Carolyn Nash is owner of Body-Mind Aquatics, as well as an aquatic therapist, theta healer and swim coach.  In 2006, Carolyn developed a unique aquatic program called Body-Mind Swimming.  Through her passion to integrate Eastern philosophies into swimming, Body-Mind Aquatics was born.  Since her first program, she has branched out to more integrative aquatic programs that fuse the healing arts into practices in the water.

She is a certified aquatic instructor with the National Water Fitness Association, Arthritis Foundation and the Red Cross, with 17 years of swim instruction experience and training in body-mind practices & Transpersonal Counseling Psychology.  In addition, she is a certified Theta Healer^TM, and currently completing her WATSU therapist certification.  For more than 12 years, she trained intensely as a competitive swimmer and could swim before she could walk.  Now she passes on her fish-like skills and passion for the water. 

Through her life "in the water," Carolyn came to discover an awesome inner power that occurs when the mind, body and spirit are in harmony.  In sports, this is often termed as the “Zone"; in the East, it is called beingness.  While experiencing the “Zone” in competition, she noticed that she performed record breaking times and personal bests with effortless ease and joy.  In fact, she would finish these races with more energy than she started.  In a “normal” race experience, she would put more than 100% and finish exhausted and with slower times.  She tried to reproduce the “zone” experience, but it appeared to be elusive and random.  As she looked for answers to this phenomenon, she discovered that the meditative Eastern arts focus on experiencing this oneness. 

Carolyn also studied a masters program called Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, which integrates spirituality with psychotherapy.  While in school she further learned about many new integrative disciplines, including Somatic Psychotherapy (Body-Centered), Eco-therapy or Wilderness Therapy, Music Therapy and Art Therapy.

In her growing and changing relationship with her body and exercise, Carolyn went through a period of time that she had a love/hate kind of relationship with exercise.  Resistance arose out of the remembrance of the intense pain, stress and tiredness of training, yet the joys of swimming still flowed in her blood.  So, she began running more often and enjoying the “runner’s High” as a type of “zone” experience.  The intensity of training eventually led to knee injuries and inner health imbalances, which led her to stop exercising and running. 

It was in this place that she discovered Body, Mind Sports and began rehabilitating her knees and body with the practice as well as with yoga and pilates.  The yoga-lates and Body-Mind Sports philosophies taught her how to enjoy the present moment in exercise by exercising at the edge of comfort rather than pushing the body. 

The journey has wide with many turns in it, but eventually thing came together.  Discovering WATSU and other forms of aquatic therapy that allow people to deeply relax has helped her learn about the key role the nervous system plays in experiencing life in the "Zone" or a life a bliss, passion and peace.  It can be difficult to enjoy or say yes to the present moment to find that bliss, but through the healing and teaching of water, Carolyn has learned that having a powerful experience of relaxation, love and nurturing through WATSU and Aquatic Healing Therapy allows her to live that way more and more when she is not floating.  Then the keys can be put into action and the "Zone" experienced more and more.