Tantsu®

The same year Harold Dull started developing Watsu^® he created Tantsu in order to bring back onto land Watsu’s nurturing holding, and the joy of the movement freed when floating someone level with the heart, He developed a form with which practitioners could gradually build up the trust Harold assumed would be needed for their clients to fully benefit from Tanltsu's most powerful whole body holds. He has since discovered that those whole body holds themselves create that trust because of the safety that everyone feels in the holds' containment.

Harold recently developed the new Core Tantsu which starts with a whole body containment that makes it safe to go deep within as breathing connects and movements resonate through our bodies, sometimes spontaneous, sometimes exploratory and playful and creative, sometimes leading us into a deeper stillness than we have ever shared with another. There are no long sequences or points to memorize. Tantsu is being with someone without intention, breathing and listening with your whole body as you lean in or rock their back free, or stretch an arm or leg and, when called, pull the other arm or leg into the dance. No part of our being is left out of this dance that brings Watsu's Free Flow back on land..

Freed from the confines that esoteric interpretations place upon other somatic and spiritual paths, freed from any intention to heal or fix that can accompany bodywork, Tantsu is a new way to be with others, a new humanism, a way to access and share our creative joy in the interplay of breath, movement and stillness.

Order Harold's new book: Tantsu A Yoga of the Heart

The basic Core Tantsu that you can share with anybody can be learned in a weekend, or in a series of modules or in our Watsu Tantsu Explorer Path intensive which is an ideal introduction to both Tantsu and Watsu. Search classes below:

A session in the Core cradles can be seen in three consecutive U_tube videos:
Posterior Core Cradle 1... Posterior Core Cradle 2... Anterior Core Cradle