What the Ocean Remembers

Connecting With Your Instincts Through Water

I’ve been an aquatic creature all the way back to my earliest memories. I’ve met other people like that, too. We are all aquatic in our origins. After all, we each arrived here via amniotic waters, didn’t we?

Getting in touch with my instincts

Some of my earliest memories remind me how inseparable we are from water. For me, water has always been a conduit to my free and instinctual self. When I was five years old, my mother brought me to my grandparents' home in Miami. This was the 1950s, before Miami was built up. Their house sat just steps from the ocean, and my days revolved around water.

I played in the sand and sea by day and learned to swim underwater in the pool by moonlight. I didn't know the word embodiment then, but I was discovering a felt-sense of aliveness that came from returning to my watery beginnings—before self-censoring, before worrying about what others thought.

The joy I felt wasn't just about swimming. It came from being fully expressed. My imagination was alive. My instincts were leading. My soul forces were in charge instead of social conditioning.

Your dreaming body

Many of the most transformative teachers I've encountered share a similar understanding: we connect with our instincts through water because we resonate with the waters of the earth. But perhaps it goes even deeper. The ocean carries a kind of remembrance. It invites you into a larger relationship with yourself and with life.

What I know from experience is this: whenever I'm at the ocean, something in me comes alive.

For decades, I've helped clients access what I call the dreaming body—the place in you where instinct, imagination, felt-sense, and deeper knowing begin to work together.

There were seeds of remembrance that were watered in Miami when I was five years old.

We all have moments like that. Childhood experiences open pathways that can later become doorways back to parts of ourselves that want fuller expression.

Sometimes transformation isn't about becoming someone new.

It's about remembering who you were before you learned to hold yourself back.

That sense of remembering is the intention behind my upcoming beach gathering on Tuesday, June 16th, 6:30-8:30. Through breath, sound, movement, and guided experience, we'll create space to embody more the instinctive and creative intelligence that wants to emerge.

If there are parts of yourself you'd like to reclaim, this may be an opportunity to retrieve the spark. Early registration is recommended.