Writer’s Soul: Clarissa Pinkola Estes
This is a writing and listening class rooted in honoring a living lineage bearer and the soul work carried through story. The work centers Clarissa Pinkola Estés as cantadora, keeper of old stories, and invites writers to enter myth, ancestry, and psyche as sources of voice rather than technique. Writing here is not about craft alone, but about remembering how story carries soul, guidance, and collective memory.
Cord Cutting: Eras
This journey moves through time as a living landscape. It allows past eras of the self to be witnessed, honored, and released without collapsing them into a single story. The cord we cut here is temporal, loosening identification with who we were so who we are becoming has room to arrive.
Cord Cutting: An End Is Also A Beginning
This journey works with endings that are honest rather than catastrophic. It begins with the wisdom of the Death card, letting cycles complete without clinging or collapse. When something is ready to be released here - a cycle, a pattern, a relationship - it makes room for agency, dignity, and a quieter beginning that does not need to announce itself.
Self Reclamation: Samhain
We're going to be riding the gates of Samhain, thinning the veils of our own decomposing stories and laying out a plate for our nearly dead parts. We're going to be making sacred ground from the dark loam of our lives, at this time of the year when stories soften and identities loosen. The turning here is quiet and preparatory, shaped by what is laid down and what is allowed to rest as the year shifts toward winter.
Cord Cutting: Place
This journey works with Place as something alive, something that shapes us in real and lasting ways. It recognizes how environments, shelters, and landscapes have fed and held the soul, and it does not ask for erasure in order to release. Letting go here is ecological rather than abrupt, guided by respect for what has been gathered and trust in Nature’s ability to regenerate, carry memory, and continue on in new forms.
Descent, Initiation, and Transformation
This year, we are centering on the Inner Territory work of manifestation. On unblocking inner rivers of memory and story, of sitting honestly with subconscious beliefs and habitual responses. On identifying where our monsters prowl and leading them to green pastures where they can soften, unarmour, and allow younger parts of Self to repair, to exhale, to expand.
Persephone
This class moves with Persephone as an initiation story that unfolds over time. We stay with descent as a lived process: the slow shedding of identities, the disorientation, the ache of longing, and the quiet work of integration that happens in the dark. Persephone opens a way to understand how loss, love, decay, and rebirth weave together, not as a single moment but as a cycle that repeats across a life. The class holds descent alongside companionship, grief alongside witness, and emergence alongside memory, reminding us that transformation happens in relationship and never in isolation.
Inner Territory Journey: Samhain
We float down a river to a doorway of connection, a place to commune with your own intuition and soul’s wisdom, choosing whether to open the door for our beloved dead to join us at a feast of remembrance and communion. We wait and see who comes to sit, what blessings or advice they might bring, bearing witness to the long story of our souls woven with the lives of so many other souls. There is an invitation to reclaim our joy, our imagination, and our wild nature around the bonfire of our souls.