02 Jan Apryl Dawn Uncapher
Founder of Native Water Systems, Apryl Dawn is calling in a new water culture. She designs and builds scalable and informing water conservation and reuse strategies that build active relationships between people and 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 art 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 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 Somatics 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 flow patterns, awakening each molecule of water inside the human body and attuning it with calibration to divine flow for optimal health, just as she does for each water molecule on the planet.
Currently stewarding sacred Miwok land on Mt. Tamalpais, Apryl enjoys her life in Northern California with her inventive life partner and two inspiring teen daughters. Gather with her to explore how to turn land into a living altar of love and care for the Earth’s waters and how this 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 Healing Water: Cultivating Your Land as a Living Altar.
