Return to your body
As part of the Living World
Shiatsu, subtle energy work, and educational spaces for healing, restoration, and deeper participation in the living world.
About Elemental Belonging
Many people arrive here while navigating chronic illness, emotional pain, fatigue, burnout, or a quiet sense that something essential has become difficult to reach. Others arrive through curiosity—a longing to understand themselves more deeply, explore the unseen dimensions of experience, or cultivate a greater sense of participation in life.
We live within systems and stories that often separate us from our bodies, from ecological rhythms, from community, and from the deeper relational nature of existence itself. We experience this disconnection not only as a philosophical problem, but in our bodies, emotions, perceptions, and ways of moving through the world.
Elemental Belonging offers healing sessions, ritual spaces, and educational experiences that help create the conditions to feel, experience, and participate more fully in the living field of life we are already part of—including the subtle, relational, and spiritual dimensions that modern culture often overlooks.
At its heart is a simple understanding: belonging is not something we must create or earn. We already belong. Healing involves softening the patterns and learned postures that make that belonging difficult to feel.
We are made of earth and sky. How could we not belong?
Who We Are
Medicine Learned From the Inside
Mars Aqueous is an energy practitioner, ritualist, and relational educator whose work explores the relationship between healing, worldview, and modern conditions of separation.
Their work emerged through twenty years of navigating what Western medicine and modern mental health systems could not fully see or hold.
Their path is shaped by chronic illness, queerness and neurodivergence, psychiatric survivorship and recovery, and a long journey of unlearning inherited assumptions about mind, illness, and reality itself.
Through two+ decades of decolonial inquiry and praxis, and ten years of subtle energy practice, shamanic and off-body work, family constellations, East Asian meridian and energetic traditions, relational neuroscience, and animist spirit work, Mars found approaches that reached the deeper layers.
Elemental Belonging grew from this journey. It is medicine learned from the inside.
Mars brings together Quantum Shiatsu, subtle energy work, and relational approaches to healing that gently interrupt the perceptual and somatic patterns of separation that keep us estranged from our own aliveness.
Ways of Working
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A hands-on form of Japanese meridian medicine that supports circulation, emotional and energetic flow, and deeper relationship with the intelligence of your body.
Quantum Shiatsu is a form of Japanese meridian therapy rooted in East Asian medicine and informed by an understanding of the body as intelligent, relational, and already oriented toward healing.
This full-spectrum medicine works with the body's meridian system to support circulation—not only of blood and lymph, but of energy, emotion, and awareness. Sessions may be especially supportive for chronic illness, fatigue, inflammation, overwhelm, and the patterns of stagnation that can emerge when movement and flow become limited.
Through touch, subtle energetic awareness, and Hara-centered practice, this work also supports the softening and reorganization of embodied beliefs, protective adaptations, and emotional memory held through trauma, ancestral inheritance, and lived experience.
Quantum Shiatsu also supports energetic sensitivity, spiritual emergence, and deeper exploration of the unseen dimensions of experience—helping cultivate greater connection with body, intuition, and the living field of relationships that shapes our lives.
Shiatsu is traditionally practiced fully clothed. Please wear comfortable clothing that allows freedom of movement.
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A remote session for tending the deeper patterns that shape experience, relationship, and earthly belonging.
This work engages the energetic field and the subtler layers of lived and inherited experience that influence how we feel, relate, and move through life.
Sessions may include energetic boundary repair, trauma and timeline re-patterning, younger-self and relational healing, and support for unwinding longstanding emotional, ancestral, and energetic patterns.
Drawing from over a decade of subtle energy practice, family constellations, relational neuroscience, and animist approaches to healing and repair, these sessions are collaborative, intuitive, and responsive to the unique terrain of your experience.
Distance healing supports emotional and energetic healing, energetic sensitivity, spiritual emergence, and deeper exploration of the unseen dimensions of experience—creating space for greater coherence, clarity, belonging, and participation in the wider field of life.
Each offering is shaped around your body, your history, and the wider field of relationships influencing how you feel, heal, and move through life.
In-person sessions are offered at SomaSpace in Hollywood on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Distance healing sessions are available wherever you are.
Contact & Questions
We’re happy to chat to answer questions and see if sessions are a good fit for you.