Born From Water
Wisdom School for Leaders
More Than Wisdom. Becoming Water
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Ready to Embody the Flow of Water?
Step into your role as a Water Guardian.
Join Born from water, a rebirthing journey for conscious leaders and spaceholders who feel called to walk as living prayers for the regeneration of our oceans.
Through indigenous wisdom, sacred ceremony, and deep inner transformation, you will be initiated into the sacred guardianship of Water, learning to protect and honor our waters, our land, and the generations to come.
You'll leave this school not with a certificate, but with a frequency. And that frequency will ripple through every room, every relationship, and every step you take.
Starting August 7
Limited to 12 participants only. Secure your place now.
Why step into this portal?
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'll Heal
In this journey, you are gently 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.
  • Unprocessed grief, shame, or ancestral weight that silently informs your choices.
  • Spiritual bypassing and suppression disguised as strength
  • Loneliness at the top - the silent cost of leadership
You'll begin to shed what you thought made you powerful… and remember what actually does.
What You'll Receive
"You are not only healing. You are returning. To the Water. To the Earth. To yourself."
As you soften, open, and remember, you'll start to feel life differently.
This is not theoretical. These are visceral shifts:
Heart Opening
A heart that opens: to emotion, connection, and your own sensitivity
Deeper Trust
A deeper trust in life, and in yourself
Intuition Returns
Intuition that returns, no longer drowned out by fear or logic
Body Balance
Balance in your body, as daily rituals help regulate your system
Sacred Relationships
Sacred relationships, renewed through truth and gentleness
Belonging
A felt sense of belonging to the Water, Earth and the unseen
Holding Space
The ability to hold space for others without self-sacrificing
Soul-Led Clarity
A soul-led clarity of purpose, not through striving but alignment
Living Rhythm
A rhythm of living where ceremony, nature, and intuition are not escapes, but home
For Those Who Walk Between Worlds
This is for conscious leaders; high performers who have excelled in their fields and are now ready to rebirth.
Visionaries, entrepreneurs, executives, spaceholders, creators
Spiritually curious and emotionally intelligent
Successful on paper, but hungry for meaning, depth, and connection
Tired of leading from the mind alone, ready to lead from heart and embodiment
It begins with Water
Whether you guide boardrooms or ceremonies, you're here because you feel the call, to lead, and live from truth, and humility.
This is not a course. It is a living ceremony. A path not of learning more, but of becoming more you.
The Elemental Wheel isn't a curriculum. It's a living map of transformation. Water. Fire. Earth. Air. Each element is a portal, back to your body, your purpose, your truth.
We begin with Water, because all life began with her. Water teaches you to feel. To soften. To receive. It restores your nervous system, heals emotional patterns, and invites flow in your leadership.
She's known in many forms as water goddess: I'mox, Ixchel, Mamacocha and Yemaya.
While we rotate the Wheel with each Element, Water remains our foundation, and is flowing through the other Elements too.
To be a Guardian of Water is not something you sign up for, it's something the water sees in you. No certificate. No title. Only your devotion, your healing, and your deep listening.
The Story Behind Born from water
"This isn't something I created. It's something the water birthed through me."
I stood before the water altar in front of the sacred lagoon in Bacalar, Mexico. I asked her 'what do you need?'
That moment changed everything.
What followed was not just a vision, but a visceral transmission: I saw the first life forms on Earth. I witnessed how it all began, in water, with water, for water.
And told her "I offer you my service."
One year later, I returned to the same lagoon. This time, I offered her my heart. Fully. Freely. And without condition.
And that's when she gave me the next vision: That this work is not meant to be held alone. Water healing is collective. To protect her, we need to gather. To serve her, we must do it together.
This is how Born from water was born. This is not just a course, but as a ceremonial circle of those ready to listen, feel, remember, and serve.
My Devotion to Water
"She softened me. She stripped me. She showed me how to feel. And then she asked me to share it."
Water has not just touched my life, it has shaped it.
It's a multidimensional connection: devotional, physical, emotional, mystical, healing, communal, and ancestral.
For years, I've been following a current that was never mine to control.
It began in silence, in ceremony, in tears. In lagunas, and oceans. In prayers whispered into cenotes and screamed into waves. In night swims under full moons, letting the darkness hold what I couldn't.
Water has been my medicine and my mirror, the one that healed me to the core. Finding safety in my body, finding home.
It has taken me to kelp forests in South Africa, sacred lakes in Guatemala, cenotes in the Yucatán, reefs in the Pacific Ocean, riverbeds in the Netherlands. My paternal homeland, and shorelines in Indonesia my maternal homeland.
Across the world, I've met her in many forms.
I've met her while:
Freediving into silence, discovering to trust my body and breath
Dancing at depth, letting the body surrender to intuition, not choreography
Guiding water ceremonies, where we shed, pray, open and listen
Guiding water therapy, where we remember, and rebirth
Freediving with whales around me, hearing their song vibrate through my chest
Daily swims to reefs, connecting to mantas, turtles and colourful fish
Working in the collective dream realms, where water spirits and ancestors speak
Invocating water goddesses I'mox, Ixchel and Yemaya
Writing water songs and prayers, received in dreams and visions
Praying with water abuelas and elders, receiving their wisdom not through words, but through presence
Sharing visions and dreams with a growing web of water brothers and sisters, a tribe without borders
While dancing in cenotes, bathing in waterfalls, invocating rain, and pouring offerings into oceans
This path has shown me that water is not just a mirror. She is our teacher. Our mother. Our memory. Our collective consciousness.
A Collective Offering
"To serve water, we must become water. To become water, we must remember how to feel."
Water taught me that healing isn't linear. It spirals. It swells. It overflows. And it is most powerful when shared.
Water showed me this: That healing through water is not enough. We must now protect her, honor her, and listen to her, together.
This is why Born from water was born: To honor water not just as a resource, but as our ancestor, our teacher, and our shared mother. To create a collective of protectors, feelers, and leaders who remember how to serve her.
Born from water is that offering. A school of the heart, A circle of remembrance, A collective act of love for the waters of this world, and within us.
This journey isn't mine. It's ours. And it's time.
Inside the Elemental Wheel The wheel turns with each Element.
The portal is open now, inviting you to step through, with the next tribe starting in August 2025.
You're invited to flow through at least two Elements (for example, Water and Fire). Many choose to journey through the full wheel of four Elements, or even beyond, allowing your transformation to deepen and expand.
To honor the intimacy of this process, only 12 spaces are available per tribe, ensuring each voice is truly held and heard.
What's Included?
2 monthly live sessions: one Live Transmission Ceremony and one Sacred Circle
Self-paced Elemental Wisdom Library with Guest Teachers
Community platform to connect, share, and reflect
Peer practice circles
Optional in-person retreats in Europe and Mexico
Intimate container of 12 people per cohort
Begin with any Element, commit to 2, or walk the full wheel
You're not joining a program. You're stepping into a living portal.
What You Will Learn & Embody
"This is not a school where you just learn. This is where you become."
In Born from water, you'll walk through four elemental gateways, Water, Fire, Earth, and Air. Not as ideas, but as lived experiences that reshape the way you lead, love, and live.
Through ceremony, ancestral wisdom, and collective healing, you'll develop emotional depth, inner clarity, and embodied leadership, supported by a global water tribe, so you never walk this path alone.
You can join from anywhere. The circle is alive. The teachings ripple into your day-to-day life, your work, your home, your relationships, and your inner world.
The elements are not separate forces, but living energies that move through you, awakening the deepest layers of your being. Water softens and opens, guiding you back to feeling and flow. Fire ignites your will, burning away what no longer serves and illuminating your truth. Earth grounds and holds you, offering a space for healing, embodiment, and belonging. Air lifts and connects, carrying your breath, voice, and prayers into the unseen. Together, they do not ask to be conquered or completed, they move through you to return you to your natural, elemental self.
WATER. Emotional Body. Feminine. Flow
You'll learn to...
  • Regulate your nervous system through presence, ceremony, and awareness
  • Navigate emotions with grace: including grief, sensitivity, and joy
  • Reconnect to softness, feeling, and the wisdom of your emotional body
You'll apply this to...
  • Deepen your personal rituals for restoration and daily flow
  • Relate to yourself and others with more honesty and emotional safety
  • Lead from heart, not armor
FIRE. Mental Body. Masculine. Truth
You'll learn to...
  • Access your inner truth and express it clearly and compassionately
  • Cleanse mental patterns of control, burnout, and fear
  • Reignite your passion and purpose without pressure
You'll apply this to...
  • Speak from clarity in leadership and relationship
  • Align actions and words, and act from integrity
  • Hold space without overgiving or losing yourself
EARTH. Physical Body. Roots. Leadership
You'll learn to...
  • Ground your energy through the body, rest, food, and sacred rhythm
  • Honor the wisdom of your ancestors and work with your lineage
  • Trust the cyclical nature of growth, death, and rebirth
You'll apply this to...
  • Create sustainable daily practices to anchor your presence
  • Lead from embodiment, not performance
  • Integrate your healing into leadership, parenting, service, and community
AIR. Spiritual Body. Spirit. Love
You'll learn to...
  • Open your intuitive channel and trust your inner guidance
  • Work with dreams, prayer, voice, and sound as spiritual tools
  • Receive visions, messages, and support from your ancestors and guides
  • Embody the frequency of unconditional love
You'll apply this to...
  • Lead with intuition — from deep listening, not pushing
  • Speak and create from abundance, knowing that you are supported
  • Align your life with a greater purpose that moves through you
Healing Together, Not Alone
Throughout the journey, you are held in a living tribe, a circle of fellow guardians, elders, and guides who walk beside you. This is collective healing, not something you do alone in silence, but something we remember and regenerate together.
You will:
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
Apply to the portal
This journey is intimate, sacred, and alive. Only 12 participants per Tribe. Each voice, each presence, matters.
You don't need a title to walk this path, only a sincere heart.
Filling out the application form takes only 5-10 minutes. Within 48 hours, you will receive a response letting you know if you can join the portal.
If the resonance is right, your journey begins in the Water Portal on August 7.
Meet Your Guides
Moniek van Erven (Mo Oyasin)
Founder Born from Water · Water Guardian · Ocean Lover · Ceremonialist · Spiritual Mentor · Founder Oyasin
My spiritual journey began over two decades ago. First through the depths of meditation and yogic practice, and later through sacred medicine and elemental ritual.
As the founder of Oyasin, I've spent the past six years creating spaces where leaders, seekers, and visionaries come to remember. Not by learning more, but by feeling more. Guiding retreats, ceremonies, and elemental journeys across the world.
From the cenotes of Mexico to the lakes of Guatemala, the shores of Bali to the mountains of South Africa, I've witnessed the beauty of what happens when people feel safe enough to open their hearts.
While I've received initiations in sacred medicines, including cacao, mushrooms, and the waters themselves. My deepest devotion is to the medicine of love.
My work isn't about teaching from above. It's about walking beside you, listening, attuning, and allowing what wants to move through. I guide intuitively, not from a fixed method, but from lived experience and deep trust.
Water has been my clearest teacher, softening my edges, cleansing what I couldn't name, and returning me to myself.
And though I guide others, I remain always a student. Still healing. Still learning. Still honoring what works by sharing it.
This is my offering: A return to feeling. A return to love. A return to what is sacred, in you.
Indigenous Wisdom Keepers
You will sit in ceremony with indigenous elders, medicine keepers, and ritualists who carry ancestral memory in their bones and breath.
They don't "teach" the elements, they embody them.
Some speak Spanish, Nahuatl, K'iche', or Quechua. Others guide through song, silence, or touch. All are living portals of remembrance.
Guest Teachers & Elemental Guides
You may sit with:
Ocean Guardians
Ocean guardians and water protectors: marine biologists, ocean activists, and indigenous water defenders sharing how to protect our sacred waters through awareness, action, and love
Freedivers
Freedivers and water therapy specialists: guiding breath, body, and the healing intelligence of submersion
Medicine Carriers
Sacred medicine carriers: guardians of cacao, mushrooms, peyote, and other ancestral plant allies, guiding respectful, spirit-led connection to the Earth
Ceremonialists
Ritualists and ceremonialists: sharing practices from their own lineages and lived devotion to the elements
Breathworkers
🌬 Breathworkers and emotional release practitioners: helping clear the inner waters and awaken voice, expression, and truth
Embodiment Guides
Embodiment guides and movement initiators: inviting you into deep grounding, pleasure, and presence through the body
These guest guides may come from traditional lineages, contemporary disciplines, or the space between both, but all share this in common: They walk their path with humility, integrity, and devotion to life.
Why This Work Matters
This isn't only for your healing. It's for the healing of waters, of memory, of the world.
Water Guardianship & Sacred Activism
As you deepen your connection with water, you'll also be invited into action:
  • Conscious exploration of ocean protection projects
  • Renowned Modern water protectors as guest speakers
  • Water protection rituals
The Oyasin Foundation
A portion of all proceeds supports:
  • Indigenous elders and lineages
  • Local water keepers
  • Ocean conservation and eco-rituals
To become water is to protect her.
"You don't need another achievement. You need a remembering."
Ways to step into this portal
We offer 2 gateways to begin your walk through the Elemental Wheel. Whether you feel called to dip into 2 elemental waters or to commit to the full ceremonial wheel, you are choosing to honor your evolution in sacred rhythm.
2 Elemental Journeys
Half Wheel
4 Elemental Journeys
Full Wheel
Pay it forward
Gift a loved one
Testimonials
"This was the first time I felt held as a leader, not expected to hold others. The elemental rituals cracked me open in the best way."
— Alejandra, CEO
"Water taught me how to stop performing and start feeling. I finally lead from the heart."
— Luca, Entrepreneur
"The circles, the ceremonies, the community… I remembered who I was."
— Jan, Creative director
FAQ
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.
Which options do I have to meet the Guardians live?
We're hosting water gatherings & retreats in Europe and Mexico for the tribe. You'll also be matched with peers from your tribe to meet online and live.
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.
Born From Water
Born From Water is a global collective devoted to restoring our sacred relationship with water, in ourselves, our communities, and our oceans.
We believe the future of humanity depends on how we treat our waters, and how we care for our own emotional, spiritual, and ancestral bodies.
If you feel the call of water, you are already a part of it.
Water is not a resource. She is a relative. A consciousness. A path home.
Our Vision
We unite a global tribe of Water Guardians, individuals and communities devoted to the wisdom of water – remembering how to live, love, and lead like water.
Across the world many of us— ocean lovers, elders, freedivers, therapists, dancers, scientists, and healers, are already serving the water in their own way.
Now, we rise together as Born From Water. As one wave.
We heal, with ceremony, community, and service
We protect, our waters through stewardship and sacred action
We create, spaces, rituals, art, and playful expressions of water devotion
We return, to a way of living that is cyclical, relational, and sacred
The water doesn't ask for perfection. She asks for presence. For devotion. For return.
One Tribe, Many Expressions
Born From Water flows through many living forms:
Wisdom School
Born from water, our ceremonial leadership wisdom school
Retreats
Retreats and gatherings, in sacred waters across the globe
Water Rituals
Water rituals and community circles, local and online
Ocean Activism
Ocean activism and sacred action
Foundation
The Oyasin Foundation, supporting Indigenous stewards and eco-rituals
Whether you freedive, research our oceans, practice water therapy, or simply honor the water daily, you belong here. Together, our small acts create a global wave of healing for oceans and people alike.
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