Our Team

James Anthony (he/him, any pronouns)

James Anthony (owner, founder and co-steward of the temple pool), created this pool in July 2019 inspired by the vision of the Triad Round, a non-professional, peer-to-peer effort to share the connection and experience of warm water aquatic bodywork with friends and family created and taught by Harold Dull, the founder of Watsu.

seh-reum tom (they/them, we/us)

seh-reum is a co-steward of the Holds the Moon Quan Yin Water Temple, supporting with developing programming and protocols to make aquatic healing work more accessible to historically marginalized communities and support the reclamation of ancestral and spiritual relationships to the medicine of water. you can learn more about them and their work here at their website: gwaneumsa.garden

Community Practitioner & Facilitator Directory

  • James

    aquatic bodywork practitioner, facilitator, authentic relating/circling, temple co-steward

  • seh-reum

    water work/aquatic facilitation & dance, healing arts, birth and death care & companionship, ancestral medicine healing, post-psychedelic somatic integration, consent education, energy and sound healing, herbalist, ceremonialist, and temple co-steward

    website

  • Max

    Max Shannon (he/him) is a practitioner and facilitator who has been practicing water therapy since 2020. Motivated to share the experience of a water session, he has traveled internationally studying Watsu, Waterdance and Aguahara techniques. Max’s goal is to attune to each individual body and provide a session with the safety required to move deeper and commune with what the water bring us.

    You can book a session with Max by contacting him at maxtheshannon@gmail.com

  • Tanner

    Aguahara is an invitation to surrender—into water, into trust, into the deep currents of your own being. At Holds The Moon Quan Yin Water Temple, Tanner (they/them) offers this profoundly nourishing water therapy as a gateway to deep relaxation, emotional release, and embodied presence. With seven years of private bodywork experience (trigger point therapy, shiatsu, thai massage, biogeometric integration, craniosacral therapy, and Reiki), they weave practiced traditions into each session, allowing the water to guide what is needed in the moment.

    Each session is a co-creation—an intuitive dance between stillness and movement, holding and release. As the water supports you, you are invited to listen deeply, to move as you feel called, and to let your body’s wisdom lead the way.

  • Rahul

    Within the aquatic realm, Rahul (he/they) loves warm water contact improvisation and giving / receiving aquatic bodywork. His approach to aquatic bodywork is influenced by Aguahara (Level 1 training in Fall 2024 & Level 2 in Spring 2025), contact improvisation dance, and a spiritual support group - inviting elements of deep listening, softness, and gentle curiosity. He also organizes & facilitates a monthly warm water contact improvisation dance lab. Outside of the aquatic world, Rahul is an organizer, teacher, & performer of contact improvisation in Berkeley.

  • name

    bio

    Read Bio