A soft study library SERIES: mythic studies for NOURISHING the creative life
BY STORYWORK STUDIO: AN INSTITUTE OF VISIONARY PRAXIS
series LENGTH: FEBRUARY 2026 TO JANUARY 2027
A Wild Woman is a River
A Guided Study of Creativity and Eros through the Wild Woman Archetype as told in Women Who Run with the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes and Other Myths
The Wild Woman is psychologically androgynous.
She is not polarized toward the soft, manicured story of the "feminine" the West has sold us. Nor toward the story of its rigid, armored masculine.
She is a liminal, erotic, and oracular archetype—full of teeth, electricity, sweetness, directive, wisdom, and bone-level knowing. She understands the shape of her own soul. She knows how to meet herself. She knows how to lead even when wounded. She feeds herself. She contributes to her pack. She is the wild creative lifeforce, embodied.
Inside of this year-long study, we explore the wilds of the creative nature through fairytale and myth…
…and the warm, crackling, regenerative force that moves in and through our lives. Wild Woman offers specific mythological medicine for tending the wildfires of the soul: for allowing ourselves to meet our internal heat, our creativity, our voice, our beauty, our wisdom, our offerings. And to create in ways that contribute to the whole.
What’s Included:
Join this membership for $147 / yr.
There is a powerful saying: Dice entre las piernas, “She speaks from between her legs.”
dr. clarissa pinkola estes
from Women Who Run With the Wolves, Chapter 11: Heat: Retrieving Sacred Sexuality
Too many women believe they are not creative…
…because the Western world has reduced creativity down to specific art-making practices. We have severed creativity from eros. We have stopped teaching ourselves, each other, and our daughters how to cultivate their lifeforce—how to feel their own breath of life in their bodies, how to meet it, how to culture it, and how to hold it with radical responsibility.
This study of creativity and eros through a mythological lens is an invitation to touch, meet, play, experiment, and explore the wild creative lifeforce that burns, swelters, and swells at the very core of your being.