Name: Restuary- an aquatic movement retreat
Start: 2025-11-01T10:00:00-07:00
Location: Inner Sanctum, Woodside CA

Event link: https://www.fluid-integrity.com/restuary
Restuary invites you into a day of respite; a chance to slow down in the in-between. Together, we will practice opening our senses within moments of uncertainty and transition. Not yet arrived, not full departed, full of possibilities.
For this day of rest, we call upon the waters of the estuaries (including the SF Bay), as the waters of liminality:
~ between river and ocean
~ between sweet and salty water
~ between movement and stillness
Estuaries are some of the most fertile ecosystems on earth. Estuaries are quiet nurseries and places of rest, for fish, birds, and countless species. They are sanctuaries for pausing during long journeys of migration and provide nutrient- rich shelters for the newly born. They remind us that the brackish waters can be places of refuge and renewal.
In this day-long retreat at the Inner Sanctum, we will:
~ Be immersed in a warm, body-temperature, salty & spring-fed pool
~ Float, suspend breath, and feel into the support of the water, buoyancy and flow.
~ Tend to our individual and collective nervous systems, making space for what may want to surface or soften
~ Honor the contradictions that mix within us, the brackish waters of grief and play, birth and death, stillness and movement.
~ Gather on land at sunset to honor the thresholds within us, the movements of change and transformation.
~ Close with a nourishing warm meal, digesting the day in community before transitioning into departure.
How can we soften our tone as we lean into unknown territories?
How can we make refuge for each other amidst the uncertainty of what is still to come?

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.

When:
November 1, 2025
Arrival by 10AM
Closing at 6PM
optional warm dinner 6-7pm

Where:
The workshop will be held at The inner Sanctum, Woodside. 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 outdoors. There are trails up into the hills that you may want to explore during our free moments. We will send out the location and directions with the confirmation email.

Contributions:
*Reduced rate (for those needing financial support): $160
*Standard Rate: $200
*Supporter Rate: $240
We want to make this work available to those who feel called.
If these rates are inaccessible for you, please reach out.
Venmo: kristen-rulifson
Paypal: [email protected]
REGISTRATION LINK: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5D0LrYietpl4dPZDxaLQiSP_VJEUjjfu-fEnzGNT1JiDLhg/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=104056276613170641352

For more info: visit fluid-integrity.com.
Inquiries can be sent to: [email protected]

About the Facilitators:
Kriss( they/them ) is a contemporary movement artist, aquatic dancer, and transdisciplinary 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?” Their current research spirals in and out of the process of re-membering, life cycles , and embodied resistance.
Kriss received their B.S. from UC Davis in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior and then studied Expressive Arts Therapy At the Tamalpa Institute. They studied contemporary dance in Berlin and Tanzfabrik Schule and are an Axis Syllabus Teacher Candidate. Their aquatic dance is shaped by their practice in free diving as well as aquatic therapy techniques of Janzu and Fluid Presence. Currently they freelance as a dancer and teacher locally and internationally, as well as advocate for safe housing for survivors of domestic violence at Gum Moon in SF Chinatown.Their work as a dancer and teacher has been received in Germany, France, Slovakia, and Hungary, Costa Rica, and across the SF Bay Area.

Asha (he/they) 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. 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 and 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.