The Essence

This collaboration was born from the meeting of a painter and a filmmaker — two artists working in different mediums, who independently discovered water as a collaborator rather than a resource.

Through years of practice, water revealed itself as something that carries memory, timing, and intelligence. A presence that teaches when attention softens and control loosens.

Listening Waters offers a space to reconnect with creativity by learning to work with water — allowing its qualities to guide process, perception, and presence.

What happens

At the heart of the work lies a simple question:

What happens when we stop trying to create and instead become receptive?

Listening Waters is a combined practice, bringing together Whispering Waters Fluid Creativity by Yanis Zagorianakos

and Presence and Embodiment work by Rani Khanna.
Together, these two approaches form a shared creative field shaped by water and listening.

Through reflection, embodied practice, expressive painting, and direct contact with water, we explore:

how creative flow arises,

• what blocks it and what restores it,

  the states we move through,

  and how to remain available over time.

Creativity is not treated as personal achievement.
It is approached as a current — something we enter, tune into, and allow to pass through us.

Water as Teacher

The method is inspired entirely by water.

Water teaches adaptability without losing essence, movement without force, persistence without aggression, memory, rhythm, and responsiveness.

Through simple theory, reflection, and direct experience, we learn how to connect to water and allow it to guide the way — in creativity and in life.

Water gradually shifts from something we relate to, to something we cooperate with, and eventually, something we embody.

Expressive Painting & Presence

Painting is used as a practice of attention, not as an artistic goal.

There is no emphasis on style, technique, talent, or finished results. Painting becomes a way to observe how we approach the unknown, notice habits of control, experience surrender, and understand timing and flow.

Each morning begins with presence and fluid embodiment practices, gently preparing body, mind, and nervous system for the day’s work.

As the retreat unfolds, attention increasingly turns toward water and the sacral centre — creativity, sensation, joy, and feeling.

This experience is open to everyone.
No prior painting experience is needed.