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Jan Tchamani commented on DeAnna L'am's blog post 'Red Tents: Reclaim, Renew, Rejoice!'

Hi DeAnna Your clip on YouTube actually moved me to tears. I'm in the process of collecting red cloth for my own red tent here in Birmingham, England, and turning my living-room red too, with cushions, candles, pictures etc. I honour you and…

Aug 18, 2009

Red Tents: Reclaim, Renew, Rejoice!

The video below was taken on Menstrual Monday 2008, in the Sebastopol Downtown Plaza.Menstrual Monday has been celebrated around the world for the past few years, on the Monday before Mother's Day (since you menstruate BEFORE you become a mother, and long after...)I am deeply passionate about spreading this work among women and girls worldwide.Enjoy! See More

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What issues are most important to you?: My passion is inspiring women and girls to love themselves!

I work toward cultivating Red Tents in every neighborhood, and train women to facilitate Red Tent circles.

My mission is inspiring women and girls around the world to reclaim their menstrual cycles as powerful spiritual journeys.

What kind of social activism do you engage in?: Creating safe spaces for girls and women to connect, empower, and celebrate their lives and cycles.

What organizations do you love or work with?: The Red Web Foundation, Sophia 2010, The Northern California Women's Herbal Symposioum

What books, music, films, etc. do you think educate and empower women?: Bread, Blood and Roses/Judy Grehn; The Red Tent/Anita Diamant; Books by Kisma Stepanich; The Wise Wound/ Shuttle & Redgrove; When God was a Woman/ Merylin Stone; Books by Z. Budapest; Starhawk; Vicky Noble

Career: what do you do or want to do?: I am an author, public speaker, educator, and facilitator in the fields of women's spirituality, communication, and conflict resolution

What skills and interests to do you have to offer to others in the Red Tent Women's Project communty? This is your chance, so sell yourself!: I would love to share my book: Becoming Peers - Mentoring Girls Into Womanhood.

I offer Red Tent circles for mothers and daughters; workshops for women to heal and reclaim their Inner Maidden, who may have never been welcomed into womanhood; personalized Rites of Passage ceremonies for adolescent girls, and for any stage in women's lives.

I travel to train women in facilitating Red Tent circles, and welcoming girls into womanhood, anywhere in the world women are hungry for this work!

What would you like other members of this community to know? About yourself, about the world...anything (try not to be profane, though)!: "Peace within, peace between, peace among, and peace beyond" Virginia Satir

What was your "women really matter and I'm going to do something about it" moment?: The first internationl women's conference I attended in Italy, 1989, where I first discovered remenants of the Goddess in religious texts of most cultures.

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Red Tents: Reclaim, Renew, Rejoice!

The video below was taken on Menstrual Monday 2008, in the Sebastopol Downtown Plaza.

Menstrual Monday has been celebrated around the world for the past few years, on the Monday before Mother's Day (since you menstruate BEFORE you become a mother, and long after...)

I am deeply passionate about spreading this work among women and girls… Continue

Posted on August 14, 2009 at 11:10pm — 1 Comment