Red Tent Temple of Fitchburg
Red Tent Temple is held one day out of the month, on or near the new moon, to step out of a kind of world that keeps women constantly occupied. Inside the Red Tent Temples, we give ourselves time to remember who we are at our very core, honoring that, we must turn from our identities and roles toward the innermost temple of our own hearts. Come into the Red Tent Temple and stop for a breath and to be in your body. In the quiet and sometimes celebratory company of wonderful women, feel. In what you feel, there is much that is waiting for you.
We are creating now, in our local communities, a place for us where we can meet each other and at the very same time take care of ourselves and one another. It is this time to create change at the very fiber of our cultures, that will help build good relations. The Red Tent Temple Movement raises up a Red Tent in our local city of Fitchburg, Mass. for us to honor our blood cycles and womanhood journeys. And the Red Tent Temple offers women a state of beingness rather than our continual doing mode.
How about not do anything for a few hours? Or seeing what happens when we don't have a plan or a direction? Are we keeping ourselves busy so we don't feel? Where are we hiding in our busyness that may speak to our hearts when we finally take time to slow down?
Most importantly, as the world around us begins to shake, we are growing a firm foundation of connections locally of wisewomen, who are gathering in our tents, sharing support and wisdom on our womanhood journeys.
The Red Tent Temple Movement is a way for women to take our inner momentum, that feeling like the time is now, and come forward with everything we are as women and give us a place to incubate, dream, slow down, and not have an agenda or plan. Much is waiting for us in this not knowing place, but we need to make time for the empty space. It is also not only empty space but woman space where we can share stories, laughter, songs, food and honor our unique cycles that we experience each month in our bleeding time and in our going through perimenopause and menopause.
We are looking for another way, a way that is more consistent with our actual rhythms, cycles and ways of being in relationship with each other, that support, foster and give us strength and courage. Here in the Red Tent we can journal, rest, receive or give energy work, draw, read, share or listen to women’s wisdoms in the stories we share. We cook one another food and drink teas for our wombs and bellies.
Please join us each month for this special time of sharing and caring. It could be just what you need to find the parts of yourself that have been lost, or sacrificed along the way. We meet monthly between the hours of 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. in the comfortable yoga studio at Back-N-Touch Wellness Center. There is never a cost to attend, although we do accept donations. Please bring a potluck item to share.
Please connect with Charity Parrott, 978-855-0057, for more information. All women are welcome to join us.
(some of the information above was adapted from http://alisastarkweather.com with permission)
Back-N-Touch Wellness Center
244 Walton Street
Fitchburg, Ma 01420
Contact person: Charity Parrott, maternalinstinct@hotmail.com, 978-855-0057