Home / About Amal

Aquatic healer, author, dreamer

For four decades, Amal Lana’s work has centered on touch, movement and water. Surrender to Self is her first book. Waves of Hope is the warm-water sanctuary she is still building.

The Dream of Waves of Hope: Amal's early drawing of the vision, photos of her first warm saltwater pool sanctuary in Flagstaff (2012–2016), and a painted vision of an Aquatic Healing Retreat Center with therapy pool, exercise pool and massage studios.
The Dream of Waves of Hope, in Amal’s own art. Tap to enlarge.
About Amal

Amal Lana

HOPE FOR USأمل لنا

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 Therapist
  • Aquatic bodyworker
  • Water aerobics instructor
  • Herbalist

Waves of Hope:
the dream is still becoming

  1. 1
    It started on paperFor years she drew this place before she had the space or the means.
  2. 2
    Then she built it · 2012–2016A warm saltwater pool in her own garage in Flagstaff. People came. They floated, rested, and connected.
  3. 3
    Now she dreams biggerAn Aquatic Healing Retreat Center, where access is not determined only by what someone can afford.

“I want to be able to provide for those who are not able to provide for themselves.”— Amal Lana

Drops of Hope 45 nature photographs shared by people who love the water
The Waves of Hope story