Jobi Manson is an artist and educator whose work explores immersion as a practice for deepening relationships — with the self, with others, and with the living world. Working with elemental forces like water, sound, light, and stone, she creates sensorial experiences and teachings that invite us to get close: to feel more deeply, listen more fully, and soften the boundaries that keep us separate. Her work attunes the body’s capacity to learn through absorption — awakening perception, restoring balance, and reimagining the possibilities of connection.

To Jobi, the body is not just a vessel, but a living archive — a fluid space of memories, dreams, and sensation. When we slow down, when we allow ourselves to soak, to soften, to feel — we begin to remember and recollect our instinctual nature. We travel beyond language, and we move with time. Her work is a return to that instinctive knowing — a reawakening through the senses, where connection, contemplation, and creativity aren’t just practices, but invitations to embrace and nurture our fundamental nature.

After a near-death experience during an ocean swim that left her temporarily paralyzed, a deep curiosity was seeded around the body’s ability to regenerate and attune itself. This encounter with fragility sparked the creation of Sēfari in 2015 — a platform for elemental immersion and transformative practice. Through Sēfari, she guides individuals in embracing and integrating pain, helping them to shift perspective and unlock new states of being rooted in pleasure. The work creates space for recalibration, creative expression, and deepening the relationship between body, mind, and spirit.

Through Sēfari, Jobi continues to expand her work, seeking partnerships with companies and institutions at the intersection of education, art, and science. She is committed to making this practice accessible to all, ensuring that the tools of connection, creativity, and transformation are available regardless of resources. As she moves into publication, she envisions her teachings reaching wider audiences, offering deep, immersive experiences that empower individuals to engage with their full potential, and fostering collaborations that elevate the practices of art, education, and healing on a global scale.

“

to become like water,

is to reflect the beauty

that abounds us

by pouring out

into space

that which moves you

from within

be the blessing

& bend

with the light.

soothe something — will you?