UNEARTHING WILD WOMAN
A four-week journey into myth, the feminine in Islam and our primordial essence
This is a course for women, who long to know themselves deeply, for women who sense the immensity of their beings, of the oceans within. And look to meet themselves. Our fitrah, our primordial essence, sings a melody of belonging and wholeness. This journey is a call to listen again, to let that song guide you back into the Wild Feminine within.
What this course offers..
This is an invitation to engage in a inquiry with your own being, your own soul, through the incredible power of myth rooted deeply in an Islamic perspective.
It ask the questions:
- What can myth and story reveal to me about the hidden patterns, archetypes, and possibilities within my own life?
- How do I meet the Wild Feminine within me, and live from her wisdom with depth, resilience, and wholeness?
- How can I begin to understand what my fitrah (primordial essence) is and reframe how I engage with God?
Medina will guide you into meeting yourself beyond what you believe you know of yourself and your story. To meet yourself in the characters, in the deep psychic patterns of these stories of old that address some of the deepest notions, or experiences of what it means to be a human. Myth as alchemy.
What people are saying
"Medina created a space which was in its purest form magical. The number of women’s circles I’ve attended and this felt like the most relaxed and supported one I’d attended. There was no need to be anyone else. I wanted to connect with like minded women who felt called to the mystical dimensions of Islam and how this appeared in the everyday.
Medina held space for us individually while allowing us to connect to both each other and our own fitra."
Shumaiya Khan - Artist
Your Journey with Myth
Myths help us bring light to patterns, themes symbols, metaphors that may reain unconcious in our beings, feelings and sensations that appear to us in our dreams, mysteries.
Mythology has a profound capacity to address the deeply individual and the deeply universal experience of reality. It touches the deepest part of the pysche, bypassing the logical mind.
Story telling is of the humans most profound functions, I truly believe it is our tool, one of the greatest gifts from God that engages our imagination, this utter field of potentiality.
The stories invite us to become the seal, head bobbing in the frozen winter sea, her skin as our skin, asking the moon for help in the dead of night; to become the old wise one bent over crooked and blind in one eye at the edge of the known world, wandering the forests, all senses alight to every movement; to become the gullible or cunning maiden at the cusp of some great injustice, some great journey. To become also intimate with the frightful thing that pursues her. To become the mountain woman with piercing gaze , encountering bear, wolf, and deer kin, who has encountered death many times, and allowed it to utterly destroy her, run her ragged and rebirth her… In this cocoon of introspection, we are both the storyteller and the story, the dreamer and the dream.
What You Will Receive
Four online sessions with Medina, deep diving into myth and Islam and the themes that shape our lives
Materials and resources to enrich your experience and deepen reflection
Access to a community platform to share insights, support, and connection
Course Outline
Course Outline
Meetings will take place on Zoom on Thursday evenings at 7pm BST (United Kingdom)
Week 1 — October 9
La Loba: Wolf Woman
Islam and Womanhood, Encounters with the Wild Crone
Week 2 — October 16
The Tale of the Lindworm
The Exile of the Wild Twin, Encounters with Shame
Week 3 — October 23
Seal Skin, Soul Skin
Returning to Fitrah, the Primordial Self, Homecoming
Week 4 — October 30
Theme TBA
Integration, embodiment, and transformation
Who am I?
The heart behind this offering...
As a very young woman I picked up a book called Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. It has been a constant companion for me over the years. It deeply shaped my understanding of my psyche, the nature of womanhood, the cyclicality of the feminine, and the essential role of storytelling. Most crucially, it addressed the unnamable, wild, mystical, and profoundly feminine love I experienced for the world and for God. It constantly pointed toward the ethereal, inherent, universal principle of the feminine, which manifests itself in womanhood but is not bound to women.
As a Muslim raised under the strong wing of traditional Sufism, the link to what we call fitrah felt poignant. Fitrah is the essential nature of any given thing, the inherent or primordial state. This is what Islam and the message of the blessed Prophet concern themselves with: What is the nature of the human fitrah? What is our primordial state? How can we return to it? Our fitrah is to be in remembrance and submission to the Beloved. I find in the alchemical potential of these stories a certain fitrih sense.
This course does not aim to offer concrete answers about being alive, what you should or should not do, rights and wrongs. Instead, it is an invitation to journey into these stories with the foundational framework of this primordial sense of our own natures, and see what longs to reveals itself. It is about listening, about resonance with a deep aspect of our natures.
This course is for all women.
“You can call this powerful psychological nature the instinctive nature, but Wild Woman is the force that lies behind that. You can call it the natural psyche… You can call it the innate, the basic nature of women. You can call it the Indigenous, the intrinsic nature of women. In poetry it might be called the ‘Other’ or the ‘seven oceans of the universe,’ or ‘the far woods,’ or ‘The Friend’… it would be called the Self, the medial nature. In biology, it would be called the typical or fundamental nature.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Medina Trevathan
Unearthing Wild Woman
“This is weft and the weave of story for me. The endless lyrical emerging of the earth’s tremendous thinking and the humbling required to simply bear witness to it. And the extraordinary day, when for an hour or so you realise that you too are being witnessed.
Martin Shaw