Weaving Waters
March 21 - 23 2025
Inner Sanctum: Woodside, CA
What:
Weaving Waters is an invitation to slow down, listen deeply, and reconnect with the fluid wisdom of your body. Over 3 days, and 2 nights, we will blend land-based and aquatic practices to support your body's innate capacity for fluid movement and grounded presence. On land, we’ll explore somatic practices like contact improvisation, functional floorwork, breathwork, and play-fight—each designed to help you tune into your body’s sensations, cultivating softness, awareness, and a deep sense of rootedness. Our aquatic practices are inspired by contact improvisation, freediving, Aguahara, Janzu, and Fluid Presence, allowing the body to float, yield, and flow with ease. The water becomes a sanctuary where you can let go of tension, explore fluid expression, and deepen your connection to both body and breath.
Through these practices, we aim to nurture your ability to move with resilience, creativity, and grace, cultivating a sense of adaptability and presence that extends far beyond the dance floor. Weaving Waters develops a relationship with your body that is responsive, tender, and alive to what is present in each moment.
How:
Throughout the gathering we will:
* Find a sense of levity in relationship to gravity,
* Renegotiate the distribution of tension in our bodies,
* Follow the chain of movement along fascial networks,
* Introduce the basics of giving and receiving aquatic support,
* Practice mutual and collective care within a community container
* Attune to sensing and moving different layers of our anatomical structure,
* Deepen our capacity for subtle listening and connection in water and on land,
* Discover new pathways that emerge through weightlessness and disorientation,
*Co-create an empowering field of personal expression & group communication
for whom:
This workshop will be applicable to dancers, movement artists, bodyworkers, physical therapists, movement therapists, somatic therapists, or anyone who is:
* curious about exploring the fluid mechanics of the body
* researching ways of developing more softness and listening in their dance
* wanting to be in their body in a more responsive and adaptable way
* wanting to find more fluidity in their partner dances
* Interested in developing their technique in aquatic dance
why:
We believe cultivating fluid capacities supports us in navigating unexpected, challenging, or disruptive experiences in movement or in life, with grace. In these times of increasing instability and uncertainty, we believe training qualities such as fluid adaptability, softness, resilience, yielding, listening, and creativity are implicit to surviving, as well as thriving. We will explore how to carry these qualities into our movement practices and ultimately into our life.
researching the continuum between the liquid and terrestrial habitats, our land and water body
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integrating the fluid qualities of water into our biomechanical, ecological, relational, and emotional structures
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blooming towards the encounter while keeping my roots firm, caring for me while taking care of the other.
researching the continuum between the liquid and terrestrial habitats, our land and water body 〰️ integrating the fluid qualities of water into our biomechanical, ecological, relational, and emotional structures 〰️ blooming towards the encounter while keeping my roots firm, caring for me while taking care of the other.
Inner Sanctum
The weekend workshop will be held at The inner Sanctum in Woodside California. An oasis overlooking rollings hills openings to the pacific ocean. Our aquatic practices will be held in a large 97 degree warm salt-water pool, and our land-based sessions will be either inside or outdoors. There are trails up into the hills that you may want to explore during our free moments.
Investment
Reduced
$400
Standard
$475
Supporting
$550+
◎Rate includes Included meals from Friday Lunch through Sunday Lunch
◎Base Rate included camping.
◎Queen Bed in Shared Accomodation is an additional $50
◎Private Rooms at an additional cost (please ask)
◎50% non-refundable deposit of workshop fees is due at registration.
◎We have a few work-trade positions available for those who need some support to attend.
◎Please feel free to reach out if you'd like to be considered for one of these spots, mostly to support cooking and cleaning.
Payable to:
Venmo: Escolacqua
Paypal: Fashalacqua@gmail.com
Registration & Further info
For any inquiries or to register for the workshop,
you can email or Whatsapp with interest at:
twinmoonsproductions@gmail.com
To finalize your registration
submit your 50% deposit to:
Venmo: Escolacqua
PayPal: Fashalacqua@gmail.com
The final registration is due upon arrival to Inner Sanctum Farm, and to expedite entry can be submitted in total with registration or by Thursday March 20, 2025.
Meet your hosts
Kriss Rulifson
[they/she]
Kriss is a contemporary movement artist, aquatic dancer, and interdisciplinary maker. Their love for disorientation has inspired them to dance suspended off bridges, free fall into the depths of the sea, and plummet into hundreds of bodies over the many years of practicing contact improvisation. Through their various movement muses, they are constantly asking, “ How can I be in the most available state to receive and respond to a constantly changing environment?”
Kriss is currently working as a freelance dancer and choreographer based out of Berlin and is an Axis Syllabus teacher candidate. Kriss graduated from Tanzfabrik Schule (2022) and holds a degree in Neurobiology Physiology and Behavior from the UC Davis (2014) and Expressive Arts Therapy from the Tamalpa Institute (2016). Their creative work has been received throughout the Bay Area and greater Northwest of the USA, Turkey, Mexico, Canada, France, and Germany. Their movement is inspired and informed by Contact Improvisation, Breaking and House, Axis Syllabus, Flying Low, and Free Diving. Kriss has performed and collaborated with various companies such as KD MovingGround, Piñata Collective, Scott Wells & Dancers, Footloose Presents, Artship, and Dugway Proving Ground, amongst others.
kristenrulifson.com
asha f. passalacqua
[he/they]
asha is an integrative bodyworker, aquatic therapist, SEP (somatic experiencing practitioner), facilitator and dancer with a somatic oriented approach to guiding the body into functional fluidity. He strives towards presencing ever deepening levels of embodiment and somatic freedom and integrity. As a dancer/mover, his movement practice has been shaped by many influences, but is predominantly informed by Axis Syllabus, Contact Improvisation, functional movement, contemporary dance, Playfight and aquatic dance. Through his practice and teachings, he hopes to support the development of functional fluidity, a reliable connection to the ground, subtle listening, and presence in moments of disorientation.
Asha earned his BA from Hampshire College in integrative psychology, medical anthropology, and cognitive science, and his CMT from Mckinnon Body Therapy Center, and SEP. His passion for aquatic therapy led him to study Aguahara and Fluid Presence in Brazil, Mexico, and Spain. He is a certified DanceAbility teacher, Aguahara practitioner, Freediver. His somatic work is informed by his Somatic Experiencing Practitioner training and Gabor Mate's Compassionate Inquiry Method. He offers trauma-informed bodywork, and somatic experiencing sessions through the psychedelic-assisted-therapy clinic Sage Integrative Health in Berkeley, Ca, and co-facilitates legal psychedelic retreats in the Netherlands with Kiyumi.
Escolacqua.com
Leticia Bousquie
[she/her]
Leti is an aquatic therapist and certified instructor of Janzu technique. In the past years she has been fully dedicated to studying and integrating many therapeutic aquatic techniques such as Janzu, Aguahara, Acquadynamics, FasciaSomatic and Aquatic Bodywaves./ She receives inspiration from several teachers and especially from her own relationship with water since being a child on the Mediterranean. This practice supports her in bringing together all her passions and daily practices as dance, yoga and meditation, and helps her grow and develop the presence, acceptance and empathy required to offer this healing work to others and to this world. She has collaborated in aquatic jams, produced aquatic dance workshops and facilitated Janzu training around Mexico, Puerto Rico and Colorado (US). Coming from a background of Nutrition and Chinese Medicine studies in Barcelona, she also accompanies self-development processes through nutritional consulting, and offering conscious nutrition workshops. She is in devoted service through earth and water, committed to growing in wholeness as a human and holding spaces for self discovery processes.