Vision Spa Retreat & Aquapoetics with Sulis (Sara Firman)

Hi Sulis,

I'm leaving for the ATRI Symposium in 45 min.; so, my answer will be brief. I was using fabric in the water from something I learned at a symposium years earlier. I started attaching extra pieces of fabric to my pt (pool blankets to dry & wrap up in when they got out of the pool) when my aide said that they had a blanket someone made into a cape that I could use. I said, "great idea" get it. She said, "I was teasing". I said, "No, get it". Thus, FabriCaping was born. I came up with the word afterwards. I love it myself. I'm writing an article about it in more depth for the AWKA letter to be printed in the fall. I am producing and selling the capes. Would love to talk more with you later. Thanks for asking! I'll return on July 6.

It does help one to become more fluid with their movements. I like the way you described it in terms of flowing with the water. I just may use that this weekend when presenting the class on FabriCaping. Hopefully, soon I'll have a video of it on my website - www.waterspice.com. I'll let you know how things go with the class.

Thank you very much for the invite. I love being a part of any aquatic network as this is my most favorite passion in life. Helping people with the wonderful world of aquatic therapy.

June 2008 Here is the update on the Hungary Watsu Orphan Project.

It went extremely well with 4 volunteers for 5 hours working with 5 different houses (each house was home to 20 kids with professional round the clock shifts of parents) ranging in age from 3-24. Only 5 kids from each house came so the others felt left out. (Ages ranged in 9-15)

Deep emotions and visions came up for both children and watsu givers. At the moment the slide show and pictures of this event May 18 are waiting for permission to be shared with the public. They are concerned about singling out children in any publicity however they were open for group pictures and we are eager to share this breakthrough with other countries in a PR.

In a meeting June 15th of Hungarian Watsu 2 students) we voiced concerns, ideas and came to the conclusion to focus our efforts on one house over a period of 6 months starting September with monthly watsu sessions.

That would make 6 visits (one hour each way outside of Budapest), 7 volunteers watsuing approx 4-5 hours (45 min sessions) watsuing all the kids of the house including house parents and perhaps a psychologist working with them. There may be some fees for having a child psychologist involved to monitor and quantify things.

Some ideas of turning this into a professional research came up however we are keeping it a community project at this time.

There were no costs as the Orphan director was wife of the Spa Owner. They let them use the Spa for free 5 minutes away walking distance. Can travel expenses be re-imbursed for the volunteers for future visits?

Instead of building a site specific location there is a property with salt mineral spring water that can be made into a watsu retreat centre for the kids from all over Hungary, we proposed 2-3 days trips and retreats where we can open up to volunteers from all over the world top popularise this concept.

I made a suggestion that eventually if there is interest we can train the kids and adults to give to each others and make them self sufficient after the 6 months, they can plan activities to the Spa such as watsu. It seems that house parents are often keeping situations under control.

Meanwhile we can keep training more volunteers in Hungary, they are very excited about the positive feedback in our meeting at the orphanage where my Hungarian organizer Nandu translated, my co-ordinator Roland Farkas who initiated contact was there and 3 assistants : Ginny Marton, USA/ Brazil, Kristof Deneke, Germany and Jurgita Svediene, Lithuania as well as the Director of the Orphans of Komaron.

A proposal for these expenses, travel, psychologist and purchase of a center, in addition a training could be organized after the 6 months to bring these skills in house.
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Hi Sulis,
Thank you for inviting me to join Aquaticnet.
I have already contacted Andrea selzman and answered her interview. I am waiting for the article to be published.
What does it mean joining Team Aquaticnet? Could you please tell me a bit more about it?
Yifat

Sulis,
So good to see you here. I hope all is going well and I will see you sometime, somewhere in the world.
much love, water sister,
Inika

Sulis -
Thank you for the warm greeting! Wonderful to have an aquatic community, support, and share!

Hello Sulis,
As you suppose we know each other in İstanbul. I see that we are growing up(enlarging). Our aim is to be one of the best group that heal people in the water.
Thanks for your interest.
Sincerely

Sulis,
Thank you for the invitation to join the aquatic group. We do not teach Watsu at the School, teaching Massage Therapy keeps us busy! We do ,however, take our students to a pool for a class on aquatic massage as a pary of their hydrotherapy course, and we incourage therapists to take cont. education in aquatic work.