If you were to create a retreat or retreat center, what would it
Posted on Jan 23rd, 2008
by
Iza
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for January 23, 2008:
Lol, this started when my friend and I were both like "we could use a Red Tent to go to once a month or so to eat chocolate and talk and cry and laugh." I would create a Red Tent-like retreat center--geared specifically toward self-care in women. There'd be lush, soothing, comfortable rooms, well-lit and dark, spaces to sit and read books, receive and learn energy healing, support groups for a variety of women's life phases (from grief, to menopause, to puberty, to marriage), sex-ed classes and experts, gynocologists, therapists, gp's, rape/sexual assault counseling specialists, and nurses on-call...oh, it'd be grand. IFestivals promoting wellness, self-love, and empowerment would be given each month, discussion groups on goddesses and archetypes would be held, and any women's group could use spaces and rooms for their own actvities and ideas. This would be well-funded from a few generous benfactors, so naturally we wouldn't need to fundraise for the center or its programs, but we would host and work to fundraise and advocate for women's causes around the world--(lol, see the dream of a nonprofit worker here?)
The whole point would be to recreate the sense of community and bonding that joined women in ye olden times around their bodies, while educating and expanding women's notions of self-care, healing, and support for one another. Wouldn't it be wonderful??
The whole point would be to recreate the sense of community and bonding that joined women in ye olden times around their bodies, while educating and expanding women's notions of self-care, healing, and support for one another. Wouldn't it be wonderful??







yes, that would be wonderful!