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Honor the Waters
With deep gratitude, we invite you to create this structure. Your contribution nourishes the creation of a sacred space where art, ceremony, and community honor Water and Earth. Every offering big or small becomes a precious drop in the Ocean of this vision. Thank you for being part of this journey.
About Us
The Calling of the Water
The Temple of the Waters is a co-created sacred space born from the collective dream of artists, healers, and guardians. It is a spiritual and cultural movement rooted in reverence for water as life, as memory, and as teacher.
Together, we envision a temple where ritual meets renewal, and water is honored through ancestral wisdom, creative expression, and deep listening.
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At its core, this temple is a love letter to Water, The Water Temple is a sacred art installation, a living altar, and a global offering of reverence to the spirit of water. Conceived by Yaosca Jackson.The Water Temple is a sacred art installation, a living altar, and a global offering of reverence to the spirit of water. Conceived by Yaosca Jackson The Water Temple is a sacred art installation, a living altar, and a global offering of reverence to the spirit of water. Conceived by Yaosca Jackson Nicaraguan artist, mother, and cultural bridge. the Temple rises from ancestral memory and is rooted in Indigenous cosmology, especially inspired by the Yawanawá Nation of the Brazilian Amazon.
Born from the recognition that water is not just a resource but a living intelligence, the Water Temple is both a ceremonial space and an invocation: a call to remember our origins, restore our relationship with the natural world, and reclaim the sacred in our daily lives.
Designed to bring awareness to the healing waters of the planet, the Water Temple invites us to reawaken our reverence for rivers, springs, oceans, and rain. It serves as a collective prayer for the protection, purification, and celebration of water as a source of life and spirit. Each year, sacred waters are gathered from around the world. Each drop carrying prayers, Joy, songs, and dreams.
These offerings converge at the heart of the Temple, forming a Galactic ritual of healing, remembrance, and reconnection.
Constructed through the hands of women, supported by men, and guided by spirit, the Water Temple is a sanctuary for collective Joy, celebration, and rebirth.
It offers a space for ceremony, silence, sound, and light and high Frequency, Wisdom, Health, Love, Peace, Prosperity, Abundance and Bliss, where the ancient and the emerging meet.
At its core, this temple is a love letter to Water, and an invitation to each visitor to listen, remember, and offer something joyful back.
The Vision
A Living Tribute to Water and Ancestral Wisdom
The Water Temple is a sculptural wave rising from the desert at Burning Man — a modular, illuminated sanctuary that merges sacred geometry, immersive technology, and indigenous prayers. Its metal exterior glows with fluid patterns inspired by water, while inside, sound frequencies animate real water collected from rivers and oceans around the world. Visitors will lie on floating platforms, surrounded by vibrating light and sound, experiencing water as a living, responsive presence.
Rooted in the wisdom of the Yawanawá tribe of the Brazilian Amazon, the temple shares their sacred songs in a gesture of reciprocity. As a living altar, it invites us to remember our connection to water, to each other, and to the ancient knowledge that flows within all life.
The Team
Douglas Jackson
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BUILD
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Founding Pillar of the Water Temple/ Elemental Guardian
A man of vision, heart, and hands. He builds more than structures, he builds community. With each step, he walks in alliance with Yawanawá Indigenous nations, honoring ancient wisdom as the compass for the future. Listening, learning, and lifting as he leads.
His mission: to create heaven on Earth through sacred union and design, planting regenerative food systems, and protecting water and soil. From the jungle to the desert, from ceremony to construction, he is a force of grounded peace.
Yaosca Jackson
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VISION
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A Source Mother Founding Pillar and Elemental Emissary of the Sacred Waters.
She is a builder of communities rooted in water and wonder, where children run free and the Earth is revered. A mother, wife, daughter, sister and sacred code carrier, she brings ancient wisdom into living form. She walks alongside her beloved partner in creation, their visions braid like rivers meeting at the sea. Together they honor the sacred feminine and divine masculine, weaving beauty, food, ceremony, and soil into life.
With the Yawanawá Nation as their spiritual Council, they build sanctuaries where spirit and earth unite. The Water Temple is their shared offering a space to remember, to restore, to rise.
She nurtures circles of care and remembrance, he holds structures of Peace, Intelligence, Wisdom, Discipline, health, Opulence,Love, Prosperity,Fortune, Beauty, and Power. Their union is prayer in motion, their love, a living altar for the world
Morten
Ørtenblad
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Master of Elemental Architecture/ Sacred design
Morten is a Danish architect whose design DNA is rooted in Scandinavian principles — minimalism, simplicity, and efficiency. With work spanning Europe and Latin America, his refined technical skill brings to life concepts which interact with nature rather than exist surrounded by it.
The Water Temple marks a pivotal point in Morten’s professional and creative journey — with the rare opportunity to merge architectural precision with visionary expression.
Deena DiBacco
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Weaver of Sacred Narrative / Scribe of the Temple
Deena is a writer, creator and mother who embodies fierce truth and the aliveness of spirit. She has spent the past 13 years working with and serving the powerful medicine Iboga, and has been initiated into the Bwiti of Gabon, Africa – a tradition that originally founded and shaped her connection to water. This connection deepened after sitting with the Yawanawá, and she feels honored to be in service and help return the water’s message to the world.
Corey Gauthier
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From West Vancouver, Canada, Corey Gauthier is a visionary artist whose art is based around his love of sacred geometry, spirituality and the downloads he receives from his plant medicine ceremonies and meditations. He’s worked with various mediums in his career, but this is his first time working with metal and laser cutting on such a large scale. He is grateful to be part of a collaboration of super talented humans on this beautiful and sacred temple at Burning Man.
Chris Psutka
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Chris Psutka’s art plays with water, light, and vibration to observe the unseen world of sound. Through his love and fascination with water, he “stumbled” upon cymatics—the study of how sound vibrations influence and organize matter. To him, cymatics is more than just a bridge between science and art; it is a geometric language and one of the key ways nature, or the universe, expresses itself.
Support the Vision
Keep the water flowing
This temple is being dreamed and built together. Your energy, time, and contributions are sacred.
There are many ways to support the waters and this shared vision:
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