The Joyous Body: Coming Home to the Wild Flesh

There comes a point on every woman’s journey where she stops searching for herself in ideas, books and answers… and begins to meet herself through sensation, instinct and the quiet intelligence of her own body.

This month in The Circle, we journey into one of Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ lesser-known but deeply beautiful teachings: The Joyous Body: The Wild Flesh.

For many women, our body has become something to manage, improve, discipline, force, ignore, override, and apologise for.

Yet the Wild Woman has never viewed her body as something separate from the soul. Your body is not just the place where you live. It is the place where instinct speaks, where truth lands before language, and where life is felt long before it is understood.

Together, we’ll explore what it means to come home to your body that has carried you through every season of your life.

We’ll weave together Clarissa’s wisdom with an understanding of the female nervous system, exploring why so many women lose connection with their bodies through years of adaptation, people-pleasing, survival and self-abandonment, and how we begin to restore that relationship with gentleness rather than force.

We’ll also meet La Mariposa 🦋 Butterfly Woman.

A reminder that true transformation is rarely something we make happen.

It unfolds from within.

Just as the butterfly cannot rush her becoming, neither can we.

This evening is an invitation to soften back into your own skin.

To rediscover the quiet wisdom held beneath thought.

To listen to your body before your mind explains it away.

To remember that your body has never been working against you.

It has been speaking to you all along.

Together we’ll explore:

🌿 The body as the home of instinct.

🦋 Why the female nervous system shapes how we experience ourselves.

🌿 The difference between living from your body and living at war with her.

🦋 How shame, stress and survival disconnect us from sensation.

🌿 The wisdom hidden within symptoms, pleasure, rest and desire.

🦋 Butterfly Woman and the quiet unfolding of transformation.

You don’t need to arrive feeling embodied, or need to know all the answers, you just need to bring your female body that has carried you here, because there comes a moment when the Wild Woman is no longer something you seek in stories, she begins to breathe through your own skin.