Born From Water
People
Born From Water
People
Meet Your Guides
Be held by water and guides.
Meet our people
Moniek
Founder · Vision · Water Keeper
Joy
Technical · Operations
Lourdes
Indigenous Water Keeper Mexico · Guest Teacher
Greta
TAO Philosophy · Japanese Martial Arts · Guest Teacher
Cecilia
Aquatic Therapist Mexico · Healer · Guest Teacher
Estrellita
Indigenous Fire Keeper Guatemala · Guest Teacher
Bunda
Indigenous Water Keeper Bali · Guest Teacher
Nirali
Yogic Philosophy· Water as Consciousness · Guest Teacher
Open roles
• Operations & Program Lead
• Marketing & Audience Growth
If you feel called to join us, reach out to [email protected]
MEET OUr FOUNDER
Moniek Van Erven
Water Keeper · Ceremonialist · Freediver · Water Therapist · Mentor
Mo has Dutch-Indonesian roots and inherited a love for swimming from her mother. Over time, water became her primary teacher through experiences in waters across Indonesia, Mexico, Guatemala, Portugal, Hawaii, and South Africa.
She spent eighteen years as an entrepreneur and business consultant, working closely with founders, CEOs, and leadership teams. Six years ago, she founded Oyasin, guiding long-term transformational processes through retreats, ceremony, and mentorship.
Her work is shaped by initiations from indigenous wisdom traditions and nature-based practices rooted in water and the elements. As a freediver and water dancer, her relationship with water is embodied.
Born From Water emerged as a living platform for learning directly with water. Mo guides individuals and groups through embodied transformation grounded in experience, intuition, and devotion.
I follow the water on a Water Pilgrimage across the world to listen and learn.
- Mo, Founder
Origin story
Born From Water
In early 2024, at a water altar in Bacalar, Mexico, I offered my service to the water. A deep bodily remembering followed, of the first life forms emerging in the depth of the ocean. The water showed me that life must continue to be created. This marked the beginning of a vision.
In 2025, I offered the water my heart. My life changed. My heart opened. I received the full vision.
Born From Water remembers our origin: how we are all born from water.
It’s a shared journey, because true service happens together: many hearts, one shared mission.
Born From Water brings people across the world into relationship with water through learning, and giving back.
Origin story
Born From Water
In early 2024, at a water altar in Bacalar, Mexico, I offered my service to the water. A deep bodily remembering followed, of the first life forms emerging in the depth of the ocean. The water showed me that life must continue to be created. This marked the beginning of a vision.
In 2025, I offered the water my heart. My life changed. My heart opened. I received the full vision.
Born From Water remembers our origin: how we are all born from water.
It’s a shared journey, because true service happens together: many hearts, one shared mission.
Born From Water brings people across the world into relationship with water through learning, and giving back.
Many hearts. One shared mission.
- Born From Water
Indigenous Wisdom Keepers
We sit with elders and medicine carriers from Nahuatl, Quechua, K’iche’, Tzʼutujil, Wixárika, and other lineages - teachers we know, trust, and love.
They don’t just share knowledge; they open the path of spirit. You’ll meet them online and in ritual, and feel their presence of ancestral guidance.
Indigenous Wisdom Keepers
We sit with elders and medicine carriers from Nahuatl, Quechua, K’iche’, Tzʼutujil, Wixárika, and other lineages - teachers we know, trust, and love.
They don’t just share knowledge; they open the path of spirit. You’ll meet them online and in ritual, and feel their presence of ancestral guidance.
Guest Teachers and Elemental Guides
Our extended circle of Guest Teachers are people we've met over the years, each walking with the water in their own way. They don’t just teach; they embody the way of water. They guide us deeper into the body, the elements, and a sacred rhythm of life.
• Freedivers
• Breathworkers
• Water therapists
• Ritualists
• Plant medicine guides
• Emotional release practitioners
• Vocalists
• Artists
• Dreamworkers
• Embodiment practitioners
Water Protectors
These are renowned voices - marine biologists, scientists, activists, and innovators - fully devoted to water.
They lead with knowledge and action. They protect what they love.
And they inspire us to rise, speak, and act on behalf of our oceans.
Meet your guides
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Sofia Young
Head of Marketing
Emma Johnson
Project Manager
Ava Thompson
Operations Coordinator
Liam Carter
Creative Director
Noah Mitchell
Marketing Specialist
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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.
