Marina’s life has been shaped by water, movement, and an ongoing inquiry into the experience of being human.

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Her relationship with water began before birth. During her mother’s pregnancy, Marina developed in a condition of polyhydramnios, characterized by a higher-than-average volume of amniotic fluid. This intrauterine environment offers greater buoyancy and space than usual, allowing the fetus to float more freely and move with less restriction within the womb.

This environment supports vestibular stimulation — the sense of movement and orientation — provides proprioceptive input through joint movement and spatial awareness, and offers very gentle containment within the womb. It was within this specific environment that her nervous system developed — a quality she has intuitively sought throughout her life for self-regulation, and later came to offer to others through her work.

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Raised by the Mediterranean Sea, water was a constant presence in Marina’s childhood. Immersion became her preferred playground, offering a sense of returning home — an embodied feeling of belonging, freedom, and wellbeing.

Before dedicating herself fully to somatic practices, Marina worked as an anthropological documentary filmmaker. Driven by a profound curiosity about human beingness, origins, and essence, she traveled extensively to live and work alongside indigenous and traditional cultures. Her journeys took her to Ethiopia and Kenya, where she spent time with ancestral communities whose ways of living preserve embodied knowledge transmitted across generations, and to the Brazilian Amazon, where she encountered indigenous cosmologies rooted in water, ritual, and collective memory.

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These journeys were immersive experiences. Through the camera, she chose to listen rather than interfere or direct, remaining present as life unfolded on its own terms before her eyes. She witnessed how bodies, gestures, rhythms, and relationships reveal themselves when given space, time, and attention.

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This way of listening continues to inform her work today. The same principle guides her sessions: she does not impose direction or lead movement from the outside, but stays present to what is emerging from the inside out, allowing movement, perception, and internal organization to unfold from within.

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Alongside this path, Marina undertook extensive training in Body-Mind Centering®, listening-based and improvisational dance practices such as Contact Improvisation and Butoh, as well as multiple aquatic bodywork disciplines. These practices deepened her sensitivity to timing, momentum, relational movement, and internal impulse.

Her studies span decades of movement research, somatic education, and hands-on practice, integrating anatomical precision with lived, perceptual experience.

Rooted in Body-Mind Centering principles, her work engages the body as a co-living meeting of systems — cellular, fluid, fascial, organic, skeletal, nervous, and endocrine — whose relationships with one another and with the world are explored through movement, touch, and awareness.
Her background in dance informs her refined perception of inner rhythms, spatial organization, and relational dynamics, while her training in aquatic bodywork deepens her understanding of support of self and other through buoyancy, relational presence, and three-dimensional movement in water.

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From this long journey — through water, cultures, anatomy, and lived experience — Liquid Cosmos emerges as a living discipline: a field where water is both medium and teacher, and where embodiment is a return to a fundamental human capacity — to sense, adapt, and belong.

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Today, Marina, as the founder and creative force behind Liquid Cosmos, teaches international Aquatic Somatic Trainings for those wishing to become practitioners, while continuing to work closely through one-to-one, couple, and group sessions.

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Through refined touch, precise perception, and a deeply listening presence, her approach is gentle, exact, and deeply informed. Each session becomes a space where movement, perception, and internal intelligence are supported to reorganize naturally.

Marina’s presence is warm, calm, and deeply attentive. She creates conditions rather than imposes them. For those who encounter her work, embodiment is not a goal to achieve, but a remembering — a reconnection with an intelligence that has always been present.

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To speak about Marina Sans is to speak about water, culture, and the human body as one continuous story —
a story of origin, listening, study, and return.