08 Jan Apryl Dawn Uncapher
Founder of Native Water Systems, Apryl is calling in a new water culture. She designs and
builds scalable water conservation and reuse strategies that weave into a watershed network
that builds active relationships between people and the planet. She transforms communities by
daylighting water with rain gardens, graywater orchards, and living architecture, and is
dedicated to transforming land owners into land stewards that live with water, a lifestyle that
tends our life-giving waters with care and gratitude.
Apryl has been healing the waters of the Earth’s body for over 25 years. A visionary leader, she
crafted an Interdisciplinary Design Engineering degree from Purdue University, merging
materials science, industrial design, and environmental protection. She continued her calling by
studying with pioneers in the field of water and their inspiring work, including John Todd’s living
machines, Paul Stamets’ mycoremediation, and Bill Wilson’s stormwater and wastewater
systems. Her original mentor, Gaia, has offered the greatest insights, including many in the
ways water flows and is held in a perpetually regenerative water cycle.
Receiving the wisdom that we are only able to honor and tend the sacred water of our Earth as
much as we are able to honor and tend the sacred water of Self, for the past decade, her
environmental water work has been informing a unique field of wholistic trauma therapy – Aerial
Somatic Healing. Founding Sacred Sky Yoga in 2015, Apryl uses an AYRx therapy swing to
alchemize fluid-state movements and spiraling rhythms found in water and womb-states with the
wisdom of somatic therapy and neuroscience. Suspended in air, she tenderly and safely directs
the body in primal patterns, awakening each molecule of water inside the human body and
attuning it with calibration to divine flow for optimal health.
Currently stewarding sacred Miwok land on Mt. Tamalpais, Apryl enjoys her life in Northern
California with her inventive life partner and two inspiring young teen daughters. Gather with her
to explore the ins and outs of a rain garden and how this one small yet mighty tool activates the
urgent rewilding of our footprint so we may walk together into the dawn of a new water culture.
www.NativeWaterSystems.com
Apryl will be sharing Cooling the Climate with Rain Gardens: Transforming Your Garden into an
Earth Guardian.
