Red Tent
Part the veils and step over the threshold into sacred space. The Red Tent, also known as a moonlodge, is where women gather apart from the day-to-day chores of the community to share and receive wisdom. In offering this space, we do not necessarily seek to recreate the traditions of other times/cultures, rather we seek to create space within our present reality to honor the sanctity of womon’s experience of menarche, menstruation, and menopause. All women, no matter where on their menstrual or life cycle are welcome!
Come dear ones…
who dance the threshold of childhood and wombmoonhood
who are beholden unto themselves.
Come dear ones…
who bleed without dying,
who feed and nourish the earth with your blood.
Come dear ones…
who feed and nourish the next generation with your power and creativity,
who hold your wise blood inside and teach peace and truth.
Come dear ones…
Honor your cycles, honor wombspace,
Join us in the Red Tent!
Lorene Wapotich
Lorene Wapotich is passionate about guiding children and their families into deeper relationship with nature, greater knowledge of self, and the cultivation of multi-generational community through long-term, nature connection mentoring. She has worked in the field of outdoor experiential education for over 30 years and has witnessed the profound positive impact that direct hands-on experience in nature and emergent child-centered curriculum has on children’s social, emotional, physical, cognitive and spiritual development.
Lorene’s life’s work is to empower girls and women, and to restore rites of passage as a way of life in our communities. Lorene has worked with women and girls in nature-based programs for more than 25 years and now trains women, especially moms, how to create meaningful and magical Coming of Age ceremonies for girls. Lorene is a dynamic and passionate speaker, national lecturer and workshop leader, and mentors women across the United States as they create rites of passage programs in their own communities.
Lorene holds a Masters of Education degree from Lesley University with a concentration in girls’ development, rites of passage and nature-based education. She has a Bachelors degree in Education from Prescott College with an emphasis in Wilderness Leadership and Natural History Education. Lorene feels deep kinship with the natural world and views sacred relationship with self, others, nature and Spirit as the foundation for living an empowered life.
