Born From Water
A global movement to heal ourselves & our oceans
Why Water?
We are water.
Water is a living, intelligent force; our ancestor, and our memory.
Our healing - and our future - depends on her.
“We believe the future of humanity depends on how we treat our waters, and how we care for our emotional, spiritual, and ancestral bodies.”
- Born From Water Manifesto
“We believe the future of humanity depends on how we treat our waters, and how we care for our emotional, spiritual, and ancestral bodies.”
- Born From Water Manifesto
What Is Born From Water?
Born From Water is a global movement and non-profit, guided by the wisdom of water.
We are Water Guardians - freedivers, scientists, marine biologists, activists, ceremonialists, guides, elders, healers, dancers, artists, and everyday humans - united by our love for water.
What Is Born From Water?
Born From Water is a global movement and non-profit, guided by the wisdom of water.
We are Water Guardians - freedivers, scientists, marine biologists, activists, ceremonialists, guides, elders, healers, dancers, artists, and everyday humans - united by our love for water.
What We Do
We do everything water.
Unite - people across the world who love water
Inspire - with story, ritual, and shared experience
Heal - through ceremony, gathering, remembrance
Protect - by conservation, education, and funding
“We’ve met underwater dancers, indigenous water carriers, ocean defenders, and filmmakers.
Now it’s time to bring all these water people together. To form one ocean. One wave.”
- Mo, Born From Water
“We’ve met underwater dancers, indigenous water carriers, ocean defenders, and filmmakers.
Now it’s time to bring all these water people together. To form one ocean. One wave.”
- Mo, Born From Water
Born From Water Expressions
Wisdom School
Water-led leadership & healing
Retreats & Rituals
In sacred waters across the world
The Collective
Ocean lovers, storytellers, scientists, artists & elders taking action
The Foundation
Funding projects that protect and remember water
How to Join?
Start where you feel called - you can apply for the Wisdom School, join a retreat, meet monthly online with the Collective (it's free), or support the Foundation through donation or action.
Born From Water Foundation
Supports projects that protect water, and the people who carry her wisdom.
Ocean protection & education
Underwater storytelling
Water wisdom keepers & community leaders
We Are The Collective
Whether you're a marine biologist, a freediver, a water dancer, or someone who just cares about the water deeply, you’re already part of this.
You don’t need credentials. Just love for the water.
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.
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
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.
Want to partner with us or submit a project? Email us at [email protected]
