Threading the River:
Creative (W)rites of Passage through Labyrinth Canyon
with Stasha Ginsburg
May 12-19, 2026
Imagine… Canoeing for seven days on the Green River through Labyrinth Canyon through red sandstone canyons and making camp on vast sandy beaches. We’ll follow the river let its old, old stories be our guides.
8 days, 45 miles of canoeing, daily writing instruction,
delicious food, 16 participants max.
Guides: Stasha Ginsburg, 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.
Imagine… Canoeing for seven days on the Green River through Labyrinth Canyon through red sandstone canyons and making camp on vast sandy beaches. We’ll follow the river let its old, old stories be our guides.Over seven days, we will gather in community to sing, listen to old, old stories, and engage in a unique writing practice that connects us to place, body, memory, and imagination — and to essential truths discovered in stone, river, canyon, stars, and fire. We will layer our voices through song: echo and response, harmonies, and parts.
Through StoryBody writing practice, we will enter the tales with our bodies, track story as kin, and write as animist practice with the archetypes of story and place. We will (w)rite Red. Flow. River. Thread. Labyrinth. We will sing and (w)rite our stories into the cracks in red sandstone. We will discover light. Beauty. New words. New stories unfurling. We speak them aloud, embodying voice. We will retrieve stories, reclaim voice, and witness one another’s creative emergence.
The river shapes us. The canyon holds us. The stories thread through us. We write into the quest/questions and make poetry, prose, journaling, spoken word, and more, from what we find.
You’ll leave with a story apothecary as a river scroll — days of words gathered from elements, colors, shapes, stories, stones, movement, mythos, body, and the thread you followed through.
Led by mythopoetic writer and transformational facilitator Stasha Ginsburg of The Wild Remembering and expert river guide Lauren Bond of The River’s Path.
“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 Stasha Ginsberg
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.
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.