The River Beneath the River
Sink into the sacred inner realm
Tuesday, December 8th
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Pneuma Center | Virtual Event
$22
TICKETSJourney beneath the surface of the mind to retrieve the intuition, wonder, and embodied knowing waiting within.
Beneath the noise of daily life lives a vast inner landscape of images, guides, animals, energies, and ancient wisdom holders. When we loose access to this place, life grows dry and small. This is an invitation to find the path again, and to drink from the deep waters of your own soul.
Bypass the analytical mind and invoke the primal consciousness—the original, wild nature, through a guided imaginal journey rooted in eco-somatic and mythopoetic practice. This is not a self-improvement program, but encourages the descent inward through guided rituals, imaginal and visionary experiences, somatic practices, and mythopoetic writing prompts.
You may leave with an image to tend, a question to carry, or a forgotten part of yourself returned. Over time, this practice grows symbolic literacy, the capacity to relate to life through the language of dream, myth, and metaphor. It illuminates patterns, wounds ready for care, and possibilities not yet imagined. Your imagination expands to hold a reality larger than your current understanding, and you come home to a deeper belonging with yourself, the mystery, and the world.
What is The River Beneath the River?
In her book, Women Who Run With the Wolves, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés speaks of the Río Abajo Río, the river beneath the river: the deep, instinctual, and universal life-force of the wild-woman archetype.
It is the clear flowing current of deep soul knowing that is constantly beneath the surface of everyday consciousness. This vital life force dwells in the sacred inner realm beyond the intellectual mind or conditioned behavior. By tapping into this vast collective psychic reservoir of infinite wisdom, we have access to our innate intuition, authenticity, vitality, and deep creative power. When the channel to the Río Abajo Río is open and honored, our most wild, true, creative, and instinctual energy moves freely through the psyche, and we live a deep, soulful life.
This gathering takes its name from this canon teaching of Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, whose work has been a lantern on my own path into the wild psyche. I offer these journeys in honor of her eternal wisdom and in gratitude to the cantadoras, storytellers, and wisdom keepers who have kept the way to the river open for all of us still finding our way home.
This is for you if:
- You long for a richer, more meaningful inner world beyond the everyday
- You want to grow symbolic literacy and learn the language of soul
- You feel dry, disconnected, or stuck, and sense the answer lives deeper
- You are called to decolonize your imagination and dream a larger life
- You want to reconnect with your creativity and wild, instinctual nature
