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Welcome to ALisa Starkweather's Homepage

"The path to our inner Power can be a bloody Revolution... and ALisa bangs the drum and calls the hearts of women to battle. She has a gift for waking up our deep WomanSoulSpace so that we can remember. We can feel. We can be moved to cry, to scream, to laugh, to sing. She sings and drums and weaves the threads of our remembering. With ALisa, "experience" happens. We go beyond the words -- beyond our ceaseless talking, beyond our highly-praised analysis and intellectual pondering, beyond the whole damn alphabet that we are drowning in -- and taps our Souls. Wake up and Remember... Wake up and Remember... No more SleepWalking, no more SleepTalking... And we are changed. And there is no turning back."

- Nicole Oxendine, WiseWomanConnections

ALisa Starkweather founded the women's mystery school, the Priestess Path Apprenticeship in 1998 out of her belief that women are an important part of the change that we need today in our ailing world. She believes women need strong containers to embody an archetype that includes one's power, spirituality, and innate gifts. Priestess Path is an opportunity for a woman to connect with the earth and to challenge her own belief of what is possible. Twenty-three years of dedication to women's empowerment gave her a reputation where she is known for her passionate archetypal work that focuses on transformation, healing, community, ritual and the rebalancing of the sacred feminine.

"ALisa Starkweather is a wondrous teacher who has a highly developed capacity to hold in her presence the largest scope of human emotion, i.e. the deepest sorrow, the most formidable anger, and the purest joy with copious amounts of compassion, love and patience. She is a healer who resembles a medicine woman, or a shaman. She is an endless resource of tools and techniques to help individuals move through their strongest blocks, deepest fears, or stifling emotions." - Nadine Sures, performing artist, Montreal Canada

Red Tent Temple Movement is Happening!

red tent temple movement Women are ready.

Changes in our culture are necessary and the women are going to build infrastructure for healthier lives.

We are already celebrating one year of our movement and so much is taking place as it is spreading. The next Red Tent Temple at ALisa's home will be on December 28th, Sunday from 1pm until 5pm with a circle at 3pm. Check in the menu for a local one near you or begin one.

For questions and answers on how to start one in your area or what it is about go to the menu bar to the left. Push Red Tent Temple Movement and then look again in the menu column and you will see the link. Push questions and answers and read on.

It is time to create 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 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 villages, cities and towns for us to enter and simply “be”. Do we even remember that state of beingness? How about not do anything for a few hours? Are we keeping ourselves busy so we don't feel? Where are we hiding?

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. And simutaneously much is waiting for us in this not knowing place but we need to make time for the empty space.

We are looking for another way, 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. 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.

It is a day out of the month on or near the new moon to step out of a kind of world that keeps us occupied. Inside the Red Tents we give ourselves time to remember who we are at our very core, honoring that to do that remembering 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 the company of wonderful women, feel. In what you feel, there is much that is waiting for you.

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 journies of womanhood. A place for our elders and our young women. A place for us to come alive. Who knows where it will lead us? Women who are part of this important grassroots movement may never know what an important role they will play by bringing this into our culture at large. Now we are learning how. 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.

Use the "Red Tent By Locale" Link to find a Red Tent near you! Or look at the Questions and Answers June Red Tent Temple in the Yurt on the menu for information.

This past month near the new moon we had 32 Red Tent Temples from the east to the west coast happen and we are in our first year. A woman in Australia, Linn announced her first Red Tent Temple across the seas in July! Another woman in Australia is interested as well as a women in Scotland, England and Canada. This autumn Yarrow began near Knoxsville, TN and Salix is beginning in Alabama.

Also Cherie in Syracuse, NY, Jaque in PA, Jessica in Philly, Marianna in Baltimore, MD, Micha in Burlington, Vt and Melissa in NH. We are growing month by month.

Our vision remains to build an independent interactive website space where organizers can write in with information/blog/ etc. and a place where we can see how this movement can become widespread. We are still writing and learning about the mission statement, principles and purpose that can guide the intention of this vision in a way that can be more easily understood.

Teleconferences for the Red Tent Temple Movement:

January 22nd, Thursday, 8pm EST for organizers and women who want to learn more. Women who are new come on the call at 8pm and organizers come on the phone at 8:30pm. Please RSVP by email to have a line saved for you.

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