Inner Territory Journey: Root Chakra
This Journey takes us back to the moment a limiting belief first took root. We don’t rush it or override it. We witness the origin story with steadiness, noticing what was formed in response to fear, survival, or misunderstanding. A guide steps in, not to rescue, but to interrupt the old script and shift the trajectory. We stay long enough to feel the belief loosen, to watch the limits begin to melt off the body and psyche. This is reclamation through witnessing. This is manifestation through unbinding.
Writing Prompts: Final Shed of the Year of the Wood Snake
Final Shed is a ritual writing circle held at the edge of a cycle, where we gather inside serpent medicine to name what is ending and consciously release it. Together we write into the cords that still bind us to dying systems, inherited patterns, and the exiles or shadows that surfaced over the year, allowing grief and truth to move without being rushed toward resolution. This class is both communal descent and deliberate severing, a final skin laid down before momentum returns. From that honest ground, we turn toward the Fire Horse and ask what courage, movement, and embodied power we are ready to claim, calling our strength up from the earth and stepping forward changed.
Inner Territory Journey: The Moment You Asked
Following the first of our Four Maplines Journeys, this inner path takes us to the banks of an ancient river and to an archetypal meeting with a central guide. Here we hold the intricacies of our manifestation and the origins of our limiting beliefs.
Inner Territory Journey: The First Mapline
In this Journey we enter the terrain of our first mapline and ask the question - am I asking big enough? We listen for the quietest current of desire and follow it to where our manifestation lives. There we witness its condition with honesty, meeting the old beliefs and protective parts that have kept our longing small. Gently, we begin unpinning what has been lodged in the body and allow this first mapline to breathe again.
Hunting the Viper King Prompt Class
In this class we sit inside Hunting the Viper King as a living piece of folklore, tracking how desire, inheritance, and devotion shape a life. We move through questions of fate, power, and the cost of wanting something enough to pursue it for years. The story opens a field around myth making, unfinished quests, and the moment knowledge alters the body and the future. Writing here stays close to ambiguity, moral tension, and the pull of stories that refuse clean endings. We write into hunger, into silence, into the places where a tale keeps working on us long after it ends.
Writer’s Soul: Mary Austin’s Wild Voice
This class sits inside Joy Harjo’s way of listening to the world. We move through her poems as landscapes shaped by breath, memory, grief, and belonging, paying attention to how voice carries responsibility to land, ancestors, and spirit. We stay close to the tenderness and ferocity in her writing, the way image and truth travel together without explanation. Writing here feels devotional and grounded, guided by what has been carried forward and what still needs a voice.
Writer’s Soul: Joy Harjo
This class sits inside Joy Harjo’s way of listening to the world. We move through her poems as landscapes shaped by breath, memory, grief, and belonging, paying attention to how voice carries responsibility to land, ancestors, and spirit. We stay close to the tenderness and ferocity in her writing, the way image and truth travel together without explanation. Writing here feels devotional and grounded, guided by what has been carried forward and what still needs a voice.
Writer’s Soul: Octavia Butler, The Oracular Role of Writing Into The Future
Octavia Butler teaches us how to write from inside the future without leaving the present behind. In this class we sit with her life and her work as a living practice of imagination, responsibility, and truth-telling. We pay attention to how she wrote herself into worlds that did not yet exist, how she held fear, power, collapse, and possibility in the same breath, and how her stories continue to speak long after they were written. Writing here becomes a form of listening forward, a way of placing the self inside collective becoming without losing the edges of what is real. This class meets writers who feel the pull to imagine differently and to write in service of what wants to live.
Writer’s Soul: Jeanette Walls
This class studies memoir as a careful, relational practice. We sit with The Glass Castle and pay attention to how Jeanette Walls tells the truth without asking the reader to absorb her pain or make meaning for her. We look closely at restraint, pacing, and choice, how complexity can be placed on the page and trusted to stand on its own. Writing here becomes an act of witness and clarity, allowing sharp edges to exist without explanation. This class meets writers who are ready to tell what happened and trust the intelligence of their voice.
Uncommon Sense: A Writing Class With Jeanette LeBlanc
In this class Jeanette guides us into the tender places we’ve been circling but not naming. We write the questions behind the questions, the truths we are almost ready to admit, the love stories and heartaches still echoing in the body. Together we craft a “Dear Abby” style letter and then respond, either to our own ache or to someone else’s, practicing a steadier and more compassionate voice. This session feels like sitting at a long wooden table with women who are brave enough to tell the truth and gentle enough to answer it well. You’ll leave with prompts that keep unfolding long after the recording ends.
Writing Prompts: Rewriting Fairytales
In this class we return to the old stories and lay them open on the table. The princesses, the wolves, the bargains, the glass coffins, the girls sent into forests. We notice where fear was planted, where obedience was rewarded, where mothers disappeared, where magic was distorted. Then we begin again. Together we freewrite with intention, following a loose but steady structure that helps us breathe new endings into inherited tales. This class moves something deep in the Inner Territory. It stirs grief, anger, delight, defiance. Bring a fairytale that won’t leave you alone and carve out real time to enter it. When you’re done, share your rewritten myth with us. We are building new storylines on purpose.
How To Create A Trauma Informed Writing Practice with Megan February
This class settles into the body before it ever touches the page. Megan guides us into writing as a practice of self-witness, pacing, and consent with our own stories. We talk about what it means to stay present with difficult material without abandoning ourselves, how to build safety into the creative process, and how writing can become part of healing instead of a reenactment of harm. This isn’t about producing something polished. It’s about learning to listen to your nervous system and let the words come in a way that supports your wholeness.
Writer’s Soul: Audre Lorde
This is a writing and listening class rooted in Audre Lorde’s insistence that language is a site of power, survival, and truth telling. The work centers her voice as queer, Black, feminist, and uncompromising, inviting writers to meet their own words as living forces shaped by body, grief, love, and responsibility. Writing here is not separated from politics or soul. It is understood as a way of telling the truth of one’s life in relationship with the world.
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.