Persephone’s Fruit
A mythopoetic, embodied Writes of Passage — through place, body, memory, and imagination
The Spiral
At the heart of this work is an embodied, mythopoetic Writes of Passage — writing as initiation, a way of being undone and remade.
We move the story on every level:
Through the body — felt sense, SomaSource practices, StoryBody tracking
Through the pen — re-wilding the word, giving feral permission for language to root back into breath, flesh, and earth
Through the circle — witnessing, listening, belonging, where voices carry story back into community
This work is animist at its heart: story is alive. When we re-wild the word in body, place, voice, and on the page, we are remembering our kinship with the living world and word.
We follow Persephone’s descent and return through the year, yet we also meet other guiding fairytales and old, old stories along the way — each one a companion at the threshold, each one seasoning the soul as we are ripened by the spiral of the year. These stories are not ornaments, but living presences shaping the passage with their own mythopoetic medicine.
The journey unfolds as a spiral of descent and return, carried through the turning seasons. Some women may choose to join a single threshold as a stand-alone experience. Others may be called to walk the entire spiral — tracing Persephone’s arc of descent, dwelling, and return through the year. Each threshold stands complete in itself, and together they form a living initiatory passage.
Each Threshold is a 6 week live journey in north Boulder, Colorado.
Threshold One:
The Call of the Wild Body
Sept 29 – Nov 3, 2025
Six Mondays • 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
North Boulder • Up to 13 women
As the light wanes and autumn ripens, Persephone tastes the fruit and the underworld calls. This threshold is about listening for the Call of the Wild Story, the Call of the Wild Body, the Call of the Wild Deep and the Call of the Wild Dark -as we listen and write the autumnal mysteries, weaving mythos and life story writing. We find ourselves in fairytale. We find ourselves in mythos. We find ourselves in a soul seasoned compass, in alignment with nature, the descent and the heroine’s journey arc.
Story Companions
Persephone — tasting the fruit, the summons below
Little Red Riding Hood — the path, the belly, the descent
Tatterhood — the wild sister, untamed courage
Vasalisa — Baba Yaga, the doll, intuition’s fire
Closing threads: weaving the courage of crossing.
Who this is For
This circle is for women who feel the stirrings of descent, the call of the fertile darkness -and for those who are at a threshold or life transition -in voice, story, body. you may be longing to:
Root your writing more deeply in body, memory and imagination
Reconnect with story as a living presence and guiding medicine
Be witnessed in a circle of women, writing not just for yourself but into community.
Navigate a season of descent with support, courage and kinship
Amplify your creative voice, writer’s voice and rewild your words
Experience the transformative power of the living word
*No previous writing experience is needed. What matters if your willingness to listen —to your body, to the old, old stories, and to the new seeds, new fruits, new mythos wanting to be written through you.
What we will be writing
Over these six weeks, you’ll generate:
Raw pages from the body -writing that begins in sensation and image
life story Vignettes -fragments of memory + imagination weaving personal story with mythopoetics
Dialogues with old tales -You are not writing about the old, old stories. You are stepping inside them and writing from place, symbol, metaphor, character. The stories crack open your personal life stories, and you find yourself weaving the two through your personal writes of passage journey
Threads for future work - essays, poems, mythopoetic memoir, or pages that may become your own living medicine to preserve, self publish or submit for publication
We enter the spiral of writing as ritual practice, initiation —creating pages that carry marrow, breath, earth and the power of the living word.
Investment (tiered reciprocity)
Supported — $395
Sustainer — $495
Supporter — $645
Payment plans available
Each threshold of Persephone’s Fruit stands complete on its own, while together they form a living spiral of descent and return through the turning year.