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

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 own 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.

“The river does not dry up. We block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing.

That is the creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one's mouth. Then the rivers will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down. We can put our our skirts and shirts to catch as much as we can carry.”

Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run with the Wolves, Chapter 10: Clear Water: Nourishing the Creative Life

What’s Included:

Join this membership for $147 / yr.

  • Monthly Erotic Writing Circles

    Erotic Writing is writing that emergences from the lower half of the body and through an ensouled, animate connection to the Earth. Inside of this monthly writing circle, we begin with eco-somatic practice to open the field and write together from prompts associated with the monthly readings.

  • Live Monthly Group Discussions

    Gather each month to unpack Wild Woman mythology, share your reflections, and weave collective insight. These discussions are part salon, part study hall—a space to voice what's stirring, ask questions, and witness others in their process.

  • Audio Reading Guide Delivered Monthly

    Each month, you’ll receive an audio-zine style audio reading guide for explore themes of each month’s readings in transmissional audio format.

  • Summer and Winter Breaks with Self-Study Notes

    In the Summer and Winter, you don’t really want to be on Zoom, right? Well, neither do we. During these months, we will have an altered schedule, an audio study guide and a zine of practices designed specifically for each season.

  • Live Guest Teachers and Interviews

    Throughout the year, I'll invite guest teachers, artists, and practitioners to share their own relationship with the Wild Woman archetype, creativity, and eros. These conversations bring fresh perspectives and unexpected doorways into the material we're studying together.

  • A Living Library of Core Eco-Erotic Practices for Integration

    A repository of resource for when you need deeper support integrating the Wisdom of Wild Woman through tangible, accessible practice.

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

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.

Our Syllabus:

Below you can find the outline of topics we’ll discuss this year.

  • February :: On Meeting La Que Sabe, Our Guide

  • March :: Creativity is a Shapechanger

  • April :: The Destruction of the Fertile Feminine

  • May :: The Man on the River: Shadowing Dancing with the Animus

  • Summer Semester :: Animus Development and Becoming a Lifegiver

  • August :: Erotic Cultivation with Lilith, Baubo, and Crescent Moon Bear

  • September :: Tending to Escapism through the Myth of the Little Match Girl

  • October :: La Dulce Acequia Between the Thighs of the Earth

  • November :: Renewing the Creative Fire with Baba Yaga and the Three Hairs

  • Winter Semester: Finding and Singing the Deep Soul Song