Hi, I'm River
I'm an energy worker, herbalist and also a photographer
Growing up, I used photography to understand and explore the world around me. Photography opened up a space to explore emotion, the self, and the power that runs through us all.
Photography served as a tool for me to venture into space holding, opening a place to explore characters, emotions, vulnerability, and the Self in a photoshoot.
It took me far.
I got to travel, work for Houses like Marc Jacobs, Miu Miu, Givenchy, Dior, Prada, went to beautiful cities, fun parties, and got to explore both myself and the world through my art. My work weaved me through New York City, Paris, London, Milan, even Montana.
Photography is one of my most valuable skills. I hold it close to my heart as a place to open up, feel, create and pull me deeper into Presence with beauty around me.
When the pandemic hit, I reevaluated. I sat home. I deeply thought. And I spoke to plants. I wanted Nature more, to follow a call that felt so much bigger than me, outgrowing the lens I’d literally seen myself through until that moment.
I moved out of New York City and into the jungle of Central America. There, I began to shed what I’d been carrying, what I didn’t even know I’d been carrying. And was taken deeper into the Sacred World of Plants.
I remembered more of me through my connection with plants. My life is a commitment to that path. The path of returning to Nature and surrendering to her Wisdom.
Drawing from herbalism, Somatic Healing, energy work, dreamwork, Astrology, ThetaSoma™, subconscious healing, the Sufi path, Taoism, Buddhist chanting and meditation techniques, my practices point to the Oneness of all lineages and Radical Sovereignty in our own path.