SOPHIE COSTES

Founder of Waterness Journey™, Ayurvedic practitioner, and certified WaterDance and Watsu® therapist, I accompany therapeutic processes in warm water and on land, offering body-centered treatments oriented toward deep systemic restoration.

My path as a therapist began in the early 2000s. After leaving a career in contemporary art in Paris and modern art in Malaga, I chose to live in India for several years to study Ayurveda and deepen my Ashtanga yoga practice. This immersion in ancestral body-based sciences reached a natural turning point in 2010, when I began collaborating with yoga schools in Japan, teaching how to adapt Ayurvedic principles to the realities of modern living.

Today, I teach two traditional Ayurvedic bodywork techniques, Abhyanga and Chavutti Thirumal, while dedicating most of my time to aquatic sessions and to teaching Waterness Journey™, the therapeutic method I founded more than six years ago.

Born in France and trained in visual arts alongside dance and hatha yoga, I have gradually cultivated a deeper understanding of the body as a living memory and as a natural guide toward healing. Meditation and my studies in psychosomatic therapy inform this vision and allow me to offer a safe, supportive, and deeply human container during sessions and trainings.

The opening of the heart through consciousness is central to my work and expresses itself in my daily practice. I cultivate an empathic presence that recognizes the body as both the temple of imprint and the temple of restoration. Through conscious movement, the support of words, and the benevolent gaze of a skilled companion, the outer layers of the moving body reveal the inner processes that seek recognition. It is through this alliance of movement and presence that I find my most authentic way of sharing a therapeutic space where the body remembers its own path of healing