Business Fit Magazine November 2019 Issue 2 | Page 38

Body
Remembering the Bliss of
Pre-Natal
Innocence
Watsu practitioner and massage therapist.
Michael de Glanville, looks at the connections
between our relationship with water and the
memories we have as a developing embryo
being totally immersed in the amniotic fluid
contained in the mother’s uterus.
There exists deep in the somatic core of the
human psyche, a fond memory of immersion
in water as being a sustaining, life giving
environment and a sensual, gentle, gravity free
support. Human origins were aquatic before the
evolutionary transition to survival on dry land.
Our primal cellular organisms were water borne
and obtained nourishment from the oxygen
component of the water in which they were
immersed.
Water has an energy which can calm us or vitalise
us. Some love to dip quietly into cool country
pools; others will frisk, vital and lively, under
natural tumbling cascades of mountain stream
water or swim wild and free in the sea. Who does
not delight to live in view of the ever-changing
blues and moods of the waves by the seashore?
Recognised or not, the fluid, sensual nature of
the water is there. The attraction of the water’s
energy is tangible. Our bodies are touched,
caressed and comforted by it, even if we are not
immersed in it.
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