Amal Lana's mark: a sun setting into water inside a compass, above her name in watercolor

About Amal Lana

Amal means Hope.Lana means For Us.

For four decades, her work has centered on touch, movement, water, and creating spaces where people can simply be held. Born in Southern California to a family of Palestinian refugees whose roots reach back to Jericho, she has been present for five births and five deaths, and has held veterans, cancer survivors, grieving mothers, and healers who forgot they too needed to be held.

Licensed massage therapistAquatic bodyworkerWater aerobics instructorHerbalist

A life in water

  1. Cypress, California · Age four
    Before I learned to float,
    I learned to cling.
    Passage One
  2. The Kern River · Sixteen
    I only know that at some point
    the river lost. And I didn’t.
    Passage Two
  3. Harbin Hot Springs · A full moon
    You do nothing.
    And yet you are held.
    Passage Ten
  4. Her father’s side · His last ten days
    I wasn’t the healer
    in those months.
    I was a daughter.
    Passage Twelve
  5. A garage in Flagstaff · 2012–2016
    And sometimes the most healing thing
    we can do is build a place
    where others can remember it too.
    Passage Eleven
  6. Today · Northern Arizona
    Let me add my presence
    to what the water is already doing.
    Passage Six

Every line above is Amal Lana’s own, from The Well Being of Water: Surrender to Self.

Water holds us at every edge.
And we are never alone in the crossing.
Passage Eleven, Surrender to Self

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Short

Amal Lana is an aquatic healer in Northern Arizona who has spent four decades helping people feel held in warm water. Her first book is The Well Being of Water: Surrender to Self.

A little longer

Amal Lana, whose name means “hope for us” in Arabic, has spent four decades helping people feel safe and at home in their bodies, through touch, movement and warm water. She is a licensed massage therapist, aquatic bodyworker, water aerobics instructor and herbalist. Born in Southern California to a family of Palestinian refugees, she lives in Northern Arizona, where she dreams of Waves of Hope, a warm-water retreat center open to everyone. The Well Being of Water: Surrender to Self is her first book.

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