Aquatic Therapy
TRAUMA
It is now recognised that trauma resides in the body and nervous system, and that healing practices such as Aquatic Therapy that incorporate movement and touch can amplify the benefits of traditional psychology and psychotherapy. It invites a sense of freedom and comfort in the body, a relaxing of the nervous system and an experience of feeling safe, held and witnessed by the Practitioner. All this builds capacity in the body for change. For repatterning the traumatic experience into something more life affirming. Rebecca’s Aquatic Therapy offering is deeply informed by Polyvagal Theory, the research of Bessel Van Der Kolk and Attachment theory. She collaborates closely with other mental health care professionals.
INTEGRATION
The warm water is a potent environment for integrating peak spiritual and emotional experiences. This may include medicine journeys. The water offers safety, and deep relaxation to the nervous system. In this environment, supported by movement, touch and the practitioner as witness, the body is able to move with or release any disruptive energy. This can be profoundly healing, enabling wisdom and insight to be integrated and embodied into everyday life and relationships.
“The water's gifts are profound, offering learning and healing around trust, surrender, softening, fear, intimacy, creative flow, birth, death, our interconnectedness and receiving greater love. As a guide, I hold a space of compassion and emergence inviting you to connect deeply with your felt experience in this moment. From that place so much is revealed.”
TRAUMA
It is now recognised that trauma resides in the body and nervous system, and that healing practices such as Aquatic Therapy that incorporate movement and touch can amplify the benefits of traditional psychology and psychotherapy. It invites a sense of freedom and comfort in the body, a relaxing of the nervous system and an experience of feeling safe, held and witnessed by the Practitioner. All this builds capacity in the body for change. For repatterning the traumatic experience into something more life affirming. Rebecca’s Aquatic Therapy offering is deeply informed by Polyvagal Theory, the research of Bessel Van Der Kolk and Attachment theory. She collaborates closely with other mental health care professionals.
INTEGRATION
The warm water is a potent environment for integrating peak spiritual and emotional experiences. This may include medicine journeys. The water offers safety, and deep relaxation to the nervous system. In this environment, supported by movement, touch and the practitioner as witness, the body is able to move with or release any disruptive energy. This can be profoundly healing, enabling wisdom and insight to be integrated and embodied into everyday life and relationships.
“The water's gifts are profound, offering learning and healing around trust, surrender, softening, fear, intimacy, creative flow, birth, death, our interconnectedness and receiving greater love. As a guide, I hold a space of compassion and emergence inviting you to connect deeply with your felt experience in this moment. From that place so much is revealed.”
Services
Multiple sessions are suggested for those who want a deeper experience of the healing and transformative potential of Aquatic Therapy.
Rebecca offers sessions in Melbourne VIC and the Sunshine Coast QLD. See booking calendar for specific availability.
MELBOURNE VIC
Hawthorn Aquatic Centre located at Grace St Hawthorn 3122, Melbourne, Australia.
SUNSHINE COAST QLD
Maroochydoore located at Fishermans Rd Kuluin, 4558, QLD, Australia.
Cooroibah - address provided at time of booking
Sessions are conducted in a spacious, therapeutic pool heated to 34°C. Day, evening and weekend times are available. It’s suggested that you allow space for reflection and integration after your session.
The water is love.
water – ping
“What a blessing that my yoga teacher introduced me to Rebecca. My mother almost cancelled her overseas visit to Melbourne due to the intense pain in her lower back and legs. As an active 82 year old who regularly swam and played tennis, the pain had been debilitating. Just one session with Rebecca and she truly experienced calm and learnt how to breathe deeply. For the next few days, there was only a hint of pain remaining. She was standing up straighter and felt freedom when walking.”
Ping
water – gurudaya
“The session allowed me, in a safe and supported way, to face many of my core fears in life. I went beyond my lack of trust and need for control. It facilitated an experience in which I softened and completely let go.”
Gurudaya
water – sam
“A number of serious shoulder injuries over the last ten years have resulted in a shoulder so damaged and affected by arthritis I now require a shoulder replacement. The almost ‘other worldly’ experience of an aquatic therapy session has enabled me to move my shoulder and reduce my pain levels. In addition, I have found the other therapies I have been using to become more effective and results more profound.”
Sam
water – gayle
“Initially I was nervous at the prospect of floating for so long in a pool. My anxiety just fell away as Rebecca gently and lovingly supported me through the whole process, and I gradually lost my awareness of time and space and experienced a deep meditative state.”
Gayle
water – justin
“My first aquatic therapy session with Rebecca was the most relaxed and calm that I have ever found myself. From the very start I could feel my breathing slowing, each breath becoming deeper and smoother. Feeling so relaxed and comfortable in the warm water made me concentrate on nothing but breathing. The result was a total state of bliss.”
Justin