Individual Sessions
Passive receiving, interactive sessions, and alternative aquatic bodywork above and below warm water.
Dolphin Dance Healing
A dive into your inner dolphin.
A multifaceted aquatic and subaquatic exploration blending bodywork, dance, contact improvisation, and warm-water stillness on the Big Island of Hawaii.
WarmBody-temperature water
AboveSurface bodywork
BelowGuided underwater flow
The secret of the dolphin smile
Music, immersion, joyful play, creative movement, profound stillness, and soulful connection in a human pod.
Experiences
One practice, many forms.
Dolphin Dance can be received as an individual session, shared in a group pod, studied in workshops, or adapted for aquatic artists and retreat leaders.
Pod Experience
A non-verbal group experience with music, free-form movement, contact improvisation, stillness, and play.
Workshops
Intensives for students and practitioners exploring Dolphin Dance principles, flow, creativity, and adaptation.
The practice
Warm water turns movement into medicine.
Developed by Lilia Cangemi, Dolphin Dance Healing is an eclectic aquatic bodywork modality based on Shiatsu point work, Swedish and deep tissue massage, Trager relaxation principles, Reiki, Cranial-Sacral sensitivity, and hydrodynamic movement.
Sessions begin at the surface and may lead into the underwater world with nose clips, effortless breathing between air and water, and carefully guided immersion.
Explore aquatic bodyworkBenefits
Relaxation, expression, and connection.
The work invites the body to unwind while the water supports trust, creativity, and emotional release.
- Creates joy that restores inner health, energy, and vitality.
- Induces gratitude and ecstatic connection with life.
- Enhances caring, tenderness, and relationship quality.
- Deepens relationship with self, partner, family, and community.
- Helps resolve water, birth, and near-drowning trauma.
- Invites new paradigms around physical, emotional, and sexual abuse.
- May help release stress, insomnia, anxiety, depression, asthma, and affective disorders.
- Offers profound relaxation where body and soul can unwind and realign.
Lineage
Rooted in aquatic healing arts.
Dolphin Dance is inspired by Watsu, Waterdance, Healing Dance, dance improvisation, bodywork, and the spaciousness of warm water.
Shiatsu point work
Swedish and deep tissue massage
Trager relaxation principles
Reiki energetic connection
Cranial-sacral delicacy
Dance and underwater music
