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\n\t\t\tYou are not a drop in the ocean, you are the ocean in a single drop. – Rumi\t<\/h1>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\"\"\n\t<\/figure>\n\tThis work lives at the thresholds where water meets land, where movement becomes listening, and where the body remembers itself as part of the living world. Through ecosomatics, mythopoetics, yoga therapy, aquatic practice, expressive arts, and immersive learning experiences, I create spaces for people to reconnect with sensation, imagination, relationship, and the deeper currents moving beneath everyday life.\n
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\n\t\t\tWelcome\t<\/h1>\n\tI sit at the crossroads of academic inquiry and body-based knowing, and draw from yoga therapy, ecosomatics, mythopoetics, expressive arts and aquatic practice to open spaces of deep listening, relational intimacy, and felt meaning. Mythic meaning and somatic remembering are invited back online, restoring a sense of right relationship with the human and more-than-human world.\nThis is a practice of crossing and recrossing thresholds, of learning to be moved as much as to move, and of remembering that depth is something needs to be lived.\nIn practice, this looks like guided experiences that blend structured inquiry with open exploration.\nSessions may include breathwork, somatic movement, partner-based touch practices or time in the water, where the body can reorganize through buoyancy, pressure, and flow. Verbal guidance is offered sparingly and with intention, allowing space for nonverbal awareness, sensation, and direct experience to lead.\nAt times, language and imagery are woven back in, not as concepts to grasp, but as reflections that arise from what has already been felt and lived in the body.\nWork unfolds in both individual and group settings, in pools, natural waters, and on land. Each container is shaped with care around consent, pacing, and relational attunement, so that participants can engage without overwhelm.\nWhat emerges is a deepened capacity to listen, to respond, and to inhabit one’s experience with greater clarity, sensitivity, and trust.\nClick here<\/strong><\/em><\/a> to read more about my teaching experience and educational background.\n\t

Offerings<\/h2>\n

\n\t\t\tPrivate Aquatic Therapy\t<\/h1>\n
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\n\t\t\tGroup Aquatic Experience\t<\/h1>\n
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\n\t\t\tRetreats & Workshops\t<\/h1>\n
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\n\t\t\tPrivate Yoga Therapy\t<\/h1>\n
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\n\t\t\tBespoke Experiences\t<\/h1>\n
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Heaven is my father and Earth is my mother<\/p>\n

And even such a small creature as I finds<\/p>\n

an intimate place in their midst.<\/p>\n

Therefore, that which fills the universe<\/p>\n

I regard as my body<\/p>\n

And that which directs the universe<\/p>\n

I consider as my nature.<\/p>\n

All people are my siblings, and<\/p>\n

all the beings of nature are my companions.<\/p>\n

– Zhang Zai<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tJoin me at the edges where land and water meet\t<\/h2>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the ocean in a single drop. – Rumi This work lives at the thresholds where water meets land, where movement becomes listening, and where the body remembers itself as part of the living world. Through ecosomatics, mythopoetics, yoga therapy, aquatic practice, expressive arts, and immersive…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyaswater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyaswater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyaswater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyaswater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyaswater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyaswater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9154,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyaswater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions\/9154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyaswater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}