Threading the River
A Wild Remembering River Journey
with Stasha Ginsburg
May 12-19, 2026
Imagine…
Seven days on the Green River, canoeing through Labyrinth Canyon. Red sandstone walls rising on both sides — layered ochre, crimson, old gold. Cottonwoods willowing at the water’s edge. A canyon wren threading liquid song. Scarlet globemallow burning open in the heat. The river unhurried, unhurriable, carrying you somewhere deeper.
Canyon as labyrinth. River as story, as thread, as song. Something in you, older than your history, already knows the way.
The body knows this kind of becoming.
7 days, 45 miles of canoeing, daily writing instruction,
delicious food, 16 participants max.
Guides: Stasha Ginsburg, Monika Denise, Lauren Bond
Pricing: $3295 per person, $1200 deposit
max 15 people
The deposit and cost of The River’s Path Canoe Adventures are non-refundable. We strongly recommend purchasing travel insurance through our partner Outward Travel to protect your investment.
The Invitation
Red rock. Green river. Labyrinth. Seven days.
Canyon wren. Screech owl. Scarlet globe mallow. Sandstone. Ripple. Sky. Canopy of stars. Orchestrating story. Nature-ing itself. Reflecting. Beauty. Truth. Longing. Songline.
This is the first Threading the River journey with The Wild Remembering.
For writers and artists, wanderers and dreamers — for anyone who has ever felt the pull of wild country and wanted language to meet them there. All abilities, all backgrounds. You do not need to call yourself a writer to belong here.
We paddle. Gather. Story. We write. We sing. And allow the river to story us. To churn us into living poems. We hear myths and old, old stories and we write our way inside them, navigating place, body, memory and imagination. Story is a labyrinth. Labyrinth canyon is a portal to re-membering. She will crack open the wild nesting doll of story within and without.
Braiding Mythos, Place, Story
Fairy tales and myths are an interior architecture of the psyche — wisdom blueprints. Story is a doorway. Song is a doorway. Symbol, image, archetype are doorways. Place is a doorway. Longing is a doorway. The canyon wren’s call is a doorway.
Threading the River is rooted in Transformative Language Arts — the study of how language, in its oldest sense, does not describe experience but enacts it. Language as a living thing. Language as rite. We experience the power of orality and story -of storying ourselves.
Through StoryBody writing practice, we enter the old stories with our bodies — tracking myth as living creature and more than human kin, writing as animist practice, with the living world as our first and oldest teacher. We experience what it means to willow. To falcon. To river. To labryinth. Nouns as verbs. Language doing what it does at its oldest: enacting what it names. Reorganizing body. Speaking, writing and rite-ing word and self into world.
We write sagebrush and falcon; ethereal egret lifting off the water in slow holy wingbeat; red-tail hawk riding thermal above rim; gambel oak, cottonwood and willow braiding and holding shoreline. We write petroglyphs and untold stories. Stories and songs unfold, become, fly, land. They swell and surge, moving the way the river moves in labyrinth: patient, inevitable, shaping as they go. It may be more accurate to say that the natural world writes us, stories us into new shapes. We shape shift and shift shape inside story.
We layer our voices through songs of inspiration and resilience, nature and elements — songs caught from song circles from north to south, east to west: echo and response, harmony, parts. We hear old, old stories and write into them, discovering ourselves through archetypes, symbols, objects and characters. We share our stories and writings aloud, witnessed by sky and stone. Stories unfurl and unfold. We witness one another’s emergence. The writing is held by the circle, and held by the immensity of the place.
The Living World as Mirror and Heartbeat
Creamy cliffrose blooming along the bank. Gambel oak silvering in heat. Rock wren cascading songs high in the red walls. Canyon wren answering from below.
Great blue heron, still as a story not yet told, watching. Mourning dove cooing. Ravens cawing across width of blue. River otter at dusk. Colorado pikeminnow scaling water — ancient, endemic, belonging to river.
At night: a celestial cosmology written in light older than any tongue.
Story Apothecary: River Scroll
We thread river, sky, place, longing with our own red thread — stitching embroidery in the heart, secrets in our pockets and stories on tongue and in journals.
Across seven days, you gather language from elements, color, creature, stone, movement, myth, and the thread stalking you — poems, vignettes, journal entries, mythic memoir, fragments and more. This is your story apothecary: a river scroll, carried home.
You will retrieve stories. Reclaim voice. And experience deep ReStory-ation.
The river reshapes you. The living language you discover here — feathering, willowing, falconing — will stay with you.
These places return you to the land, to yourself. We re-member our place inside place and renew our vow to beauty and reciprocity. Gratitude practice and language as prayer.
“Have you listened to the voices in your belly? Really listened to them? Beneath the surface hunger. The deeper hunger. The desire for life. The ravenous hunger for creation. The yellow snakes and blue butterflies transmuting and transforming, squirming and opening and closing, screaming, “sing! dance! create! write! or we will eat you!”
words are food. make a feast. have an orgy with them. eat them and eat them and eat them. nourish yourself with the pleasure of language.
let the wild in. write, create, dance, sing, paint, jump on the earth and make love like a barbarian.”
— Stasha Ginsburg
Meet Your Guides
Stasha Ginsburg
Mythopoetic Writer & Transformational Facilitator
Stasha guides people through threshold times using old stories, embodied writing practice, and the wisdom of place. She holds a Master’s in Transformative Language Arts from Goddard College, is SomaSource certified, and has facilitated mythopoetic writing circles and seasonal, creative celebrations and rites of passage work for over twenty years.
Her methodology weaves fairy tales, myths and folktales as initiatory maps, StoryBody practice (story through sensation and movement, not just mind), and animist writing practice that tracks story and creativity as kin. She taught Waldorf education for 13 years and she brings decades of experience creating brave witness culture—circles where people excavate buried and emergent stories, track what’s emerging through sensation, image, and pen and shape both raw, feral drafts and more polished prose, poetry, and spoken word. The work moves through layers: seasons, place, body, memory & imagination –unearthing, attending, crafting, speaking aloud.
Stasha knows threshold work from the inside. At 19, she lived in Moscow during the collapse of the Soviet Union—everything dissolving, a young woman finding her ground while the ground itself was shifting. That experience taught her how stories help us navigate times when everything is changing. She’s been exploring the intersection of personal story, mythos, and transformation ever since.
She founded The Wild Remembering, offering writing circles, song circles, storytelling and wheel of the year celebrations, and individual mentorship. This river journey marks a threshold in her own work. She is so excited to write/rite the beauty of river, canyon, stone, & sky, and experience the medicinal power of storytelling to enhance the journey within and without.
Lauren Bond
Lead Guide
Lauren Bond has always belonged to the river. From a childhood of following streams to the deep kinship she has found in Labyrinth Canyon and the St. Vrain as an adult, her life has been guided and shaped by the water.
In 2004, she floated through Labyrinth Canyon for the first time. She didn’t yet know what she wanted to with her life, but she knew this was the place. Today, she can confidently say that this is, indeed, the place. She has been on over 60 journeys through Labyrinth Canyon, and she has no doubt that this canyon brings a magic of its own, far beyond what she can offer herself. This collaboration with the river emerged when she followed the wisdom shared by waterfalls, trees, birds, and a very sweet porcupine. There is no place else she would rather be.
Lauren holds an MA in Environmental Leadership from Naropa University, and is a certified Transformational Wilderness Guide through the Earth Based Institute. Lauren worked as a naturalist, river guide, wilderness guide, and environmental educator before she started leading her own river journeys with The River’s Path in 2010.
Monika Denise
(she/her)
Utah Guide
Monika Denise is a medicine woman of the soul, a songcatcher and grief tender at the intersections of stone and river. With a background as a board-certified art therapist and trauma therapist, Monika Denise founded Four Moons Howl LLC where she offers Soul Medicine for the Souljourner. Her offerings include 1:1 sessions, workshops, and collaborations. Since 2020, she has co-guided soulful canoe trips on the Green River in UT for The River’s Path. She comes alive in the red rock and is a grounding, healing presence that evokes transformation. Throughout every thread of her offerings, she is in service to inner liberation and healing—braiding together intuitive somatic support, sacred practices and therapeutic art as resources for individuals to live a life of authentic freedom in connection with body, earth, spirit and community. Learn more about her at fourmoons.earth
Story is a Compass
By: Stasha Ginsburg
in times of transition
the story is a compass.
we need the wildness
of her mythical forests.
the briars of her tangles
the thick mist of her mystery.
in times of transition
we should be open to the
ancient stories
the stories found in the
thrice ninth kingdom
beyond the beyond
of babas and yagas.
we should let the story have its way
it should be able to wrestle us to the ground
where our thoughts can finally surrender
to mud and underworldly
to the nonverbal
churn of primordial memory.
the story wants to undress you.
she wants to get you to your naked truth
she wants you to find an image
and dive in
between the layers of symbol
she wants you to crack her open
and witness the unusual creatures that spill forth.
older than bones she is.
she wants to crack you open she does.
stalk you she will.
devour you she can.
transformation is her secret language.
listen.
“once upon a time
there was
and there was not…”
the journey between this phrase
and ‘the end’
is a story worth taking.
What to Expect — Overnight Canoe Trip on The Green River
While the exact itinerary will change based on the theme of the trip, some things are common for all trips down through Labyrinth Canyon.