Hi, I'm River

I'm an energy worker and herbalist.

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 brands like Marc Jacobs, Miu Miu, Givenchy, Prada, beautiful cities, fun parties, and a time in my life that I got to create and explore myself and the world.

It now is one of my most valuable skills, having weaved through fashion, New York City, Paris, London, Milan, even Montana. I hold it close to my heart as a place to open up, discover new realities, and pull me deeper into presence with life around me.

When the pandemic hit, I reevaluated. I sat home, deeply thought, and 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.

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, meditation, deeply connected to nature.

Revealing more of me, remembering more of me, ending this game of “finding myself”, realizing I’d been there the whole time. Permission for myself to bring forth everything, all of it, all of me.

Drawing from herbalism, somatic healing, energy work, dreamwork, 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.