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- My Aquatics Experience-in a nutshell is-
- With over 2500 hours of WABA-registered courses attended, assisted and taught, Lilia is a Watsu Therapist and Instructor, a Healing Dance Therapist and Instructor, a Waterdance practitioner, a Reiki Master, a Vivation breathwork professional, a Licensed Massage Therapist and the creator of Dolphin Dance and Quantum Leap Healing, of which she is a Therapist and Instructor. Lilia attended six years of Medical School at the Universita’ Statale di Milano and completed a Master’s in Journalism at the Istituto per la Formazione al Giornalismo, taking the Bar in 1985. She left Italy in 1986 and lived in Mexico, New Mexico, Colorado, Costa Rica and California before moving to Hawaii in 1998, where she worked as Principal Massage Therapist, Aquatic Body Worker and Dolphin Dance Pod Experience facilitator at the Spa of Kalani Oceanside Retreat for ten years. She is now the sponsoring therapist and Advanced Techniques instructor for massage apprentices at the Big Island Academy of Massage and the Alternative Healing Arts specialist for the Hawaii Naturopathic Retreat, where she focuses on the treatment of cancer, chronic diseases, and addiction. Her private practice includes teaching Dolphin Dance, Healing Dance, Watsu, Massage Foundation, Deep Lomi, Reiki, Energy Work, Quantum Leap Healing, Ballet, Acro Yoga, Contact Improv, Aerial and Modern.
Besides dancing internationally, she also directs, produces, conceives and choreographs multimedia performances, blending aerial, water, fire, poetry, video and acrobatics. Among many interests, she has studied and explored alternative psychotherapy, shamanism, anthropology, Hawaiian healing, quantum physics and spirituality.
- My area of expertise (as others see me)
- Dolphin Dance Creative Journey proposes an inner journey retracing a metaphorical birth from darkness to light, through immersion into the primordial elements, as the ocean water, the earth of a cave, the fire of the lava and the air of a sea arch. Innovative movement arts, massage, shamanism and aquatic healing are explored in an experiential and creative way, to develop presence, depth and clarity with self, fostering the inner balance that supports the therapeutic intuition and self confidence.
Non-traditional forms of session are experienced and revealed, with gentle guidance and preparation: two givers and a receiver, a couple and two therapists, interactivity with the receiver’s movement and unwinding, and so on.
The Pod Experience brings a group dimension to Dolphin Dance: it combines underwater music with individual and partnered dance, and group interactions both on the surface and underwater, blending sub-aquatic contact, biodanza, continuum, 5 rhythms, water acrobatics, authentic movement in an original synthesis that is both intimate and transcendent.
Dolphin Dance Above teaches the moves of the individual healing session on the surface, combining shiatsu, lomi, reiki, cranio-sacral, trager in warm water. From my experience as a professional dancer I developed the choreography with a particular focus on body mechanics for small practitioners, and for therapist longevity.
The session focuses on neck-shoulders and sacral release, and is extremely adaptable to any body types and conditions encountered in the work as a therapist. My long experience in the bodywork field was adapted to the fluid environment with the intention to create ease of touch and minimum effort. Strokes and techniques are applied seamlessly above and below the receiver’s body, enveloped by the mana of presence and the clarity of intent reached at a profound level of inner alignment, reflected in posture and heart-soul connection.
Dolphin Dance Below teaches the moves of the individual session underwater, with an emphasis on the awareness necessary to accompany the client’s breath and nurture the trust allowing the healing catharsis. The sub-aquatic choreography is designed to promote relaxation during the gradual submersions, introducing challenges to the passive body-mind that are easy to become acquainted with, so that the receiver is effortlessly brought to overcome instinctive panic due to remembered or forgotten traumas. The underwater sequence is composed of two main sections: the meditative one retracing prenatal sensations, birth experience, first breath, connection with the mother’s heart; and the lively one, where more complex moves are strung into mini sequences to recreate the dolphin playful freedom and the fluidity possible for spirit in human form.
Dolphin Dance Quantum Healing proposes tools of counseling which contribute to the integration of emotions, phobias and post-traumatic stress often emerging in the course of group or individual sessions. It offers instruction on special sessions designed to facilitate the release of the fear of water sometimes limiting the experience of a client, especially underwater. It combines my original version of acu-tapping, inspired by the Emotional Freedom Technique, and a sequence of steps involving the use of nose clips, unwinding, interactivity, dance and contact in warm water. It brings clients to receive a full session of Dolphin Dance Below or a complete Pod Experience in one and a half to two hours, even in severe cases of aquaphobia, and exhilarates them with the new possibilities opened up by overcoming so simply such deep anxieties as the fear of death, drowning, abuse, intimacy, breathing and living fully.
Quantum Leap Healing focuses also on the self-healing of the therapist in preparation to meeting clients, suggesting efficient methods for balanced grounding and quick collapse of core conflict issues. The combination of techniques and communication skills developed through refinement of self-awareness, compassionate wisdom and quantum consciousness are precious both on land and water sessions, and have been applied to hundreds of clients as well as very severe conditions, both physical, emotional and spiritual, with spectacularly fast and lasting results. Dolphin Dance Creative Journey proposes an inner journey retracing a metaphorical birth from darkness to light, through immersion into the primordial element. Innovative movement arts, massage, shamanism and aquatic healing are explored in an experiential and creative way, to develop presence, depth and clarity with self, fostering the inner balance that supports the therapeutic intuition and self confidence.
Non-traditional forms of session are experienced and revealed, with gentle guidance and preparation: two givers and a receiver, a couple and two therapists, interactivity with the receiver’s movement, unwinding, and so on.
The Pod Experience brings a group dimension to the aquatic world: it combines underwater music with individual and partnered dance, and group interactions both on the surface and underwater, blending sub-aquatic contact, biodanza, continuum, 5 rhythms, water acrobatics, authentic movement in an original synthesis that is both intimate and transcendent.
Aquatic Contact and the Pod Experience were developed by Lilia in 1995, held as a weekly activity at Kalani for several years and shared freely, inspiring variations in numerous countries.
Dolphin Dance Above teaches the moves of the individual healing session on the surface, combining shiatsu, lomi, reiki, cranio-sacral, trager in warm water. From my experience as a professional dancer I developed the choreography with a particular focus on body mechanics for small practitioners, and for therapist longevity.
The session focuses on neck-shoulders and sacral release, and is extremely adaptable to any body types and conditions encountered in the work as a therapist. My long experience in the bodywork field was adapted to the fluid environment with the intention to create ease of touch and minimum effort. Strokes and techniques are applied seamlessly above and below the receiver’s body, enveloped by the mana of presence and the clarity of intent reached at a profound level of inner alignment, reflected in posture and heart-soul connection.
Dolphin Dance Below teaches the moves of the individual session underwater, with an emphasis on the awareness necessary to accompany the client’s breath and nurture the trust allowing the healing catharsis. The sub-aquatic choreography is designed to promote relaxation during the gradual submersions, introducing challenges to the passive body-mind that are easy to become acquainted with, so that the receiver is effortlessly brought to overcome instinctive panic due to remembered or forgotten traumas. The underwater sequence is composed of two main sections: the meditative one retracing prenatal sensations, birth experience, first breath, connection with the mother’s heart; and the lively one, where more complex moves are strung into mini sequences to recreate the dolphin playful freedom and the fluidity possible for spirit in human form.
Dolphin Dance Quantum Healing proposes tools of counseling which contribute to the integration of emotions, phobias and post-traumatic stress often emerging in the course of group or individual sessions. It offers instruction on special sessions designed to facilitate the release of the fear of water sometimes limiting the experience of a client, especially underwater. It combines my original version of acu-tapping, inspired by the Emotional Freedom Technique, and a sequence of steps involving the use of nose clips, unwinding, interactivity, dance and contact in warm water.
Quantum Leap Healing focuses also on the self-healing of the therapist in preparation to meeting clients, suggesting efficient methods for balanced grounding and quick collapse of core conflict issues. The combination of techniques and communication skills developed through refinement of self-awareness, compassionate wisdom and quantum consciousness are precious both on land and water
- My current Aquatics related position is-
- Lilia moved to Hawaii in 1998, where she worked as Principal Massage Therapist, Aquatic Body Worker and Dolphin Dance Pod Experience facilitator at the Spa of Kalani Oceanside Retreat for ten years. She is now the sponsoring therapist and Advanced Techniques instructor for massage apprentices at the Big Island Academy of Massage and the Alternative Healing Arts specialist for the Hawaii Naturopathic Retreat, where she focuses on the treatment of cancer, chronic diseases, and addiction. Privately she practices and teaches Dolphin Dance, Healing Dance, Watsu, Massage Foundation, Deep Lomi, Reiki, Energy Work, Quantum Leap Healing, Ballet, Acro Yoga, Contact Improv, Aerial and Modern Dance.
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