Women Who Run with the Wolves Program
“The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
This 12-week online program will explore a wide range of themes — from intuition and instincts, ego and soul and life and death cycles to innocence and naivety, righteous anger and forgiveness, secrets and shame as well as addictions and true nourishment.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, a Jungian psychoanalyst, poet, and storyteller, examines the wild woman archetype in her book, "Women Who Run with the Wolves."
She wrote it to help women on their healing journeys and to provide guidance, feeling that traditional psychology often overlooked female archetypes in favor of male figures.
Through her stories, she offers ways to reclaim lost parts of ourselves, regain personal power, and return to our true essence, empowering women to live meaningful lives, use their unique gifts and find their true voices.
"Women Who Run with the Wolves" is a seminal work that explores the wild, instinctual nature of women through myths, fairy tales, and folklore. Estés provides a roadmap for women to reconnect with their innate, wild selves, encouraging them to embrace their natural instincts, creativity and power.
The book has become a classic in women's literature and psychology, offering profound insights into self-discovery and healing.
Its themes of empowerment, intuition, and the life-death-life cycle make it a timeless guide for women seeking to understand and honor their true nature.
Here is the program schedule:
Week 1 - Story of La Loba: Meeting and understanding the wild woman archetype.
Week 2 - Story of Bluebeard: Confronting the inner predator of the psyche and understanding naivety.
Week 3 - Story of Vasalisa: Initiation to feminine wisdom and intuition. The importance of discernment and dismantling the “too-good mother” archetype.
Week 4 - Story of Manawee: Embracing dual nature: feminine and masculine.
Week 5 - Story of Skeleton Woman: Navigating love's cycles. Beginnings and endings.
Week 6 - Story of The Ugly Duckling: Discovering the soul's home. Belonging and finding your tribe.
Week 7 - Story of Mariposa ~ Embracing the body. The body as a home for your soul.
Week 8 - Story of The Red Shoes ~ A story of addiction. A cautionary tale about ignoring your instincts.
Week 9 - Story of Sealskin ~ The journey of the soul. On the importance of soul life and creating the time to spend there. Integrating our inner and the outer lives.
Week 10 - Story of La Llorona ~ Retrieving the creative flow. Renewing the creative fire, exploring inner and outer blockages of our creative life. Taking back one's creative life.
Week 11 - Story of Baubo ~ Joy & sacred sexuality. Exploring sacred sexuality. Coming closer to our body and our sensual femininity.
Week 12 - Story of Crescent Moon Bear ~ Understanding rage as teacher. Righteous Rage, Collective Rage. Stuck in old rage. The 4 stages of forgiveness.
FAQs
Who is this program for?
This course is truly for women from all walks of life — all ages, ethnicities, races and religious or spiritual backgrounds.
It’s ideal if you’re going through a transition in life or if you feel like there’s something deeper waiting to be explored within yourself.
Each woman who joins this program will grow immensely and experience remarkable self-discovery, individually and in community.
You don’t have to have any experience with mythology or be a big reader to get a lot out of this!
What will you gain?
Learn how to apply your instincts and intuition to your life.
Understand and connect with feminine rites of passage, archetypes and cycles of nature.
Learn how our myths and stories shape our inner and outer worlds.
Belong to a community of women who are all on parallel journeys. Hear their stories, share and learn in community.
Gain tools and resources to navigate life’s uncertainties and transitions.
Have access to a program that offers you consistency, depth and support.
Understand yourself on a deeper level and build a life that is aligned with that.
+ Journaling prompts to go deeper, live guided meditations, embodiment work, movement practices and integration sessions.
What is the time commitment?
We will meet online for 120 minutes once a week for 12 weeks, with a break on holidays.
If you miss any sessions, recordings will always be available to you so that you can catch up in your own time.
*Bonus: There will be 2 or 3 in-person meet ups in the Los Angeles area.
How much reading is required?
Reading the book is NOT a requirement although it is strongly encouraged to help you go deeper into each of the stories and get you to start thinking about the themes of the story. I will retell each story and provide the key elements, so you can still fully participate if you didn’t read the chapter.
If you do decide to do the reading, you have an entire week to read one chapter so that it doesn’t feel too dense or stressful for you.
The book is also available in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German and many other languages and audio book versions are available if you prefer to listen.
What does a session look like?
I will retell the story and explain key elements, symbolism and the archetypes mentioned in the myth.
As a group we will explore the lessons of the story and reflect on how the themes manifest in our lives.
Many sessions will include a short practice or activity.
About the Facilitator
I’m Shreen Shukla, a transpersonal hypnotherapist, labor and delivery doula, yoga and meditation instructor, mother, embodiment guide, workshop facilitator and women’s circle host.
For over 7 years I have been guiding and supporting 1-on-1 clients as well as hosting workshops and gatherings in India, Thailand, China and the United States.
I am passionate about offering decolonized models of healing and my favorite way to do that is by curating powerful and transformational experiences for groups in addition to isolated, individual-centered experience.
I believe that community and connection are the most natural and potent containers for growth, healing and transformation.
Women Who Run with the Wolves is an iconic and important tool for the modern woman. I experienced a massive transformation when I took a 3-month course on this book in 2019 and welcomed my daughter Rasa into the world immediately after I finished the program.
The stories and work we did in that program as a group supported me and gave me tools as I transitioned from maiden to mother and still helps guide me in various areas of my life to this day.
I am equally honored and excited to welcome you into this program. It will be an initiation, a shedding, a re-wilding and it will change you forever.
You will bond with the women in this container and make life-long friends. It’s going to be really special.
If you feel called to join, just trust that instinct.
Program Details
When and Where:
We will meet online every Wednesday from Sept 3rd to Nov 19th from 7:00-9:00 PM Pacific Time.
Cost:
Early sign up (before August 15): $480
Regular pricing: $550
(payment plans available upon request, pay over the course of 3 months)
Click here to join the program!
Email info.shreens@gmail.com or DM @shreens on IG for any questions!
