River used to teach Somatic Resonance and Imaginal Dreamwork. He wrote a bunch of articles and went on some podcasts and traveled to some events it was all quite fun.

Then he got an autoimmune disease, went deaf on one side, dipped in and out of spiritual psychosis, lost his cats and his woman and his apartment, and was confronted with death, failure, loss. Kind of nonstop. From like, late 2023 to present.

He’s spent the past couple years on some kind of off-label pilgrimage, wandering country to country, between Ayurveda hospitals and meditation retreats and ashrams and romantic liaisons and relational dojos and mystical unfolding and meeting gurus and buddhas and healers and teachers and analysts and shamans and energy workers and generally just wading through a whirlwind of disruptive chaos. It’s been exhausting. He wants to let you know that the whole vibe is neither as adventurous nor as helpful as you might think. You can probably skip it. Unless you obviously can’t skip it.

More recently, River is seeing the value in simplicity. And in writing in the third person, apparently. His work these days reflects that simplicity-on-the-other-side-of-complexity.

That said, one thing he’s accepted is that life is disruptive and things change quickly. Don't expect the current slate of offerings to stick around indefinitely.

I do freeform Obvious Coherence sessions, focused on unfolding what’s obvious in you.

And I do more structured work with Latent Insight journeys, a somatic-spacious method I developed to scaffold the obviousness process.

Frankly, these two paths mostly end up in the same places; the choice is largely a matter of

• How much previous experience you have in somatic and spacious awareness practice.

• Whether you’re more comfortable with structure or freeform.

If you want to work with me, check out the 1-on-1 page for details.

Usually, the obvious is right where you left it. And usually, there’s a reason you left it there — part of the work is reckoning with those reasons, and with whether they still hold true or not.

Many of us grow up in (and almost all of us live in) environments where it’s rude, threatening, or generally unbecoming to see certain things. And if you can’t help seeing them, you definitely shouldn’t talk about them or know them. You should dismiss them, repress them, distrust them — you should dismiss yourself, repress yourself, distrust yourself.

And then we wonder why everything feels so crazymaking, and why basic facts seem to be so slippery all around us.

Reclaiming what’s obvious can feel threatening, like you’ll be attacked or exiled for knowing what you know. Part of what I’m interested in is making more spaces and relationships where we can expect to know what we know, and to be met by trusted others in that.

I’ve been working on more projects that bridge and blur between art and spiritual inquiry. If you want a peek, or want to patronize, get in touch.

For now, it’s mostly writing; when I have time and resources for going beyond that, we’ll see what that looks like.

Some of my other writing, you can find at InnerWilds.blog. I’ll put a sampler below, some work I’m proud of.