Threading the River
Story, song, and the rewilding of soulwith Stasha Ginsburg and Elana Brody
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,
delicious food, mythos, story, and song.
Guides: Stasha Ginsburg, Elana Brody, Lauren Bond, and Monika Denise
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 wild river is calling. Can you hear her?
Threading the River — tending soul, body, place & imagination through a creative rites of passage weaving nature, medicine story, animist writing, and the birthing of your true song.
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. 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.
We will be held by an indigenous medicine story throughout our time together — a tiny miracle of a tale with thresholds and portals for deepening, journeying, remembering, and return. She gets into your heart.
For anyone ready to be undone by a river and reclaimed by the wild.
This journey is a special collaboration with three guides:
- @theriverspath Lauren Bond — naturalist, river guide, and rites of passage guide — will bring her deep knowledge of this land’s earlier peoples, ancestral nature craft, and the living stories of the canyon itself. She knows every secret spot.
- @elanatreestar Elana Brody — singer-songwriter, song midwife, kohenet/priestess — will meet us at the threshold of song and prayer with the more-than-human world, and midwife each of us into the birthing of our own medicine song.
- @wildremembering Stasha Ginsburg — mythopoetic storyteller & story midwife— will hold the mythic container, bringing the medicine story and a unique (w)rites of passage & story body tracking that threads animist writing practices.
Where our edges meet is where the medicine deepens.
You will retrieve stories. Reclaim voice. Discover your true name. Your true song. Your true story. The river reshapes you.
Seven days. 45 miles. 16 people maximum. Labyrinth Canyon, outside Moab, Utah.
Can you hear the call?
“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
Threading The River Guide
Stasha guides people through threshold times using myth, embodied writing, 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, seasonal celebrations, and rites of passage for over twenty years.
Her approach weaves fairy tales and folktales as initiatory maps with StoryBody and animist writing practices—tracking story through sensation, image, and movement. A former Waldorf educator, she creates brave witness circles where raw drafts become crafted prose, poetry, and spoken word.
At 19, she lived in Moscow during the collapse of the Soviet Union, an experience that shaped her understanding of story as a guide through upheaval. She founded The Wild Remembering, offering circles, mentorship, and seasonal gatherings. This river journey marks a new threshold in her own work.
Elana Brody
Threading the River Guide
Raised in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia, with 10 years of life at sea-level in NYC, and now rooted in Boulder Colorado, Hebrew Priestess Elana is a traveler of both depths and highs, cosmic and earthly, sound and prayer. A trained and self-taught musician, songwriter, and ordained Hebrew Priestess, Elana is known widely for her ritual leadership, songs, and prayer gatherings in the Song Circle and Jewish prayer communities.
Elana is the creator of the annual SING A NEW SONG retreat, and currently helps folks explore their creativity and musicality online, in monthly “song-birthing” cohorts. She offers a holistic, attuned, and deeply personalized song midwifery method she developed over years of practice, and participants feel like something really magical is happening. Her offerings have been touted as “life changing” and “transformational” experiences. Elana also releases music as a singer-songwriter, including her latest EP The Garden, with music that celebrates beauty, love, and the natural world. In addition, Elana has worked as an environmental educator and farmer, and brings her naturalist and animist roots into all the work she offers.
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.