SOMATIC
WATER
THERAPY

RESTORE MIND BODY AND SPIRIT

"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.”

― Bruce Lee

WRT Water Release Therapy- is an aquatic healing art with deep roots in the stillness of basic Watsu, the joyful bliss of water dance, deep presence, breath work, and yoga.

AQUATIC THERAPY

Aquatic therapy is a gentle yet profound form of holistic bodywork rooted in Water Release Therapy, Janzu and elements of Watsu. In the warmth of 95-degree-water, your body becomes weightless, your mind quiets and a dream-like journey can unfold.

During a session, you are cradled and supported, moved through the water with flowing stretches, soothing massage, acupressure and mindful presence. Freed from the forces of gravity, your body can experience more movement and release long-held tension from physical, emotional and energetic patterns. You may also be gently guided beneath the surface, where time and weight seem to disappear, opening the way for deeper release and transformation.

It becomes the giver's (practitioner) complete focus to tune in with the receiver to support and encourage deep relaxation. With the calming effects of slow movement and rhythmic breathing, one’s mind, body and spirit will find itself free from the bounds of gravity and weightless, reconnecting with the joy of one's essential nature and what many describe as "coming home".

Water Release Therapy is suitable for everyone young and old, whether you suffer from physical or emotional pain, as a therapy or to relieve daily stress.

“… neuroscientists and psychologists are now producing research data which backs up the awe and wonder regarding water. Our brains are hardwired to react positively to water. In that being near it or in it can calm and connect us, increase motivation and insight, and even heal what’s broken. 'This is water.'”

Blue Mind by Wallace Nichols forward by Celine Cousteau

You are water

I’m water

we’re all water in different containers

that’s why it’s so easy to meet

someday we’ll evaporate together.”

― Yoko Ono

Benefits

BENEFITS

There are many clinically proven benefits of Water therapy: relaxation, reduced pain, stress, fatigue, increased energy, increased range of motion, improved awareness, breathing and circulation. This modality can also benefit recovery and release of emotional issues for example: trauma, grief, fear, and abuse.

Water therapy can also improve chronic back, neck, shoulder and hip issues. This healing art can be beneficial in response to stroke recovery, addiction, fibromyalgia, Parkinson’s, low energy, sleeping problems, arthritis, PTSD, depression, anxiety, chronic fatigue, and can assist with Asperger’s and Autism Spectrum Disorders, discomforts of pregnancy (at all stages), trust issues and fear of water.

About

ABOUT LAUREN

Following the flow

I first discovered the art of aquatic therapy in 2009, and from that first moment, I knew I had found home - a place where the weight of life could dissolve and body, mind and spirit were free to simply be.

Since then, I have immersed myself in Watsu, Water Release Therapy and Janzu, expanding my practice while learning to listen to the water’s quiet wisdom and its infinite capacity for healing. My work blends these aquatic modalities into somatic healing sessions that meet each person where they are.

I have spent the past twelve years practicing this work, living in both Los Angeles and Costa Rica and expanding my practice through travels in Mexico and Brazil, where I’ve connected with teachers, communities and the waters that continue to shape my work. I am also a student of the guitar and song, bringing music into moments of care and connection when the space calls for it.

Guided by breath, presence and an open heart, I hold a supportive, consent-based space for each unique journey that unfolds in the water.

Contact

CONTACT

”...They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

Lauren is very fortunate to have access to beautiful healing waters in Los Angeles close to the west side and valley. In-home sessions are available if pool and heating criteria are possible. Please contact Lauren directly for local pool information, rates and availability. Lauren is available to travel to waters near or far for retreats, be it for yoga, women’s groups, plant medicine and wellness - all are possible options. Where happy water flows, Lauren goes.

Laurenwrtla@gmail.com

323-533-5937

Testimonals

TESTIMONIALS

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.” – Loren Eiseley

I think I’d have to go with profound. Profound, as in the 70’s expression

“deep”. WRT is deeply effective. After trying it once, I had to do a double-take. Could it have really been that good? Yes.

Like many, I have a highly demanding and often stressful job. Home life has its issues. My body bears the burdens of a lifetime of exertion. I look for balance, as time permits.

Driving home can undo an hour massage in 15 minutes. Having a two-hour massage at home is good, until the next day, about 3pm. Acupuncture gets me 45 minutes of blissful sedation, yet it is difficult to locate the benefits an hour afterward. I can run for three miles and feel the endorphins for the day. I can hike for an hour and feel lifted for two more. But WRT is crazy far-reaching. Bumper to bumper on the 405, post-session is tranquility.

The next day’s onslaught rolls right off me, all day long. Two days later, still undaunted. I find it difficult to get to that point of sizzle; I am less frazzled for all of a week, even at the harshest of times. There is a happy place I can get to in a WRT session, which was hard to find and difficult to keep before. It instills a calmness that is hard to break. Like a distillation flowing backward, stress is broken up and dissolved in the water. Of course…

Tangi - LA

My experience with water therapy has been profoundly deep, meditative and cathartic. Lauren is an experienced and intuitive WRT provider. I am a practitioner of meditation. I find Lauren’s ability to maneuver my body through the healing warm salt water allows my blockages of energy and tissue tightness to be released. Allowing me to enter into a deep state of meditation that was absolutely blissful, finding stillness in my mind.

I am a trauma survivor and, as many know, trauma registers in the same place of the brain where emotional pain and physical pain reside. This practice allowed the gentle opening and receiving of healing.

Michelle - LA

Shock and grief have had an overwhelming impact on my physical being. Systems were kicked into auto drive, merely existing without feeling a physical connection to the auto mechanics. A weight was placed directly on my chest, limiting the depth of my breath. I existed in this state for many months; my daily exercise and meditation brought only temporary relief. Lauren has provided a path with WRT, which has, in turn, opened my heart and mind and allowed me to find freedom again in my being. I can finally breathe again.

Lauren brings a calm and revitalizing spirit with her to the water. She has granted me the healing effects of WRT. It has been an honor to practice WRT with Lauren as my guide, and I will remain forever grateful.

Gaby - LA