workshop Rhinebeck, NY

Wild Dare

Reclaiming Courage & Creative Power From the Dark

Dates

Aug 30 – Sep 4, 2026

Tuition

Member: $610.00

Standard: $675.00

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Ignite creative fire, undomesticated courage, and cohesive wholeness through a 4-D Wheel intensive for women with depth psychologist Roxanne Partridge.

Roxanne Partridge says Wild Dare is an utterance of the heart that is rooted in courage.

Do you feel a pull toward a life that is more honest, courageous, and creatively alive?

Women enter this immersion when an inner dare begins to rise. Insight and self-awareness have brought you far, yet the next step requires something deeper: a lived experience that carries you beyond your familiar story into genuine transformation.

This workshop meets women at a time marked by restlessness, emotional intensity, and a quiet pressure to evolve. Many feel pulled toward clarity and purpose while navigating distraction, overwhelm, or the sense of crossing an unseen threshold. This experience of descent offers the structure, safety, and ritual depth needed to restore coherence and reconnect with the instinct that guides real change.

The journey begins with a grounded orientation using the 4-D Wheel, a depth-psychological framework that helps you locate where your inner life is shifting and what is ready to emerge. From there, you step into a living mythic passage drawn from the ancient lineage of Inanna’s descent—an initiatory path where women recover courage, creative fire, and a renewed sense of wholeness through meeting the dark with presence rather than fear.

Through movement, ritual arts, mask work, guided journeying, and embodied inquiry, you encounter layers of self that live beneath analysis—where feeling becomes intelligence and the next shape of your life begins to reveal itself. The collective container holds this work with soul-centered psychological rigor and emotional safety, allowing your heart's true wild dare to be fully reclaimed.

Across five nights, you move through a clear arc:

  • Clarifying the inner dare already calling you forward
  • Descending into the deeper forces shaping your desire, direction, and vitality
  • Recovering courage and creative power from the underworld
  • Rising with coherence, wholeness, and renewed alignment

What you'll engage:

  • A grounded orientation through the 4-D Wheel
  • A living mythic descent rooted in ancient feminine lineage
  • Somatic and expressive practices that awaken instinct, presence, and creative energy
  • Ritual arts, movement, mask work, and guided journeying
  • A beautifully designed integration workbook supporting dynamic reflection and ongoing clarity
  • Guidance for selecting two personal power objects to bring to the workshop

More Information

Recommended Reading:

  • Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women, by Sylvia Brinton Perera
  • The Vital Spark: Reclaim Your Outlaw Energies and Find Your Feminine Fire by Lisa Marchiano

Things to Bring

  • Journal
  • Comfortable clothing
  • Eye mask or eye pillow (or a scarf you can use to cover your eyes)
  • Two "power objects" (details included in participant letter)

Additionally, upon registration you will receive a letter with more information on how to prepare for the course.

Workshop Rhinebeck, NY

Aug 30 – Sep 4, 2026

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  • Roxanne Partridge

    Roxanne Partridge

    Dr. Roxanne Partridge is an arts-based depth psychologist, relational sexuality practitioner, and...