Red Tent Alaska Women’s Gatherings
Intention
Historically, the Red Tent was typically a sacred, private space where women could rest, share stories, offer support, and engage in spiritual practices that cultivated a fruitful and abundant life. The intention here is to strengthen community connections with this group by recreating a place for feminine solidarity, where women are relieved of their usual responsibilities and can focus on their own well-being and spiritual needs.
There is a hope that the people attending will be multi-cultural, multi-faith, and multi-generational from diverse economic backgrounds. We hope to come together to provide an opportunity to not only learn from each other but to also bond with other women and connect to divine feminine power in an inclusive nurturing environment. We are unified in our service to one another. We know that when we show up in right relationship for ourselves on a regular basis, we are able to show up for all our relationships in a greater capacity than ever before.
Red Tent Ak is a non-profit group providing affordable, high quality mini-retreats for women in our community. Donations to Red Tent help cover costs associated with the gathering, contribute to the Red Tent scholarship fund and help us to be able to provide upon request a meager honorarium to any of our facilitators who invest their time and resources to make these gatherings possible.
Women’s Empowerment
Red Tent Ceremonial Gatherings are structured gatherings that facilitate deep connection and healing opportunities. Sacred space is provided for traditional practices for deep sharing and an opportunity to mindfully engage in spiritual practices that have the potential to bring about deep wisdom, profound insight and an ease of wellbeing. Red Tent Ceremonial Retreat space is limited to no more than 18 participants and up to 6 facilitators. Drop-ins during ceremony are discouraged.
Reserve your seat in the tent with a minimum donation* of $30.
*If you are experiencing financial hardship we have funds available for partial to full scholarship depending on need. Reach out to us at redtentalaska@gmail.com
Gathering for Dec. 20th & 21st
Módraniht - A Winter Mothers’ Vigil: Breath, Ice & Ancestral Warmth
Join us for old Norse traditions, as we gather in sacred sisterhood to honor the Mother Goddesses and ancestral women who carried our people through the deep winter. On the longest threshold of the year, we kindle warmth, remembrance and the fierce, nurturing spirit of the Northern Mothers.
Move alongside us as we clear energy through medicinal practices working with evergreens and the practice of Qigong in preparation for a spiral labyrinth walk. Our intention is to walk in devotion to the Mothers who walked before us, embodying prayer for guidance, grounding and the turning of the light.
Treat yourself to the storytelling of Michelle Morton of Sacred Vibration Arts and the healing she offers through sound journeys that invoke the Great Mother, the deep rest of winter and the channeling of song likely woven by our foremothers themselves.
Guided by our sister Dianna she will initiate us into the alchemical nature of breath, ice and fire. We will find strength, vitality and resilience as we work with the charge of the breath as we move between cold and sauna, mirroring the old Nordic rhythms of purification, renewal and elemental balance.
Together we will carve simple winter sigils, symbols marking protection, blessing and ancestral guidance into pieces of birch to be placed on your hearth, personal altar or a winter fire. A tactile remembrance of the women who carved, marked, blessed and tended the flames before us.
Held within the sacred container of the Red Tent, this vigil invites you to adorn yourself in a festive ceremonial way or arrive as you are. Rest in ancestral warmth, and welcome the returning sun with the strength of those whose shoulders we stand upon.
