SOPHIE COSTES

Founder of Waterness Journey™, psycho-corporal therapist, ayurvedic practitioner and certified in WaterDance and Watsu®, I accompany therapeutic processes in warm water and on land, oriented toward the deep restoration of the body and the emotions.

My path emerged in the early 2000s. After a career in contemporary art in Paris and then in Málaga, I lived several years in India to study Ayurveda and deepen my Ashtanga yoga practice. In 2010, I began teaching in Japan: workshops on the foundations of ayurvedic principles and asanas, adapted to modern (Japanese!) life, as well as Abhyanga massage courses in Tokyo and Osaka.

Today, I teach two traditional ayurvedic massages — Abhyanga and Chavutti Thirumal — but I devote most of my energy to aquatic sessions and to teaching Waterness Journey™, the method I have been transmitting since 2013.

Born in France, trained in the visual arts alongside my fascination with dance and yoga, I have come to see the body as a living memory and a natural guide toward healing. Meditation and my studies in psychosomatic therapy — nourished by the work of Jung, Lowen and Reich — allow me to offer a safe and deeply human space, in sessions as in trainings.

Through conscious movement, the support of words and an empathetic presence, the body remembers its own path of healing.