ABOUT ME
Meet the woman behind the waters
I was born on the spring equinox. Named for the dew, the water that exists only at the threshold between night and day, I did not choose water as my medicine. Water chose me before I had a name.
I did not discover my calling. I was born from it.
I am a water healer and ceremonialist. I have been in the healing arts for over twenty-five years, and working with water in this specific and sacred way for over a decade. I also hold a B.A. in Sociology and Gender, Ethnicity & Multicultural Studies.
My father comes from Sahuayo, a Nahuatl word meaning vessel, on the southern shore of Lake Chapala.
My mother comes from Pajacuarán, a Purépecha word meaning place of mushrooms, a town born on an island surrounded on all sides by water. Both towns in Michoacán, whose name means next to the water.
WHAT I BRING
I create experiences that live at the intersection of ceremony, somatic intelligence, and ancestral wisdom, where water becomes the medium through which something extraordinary happens.
This work activates something deeper than relaxation: an expanded capacity to perceive, to create, and to relate differently, in relationships, in work, in the body's relationship to itself.
Whether I am working with an individual, a family across generations, a leadership team, or a curated retreat, I bring the same rare quality of presence: a capacity to hold the full spectrum of human experience and alchemize it into something transformative.
That expansion shows up differently for everyone I work with. Teams have left a session relating to each other with more ease and less formality than they arrived with. People have surfaced unexpected laughter and lightness in the water, alongside clarity they did not expect to find.
I have worked with prenatal mothers and their partners, bringing partners and loved ones into the water to connect, through the body, with the child already on their way. There are mothers who have come for a session and entered active labor within hours of leaving the water. The body, returned to its first home, remembers how to open.
I have held daughters alongside their mothers, multiple generations moving through the same water, the lineage shifting in a single afternoon. I have also convened grief circles and death ceremonies, corporate wellness retreats and sacred women’s gatherings, intimate VIP experiences and large collective activations.
The range is not incidental. This is the work.
I have also held my own parents in water in the land they came from, and felt the medicine move back through generations in a single session. What I offer others I have lived myself, with the people closest to me, in the soil my blood comes from.
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My work is not only about releasing what has been carried. It is about reimprinting. Water, met with full presence and sacred intention, writes a new story into the body — into the bones, the cellular memory, the DNA, the energetic field that extends beyond the skin and beyond the lifetime. What releases is real. But what arrives in its place is the point.
People leave the water differently than they entered. Not just lighter — but more coherent. More themselves. As if something that had been compressed for years finally found the space to breathe, to reorganize, to remember its original shape.
For individuals, this is personal transformation — a return to the original frequency of who they truly are. For couples and families, it is relational coherence — the invisible threads between people clarified, softened, repaired. For groups and organizations, it is something rarer still: collective activation. A shared field, intentionally opened and imprinted, that bonds people at a level no team building exercise can reach. The people in that water remember it. They remember each other differently afterward. Something shifts in the room — and stays shifted.
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I bring this work into contexts that call for depth, beauty, and transformation. I curate immersive water ceremonies and sound healing experiences for luxury retreats, wellness destinations, and hospitality experiences seeking to offer something genuinely rare. I design collective activation sessions for leadership gatherings, organizational offsites, and purpose-driven companies ready to move beyond the surface. I collaborate with event architects, retreat curators, and wellness directors who understand that the most unforgettable experiences are the ones that reach people where no other modality can.
Water is the centerpiece, the element your guests will still be talking about a year later, the session that becomes the defining before and after of a retreat, the ceremony that gives a gathering its soul.
My role is to hold the space in which that becomes possible.
Like the nautilus, what I create expands from a living center outward, through the individual, into the collective, into the field that connects all living things. This work is increasingly being sought by organizations at the leading edge of the ocean healing and surf therapy movement, as foundational knowledge for a field only now being formally recognized. What I bring to every collaboration is not something a curriculum can teach: twenty-five years of living practice, an unbroken lineage, and the understanding that water does not transform because of anything we do. It transforms because the body has always known how, and was simply waiting to be held long enough to remember.
25 years in the healing arts · 10+ years working in water · B.A. Sociology and Gender, Ethnicity & Multicultural Studies
The two doors
I work across the full span of a life.
I have worked alongside doulas and midwives — with mothers days away from giving birth, and with the partners who will meet that child. I have also worked alongside death doulas, with people preparing to leave their bodies.
The door in, and the door out. Most practitioners work somewhere in the middle. I have spent twenty-five years at both thresholds, and everywhere between them: grief circles, leadership teams, women’s gatherings, families holding three generations in the same water.
Who comes to the water
The creative who is stuck. Artists, performers, founders — people whose work depends on access to something they have temporarily lost. They arrive blocked and leave with the path open again. This happens often enough that I consider it a pattern, not a coincidence.
The one carrying grief. A loss that has not moved. A decision that will not resolve. The mind has done everything it can and it has not been enough.
The one who was never held. People who discover, sometimes at fifty, that they cannot remember the last time they were supported by someone who wanted nothing from them.
The one at a threshold. Becoming a parent. Losing one. Leaving a marriage, a country, a body of work.
"Rocío's medicine has had a profound impact in my life. During the last six years, I've been held by Rocío in the water, been submerged in silence in the desert and emerged into a new way of being after her Oaxaca retreat. She has a way of piercing through the layers of doubt, fear and shame to help us reconnect with the guidance of our heart."
— Ana Flores, author, advisor, community architect
Water is the first medicine. All is possible with this remembering.
THE MISSIONThe water still holds what we have forgotten.
We live in a time of extraordinary disconnection, from ourselves, from each other, from the living earth. We carry what our families never had language for. We move through our days at a speed that leaves no room for the body to be heard, for the field between people to be tended, for the deeper intelligence that water has always carried to be consulted. Something essential has been forgotten. And that forgetting has a cost, in our health, our relationships, our collective capacity to create what this moment is asking of us.
Water healing is not a retreat from the world. It is a return to the intelligence that makes it possible to move through the world with full presence, full aliveness, and full coherence.
We carry intergenerational trauma in our cells, the accumulated pain of ancestral family systems and collective wounds passed through generations like water through stone. We carry a forgetting: of who we truly are, of the gnosis that lives in our bodies, of our sacred obligation to relationship, to ourselves, to each other, to the living earth. Indigenous and earth based wisdom has always known what we are only beginning to remember. Whales still sing the ancient ancestral memory across oceans.
"We are in the Ring of Fire. We are in our deepest reckoning as a species. And we need water to help alleviate some of that strain — that responsibility we carry. We need water healing to be held. To find reprieve and strength to carry forward. We must learn to restore and reconcile all of our relationships — but first within ourselves."
What is possible on the other side of this work is not simply the absence of what was carried. It is coherence, within the self, within the family system, within the team, within the collective. It is the experience of coming home to a frequency that was always yours. This is the clarity, the creativity, the relational depth, and the embodied power that becomes available when the weight of the unprocessed past is no longer consuming the energy of the present.
This is what Rocío brings, to individuals ready for transformation, to families ready to shift the lineage, to organizations ready to operate from a deeper field, and to curated experiences ready to offer something genuinely extraordinary.
The work meets each person and each context exactly where they are. And it always moves toward the same thing: a more alive, more coherent, more connected human being, and through them, a more alive world.
THE VISIONTo restore humanity's relationship to water — and through water, to itself — as the essential pathway to individual transformation, collective coherence, and the healing of the living earth.
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