charge; the daily fee gives you the privilege to camp at Harbin. Please reserve camping or rooms as soon as possible as they are not being held for class attendees and will book out. If you would like to share a room with another student let Ahara know. Lodging at the Dome area is most convenient to our class pool at the Domes.

IN WATSU® 3, a 50-hour class, you will delve into
•    Free Flow
•    Pillow work
•    Different positions to use in your aquatic bodywork
•    Ways of working neck issues
•    Getting ready to become a WATSU® Practitioner setting up your practice.
•    The Nervous System and working with a Healthy Nervous System vs a Nervous System experiencing trauma.
•    The use of sound in the water using bowls and tuning forks.
•    Water Wrapping and Couples WATSU®

I look forward to welcoming you to WATSU® 3 at Harbin.
If you have any questions or concerns or just want to connect, please be in touch.
Many blessings, we look forward to what we can create together.
 
Ahara Vatter, Senior WABA Instructor

303-808-9606, aharava1@hotmail.com
Go to: Watsu.com, look under Instructors midway down the page for more information about Ahara and Darja.

Register for this workshop, then make your Harbin Hot Springs lodging or camping reservations at: https://harbin.org/reservations.


About Ahara Vatter
New Mexico - WABA Instructor of Watsu 1,2 & 3; Instructor of Healing Dance 1 & 2 and Healing Dance Underwater Basics, Polarity Life Coach, National Certified Medical Massage Therapist, Certified Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist. Ministers license (Center of Soulful Living). Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula and Instructor for Sacred Window School and Ayurved Sadhana. Co-developer and teacher of Soul Alchemy. Works with persons with trauma through Sustainable Love Healing & Training Institute.

Ahara is a Senior WABA Instructor. She teaches WATSU® 1, 2, 3 & Basic WATSU® and Healing Dance 1 & 2, Healing Dance® Underwater Basics, Healing Dance Relating & Mirroring & Intro to Healing Dance®. Ahara also teaches her own aquatic pillow and sound class. She teaches aquatic classes mostly in Colorado, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and North Carolina, but is happy to travel to other locations. Ahara has various skills in her background. She is a CMT as well as a Nationally Certified Medical Massage Therapist. She taught yoga for 25+ years and trained with Hawaiian Kahunas. For 12 years through 2020 Ahara worked with a team of practitioners in Santa Fe with people in life transitions and healing life traumas.

Ahara is a Biodynamic Craniosacral Practitioner and Polarity Life Coach. She is an Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula and Pancha Karma Specialist. She currently teaches PostPartum classes through Ayurved Sadhana School. She served on the WABA ESAC (Educational Standards Advisory Board) for 4 years and was chair on the WABR ethics committee for 8 years.

Ahara has a private practice in Santa Fe, NM. She studies Qi Ging and Dao Yin and enjoys cooking, traveling and the outdoors. See her website to learn more about her, her work and offerings. LiquidLightBodyworks.com

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