Women Rise Up, in our power and our truth. Women Rise Up, in our love for the earth. Women Rise Up, honor life, death and rebirth. Women Rise Up, for all we're worth. We're a force to be reckoned with. ~ Chant written by ALisa Starkweather

We come to take our place on the earth, co-creating, co-conspiring, releasing our pre-conceived expectations to find ourselves alive and awake to what the sacred moment brings us.

Connection to the Earth and Our Body:
Enter the Temple of Healing and Dance:
Bellydancing, honoring our bodies, Plant Spirit Medicine, herbwalks, harvesting food from the organic gardens, yoga, ceremony, art, massage and bodywork. Cultural change-making, sustainability, connecting with the beauty of the Mother and ourselves

Connection to the Air and Our Breath:
Enter the Sky Temple of Inhaling Inspiration:
Transformational Breathwork, SpiritSong, Vision Council, spiritual sustenance, abundance skills, dreamwork, sounding, creativity and reveling in wonder

Connection to the Fire and Our Spirit:
Enter the Phoenix Temple of Passion and Pleasure:
Firecircle, drumming, dancing, singing at night, storytelling, sharing tales and teachings of sacred sexuality, re-committing to our dreams, boundary setting, sunrise ceremonies, prayer, gratitude sharing, nourishing wildwomen natures

Connection to the Water and Our Moontime, Womb Journeys and Tears:
Enter the Women's Red Tent:
Swimming, moontime blessings, rites of passages, honoring our belly and womb stories, grieving rituals, nourished in the Red Tent together, resting, journaling, a place to be, a space to heal. Being with the fullness of the moon. Cultivating yin.

The CALL:
WE GATHER THE WOMEN; the drummers, the dancers, the singers, the healers, the priestesses, the dreamers, the weavers, the mystical and wise ones. We call the young ones, the mothers, the seekers, the elders, the women who know that their power, their visions and essence are needed in all forms of expression for the balance of life now. This women's gathering is a deep exploration of our visions, voice, magic, intentions, and our place here on the planet sharing stories and inspiration that will help guide and sustain us during these times. Facilitated in a spontaneous yet organized "be-in-the-moment way" to meet our many soul hungers, we will share a rich array of our gifts collectively.

We share in common our need to rest, eat, dance, talk, council, heal, and be in ceremony together.

We share the need to be on the earth, outside, rooted and connected to the sacred land.

We hunger for dreams, insights, validation, deep meaningful interactions and inspiration to live our lives ever more powerfully in service to life.

In the safety of one another's company we shed our old skin anew and share in the natural transformation, that comes from being together.

We need and hunger for safe places to cry, laugh, scream, be seen and touch our own wild and ecstatic natures (your birthright).

Under the new moon we howl and build a community of women, called to this vision to meet face to face as daughters of this beautiful Mother Earth.

Other places to gather in ceremony on the land are the Stone People's Lodge, the Firecircle and the Medicine Circle. We will designate the Maiden's Grove, the Crone's Hut and the Mother's Milk Stream. Also on the land is a 4000 year old ceremonial site from a matriarchal tribe. Earthlands is off the grid and is an ecological community.

 

"With ALisa, magic definitely happens." ~ Jane Glesne

 

The shadow sides of our lives when we do not meet our hungers:

* Not being connected to the earth, our body and our joy.
* Not breathing, and feeling afraid, sad or stuck in despair.
* Not accepting our passion or rage as a tool for action and boundary setting.
* Not honoring our moontime, our wombs and our grief.
* Not honoring our passages of life. Feeling very hungry for something difficult to
name.
* Not following our intuitions and dreams.
* Not finding our joy in every day pleasures.

Sisters, whether this is your calling or not, please take precious care of your deep soul needs. You are worth it.

Beauty to you on your blessed woman path.
Respectfully, ALisa

 

Registration and Costs: To register, alisastar@aol.com. Program Fee includes tenting, experiences, and vegetarian meals. Beds are available in rustic lodge for an additional charge. Checks can be made to ALisa Starkweather 10 Chestnut St Baldwinville, Ma 01436. Send your name, number, email and address, allergies, and food preferences/needs. Details will follow. Also check out other programs, Women in Power; Initiating Ourselves to the Predator Within (womeninpowerprogram.com), the Priestess Path Apprenticeship, a women's mystery school, and the Women's Belly and Womb Conferences.

Sponsored By: The Priestess Path

Facilitated and envisioned by ALisa Starkweather, founder of the women's mystery school, Priestess Path Apprenticeship, the Women's Belly and Womb Conferences, co-founder of Women in Power; Initiating Ourselves to the Predator Within. ALisa is a certified Shadow Work and Transformational Breathwork facilitator who travels internationally as a women's empowerment trainer, teacher and ceremonialist. She brings twenty years of experience in community building drawing from the wildwoman archetype. Her CD's of original chants are Daughter of the Earth and Calling Us Home.