The River Remembers:
A Journey of Rest, Reconnection, and Resilience
Green River, Utah
September 26 – October 3rd 2025
7 days in a remote canyon setting, 45 miles of flat water paddling,
12 participants max.
Guides: Lauren Bond and Kelsey Loupy, Facilitators and guides,
and Adrea Doré, Coguide and Kitchen Manager
Pricing:
Per person: $2750
Sliding scale available, please contact Lauren to inquire.
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.
As we explore our inner landscape, honor our natural flow, and slow down to the pace of river time, we disrupt what Joanna Macy called “Business as Usual.”
This trip is meant to cultivate presence, allowing us to drop into our senses, and remember our wild nature. Imagine the striking view of sun setting against red rock, the tickle of a gentle breeze, music of canyon wrens, and scent of cottonwood.
We will let the canyon hold us as the river carries us downstream. This trip blends a combination of unstructured time and guided facilitation: freedom for play and connection to unfold as well as invitations for individual and collective grounding, including:
- Mindful and embodied practices
- Nature-based experientials
- Hikes and natural history conversations
- Group circles for council, storytelling, and singing
- Reflective journaling, solo wandering
We invite you into a new way of being–one that is life-sustaining, in service to ourselves and our communities.
Our intention is to create a microcosm of the just, relational, and resilient world we are working toward. May this journey nourish the seeds you are planting in your life and in our world.
Meet the Guides
Lauren Bond (she/her)
Facilitator and 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 do 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.
Kelsey Loupy (she/her)
Facilitator and Guide
Kelsey Loupy, PhD invites the power of relationships into personal and collective wellbeing. After years of researching and embodying the body-mind connection, she decided to go back to school for Transpersonal Wilderness Therapy at Naropa University, planting her feet somewhere between the measurable and immeasurable.
Kelsey’s approach to therapy is primarily body-centered, which means that she trusts the unique wisdom of your unique body. She also combines a mixture of attachment, existential, parts work, mindfulness, and nature-based therapy modalities to help you listen and remember your instincts. She believes that our outer wilderness reflects our inner wilderness, choice is a sign of health, and joy is a radical expression in an often oppressive world.
Imagine wandering down the trail of your soul. This trail is safe, you are the guide, and Kelsey is with you. Together, you can identify emotions or areas of life that feel “overgrown,” “blocked,” or “lost.” You can follow the body’s internal map toward what feels good– resourcing, relieving, empowering, or fulfilling– to help you find your way.
Kelsey finds her own peace, resilience, and spiritual connection through outdoor adventure quests, for example backpacking, bike touring, and rafting. She incorporates these activities and other types of wilderness quests into her therapeutic work, and she offers integration support for folks returning from big life experiences.
Kelsey is part of the Somatic Nature Therapy Institute.
Adrea Doré (she/her)
Guide and Kitchen Manager
Adrea Doré is a ceremonialist, wilderness threshold guide, dream tender, intuitive shamanic guide, and photographer living amidst the ocean and forest canopy of the Quimper Peninsula in Washington State (s’Klallam and Chimacum homelands). She delights in deep presence with the more-than-human world and practices multidimensional listening as a way of inquiring into the mysterious depths of existence—and the sacred art of living and dying.
In rewilding her being and falling in love with Grandmother Earth, Adrea came to feel the deep tenderness and belonging to rivers, stones, animals and ancestors. From this place of remembrance, she invites others into sacred reciprocity—listening with the bones of their being and tending the Earth as kin.
Adrea draws on the wisdom of dreams, shadow work, somatic knowing, and pan-cultural practices of shamanic journeying and vision fasting. Her background includes yoga, somatic therapy, feminine mystery arts, eco-psychology, and shamanic healing. She also brings the grounded presence of an experienced Registered Nurse in Acute and Palliative Care, where she apprentices to the fragile, impermanent nature of life.
Learn more about her at rootedheartwisdom.com
We welcome all….
who feel the weight and impact of this unfolding polycrisis in their personal or professional lives. Whether you’ve directly experienced a climate disaster, work daily with the realities of the climate crisis, or carry the heaviness of our changing ecosystems in your heart and body, this retreat offers a restorative pause to reconnect and renew. Our experience is designed to be inclusive and welcoming to all. No prior canoeing experience is necessary. Whether you’re new to the river or a seasoned paddler, all are welcome to join.
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:
We’ll canoe a total of 45 miles down the Green River through the steep canyon walls of Labyrinth Canyon in Utah. The trip begins at Ruby Ranch (located just south of I-70) to Mineral Bottom (located near Canyonlands National Park). Four to five days of paddling will be interspersed with layovers at wilderness campsites along the canyon. Paddle days are usually 7-15 miles each or about 3-5 hours of gentle paddling. The river has no rapids and hardly any current. It is muddy and shallow (except for high water in May and June)
While in camp, in addition to our theme program activity, we may swim, take short hikes or explore side canyons. After we all pitch in during camp setup, we’ll have plenty of free time to relax, enjoy our surroundings and have the opportunity to get to know each other as we experience the beauty around us. Then we’ll come together each evening around the campfire.
The River’s Path guided overnight canoe trips involve staying deep in the wilderness with no electricity or cellular reception, and in case of an emergency, evacuation will be done via rescue boat or helicopter. If you need to have medically necessary equipment that uses electricity or need to stay in contact with someone at home, the guides will have a texting device available. Please contact Lauren Bond at 303-859-7174 or lauren@theriverspath.org to discuss.
Temperature changes quickly and can be unexpected, so it is important to bring items from the packing list in case of any drastic changes. Rain and thunderstorms can pop up at any point. Temperatures for each month can range from the high 60s and low 30s for March to the high 100s and lows in the 70s for August. Please see the NOAA graph for Labyrinth Canyon monthly weather averages.
The section of the Green River we will be on is considered a Class I river with no rapids. This is essentially a flat water trip.
Each canoe accommodates two people and they include two Crazy Creek camp chairs with backrests. Canoes will carry all of the personal gear and camp supplies.
The River’s Path will supply 2 dry bags, one large and one small, for your personal gear.
Group gear provided includes: canoes, paddles, life jackets, canoe seat backs, camp chairs, full kitchen setup. Supplies provided include: all food, shade canopy and river toilet with a privacy shelter.
Your personal camp gear that you are responsible for includes: tent, tarps, sleeping bag, and anything else you need that is not provided. That being said, we highly recommend you approach this with a minimalist mentality. Everything you bring, along with your canoe partner, must fit on your canoe. We will supply you with a complete packing list.
While many adventurists kayak the Green River, the amount of gear, supplies, and coolers of fresh food on our journey requires canoes.
The River’s Path will provide food and drinks for all meals and snacks. We can accommodate most diets including vegetarian, vegan, paleo, gluten-free, and dairy-free. The water is too muddy for most portable water filtration devices, so we will pack all drinking water.
If you have other needs or concerns, contact the trip guide, Lauren Bond at 303-859-7174 or lauren@theriverspath.org
It’s important to note that this is a collaborative experience. To form a strong community and have an even more powerful, life changing, memorable experience, each individual in the group will participate and share in camp responsibilities. Everyone helps with setting up and taking down camp, unloading and loading canoes, cooking meals and cleaning up. Each individual must bring their own tent, sleeping bag and pad, as well as other items on the packing list. Those using a hammock must provide an appropriate setup for that.
During your trip through the Labyrinth Canyon you’ll find a slow meandering river with steep colorful canyon walls, amazing side canyons (and maybe evidence of ancient civilizations), incredible stars, unforgettable sunsets, and a hushed serenity you’ll find no place else. No matter where you look you’ll see the unforgettable and awe inspiring colors and sounds of nature.
You might consider long sleeved shirts and pants, bug lotion and head netting if you are extremely sensitive to bug bites. Birds like golden eagles, peregrine falcons, canyon wrens, screech owls, and more can be seen along with small animals like beavers and larger ones like desert bighorn sheep and deer.