14/09/2025
BIRTH MEMORY IN WATER
Birth, Memory & Water Symposium
12 - 14 June 2025
Arillas, Corfu, GREECE
"What if we remembered that the apple was actually an apricot and that pleasure is our Birthright?
What if we remembered that our Bubble is our Birthright and that Life is wanting us to express our needs, desires and unique human potential?
What if we remembered rather than imagined the complex layers of awareness that inform our being in utero?
What if we could strip away the layers of confusion, numbing, medication, trauma, separation, and witness the essence of what truly remains?
Slow is the new fast and soft is the new deep in pre and perinatal aquatics so that the space in between can be seen, expressed and gently integrated."
Sophia Michalopoulou, founder of AQUAGENESIS led the enquiry into Birth Memory in Water as an Integrative Aquatic Therapist and educator who specializes in pre and perinatal trauma release. She is also a newborn and baby swimming educator as well as a pregnancy and birth doula. Sophia supports the entire birth experience from conception, pregnancy and birth with water in order to create a more gentle and conscious fluid continuum for future babies and children.
Sophia grew up by the sea on the island of Corfu, Greece and her love for water became her life path and service. After experiencing a number of aquatic bodywork modalities, open water practices, therapeutic and teaching methods on land and in water, she dedicated herself to the path she found the most depth and capacity to hold herself.
Immersed in warm water, Sophia began to remember her own birth journey while studying with David Sawyer and to see birth from a baby’s perspective. Sophia’s thesis, “MY BIRTH STORY” outlining her exploration and embodiment of Vanishing Twin Syndrome, became a podcast on Spotify. She facilitates the process of remembering more of who we are so that we can overcome a sense of separation and live our lives from our fullest capacities while expressing our unique human potential.
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📸 Photographer Corfu - Elena Kipriotis