The Creative Fire
We Were Made for These Times
A five-day residential educational training intensive with
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés Réyes
Dates: September 9-14, 2025
Sunrise Ranch, Loveland, CO
Tuition: $2175 (does not include housing, transportation or meals)
“We were made for these times: to find the truth that burns within us, to live with hearts aflame, clear vision, and unwavering desire to see any endeavor through, no matter the weather, no matter the season. No matter the obstacles.” “Fire! Give me Fire!”*
-Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés Reyés
OVERVIEW
“Creativity is less the kindling of fleeting sparks, but rather the enduring stoking of a fire that can and will with proper tending, burn well in all weathers. It’s the knowledge…and tenacity to consistently tend to the fire pit—through the summer winds and winters of triumphs and storm-swept trials, transforming oneself, over many seasons, into a true and living work of art.
Yet many have been kept away from learning and practicing the ways with Fire. Or else lost them in past wars and destructions of their own primal cultures.
In this training, guided by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés Réyes, you will learn to fan the embers of your soul’s ever-present creative fire. You will discover the dampening influences, the ashes that have choked your flame, and you will rise, like a phoenix from the smoldering pyre—time and again—for creativity follows the life/death/life cycle of rising to the zenith, declining in energy, dying down, and yet incubating again, being reborn into a new and vital blaze again. That is the cycle of true Creative Life Force.
Dr. Estés Réyes teaches that true success is measured not by events completed nor fleeting fame, but by calling and by the enduring warmth of meaningful connection to the Greater through one’s own, undivided, true self. To feed the flames of this sacred fire, we must not merely ask the right questions, but answer the ancient riddles whispered to us by Second World and Greater…
How to meet these times with your full force, your full fire, your potential and calling realized? All the kindling you need for this journey lies within you. If you dream the Grand Canyon, and draw from this inner vision, it will be your Grand Canyon, a unique landscape forged in the kiln of your soul. One way or another, everyone possesses the capacity to not only ignite their inner flame, but to become the FireKeeper who tends daily to the changing atmospheres of life—lived in two worlds at the same time.
In the circle of kindred spirits with Dr. Estés and your sisterly and brotherly travelers at training, you will find sanctuary from the over-culture’s smothering of the psyche’s oxygen needed to keep fire alive. Laying aside the icy over culture rules that chill your spirit, and discovering what truly ‘fires’ you forward, and what truly holds you back from being a deep FireTender, FireKeeper, you will learn how to build and protect a Fire that matches sunrise in light and also goes valiantly against any encroaching darknesses.
Through mythos, stories, dreamwork, and trance, Dr. Estés will reveal the hidden drafts that extinguish the constancy of your flame. You will see how to do away with what impedes your creative fire, the damp wood of doubt, the smoldering blankets of ‘what if’and ‘if only,’ and ‘who me?’ and ‘I have no idea what I’m doing’ and other rapacious self inflations and deflations.
Dr. Estés will lead you to your truest self, a self not formed in the cold forge of societal expectations, but in the burning heart of your own Being. Find what and who holds you dear in idea and dream, and how to bring back as you wish, the quiet relentless flame of the ongoing bonfire of your authentic self—and all stops in-between.
Drawing from her ehtnic ancient wisdom tradition contained in the FireTender God, Huehueteotl [Hway-hway-tey-OT]—of the Nahua peoples [Aztecs], we will also see how the modern science of combustion can help us understand better and pin down to exact processes and contents of you yourself ‘tending’ to your own creative fire. How to diagnose its strengths and luchas, struggles, how to temper its flame to match your callings.
Join us for a journey of self exploration, to unleash the force of creative fire you have carried within you, perhaps never allowed to fully ignite. For those who continue to stoke the embers, who delve deeper into the heart of the flame, there are insights and likely startlingly original revelations too.
From the crucible of this experience, you will emerge with a grist and grit that cannot be forged any other way.”
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This work is not for showiness nor ego intents, in fact those are often the diseases that stand in the way of full fire. It’s for those who can come be without skin for a time to learn your own ‘true truths.’ You are likely to discover true callings —your purpose in this moment, in your life, in the world, in your family—in the fire that you were born to tend.
* “Fire! Give me Fire!” excerpt from poem ©1965, 2025 by Estés Réyes. “Yeah, the fire burns/through every single storm/Keeps me grounded, keeps me warm/so keep tendin’ yours, let it rise and roar/The creative fire, we together, ever evermore!”
SCHEDULE
September 9 - 14, 2025
Sunrise Ranch, Loveland, CO
TUESDAY | September 9, 2025
2:00—5:00pm Registration and orientation at Sunrise Ranch
6:00 & 6:15pm Dinner served
7:00—9:00pm Meet with Dr. Estés Réyes
WEDNESDAY - SATURDAY | September 10 - 13
7:30am Breakfast
9:30am—12:00pm Meet with Dr. Estés Réyes
12:00 & 12:15pm Lunch
2:30—5:00pm Meet with Dr.Estés Réyes
6:00 & 6:15pm Dinner
7:00—9:00pm Meet with Dr. Estés Réyes
SUNDAY | September 14
7:30am Breakfast
9:30am—12:00pm Meet with Dr. Estés Réyes and evaluations
12:00 & 12:15pm Lunch
12:30pm Departure
Please arrange your travel so you can attend every meeting with Dr. Estés Réyes, September 9 - 14. This is a prerequisite for enrollment in this training.