Dr. Estés asks, "Did you know, you were born as the first, and the last and the best and the only one of your kind, and that eccentricity is the first sign of giftedness? These are two of the crone truths I have to offer you." If you have any doubt, come join us at the fireside of The Dangerous Old Woman for the soul-healing wisdom that will ignite your creativity and support your highest calling in life. Three decades in the writing, The Dangerous Old Woman presents part one of Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés' masterwork. In six "inspire 'til you're on fire" sessions, Dr. Estés animates the archetypal patterns of the Wise Woman through her original stories, poetry, and blessings. Old While Young, and Young While Old We are born with two forces that give us every lens we need to see who we really are: the wild and ever-young force of imagination, which contains intuition and instinct, and the wise elder force of knowledge, which holds boundaries and carries the heart of the visionary. Through captivating stories and insights, Dr. Estés illustrates why this twofold way of being "old while young, and young while old" is the secret to holding and replenishing the center, thus living wildly and wisely ensouled amidst life's travails and triumphs. Your Legacy: Wild and Wise, Both "If you are not free to be who you are, you are not free," says Dr. Estés. Begin and deepen the work of bringing your one-of-a-kind legacy into the world following the trail blazed by the Dangerous Old Woman. She who stops at nothing to nourish, protect, and guide us in the offering of all our creative gifts. Stories, Poems, and Blessings Include: "The Angelic Ten": Old Guidance for One's Sanity "Standing in My Danger": The Good Meaning of the Word "Dangerous" "Snow White": When Gifts Have Been Poisoned Grandmother Wisdom: "Los Cinco Espiritus, The Five Women Spirits" "The Vashinger and the Return of the Vampires" "The Ruby Red Fox": About Seduction "Las Tres Osas, the Three Old Re-Weavers of Torn Lives" "The Man Who Hated Trees": Nature, the Unrepentant Mother "The Jealous Girls and the Old Woman Under the Lake" "When a Good Mother Dies": What Gifts Ever Remain "The Precious Museum Tree": The Hidden Life "What Did You Dream? What Did You Dream?"

Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés Presents Part Two of Her Masterwork on the Dangerous Old Woman “Dear brave souls, I warmly invite you to come be at the fireside with me and the Dangerous Old Woman and the Power of the Crone. Who is the crone? She is the most dangerous, the most radical, the most revolutionary woman in existence. Whether in fairy tales or in consensual reality, the old one goes where she wants to and she acts as she wishes; she lives as she chooses. And this is all as it should be. And no one can stop her. Nor ought they try.”―Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD When Does Wisdom Come? Entering the terrain of wisdom occurs at any age. We sometimes step, sometimes stumble, and other times are pulled into the territory of the Crone when the need for a deeper, larger understanding of our most meaningful paths in life can no longer be denied, and when the gifts that are hidden in our challenges must be brought forth. On The Power of the Crone, Dr. Estés presents volume two of the Dangerous Old Woman, with six sessions of original stories, psychological commentary, and blessings. Join her to meet Las Cacareas (The Old Cacklers), La Misteria (The Seer), La Arbolaria (The Spellbreaker), and the wisdom-wielding Crone in many more of her guises. Fulfilling the Callings of Soul Says Dr. Esté “If you weep, the Crone will move closer to you. Laugh, and she wants to hear the joke. Dance, and she wants to dance with you and in you. She has help for the hurt and for the one poisoned by bitterness. She can pull the thorn from the breast, and tattoo your scars with flowering boughs.” This is the power of the Crone, ready to assist each of us to “fulfill the callings of the souls on this earth―with verve, with style, with critical insights, with wisdom, and with love.” Stories, Poems, and Blessings “The Littlest Giantess” • “The Orcharder Who Tried to Deform the Trees” • “Backwoods Woman … When the Old Woman Comes to Shake You Awake” • “Don’t Make Creator Too Small” • “The 13 Phases of the Cycle of Life-Death-Life” • “The Unrepentant Trees” • “ El Mano and the Monster” • “When ‘The Great They’ Say ‘Stop Acting Up’” • “The Girl Who Had No Story” • “The Checker-Barked Cherry Tree” • “Jack and the Beanstalk” • “The Sitar Player” • “The Rhymer’s Advice” • “Father Bring Me Fire” • “Gratitude Is an Emotion of the Heart”

Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés invites listeners to The Joyous Body. Here, she shares original stories, poems, and psychological commentary about the challenges, remedies, and ancient knowings of the holy female body, that which is not a dumb servant but a divine fellow traveler and consort. Six inspirational sessions celebrate and reclaim the mystery and power of the feminine form, exploring: How to Love the Body Truly ; The Midwife Exemplar: The Body as Radiant Being; The Old Woman as The Original Busy-and-Wise Body; The Great Silverbeards: Making Peace with the Body; Life Size story; The Body Bill of Rights; The Ice Queen: The Distorted Mirror ; I Tell Your Beautiful Body to You ; On remarkable life emerging from the midst of the wound; How the White-Throated Sparrow Came to the New World ; The Dancing Grandmothers. As the wise woman gathers years, like an ancient tree, she grows even more arms, even more flowers and fruits, explains Dr. Estés. She is more rooted, more vast, more sheltering developing her callings to be throughout life: maiden mother, medium, crone, elder, healer, teacher, artist, knowing woman. The Joyous Body welcomes all women to discover the body as Radiant Being ever ready to protect, guide, and support us on the journey of the soul.

Volume Four of the Dangerous Old Woman Series with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes "What makes talent bloom? Ask what makes a tree blossom. They are the same. It is not unfathomable. It only takes concentration. Concentration of energies is what makes a tree flower. Not bigger, not faster, not taking up more space. Rather, less space. Density. Pressure in hard places. Often, in the dark. Relentlessly. Freely. For as long as it takes. Hold faith, a gestation can go long and for good reason, and nothing much shows above ground. But then, one day " Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhD Are you waiting for New Life, for your talents to bloom? With The Late Bloomer, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes presents volume four of her masterwork on the Wise Woman archetype, bringing you six sessions of original tales, stories from her ethnic families, poems, blessings, and psychological commentary exploring the cycles of "burgeoning, blooming New Life." The Ultimate Blooming Takes Time Although we are each created with countless gifts to share in this lifetime, no one is born in full development, begins Dr. Estes. The Late Bloomer the one at the verge of tipping forward into her creative powers speaks to all of us who sense within "great talent untapped touchingly wondrous yet wounded or held back by fate in some way." Meet the wise old woman in the form of The Late Bloomer in her many guises, as she beckons us to ignite the creative fire of the interior life, to burst into bloom time and again. Step Forward into Your True Shape Dr. Estes asks, "What is your reason for being here on earth? What are the promises you made to Creator before you came? That is your original shape the holy shape of how you are meant to go in life, regardless of all crosswinds." The old woman as the wise Late Bloomer calls us to "step forward into our true shapes, and to step onto the open road and blue sky where we can be born into New Life again." Stories, Poems, and Blessings Include The High Tea The Emperor's New Clothes The Maker of Pencils How To Animate The Life-Force La Danzanta-An Old Woman's Rules for Ever-Renewing Creative Jing The Fisherman's Wife The Woman Who Was Eaten by Her Relatives As a Woman Learns to Be Queen of Herself Words for Walking Back to the Strong House The Child in the Ice The Dream of Chac Ma The Dress The Hair-Curler Lady The Ritual of Marzana The Rose Tree Warrior The Smoke Tree Story

Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés Presents Volume Five of the Dangerous Old Woman Series “What makes an elder, a heartfelt spirit, a clear mind, a talented heart, one who is young while old and old while young, an activist for the Soul? Is it formulae, schemas, lexicons? It could be. But also, and often more so, I think it is very like the flowering of the trees in the forest, as we gather more we straggle and stride onward in our better learned ways to give out even more seeds for new life, and to blossom wildly in so doing for self and others … The old ones are yet traveling underground and overland toward us as we meet one more La Vidente, the Seer; La Que Sabe, the Knowing Woman; La Levantadora, the Lifter of Curses―the Dangerous Old Woman in her many likenesses calls to you to 'get down to business.'” ―Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD How to Be an Elder presents the culmination of Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés' masterwork, inviting us to “come into our own as wiser and wild souls” through six sessions of teachings, stories, poetry, and blessings. In this fifth and final volume of Dr. Estés' landmark series, we will explore how it is that through the gathering of our years we become a beautiful refuge for ourselves, our Souls, and for those who come after us. “Did I mention, dear brave souls,” reminds Dr. Estés, “that you came with all the seedlings needed to do your work, to take your venerable places in life? Now is the just-right time, like Sleeping Beauty, to break the enchantment, to truly awaken and awaken others, as either a rookie Dangerous Old Woman, or a mid-career Dangerous Old Woman, or as Crone with Crown complete!” Stories, Poems, and Blessings Include A Simple Prayer for Remembering • El Arbol de la Vida : The Tree of Life • Blessing “Tattoo Your Scars with Flowering Vines” • “Sleeping Beauty” • Blessing “Do Not Fold Your Wings So Small” • “The Shoebox of Tangled Necklaces” • “Rumpelstiltskin” • Blessing “May You See with Three Sets of Creator-Blessed Eyes” • “Rapunzel” • “The Loathly Bride” • Blessing “You Shall Be Like a Volcano Heard from Afar” • “This Little Time Traveler” • “The Stolen Mother Moon” • Blessing “The Hardening off of the Heartwood” • “Distilling Aunt Edna from the Bottle” • “The Rabbi's Advice to the Harried” • “A Handful of Mud” • “Baucis and Philemon” • Blessing “The Mountain for Old Lovers”