In this Valley Immersion, we expand our minds and bodies to “flow like a river” in the interplay between traditional livelihoods and contemporary co-existence, dig our hands and feet in the soil to experience the realities of restoring degraded riparian spaces fertilised by community commitment and aspiration, and grapple with the pulls of modernity. At the same time, we centre women’s voices and agency as we consider the kinds of conditions that can weave meaningful reconciliation and regeneration within a complex landscape.