Her Waters Story
My mother Maryanne Goods Boardway carried me in womb while riding horses in Gig Harbor, Washington. She was adopted by the most ideal grandma I could ever imagine, Emma Goods, who lived on a 14 acre farm with the horses. I dove fast through the birth portal and continued this pattern throughout life. My grandma Emma, horses and tidal pools were my first teachers.
Then I dove into travel, yoga and Soma Neuromuscular Bodywork. I began my Soma practice in 2013, which deepened my embodiment and a felt sense how we can communicate consciousness via fascia pathways with Water, light, sound and relationship. In 2014, I asked the Universe for a direct experience with the Divine to support my Soma and yoga practice. Soon after, on Whidbey Island I dove into an awakened meditative state where I was being undammed in my womb, then shown an aerial view of the Earth and how we need to undam Her Rivers as well as our bodies for vitality and restoring balance of power.
In 2021, I returned to Whidbey Island and free-birthed (unplanned) and caught my son Finn at home who also dove in like a strike of lightening. Our birth was ecstatic, and the Water held us during the precipitous waves and allowed me to relax, slow down and prevent what could have been a traumatic pace for my body to open. Our birth was the prophesy of a dream I was gifted 2 years prior and is informing a large body of Her Waters Course.
Our family now lives in white Salmon, WA where the Nikepun (white Salmon) river has been undammed. I marvel at how Water continues to move and teach me about birth, death, life, dreams, creativity, abundance, grief, gratitude and healing. I have my Lakota spiritual family to thank for teaching me how to treat Water as a relative, and I am very blessed and humbled to be adopted into this way of life. As I walk these lands on Turtle Island with ancestry of Irish, Scottish, English, Norwegian, French and Sequoia Native, I am reminded to be in reverence of where I am, to listen, give offerings, ask permission and wait to hear the answer. I am committed to being a lifelong student of Her Waters, and bringing the prayer forward for the undamming of Her Life Source.
-Em Quiver