The Wild FeminineExplore the voice of the feminine in its diverse forms and expressions
Explore the Wild Feminine’s power and history, reclaiming balance beyond patriarchy through inspiring voices, healing, and gender liberation insights.
taught by Francesca Price
Module 1What is the Feminine Principle and How is It a Vision for a Better Future?
In this module, Jungian analyst Anne Baring explores the historical loss of women's voices starting with the Lunar Era. Liz Childs Kelly discusses the Sacred Feminine as an ancient spiritual force and invites us to ‘Come Home to Her.’
Chapter 1
The Causes of the Loss of Woman’s Voice With Anne Baring
Chapter 2
Q&A With Anne Baring
Chapter 3
Coming Home to Her With Liz Childs Kelly
Chapter 4
Q&A With Liz Childs Kelly
Chapter 5
Meditation With Amrita Bhohi
Module 2The Suppression of the Feminine Through History
This module features feminist historian Max Dashu on lost female Divine legacies, Indigenous speaker Lyla June Johnston on ending rape culture, and global expert Lina Abirafeh on gender inequality’s impact, especially in the Arab region and Afghanistan’s crisis.
Chapter 1
The Method, Importance and Effect of Ending “Rape Culture” With Lyla June Johnston
Chapter 2
Q&A With Lyla June Johnston
Chapter 3
Global Women's Rights With Lina AbiRafeh
Chapter 4
Q&A With Lina AbiRafeh
Chapter 5
Releasing Goddess Wisdom From a History of Suppression With Max Dashu
Chapter 6
Q&A With Max Dashu
Chapter 7
Meditation With Amrita Bhohi
Module 3Feminine Mythology: Archetypes, Goddesses and Queens
Archetypes have the ability to connect us to our inner power and help us strengthen who we really are. In this module, we are joined by Jean Shinoda Bolen, a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and author, as well as Nwando Achebe, a Nigerian-American academic, feminist scholar, and multi-award-winning historian.
Chapter 1
Archetypes and Being in Circle With Jean Shinoda Bolen
Chapter 2
Q&A With Jean Shinoda Bolen
Chapter 3
African Spiritual Monarchs and Rain Queens With Nwando Achebe
Chapter 4
Q&A With Nwando Achebe
Module 4A Balance Between the Masculine & Feminine
In this module, we hear from Pat McCabe (Woman Stands Shining), feminine/masculine integration expert Sarah Poet on ‘Loving the Masculine: the Sacred Feminine Heart’, and Dr Elizabeth Kerekere of Māori descent who is a New Zealand politician, LGBTQ+ activist and scholar.
Chapter 1
Pre-Colonial Sexual Fluidity in Māori Culture With Dr Elizabeth Kerekere
Chapter 2
Q&A With Dr Elizabeth Kerekere
Chapter 3
Loving the Masculine: The Sacred Feminine Heart With Sarah Poet
Chapter 4
Q&A With Sarah Poet
Chapter 5
The Sacred Masculine With Pat McCabe
Chapter 6
Q&A With Pat McCabe
Chapter 7
Guided Meditation and Journaling With Amrita Bhohi
Module 5Embracing the Body
Explore how your menstrual cycle is your ultimate guide to belonging, connection and trust. We hear from physical therapist, Tami Lynn Kent, who helps women move on from shame and trauma to activate the energy in their bodies and reclaim the wild in themselves.
Chapter 1
How Your Menstrual Cycle is Your Ultimate Guide to Belonging, Connection and Trust in Challenging Times With Alexandra Pope and Sjane Hugo Wurlitzer
Chapter 2
Q&A With Alexandra Pope and Sjane Hugo Wurlitzer
Chapter 3
Honouring the Female Body and its Energy With Tami Lynn Kent
Chapter 4
Q&A With Tami Lynn Kent
Chapter 5
Heal Trauma in Order to Unlock the Wild Feminine With Efu Nyaki
Chapter 6
Q&A With Efu Nyaki
Module 6The Feminine Power to Create and Nurture
In this module, midwife Fiona Shaw shares her work supporting women in childbirth. Hawaiian Priestess Leilani Birely reflects on her Sacred Feminine journey, while Amisha Ghadiali explores intuition’s power to reveal ancient and new wisdom for transformation and healing.
Chapter 1
The Energy of the Aloha Spirit With Leilani Birely
Chapter 2
Q&A With Leilani Birely
Chapter 3
Birth: A Sacred Rite of Passage With Fiona Shaw
Chapter 4
Q&A With Fiona Shaw
Chapter 5
The Feminine Power of Intuition With Amisha Ghadiali
Chapter 6
Q&A With Amisha Ghadiali
Module 7Finding Your Voice as a Feminine Leader
This module explores feminine leadership with Indra Adnan on ‘The Feminisation of Politics’ and Jewels Wingfield on ‘Womb Based Feminine Leadership,’ highlighting how feminine power challenges patriarchal systems and embraces sexuality as a source of agency and transformation.
Chapter 1
Womb-Based Feminine Leadership With Jewels Wingfield
Chapter 2
Q&A With Jewels Wingfield
Chapter 3
The Feminisation of Politics With Indra Adnan
Chapter 4
Q&A With Indra Adnan
Chapter 5
Meditation With Amrita Bhohi
Module 8Honouring the Ancestors
In this module, we hear from Carmen Vicente (Carmita), a revered Medicine Woman who has been sharing Indigenous Wisdom Traditions around the globe. Author and poet, Angharad Wynne, also shares how she uses stories as the starting point for deep inquiry and a source of timeless wisdom and healing.
Chapter 1
Indigenous Wisdom Traditions With Carmen Vicente
Chapter 2
Q&A With Carmen Vicente
Chapter 3
Born from the Love of Thousands With Angharad Wynne
Chapter 4
Q&A With Angharad Wynne
Chapter 5
Guided Meditation and Journaling With Amrita Bhohi
Module 9Connecting With the Land
Explore the wild and powerful women who were fierce guardians and protectors of the land, and the ways in which they inspire us today. Discover power through a feminist paradigm that connects patterns of nature with patterns of personal and social resistance with Minna Salami, a Nigerian, Finnish and Swedi...
Chapter 1
Marrying the Land: How We Broke the Ancient Bargain With Sharon Blackie
Chapter 2
Q&A With Sharon Blackie
Chapter 3
Life Beyond Patriarchal Thought With Minna Salami
Chapter 4
Q&A With Minna Salami. Hosted by Francesca Price
Module 10Connecting Through Faith
This module features Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, the first ordained Tibetan Buddhist woman, and Yoruba priestess Yeye Luisah Teish on deep listening, revealing how accessing our inner spiritual voice inspires creativity, leadership, and transformation.
Chapter 1
She Who Whispers: Deep Listening as a Spiritual Practice With Yeye Luisah Teish
Chapter 2
Q&A With Yeye Luisah Teish
Chapter 3
The Role of the Dakini in Tibetan Buddhism With Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo. Hosted by Amrita Bhohi
Chapter 4
Q&A With Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
Module 11Connecting Through Practice
Hear from the author, Susun Weed, who speaks about ‘The Three Traditions of Healing’. Suhaly Bautista-Carolina, an educator, herbalist, founder of the Moon Mother Apothecary, explores the idea of change, evolution, and mirroring our needs to meet us where we are at any given point in our lives.
Chapter 1
The Three Traditions of Healing With Susun Weed
Chapter 2
Q&A With Susun Weed
Chapter 3
Moving as the Moon Practice as Lunar Phases With Suhaly Bautista Carolina
Chapter 4
Q&A With Suhaly Bautista Carolina
Module 12Connecting Through Ritual & Ceremony
For the final module, we are joined by Chiara Baldini, a researcher and curator from Italy. Chiara introduces questions such as who were we when we were indigenous to the lands? What were our rituals? Which were the practices that allowed us to be in constant dialogue with nature? We are also joined by C...
Chapter 1
Wild Women of Dionysus: The Lost Lineage of European Female Shamans With Chiara Baldini
Chapter 2
Q&A With Chiara Baldini
Chapter 3
Your Authentic Sound With Chloe Goodchild
About the course
After centuries of suppression, the voice of the feminine in its diverse forms and expressions is demanding to be heard again.
This shift in consciousness from the dominant masculine to a balance between the two energies, as well as beyond that binary, has long been predicted as part of the solution to the chaos our planet currently faces.
Such a transformation will beckon a new paradigm where dominance over the natural world is replaced by a recognition of the connection of all living things, while at the same time recognising the importance of such qualities as instinct, trust, nurture, creativity, and other forms of power left out of wider cultural conversations.
Over the course, hear from prominent authors and activists; amongst them inspirational matriarchs, Anne Baring and Jean Shinoda Bolen, indigenous leaders Elizabeth Kerekere and Carmen Vicente, prominent healers, Yeye Luisah Teish and Susun Weed, and well-known workshop practitioners, Jewels Wingfield and Chloe Goodchild, among many other incredible speakers and teachers.
Each module, a new speaker introduces us to a different aspect of the feminine and take us on a journey to hear more about the violent history that kept women silent for centuries, from the brutal takeover of Christianity to the horror of the witch-trials, to female infanticide and FGM, and finally to the violence that continues against both women and the feminine spirit today. We inquire into contemporary issues around the feminine, in particular the 'wild feminine' and what we might mean when we say ‘the feminine’ in the context of gender liberation.
Why the wild feminine?
The Wild Feminine is an archetypal aspect of ‘the feminine’, popularised by the psychologist, author, and curandera, Clarissa Pinkola Estés in her bestselling book ‘The Women Who Run with the Wolves’ in 1989.
This archetype is present throughout a diversity of cultures and traditions, and speaks to particular aspects of the feminine psyche and experience that have often been called ‘sacred’, ‘divine’ and/or ‘wild’. The word ‘wild’ has been problematic when used to describe women, and the feminine spirit in general, both in the past and present. We understand ‘wild’ to mean free of patriarchal oppression, embodied, expressed, and present, and possessing the absolute freedom to be in a world that often demands the opposite. It is a reclaiming of the inherent nature of the feminine principle.
This course is, in part, a collective inquiry into this multitude of meanings. We also recognise the limitations of gender binaries, and at the same time seek to include notions of the feminine spirit in our wider conversations around gender liberation. Our conviction is that each and every one of us has the capacity to embody the feminine, masculine, and everything between and beyond that binary. Through this course, we hope to create space so that the feminine in all its forms can be expressed, contemplated, and inquired into with genuine curiosity and good faith.
- 12 Modules
- 60 Sessions
- 30 Speakers
- Curated readings, resources and embodied practices
- Community discussion area
- Historical overview of the causes of the loss of woman's voice
- Frameworks for understanding the "Sacred Feminine"
- Knowledge of ancient female icons and myths
- Understanding of the relationship to the "Sacred Masculine"
- Framework for healing