THE RIVER RUNS
THROUGH
A Midcoast Maine coffee shop, farmhouse store, and gathering place where coffee, baked goods, community, and healing come together.
The River Runs Through
The River Runs Through is a farm, farmhouse store, café, and gathering place in the quietly magical town of Monroe, Maine.
Come for coffee, tea, baked goods, local produce, books, art, and handcrafted goods. Stay for conversation, community, workshops, retreats, and opportunities to reconnect with yourself, the land, and what matters most.
We also offer shamanic therapy, transformational retreats, and nature-based ceremonies focused on embodiment, healing, and meaningful change.
Part working farm, part gathering space, part nourishment and healing—The River Runs Through was created as a place where people can slow down, connect, and experience the possibility of transformation.
Come by. Stay a bit. See what finds you.
Upcoming Creative Workshop: The Face We Wear — A Samhain Mask-Making Workshop
Explore the masks we wear, the parts of ourselves beneath them, and what may be ready to emerge as you create your own ceremonial mask.
Beginning Friday, October 2nd - 5:30-7:30 pm
Spaces are limited! This four-week journey won't be offered again until spring.
October 2, 9, 16 & 23, 2026 | Fridays, 5:30–7:30 PM
What does it mean to meet yourself honestly in the thick of things—in the middle of life’s uncertainty, challenges, transitions, and opportunities for growth?
Over four Fridays, we’ll journey through the Seven Sacred Directions of the Celtic Spirit Wheel, deepening our relationship with the natural world and exploring the wisdom of Father Sun, Grandmother Moon, Mother Earth, Grandfather Fire, the Ancestors, and our personal guides.
Along the way, we’ll connect with powerful archetypal guides—including the Wise Salmon, Great Bear, Eagle, and Stag—and explore how their qualities can illuminate our own paths of healing, transformation, courage, release, and becoming.
This is an invitation to step out of the rush of everyday life and into a deeper relationship with yourself, the natural world, and the wisdom that surrounds you.
What We’ll Explore
Together, we will:
Journey through the Seven Sacred Directions and their teachings.
Explore nature-based practices for grounding, awareness, reflection, and transformation.
Discover how archetypal guides and the natural world can offer new perspectives on our lives.
Identify what no longer serves us and explore ways to release it.
Meet our personal guides and create a sacred space to begin our journey into our own wisdom.
Develop practices for trusting and listening more deeply to our intuition.
Explore how challenges, change, endings, and uncertainty can become doorways to growth.
Begin the process of becoming who you have yet to become.
What You’ll Leave With
You’ll leave with practical tools and experiences you can bring into everyday life, helping you to:
Ground yourself when life feels overwhelming or uncertain.
Pause, become present, and respond rather than automatically react.
Find clarity during difficult decisions, transitions, and challenges.
Recognize patterns, habits, and beliefs that may no longer serve you.
Deepen your relationship with your intuition and inner knowing.
Draw on your personal guides for strength, perspective, and courage.
Meet everyday challenges with greater curiosity, resilience, and openness.
Experience the natural world as a source of connection, reflection, and renewal.
Finding the Gift in the Journey
When we nurture our relationship with the natural world, we begin to see life differently.
The changing seasons, sun and moon, animals, trees, water, fire, darkness, and light can become mirrors for our own experiences—inviting us to slow down, listen, and discover what each journey has to teach us.
Even difficult experiences can hold unexpected gifts. When we meet ourselves honestly in the midst of them, we may discover strengths, wisdom, possibilities, and parts of ourselves ready to emerge.
In the Thick of Things invites you into that middle place—to listen, explore, release, reconnect, and discover what is waiting to become.
No previous experience with Shamanism is necessary. Come as you are, with curiosity and an open heart.
Dates: October 2, 9, 16 & 23
Time: 5:30–7:30 PM
Cost: $200 — includes all four weeks and materials
What to Bring
A blanket
A throw pillow (yes, bring that fluffy pillow that usually just gets looked at! 😊)
An eye mask or bandana to cover your eyes
An open heart and an open mind
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I love homework.
Yes, you read that correctly. I love homework. If I could have just done homework in school and never been required to show up for the mind-numbing, pedantic classes, where at best I was bored, I probably would have learned so much more. Instead, due to a combination of being highly sensitive and not yet understanding what that meant for me, I often sat in class feeling trapped. Trapped. Terrified, actually. My eyes were trained on the door while I glanced at the clock, which seemed to be my enemy because it never moved quickly enough. Eventually, we'd be let out of class, only to be bullied, teased, or generally made to feel less than. So yes, if school could have simply sent me the homework, I would have been happy. I would have learned. I would have done the work. I would have loved it.
Which is why it was a little surprising that, at the end of our first gathering at Anam Cara, I was given homework that I really, really didn't want to do.