CALLING ALL WILD WOMEN
One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your own soul.
—Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Begin a journey into the world of the Wild Woman.
Wild Women series is a monthly workshop for sharing, resting, connecting, and awakening the wild woman within us. It is led by Marcela and inspired by Women Who Run with the Wolves, the classic text on myths and stories of the Wild Woman feminine by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés.
We will spend one month exploring each story and working on aspects of the Wild Woman, including creativity, intuition, passion, and the spiritual elements of feminine power. We will listen to stories, journal, share, and practice yoga nidra meditation.
This unique combination of yoga nidra meditation, storytelling, sharing, and journaling is restorative and heartening. It helps women find their vision and their voice. Yoga nidra gives us the space just to be. This ancient practice comes to us through the cultural and spiritual traditions of the people of South Asia.
Bring the medicine of story home to the body and embody your Wild Woman. Workshops will include:
One 2.0-hour monthly live Zoom meeting on the fourth Saturday of the month - 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. PST
One additional 20-minute live rest practice session between the second and third week
Story and ongoing exploration of the Wild Woman archetype plus a yoga nidra meditation, each themed to the story
Weekly prompts exploring themes in the story
Supportive exercises, journal practices, optional circle and dreamwork
Private Facebook Group for those who want to stay connected between session
Zoom recording available for home practice
Program Information
We will meet on Zoom on the fourth Saturday of the month from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. PST. The first workshop is scheduled for September 28. See session topics and additional dates below.
The cost of the workshops is on a sliding scale of either $45/60 per session or choosing to bundle four sessions on a sliding scale of $160/200 per bundle.
Workshops can be taken individually, but we recommend participating in at least four workshops to honor this powerful work and ground yourself in the magical Wild Woman archetype.
These workshops can be customized for private groups or individuals. For more information, contact me at mi@restandbewell.com.
DEEPEN YOUR WILD WOMAN PRACTICE
“The comprehension of this Wild Woman nature is not a religion but a practice.
It is a psychology in its truest sense...a knowing of the soul.
Without her, women are without ears to hear soultalk or to register the chiming of their own inner rhythms...
Without her, they forget why they’re here, they hold on when they would best hold out.
Without her they are silent when they are in fact on fire.
She is their regulator, she is their soulful heart, the same as the human heart regulates the physical body.”
—Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés
SESSION TOPICS AND DATES
Live Zoom meetings will be on the fourth Saturday of the month - 9:30 am to 11:30 p.m. PST
2024/2025 Dates
Registration Is Open
Session 1: September 28,2024
Singing Over the Bones—Resurrecting the Wild Woman
Story: La Loba
Session 2:
Beginning the Initiation—Stalking the Intruder
Story: Bluebeard
Session 3:
Nosing Out the Facts—Intuition
Story: Vasilisa
Session 4:
The Mate—Union with the Other
Story: Manawee
Session 5:
Hunting - When the Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Story: Skeleton Woman Facing the Life/Death/Life Nature of Love
Session 6:
Finding One’s Pack—Belonging
Stories: The Ugly Duckling; The Mistaken Zygote
Session 7:
Joyous Body—The Wild Flesh
Stories: La Mariposa; Butterfly Woman
Session 8:
Self-Preservation—The Feral Woman
Story: The Red Shoes
Session 9:
Homing—Returning to Oneself
Stories: Sealskin; Soulskin; Wolfskin
Session 10:
Clear Water—Nourishing The Creative Life
Stories: The Little Match Girl; The Three Gold Hairs
Session 11:
Making Territory—Boundaries of Rage and Forgiveness
Stories: The Crescent Moon Bear; The Withered Trees; Descansos
Session12:
Initiation in the Underground Forest
Story: The Handless Maid
TO JOIN US, SIGN UP BELOW
These workshops are offered on a sliding scale with an additional discount for bundling four sessions. The cost of the workshops is on a sliding scale of either $45/$60 per session or choosing to bundle four sessions on a sliding scale of $160/$200 per bundle.
single / bundle
Option A: $45/$60
Option B: $160/200
Contact us at mi@restandbewell.com if you have any questions!
So remember, if you wander the desert, and it is near sundown, and you are perhaps a little bit lost, and certainly tired, that you are lucky, for La Loba, the wolf woman may take a liking to you and show you something—something of the soul.
—Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés
La Loba by Virginia Wolf