♀▲ Red Tent Kauai ▲♀

A Red Tent is a vision I believe so many women deep down desire.  I feel it is something that is necessary and we all deserve a place to gather with our sisters and bleed onto the earth.  A few women on the island have been dreaming of creating a "red tent".  I had my old teepee here on Kauai that I had sold after it begin to mold and the woman who bought it painted it red and was using it as a womens' moon lodge.  I ran into her in Bali and she shared that she was now living in Ubud and the teepee was still on Kauai and not being used.  Right away my heart fluttered with excitement as I knew our vision was about to become reality.

     We ended up manifesting the teepee back and decided to set it up on our friends land where a handful of amazing women are now living.  This last week a group of us sisters harvested 17 bamboo poles, and then we took some time preparing them.  We also mended any small holes in the teepee canvas.  (I bought it new in 2007 so its gotten some use!) On the new moon, we came together in ceremony to raise the teepee.  We each shared a prayer for the lodge as we wrapped the rope around the poles securing them in place.  Around dusk a group of twenty women gathered and sat as one in the lodge.  We prayed together as women, sisters, mothers, lovers.

     My dear sis Mila shared this about our New Moon Red Tipi/Tent Ceremony:  "Yesterday was a dream come true! We raised our Womens' Moon Lodge on the land here on Kauai ~ our Red Tent teepee ~ to be a sacred space for women to gather each New Moon to honor and celebrate our divine gifts, to share power through song and story, to plant seeds of intention for what we wish to manifest on earth! It feels so good to bring these traditions back into our world, to make them our own, and pass them along to our future generations."  

    ~As we begin to remember, we begin to step into the light that has always been.  Sacred spaces like these have existed for of years.  There is a reason for them and my prayer is that more women begin to create their own versions of the Red Tent. 

Harvesting

Mending

Wrapping round our Prayers

Coming together 

Angelea who is ten years old, smudged us all.

Teepee still needs some adjusting to lay right.  Saving that for another day! 

Our first circle up

Naia enjoying the fire and song circle.

Women fire starters making it happen! 

Releasing the old to bring in the new.

This is for all the Goddesses calling in a sacred space!   You are empowered, beautiful, supported and can manifest anything your heart desires!  Love from all your Island sisters! 

~✥ Karolina Daria and the Rainbow Tribe ✥~

Karolina has a way of seeing right into my heart.  These images for me are a woven landscape of my love for South America and the Indigenous people there and the Hawaiian Islands. Right now Karolina is in Brazil making magic with the rainbow tribe and receiving wisdom from the sacred land and the people there.  I fell in love with this new series of hers.  Super excited to finally embrace her in the physical in Iceland this summer!
~These wonderful creatures here are-Mariana Maia, Sean Gabriel, Marianne Soisalo, Fabio Tassone,
(and Vanessa Moutinho in spirit)

See more of Karolina's beautiful work @ Karolina Daria

✴❦ Giving Thanks ~ the Balinese way ❦✴

After being here in Bali for two weeks I feel my heart sinking in deeper and deeper into this mystic island.  The simplicity of the daily life reminds me what I am always calling in just a little bit more.  Here on the island and when traveling I try to take on the indigenous ways of life as much as I can.  This means no motorbikes, which leave me sweating my booty off but at the same time receiving a serious cleansing along with some daily exersise.  I carry Naia on my back in her wrap and take my baskets to the markets to gather food and other needs.  This is their way of life and if I'm here learning from the Mamas, then I'm going to walk their ways as much as possible.  They also love and appreciate this and I am grateful for their blessings. They esp love that I wear the sarongs too.  Living the island life definitely requires wearing sarongs so this comes quite easily to me.  Its been fun dressing myself with the beautiful IKAT prints.  So much work and love poured into these weavings.

My favorite thing to do when traveling through other countries is to find the local village woman and spend the day amongst their presence.  Usually this means sitting with some weavers in South America, harvesting corn or other foods from the fields and in Bali this time around...  its helping to make offerings.  I keep telling myself I'm dreaming.  Most of the offerings are made with palm fronds or banana leafs.  When I first started going to primitive skills gatherings I had a strong call to learn to weave, luckily once you know the basics to weaving the rest falls in place much easier. A lot of the times the language barrier comes up but we all seem to remember the silent words of wisdom that come from a smile, through the eyes or just that still place of the heart.  Of course there is always the laughter and having a little one with me brings much of this for the woman.  They love the little blonde haired blue eyed bambino and want to touch her and hug on her as much as possible.  I find myself wanting to do the same with them.

Without having any clue, we decided to head to Bali right in the middle of their Ceremonial season.  Its a slow time for the Balinese in terms of tourism so this means more time to sit, meditate and give thanks.  Its truly part of their daily life and offerings are being given here all day, every day.  There is also a ton of art.  I have fallen in love with the paintings of woman here.  Most show these beauties in sarongs, topless bathing together, crafting with each other or just cradling one another in the sacred essence of pure sisterhood.  A true reflection of the life here in Bali.

Giving thanks for all women in all directions.  Aho to each and every one of you.