Looks like some serious updates are missing, as I mentioned earlier, this year has been fruitful for me as well as the aquatic therapy scenario in India. Two important steps have been climbed, I have become Watsu Practitioner and am registered under WABA now and can offer watsu Sessions. This was the first event of the year.

The second most important event was becoming the Member of International Aquatic therapy faculty and ability to use IATF logo in the courses happening in India. Also few hours of Halliwick therapy will also be recognized by IATF. It has been a wonderful journey so far, and will only become better now onwards. Waiting for An Aquatic therapy Pool to come up that will be all in one, Therapy, training and research center. Keeping fingers crossed until it is ready. All patients in India can start taking benefits once it gets established. And the education in India will start having some recognition at international level, though it is a small step.

This year has been very good for aquatic therapy, there were conferences and few awareness programs. Still further programs are on the way, will highlight the events that have happened in some time. Meanwhile after completing one of the basic workshop at Mumbai, the second Workshop is coming up again in Mumbai this October. The four day program will have clinical hands on with patients on the last day for understanding the benefits and challenges in aquatic therapy.

The workshop is again directed towards Physiotherapists and occupational therapists who want to start their career in Aquatic Therapy.

Workshops for the year 2014

It is pleasure to announce, the Workshops being held in India on Basic Aquatic therapy module 1. This is an effort to bring Aquatic Therapy In India in a systematic way. This year the workshop is going to be for four days with greater importance to project clinical application. The workshops are being held in Ahmadabad of Gujarat and Mumbai of Maharashtra.







All therapists in India can take advantage of this. Anybody needs more info can mail me at prashanth_c_g@yahoo.com. Also you can get in touch with the organizers. We will be doing two to three workshops at the most for this year to regulate quality and quantity of therapists !!

Welcoming 2014

The year 2013 has been a very busy year indeed, we concluded with the publication of article in Physiotimes on Autism. It gave me lot of learning, knowledge, aspirations and more friends. It brought me close to many people who were busy in their life all these years. It made me feel humble in front of larger things to achieve yet.

Wishing all a very Happy Happy and a lovely New Year, hereby welcome 2014 with all the challenges it can pose for the growth of Aquatic Therapy In India as well as personal growth. If I have not mentioned earlier, there is closed group established through the ever popular FaceBook to support all the people related with aquatic therapy in India. It is called "Aquatic Therapy Network of India" (ATNI). If you are a therapist willing to learn or contribute you can send in your request to be a member with a message how you are related with water works.

2014 appears to be a challenging year as there are lot of things that will have to happen, which will not be entirely in my hands. Will have to only wait for the outcomes. The first and the great news is I became a Watsu Practitioner and my name is entered in the Registry of WABA from India. It is one of the greatest pleasures to share. Also, it pleasantly appears that am the first Physiotherapist to have made it from India into the Registry. At one moment I felt the long duration of study since 4 years has come to an end and at the other realized I have just begun as a practitioner and the learning never ceases.

Thank you Watsu India and Thank you WABA

Some more links at the end of this page is added. There are various Organizations, Networks, Groups and Associations working towards Aquatic Therapy. It feels simply wonderful to see how the awareness is on in so many ways. Hope it will grow in India too.

I have updated my aquatic profile recently and made some changes in layout. Am planning to put some case pics shortly and also add more website links giving information on aquatic therapy for everyone

This year began with learning OBA and New Watsu, later a pre conference workshop was scheduled by the National Indian Association of Physiotherapy at the national conference at Goa. Unfortunately the program did not take place but, due to the promotion of conference activities the word did spread around for aquatic therapy. This was in Febraury

Then it was great time at Turkey conference on Aqua Evidence, and presentation of paper on this platform was a great boost to keep the work going on at India. This was in March.

After returning from conference, there were two back to back workshops scheduled on basic Aquatic therapy at Mumbai and later at Mysore. Both received wonderful response. This was in April. 

May had a wonderful family trip to Sikkim for almost half a month. A great Break. Following month i.e. June had the first workshop on Ai Chi Basic for the therapists, at Lonavla a picturesque place near Mumbai. Following months had another conference in Mysore. 

The third basic workshop was in Pune for therapists. This workshop had a person from A-Technologies presenting the intricacies of establishing a pool. This was in August. September gave me an opportunity to talk in a Conference at Delhi Neuraxis on aquatic Therapy organised by AIIMs and APMR Institutes. Am looking at another Ai Chi Program for corporate population. Another month to go.

October went on having some brainstorming for the article on Aquatics in Autism in Physiotimes. This should be coming in the next issue.

Meanwhile membership is growing in ATNI, Aquatic Therapy Nework of India. An indigenous way of preparing water dumbells was designed and the first shipment to an aquatic therapist was done. The technique is still evolving and may be will be ready by the year end. Also a Set of guidelines is getting prepared for therapists, pools and safety. Hope to have it ready by year end. A database of centers In India currently employing the pool for aquatic works is prepared and will be updated periodically. The next update on this list will be released shortly.

Phew I am really enjoying to see the changes and spirit going up. Plans have been laid to have a complete aquatic therapy center by mid of Next year. Hope I will have more to update before the year ends.