Born From Water
A Wisdom School For Water-led Leadership
A 4-month online group journey to embody the wisdom of water
On August 16th we open the journey to a tribe of 12 leaders. It's the deepest journey to heal ourselves, our ancestral lineages, and give back to our communities.
Explore deeper.
Lead with heart.
Become water.
"We are a global collective devoted to restoring our sacred relationship with water, in ourselves, our communities, and our oceans."
— Born From Water
Starting August 16. Join a tribe of 12 leaders.
What's next?
Your place is ready. To confirm your seat, complete your payment below.
We will then welcome you into the Water Portal , and send you details to begin.
Only 12 leaders will walk this elemental journey together.
We’re honored to walk with you.
We are water, literally.
Our bodies are over 70% water. We float in water before we’re born, and water sustains us throughout life. Water is ocean, river, lagoon, lake, rain, tide, and the tears we cry. Across Indigenous cultures, she is known by many names: Ha, Imox, Yemayá, Ixchel, a living, feminine intelligence. Flowing through every human, every ecosystem, every living being.
Why join?
You’ve walked the path of the achiever, the leader, the giver. Now, the path is asking you to soften… to remember… to rebirth.
What You're Invited to Heal
The exhaustion of always holding it together, for teams, clients, families.
The inner split between doing and being, head and heart.
Overthinking, comparison, and the pressure to constantly perform.
Unconscious patterns of fear and control.
Disconnection from your body, your emotions, your truth.
A dysregulated nervous system, unable to rest and receive.
Spiritual bypassing and suppression disguised as strength.
Loneliness at the top, the silent cost of leadership.
Who is this for?
Conscious Leaders.
High Performers.
Entrepreneurs.
Executives, Visionaries.
Spaceholders, Creators.
Spiritually curious and emotionally intelligent.
Successful on paper, but hungry for meaning, depth, and connection.
Drawn to connect with water, and to embody her wisdom.
Tired of leading from the mind alone, called to lead from the heart.
What You’ll Receive
"You’ll begin to shed what you thought made you powerful… and remember what actually does"
— Born From Water
Open Heart
Greater emotional depth and connection
Inner Trust
Grounded confidence in yourself and in life
Awakened Intuition
Carity and knowing
Embodied Balance
Regulation through daily rituals
Water Wisdom
Embodying water’s teachings
Deeper Relationships
Truth, presence, and conscious connection
Holding Space
With strength and compassion
Purpose
Soul aligned, not forced striving
Living Ritual
A life rooted in rhythm, nature, and meaning
Ancestral Connection
Guided by ancient and indigenous ways
Service
A life lived in devotion to what matters
Water Guardianship
Protect and honor water
Why now?
In these times of conflict, suffering, and disconnection in the world, we need each other, and we need to open our hearts more than ever. Water teaches us how to return to love, presence, and shared strength.
Now is the time to gather.
Introducing the Elemental Wheel
The Elemental Wheel cycles through four elements: Water → Fire → Earth → Air. You start with one element, fully engage, then move on once you embody its wisdom.
All four elements are needed to lead fully. Now is the time to gather.
Water is not a resource.
She is a relative. A consciousness. A home.
— Mo, founder Born From Water
Introducing the Elemental Wheel
The Elemental Wheel cycles through four elements: Water → Fire → Earth → Air. You start with one element, fully engage, then move on once you embody its wisdom.
All four elements are needed to lead fully. Now is the time to gather.
Water is not a resource.
She is a relative. A consciousness. A home.
- Mo, founder Born From Water
Water is not a resource.
She is a relative. A consciousness. A home.
- Mo, founder Born From Water
What You Will Learn and Embody
WATER
Emotional · Feminine · Flow
Learn. Feel deeply, regulate emotions, return to your emotional body.
Apply. Lead from intuition, create daily rituals, build emotional safety.
FIRE
Mental · Masculine · Truth
Learn. Speak your truth, release burnout, reignite life force.
Apply. Lead with clarity, act with integrity, hold space with balance
EARTH
Physical · Embodiment · Grounding
Learn. Root in the body, work with sacred medicine, shed illusions
Apply. Lead from presence, live rhythmically, embody your path
AIR
Spiritual · Love · Vision
Learn. Elevate your vision, connect with ancestors, awaken your voice
Apply. Lead with love, create from abundance, live with purpose
To serve water, we must become water.
To become water, we must remember how to feel.
- Mo, founder Born From Water
To serve water, we must become water.
To become water, we must remember how to feel.
- Mo, founder Born From Water
How it works
Throughout the online group journey, you are held in a living water tribe, a circle of fellow guardians, elders, and guides who walk beside you. This is collective healing; something we remember and regenerate together.
• Sit with Indigenous wisdom keepers and ceremonialists who embody the elements.
• Be supported by peer circles who walk beside you with honesty and care.
• Join from wherever you are, and bring the frequency into your life, home, team, relationships, land.
What’s Included?
Live Transmission
This can be a ceremony or a guided session.
Live Sacred Sharing Circles
a sharing space to reflect and witness one another.
Live Impact Circles
On water protection, giving back, and applying the work in our communities
Wisdom Library
A library that offers self-paced resources to support your journey, including teachings, preparation, integration, and reflection tools.
Invitation to the Guardianship Circle after completing the full Wheel
Private community & peer practice groups
Meet Your Guides
Moniek van Erven (Founder of Born From Water)
Ocean Lover · Ceremonialist · Freediver · Water therapist · Spiritual Mentor
Mo guides you and walks beside you. From a place of deep listening, lived experience, and her devotion to Water as teacher and healer. She’s hosting retreats and ceremonies across the globe. Her guidance is intuitive, grounded, and rooted in love.
Mo’s path began over two decades ago in meditation and six years ago with sacred medicine work, and it was Water that truly transformed her. Through oceans, cenotes, and tears, water softened her armor, healed her nervous system, and returned her to feeling.
She founded Oyasin, a global sanctuary for healing, guiding retreats and ceremonies across the world for leaders to help them to return to the body, the earth, the heart.
Her guidance is intuitive and loving, rooted in lived experience and years of walking with Indigenous elders, sacred medicines, and the water itself. She doesn’t teach from a method, she listens, feels, and lets the water lead.
Water is her teacher.
And so, she guides like water.
Indigenous Wisdom Keepers
You’ll sit in ceremony with elders and medicine carriers from Nahuatl, Quechua, K’iche’ and other lineages. They don’t just teach, they transmit. Their presence awakens our memory through ancestral ritual and prayer.
Guest Teachers & Elemental Guides
Our extended circle includes freedivers, breathworkers, ocean protectors, water therapists, ritualists, plant medicine guides, emotional release practitioners, vocalists, artists, dreamworkers, and embodiment practitioners.
Meet Your Guides
Moniek van Erven (Founder of Born From Water)
Medicine guide · Ceremonialist · Freediver · Water therapist · Spiritual Mentor
Mo guides you and walks beside you, from a place of deep listening, lived experience, and her devotion to Water as teacher and healer. She’s hosting retreats and ceremonies across the globe. Her guidance is intuitive, grounded, and rooted in love.
Indigenous Wisdom Keepers
You’ll sit in ceremony with elders and medicine carriers from Nahuatl, Quechua, K’iche’, Tzʼutujil, Wixárika, and other lineages. They don’t just teach, they transmit. Their presence awakens our memory through ancestral ritual and prayer.
Guest Teachers & Elemental Guides
Our extended circle includes freedivers, breathworkers, ocean protectors, water therapists, ritualists, plant medicine guides, emotional release practitioners, vocalists, artists, dreamworkers, and embodiment practitioners.
Indigenous Wisdom Keepers
You’ll sit in ceremony with elders and medicine carriers from Nahuatl, Quechua, K’iche’ and other lineages. They don’t just teach, they transmit. Their presence awakens our memory through ancestral ritual and prayer.
Meet Your Guides
Moniek van Erven (Founder of Born From Water)
Ocean Lover · Ceremonialist · Freediver · Water therapist · Spiritual Mentor
Mo guides you and walks beside you. From a place of deep listening, lived experience, and her devotion to Water as teacher and healer. She’s hosting retreats and ceremonies across the globe. Her guidance is intuitive, grounded, and rooted in love.
Mo’s path began over two decades ago in meditation and six years ago with sacred medicine work, and it was Water that truly transformed her. Through oceans, cenotes, and tears, water softened her armor, healed her nervous system, and returned her to feeling.
She founded Oyasin, a global sanctuary for healing, guiding retreats and ceremonies across the world for leaders to help them to return to the body, the earth, the heart.
Her guidance is intuitive and loving, rooted in lived experience and years of walking with Indigenous elders, sacred medicines, and the water itself. She doesn’t teach from a method, she listens, feels, and lets the water lead.
Water is her teacher.
And so, she guides like water.
Indigenous Wisdom Keepers
You’ll sit in ceremony with elders and medicine carriers from Nahuatl, Quechua, K’iche’ and other lineages. They don’t just teach, they transmit. Their presence awakens our memory through ancestral ritual and prayer.
Guest Teachers & Elemental Guides
Our extended circle includes freedivers, breathworkers, ocean protectors, water therapists, ritualists, plant medicine guides, emotional release practitioners, vocalists, artists, dreamworkers, and embodiment practitioners.
A note from Mo
Born From Water is a shared space to give back to the water that gave us life.
I’ve spent years receiving from her.
Healing, softness, trust, friendships, love.
I’m deeply grateful to the water and all that she teaches, and gives.
We’re in a time of crisis.
Oceans, animals, and humans are suffering.
I believe the way forward is to return to where we came from: the water.
To protect what matters most.
The water needs many hearts, ocean protectors, artists, scientists, spiritual guides, freedivers, therapists, dancers, everyday people who care.
Born From Water is a call to carry this together.
A note from Mo
Born From Water is a shared space to give back to the water that gave us life.
I’ve spent years receiving from her.
Healing, softness, trust, friendships, love.
I’m deeply grateful to the water and all that she teaches, and gives.
We’re in a time of crisis.
Oceans, animals, and humans are suffering.
I believe the way forward is to return to where we came from: the water.
To protect what matters most.
The water needs many hearts, ocean protectors, artists, scientists, spiritual guides, freedivers, therapists, dancers, everyday people who care.
Born From Water is a call to carry this together.
Testimonials
My waters, my tears, my fears, everything felt held in the water ceremony. It helped me moved through deep inner layers in the lightest, most loving way.
Abia
Entrepreneur, USA
Working with Mo through Water was a profound homecoming to myself. Her intuitive, compassionate presence created a space where I could surrender fully to the wisdom of Water and let it guide my healing. In her hands, Water became both mirror and teacher, revealing my fears, my truth, and ultimately my power.
Rebecca
Artist, UK
I experienced the most beautiful immersion, floating, letting go, and trusting, guided by Mo and other skilled water therapists. No gravity. Just connection, fluidity, and deep surrender. The group space made the experience even more powerful
Mathias
Spaceholder, Germany
Even as a passionate surfer and apnea athlete, the water ceremony & Janzu immersion changed something fundamental in how I relate to the ocean, and to myself.
I met the water in a completely new way: I connected deeply to my female lineage, reawakening sensations from the womb. I felt softer, sensual, more connected.
Sandra
Surgeon, Switzerland
Ik heb testimonial Charlotte aangepast Since two years, Mo guides me and my husband with ceremonies, and a week-long Water retreat in Mexico.
Mo holds us like water - with sensitivity, deep wisdom and strength. I always feel safe to be fully myself.
We met the water and ourselves in the deepest way… It brought us back to our essence, and to each other. It has left a lasting impact on our lives.
Charlotte
Entrepreneur, Belgium
Testimonials
My waters, my tears, my fears, everything felt held in the water ceremony. It helped me moved through deep inner layers in the lightest, most loving way.
Working with Mo through Water was a profound homecoming to myself. Her intuitive, compassionate presence created a space where I could surrender fully to the wisdom of Water and let it guide my healing. In her hands, Water became both mirror and teacher, revealing my fears, my truth, and ultimately my power.
I experienced the most beautiful immersion, floating, letting go, and trusting, guided by Mo and other skilled water therapists. No gravity. Just connection, fluidity, and deep surrender. The group space made the experience even more powerful
Ik heb testimonial Charlotte aangepast Since two years, Mo guides me and my husband with ceremonies, and a week-long Water retreat in Mexico.
Mo holds us like water - with sensitivity, deep wisdom and strength. I always feel safe to be fully myself.
We met the water and ourselves in the deepest way… It brought us back to our essence, and to each other. It has left a lasting impact on our lives.
Even as a passionate surfer and apnea athlete, the water ceremony & Janzu immersion changed something fundamental in how I relate to the ocean, and to myself.
I met the water in a completely new way: I connected deeply to my female lineage, reawakening sensations from the womb. I felt softer, sensual, more connected.
Abia
Entrepreneur, USA
Rebecca
Artist, UK
Mathias
Spaceholder, Germany
Charlotte
Entrepreneur, Belgium
Sandra
Surgeon, Switzerland
Becoming a Water Guardian
Embody. Serve. Protect.
Embody
Initiation.
To be a Water Guardian is not a certification, it’s an initiation.
When you’ve walked the path, and embodied the teachings, you’re ready. From here, your water-led leadership ripples to your work, relationships, and communities.
Serve
Water-led leadership.
You lead by giving back:
• Building relationships rooted in reciprocity
• Leading with devotion, transparency, and emotional depth
• You walk with others committed to love, and planetary care
Protect
Impact.
Your healing becomes action.
You protect what matters through:
• Conscious ocean protection projects
• Guest teachers who are modern water protectors
• Sacred rituals and water activism
• Projects supported by the Born From Water Foundation
Born From Water Foundation
A portion of all proceeds supports water guardianship worldwide.
• Indigenous water elders and lineages;
• Ocean conservation projects and eco-rituals;
• Marine life protection projects
Becoming a Water Guardian
Embody. Serve. Protect.
Embody
Initiation.
To be a Water Guardian is not a certification, it’s an initiation.
When you’ve walked the path, and embodied the teachings, you’re ready.
From here, your water-led leadership ripples to your work, relationships, and communities.
Serve
Water-led leadership.
You lead by giving back:
• Building relationships rooted in reciprocity
• Leading with devotion, transparency, and emotional depth
• You walk with others committed to love, and planetary care
Protect
Impact.
Your healing becomes action.
You protect what matters through:
• Conscious ocean protection projects
• Guest teachers who are modern water protectors
• Sacred rituals and water activism
• Projects supported by the Born From Water Foundation
Born From Water Foundation
A portion of all proceeds supports water guardianship worldwide.
• Indigenous water elders and lineages;
• Ocean conservation projects and eco-rituals;
• Marine life protection projects
Step into the portal
Your 4-Month Journey
You can choose to pay monthly , over 4, 8, or 12 months, whatever supports your current rhythm.
All options include full access to the program for 4 months. Payment plans simply offer more time to complete your tuition.
Standard Plan
€450 / month
4 months
Extended Plan
€225 / month
8 months
Gentle Plan
€150 / month
12 months
Sponsor
Support someone to become a Water Guardian.
MENTORSHIP
Receive 3 private ceremonies with Mo.
Foundation
Support ocean protection projects worldwide.
Gift a Loved One (monthly)
2 elemental journeys: €500/month (Total: €2,000)
4 elemental journeys: €500/month (Total: €4,000)
Gift a Loved One (upfront)
2 elemental journeys: €1800 (save €200)
4 elemental journeys: €3,500 (save €500)
Pay It Forward (monthly)
2 elemental journeys: €600/month (Total: €24,000)
€500 covers your participation; €100 contributes to a fund supporting those in financial need.
4 elemental journeys: €600/month (Total: €4,800)
€500 covers your participation; €100 contributes to a fund supporting those in financial need.
Pay It Forward (upfront)
2 elemental journeys: €2000 (save €400)
€1800 covers your participation; €200 contributes to a fund supporting those in financial need.
4 elemental journeys: €4,000 (save €800)
€3,500 covers your participation; €500 contributes to a fund supporting those in financial need.
If the above options still feel inaccessible, you’re welcome to request a supported spot. Email us at [email protected], we’d love to explore ways to support you in joining. Like water, we find ways to flow.
Invite a Friend
Receive a private 1-on-1 ceremony with Mo for your personal referral, as a heart-felt thank you for for expanding our tribe
Summary
Four Elemental Gateways
Water → Fire → Earth → Air.
Embodied Leadership
Lead with heart, rooted in ritual, ancestral wisdom, and collective healing.
Global Water Collective
Join a living tribe from anywhere, with elders, guides, and peers walking beside you.
Water Guardianship
Participation supports Born From Water Foundation, funding ocean conservation projects.
Real-Life Integration
These teachings flow into your work, land, relationships, and leadership.
Flexible Journey
Begin where you are. Choose an element, commit to two, or walk the full elemental Wheel.
Next Circle Opens August 2025
Only 12 spaces. Applications now open.
The Portal Is Open.
Step into the portal today.
FAQ
Why do we gather online?
Energy transmits beyond borders. Meeting online allows us to tune in instantly from anywhere, and learn from Indigenous elders and teachers who might be hard to visit in person.
Does transformation happen quickly?
True transformation takes time and happens through your everyday rhythms and practices, not just peak experiences.
Do we also meet in person?
Yes, we all gather for deep, in-person water immersions in Europe and Mexico. These gatherings are optional. You’ll also be matched with peers from your tribe for online and live connection.
What happens after I apply?
You’ll be invited to a short alignment call with Mo to make sure it’s the right fit. If it is, you’ll receive access to the Water Portal.
Do I need to be a leader or spaceholder to join?
No title required. This is for anyone walking the path of truth and service.
What if I’m new to water work?
You are welcome here. All practices are guided and intuitive. No prior experience needed, only a sincere heart.
How much time does this require weekly?
About 2–3 hours/month of live time, plus optional practices at your own pace.
Step into the Portal of Water-led Leadership
