The Red Tent Temple Movement
November 17, 2009 by Coach Margie
Filed under celebrations, Health & Wellness, personal growth, relationships, retreat, Self Development, self empowerment
Awhile back a Facebook friend, and fellow Womyn’s Circle facilitator that I originally met back East in what now seems like life times ago, posted a link to a movement that she is starting, called the Red Tent Temple Movement. ALisha Starkweather is well known as an extraordinary and skilled facilitator for personal and global transformation and is the founder of the Women’s Belly and Womb ConferenceĀ and Daughters of the Earth Gatherings; a Women’s Tribal Event, and her Priestess Path Apprenticeship.
ALisa says, ”
“The Red Tent Temple Movement is a way for women to gather our inner momentum, that feeling like the time is now, and to authentically come forward with everything we are as women. It gives us a place to incubate, dream, slow down, without an agenda or plan. It is a woman space where we can share stories, laughter, songs, food and honor our unique feminine cycles that we experience each month, whether we are in our bleeding time or going through peri-menopause and menopause. The Temple provides a way that is more consistent with our actual rhythms, cycles and ways of being in relationship to each other that support, foster and give us strength and courage.
It is time. The women are ready to co-create a vision in the societies we live in and make a place among us where women are honored by honoring our own unique journeys of womanhood. Join us in a revolutionary act. It is more than a woman’s circle. It is a deep learning process of unlearning the busy and finding the moment.
Inside the Red Tents we give ourselves time to remember who we are at our very core, while honoring that to remember we must turn from our identities and roles towards the innermost temple of our own hearts. Come into the Red Tent and stop. In the quiet and sometimes celebratory company of wonderful women, feel. In what you feel, there is much that is waiting for you.”
I am pleased, and happy, about bringing a Red Tent Temple to my local community of Bisbee, AZ. It’s important. It’s time. Womyn need a place to come together, to gather, to reconnect. We live in such crazy times, and our ancient ways of womynhood and divine feminine experiences are getting lost. As we struggle to fit into the boxes of societies demands and our various roles, the essence of our authentic spirit cries out to be heard and attended to. Come to the Temple. Relax. Unwind. Be nurtured by other womyn. Share stories and wisdom. This is how we create, design, and maintain sustainable relationships in our lives. Reconnect to your spirit, your story, your dreams, your purpose. Laugh, Dance and Play. The time is now.
My heart sings in the anticipation of being in your presence inside The BisbeeRed Tent and/or of visiting your Tent wherever you are. Join the movement. Erect a Red Tent in your community.
(The Red Tent of Bisbee, AZ will be starting Dec 15th. Connect with Coach Margie for more information)



Hi Camille,
So great to hear from you and to hear your interest in the Red Tent Temple Movement.
Thanks for visiting my website and commenting on my blog. Sorry if it has been awhile since you wrote….I have been traveling and following my bliss!
The main Red Tent Temple web sit is: http://alisastarkweather.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=25&Itemid=48.
You can also find it on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/113560015348457/.
To my knowledge there is no current group in Phoenix, however, I highly encourage you to start your own! Anyone can do it, all it takes is a little commitment and passion, of which it sounds you already have!
Visit the main site and there is all kinds of resources, including a monthly or quarterly conference call for womyn interested in starting one.
If there is any other way I can support your journey towards fulfillment and bliss, let me know.
Good luck!
Coach Margie
Hello!
Now I have one. I hope to hear from you soon and would love a chance to experience the Red Tent.
I just stumbled upon The Red Tent on pinterest — it is EXACTLY what I have wanted to do – connect with women – heal, share, do art, talk, cry — This is AMAZING! Do you have any idea if there is anyone in Phoenix who is considering starting up a group? I live in north Phoenix – I teach art to kids and work with a lot of women who could really use something like this…healing and sharing is just not happening enough.
You are amazing to do this! I have never been to Bisbee but always have wanted to go – I grew up in the midwest and have lived in Phoenix since 2003 — no excuses for me not to get out of the city.