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Aqua Prima
S.P.A.
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The embodiment of care and flow
Our Vision and Philosophy involves caring for both our individual self and our broader + collective Self
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Our journeys to health and wellness is not possible without communities and ecologies of Care.
With water + bliss + you,
we can co-create the sustainable, healthy, and whole land+scapes and water+scapes of wellness around the world.
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S.P.A. Aqua Prima is a water+scape of wellness.
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Nestled in the quiet suburbs of Southwest Calgary, our first space and studio is at Southland & Elbow Drive. We dedicate our home to our journeys of healing in and with water...
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Here, we introduce and enrich our Massage Therapy Clinic's repertoire to include two modalities in hydrotherapy and aquatic bodywork i.e.
Watsu (Water + Shiatsu created by Harold Dull) and
Water Release Therapy (assisted yoga in water created by Diane Feingold).
More importantly, here we (re)introduce water as a nurturing and connective place for profound relaxation, restoration, strengthening, and healing, and as perhaps, how you have always known it from before you were even born...
Water is a supportive and expansive world where we can be fluid ourselves --- to be the very essence of flow.
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In this soft yet robust universe, we can find lightness, unprecedented levels of relaxation, release, connections, and perhaps, a sense of freedom and connection to the broader world...
Masaru Emoto wrote when published the first pictures of frozen water crystals,
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"The messages from water are telling us to look inside ourselves."
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Because in the words of Loren Eiseley, anthropologist, philosopher, and natural science writer:
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"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water."
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Because. we. are. water.
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I hope to meet you in the waters very soon.
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Trina
Yoga inspired
Aquatic Bodywork
At the very least, aquatic bodywork such as Watsu and WRT Water Release Therapy:
Free the body of the bonds of gravity as the body-temperature
water supports and enamors us...
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The sympathetic, "fight or flight" nervous system is overridden by the parasympathetic nervous system. There is no harm. There is no threat...
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The breath deepens...
The digestive system fires up...
The body is allowed to restore "for long term survival"...
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The spine is stimulated gently, and then the rest of the joints in the body...
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The muscles release tension and thus, are ready and most safely
able to receive massages that increase circulation and encourages tissue repair and healing...
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Flexibility exercises are introduced as the body and the mind fully relaxes...
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A sense of flow is felt, where the beginnings and ends of movement are blurred...
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Fluidity is embodied.
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And our journey has just begun...
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