My name is Rianne, and I am an artist and movement teacher from Long Island, NY. I can see how light moves like water around people and nature, which led me to create this modality to help people strengthen their auras. I am really passionate about giving people an experience that feels beautiful, cleansing and fun for our body, mind, and spirit.

I’ve always been very

I’ve always been sensitive and connected to my spirituality. As a kid I had recurring dreams at night about babies being born and of strangers gathering to celebrate unity surrounded by bright white & yellow light. I felt like people would find me cheesy and weird so I spent a lot of my early years dulling it down in efforts to fit in, and later hiding behind toxic habits/ numbing out.

I “floated away” from my body often to avoid the conflict in my mind and the wall around my heart. In my teens I started to find deeper healing in my yoga practice- a lifelong respite for me since I started at age 3. I rediscovered my connection to the divine when I would move from the deepest waters inside of me- which looked like a blend of yoga, dance, and free-form movement…or when I was making art about what I was seeing.

In art school, I became fascinated by the ancient sacredness of ceremony that calls the spirit back that often centered around water and light. Seeing how it is a common thread between so many cultures enthralled me.

It inspired me to get my Somatic Healing degree and study the waters of the body- how emotions connect to the physical, what causes them to be stagnant and how to clear them. I pursued 1000 hours of yoga teacher training from many lineages- from Prana Vinyasa, to Iyengar, alignment and therapeutic- so that I could confidently and safely care for each water body that walks into my class. Then I deepened my fascination and study in ancient dance, art, and water ceremony. I moved to Hawaii specifically to listen to the water there, and to birth this work of love called Aura Toning into form.

Through dedicating myself to this journey, I have found that no matter how much confusion or sadness I came onto my mat with, I would always be guided back to the simplest truth- I am Love. We are Love.

I know this is truly the very beginning, and I have deep respect, love, and appreciation for the teachers I have met along the way who have simultaneously guided me and given me the opportunity to learn by doing.

I think my greatest teachers in this life are water, my body, and forgiveness.

The more I share Aura Toning and have the privilege to work with bodies of all ages and backgrounds, the more I have gotten to see the powerful transformations that occur through the simple recipe of movement, water & light for each person to heal their own water body.

The integrated understanding that we are all water, that is so deeply felt that it can’t really be explained, will always be my North Star.

I truly believe

that movement, water, and light is the most authentic healing that is available to all of us.

I created this practice through a life-long calling, perhaps even a memory, of attunement with the spirit of water

more and more, I believe in living life in service to the water

by feeling water

by listening to water

singing to water

dancing our waters

protecting our waters

gazing into water

adoring water

lacing love through water…

its tempting to say that answers live in the water,

but the truth is water will not give us flat answers…

water works in feeling…

in pulses and waves…

which is more mysterious and sacred than words can capture.

aura toning is something I created to bring my calling into embodied practice

creating a strong body to house a soft heart.

tending the waters

movement by movement.

I am moved by

starlight on water, husky voices, sun and water rainbows, the ocean in Hawaii, sunrise papayas, honeybees, golden hour, endless nights of creative ecstasy, moving with well-stretched legs, silent sunrise in nature, all forms of dance, unplanned day adventures with my people, feeling like I can fly, wrap around dresses with a leather jacket, the smell of oranges, gold paint, Hildegard von Bingen, living tea, the sacrum bone, live music, raw talent, flawed humans, redemption stories, plumeria flowers, kid’s art, dogs, creations exquisitely channeled from the heavens, aquatic creatures, singing, the color turquoise, painty hands, experiential anatomy, dry humor, music by Phillip Glass.

WATER

is life and our greatest teacher.

We are all water and light, and we are all so connected. Aura Toning is a place to feel this, to embody this, and to fall in love with being alive. I am so glad you’re here.