I’m River
I find trapped energy and free it up to flow again.
When life force gets trapped — whether in a numbed body, captured attention, looping thoughts, a rigid organization, a bloated bank account, a gunked-up heart, or an imposed worldview — it freezes into numbness, adolescence, and rot.
In my experience: patient, multidimensional nudging does a lot of work that more linear & forceful approaches can’t, when it comes to freeing that charge up, making it available for sensing, maturity, and cultivation.
Lately, I’ve been working with
Awakening Money: Energy becomes stagnant and immature when it’s disconnected from what feels juicy and alive; when it’s turned into a one-dimensional, anxiety-ridden number. I’m interested in helping money grow up and re-connect with Living Values.
Living What’s Obvious: Bridging the gap between insight that your mind and heart have seen, and the places in your life where those insights aren’t being lived.
Honing the (many) Senses: Many of us are trained from a young age to ignore most of what we sense. This leads to difficulty navigating the world in ways that feel nourishing for ourselves, for those around us, and for the systems we’re a part of. Freeing up those sensing capacities frees us to make a better world.
If you want to work with me in your personal life, your organization, your career, your soul work, or wherever else you sense stuckness, get in touch. We’ll see if there’s a path that feels interesting for both of us.
Below are the most standard ways of working with me, but I’m always open to creative ideas for where we’d like to go together.
Work with Me
Helping more people become sensitive and open to their bodily experience is, for my money, just about the highest-leverage move for opening up more interesting possibilities in the world. If someone doesn’t have a felt relationship with their body, very little else is possible. '
The maturity, depth, uprightness, aliveness, and connection that the world is asking for — none of those can happen in bodies that are numb, clenched, dissociated.
Latent Insight
A journaling, meditation, and active contemplation practice I developed to cultivate more effortless, right hemisphere, practical contact with what’s most obvious.
The insights your body and heart know, but you don’t let yourself see — we bring them out with exercises in embodied spaciousness
Liberating Money
Money gets stuck and sticky with
Public Resonance
I loved the somatic period of my work, and I’m keeping the course up and available for anyone else it might help — but I don’t tend to do embodiment-focused work anymore. The personal work I do now folds somatic resonance into a deeper context.
Harmonizing Bodies
Helping more people become sensitive and open to their bodily experience is, for my money, just about the highest-leverage move for opening up more interesting possibilities in the world. If someone doesn’t have a felt relationship with their body, very little else is possible. '
The maturity, depth, uprightness, aliveness, and connection that the world is asking for — none of those can happen in bodies that are numb, clenched, dissociated.
A course I built, teaching soulful embodiment while encouraging participants’ own sovereignty (rather than inviting them to hand their authority over to me or the material).
Harmonizing Other Bodies
Years of running workshops and 1:1 work with very positive feedback — especially from people who hadn’t been able to get into embodiment via other routes.
Public Resonance
I loved the somatic period of my work, and I’m keeping the course up and available for anyone else it might help — but I don’t tend to do embodiment-focused work anymore. The personal work I do now folds somatic resonance into a deeper context.
Sensing Reality
Helping more people become sensitive and open to their bodily experience is, for my money, just about the highest-leverage move for opening up more interesting possibilities in the world. If someone doesn’t have a felt relationship with their body, very little else is possible. '
The maturity, depth, uprightness, aliveness, and connection that the world is asking for — none of those can happen in bodies that are numb, clenched, dissociated.
A course I built, teaching soulful embodiment while encouraging participants’ own sovereignty (rather than inviting them to hand their authority over to me or the material).
Harmonizing Other Bodies
Years of running workshops and 1:1 work with very positive feedback — especially from people who hadn’t been able to get into embodiment via other routes.
Public Resonance
I loved the somatic period of my work, and I’m keeping the course up and available for anyone else it might help — but I don’t tend to do embodiment-focused work anymore. The personal work I do now folds somatic resonance into a deeper context.
Support the Work
You may notice that some parts of my vocation pay me directly, and others don’t. If you feel a sense of care and stewardship for work like this, I’d ask that you not wait for an excuse to support it — I accept non-linear payment and gifts from sources that feel aligned with what I’m doing.
Call it patronage, call it gifts, call it back pay for ways my work has already touched you — I’m a big believer in supporting things I believe the world-soul wants to happen, and I hope you are too.
Give a Gift
A give-what-you-want gift link, if my work has helped you and you’d like to give back.
I also invite generosity to the Renga Fund, which you can learn more about by clicking the link.
Explore
Writing
A few of my favorite pieces I’ve written over the years, some of which are collected in my book, We’re Here to Renew the Sacred:
Interviews & Talks
I’ve been on some podcasts, given some presentations, had some conversations; here’s where you can get a sense of where I’ve been (though honestly, most of these are from a very different stage of my work)
Curious Humans episode with Jonny Miller: “Overcoming the Inner-Critic, Reclaiming Aliveness & Learning Somatic Intuition with River Kenna”
My talk on The Stoa, “Mythopoetic Cognition is the Engine of Mind.”
Podcast interviews on Becoming Creature, Deep Dive, and Elevating Consciousness.
Talks with Rosa Lewis on my YouTube channel, about Money & Wholeheartedness, as well as Mystic Retreats.