A warm welcome to our centre. As co-directors of the Red Tent, Naomi & Rebecca have hand-picked the women who work with us for their skills, experience and their level of care as practitioners. You’ll find plenty of info about them and their craft in the pages that follow. But first, a little bit about our Red Tent.
Why the ‘Red Tent’ ?
The Red Tent was the name of a book by Anita Diamant, in which she re-imagines one of the biblical stories, the story of Dinah, from her perspective. Dinah was a midwife. Anita Diamant draws our attention to the importance of reclaiming women’s stories in women’s voices and the importance of these stories to generate a confident next generation of women who hear them.
The “red tent”, is a sacred place in which the tribal women in the story go during their menstrual cycle, for special coming of age rituals and, to birth their babies. In the red tent women are free to tell their stories of birth, of life, and of death. In the “red tent” women are free to dream and be who they want to be.
We have created our own Red Tent, a safe space for women, for healing and nurturing, and to feel a part of our community. We honour women for being the primary caregivers (in our culture this is still most often the case), tending to the health and well-being of the family. We honour women’s bodies – the wisdom of our cycles, and our capacity to hold and nourish new life within our wombs, and to give birth and beyond.
As a group we believe we are re-imagining how we can run a business in a more feminine way. We are redefining success- as feeling content, joyful, nourished and inspired while still always learning and supporting each other. We like to believe we are making decisions that consider the whole and understand and value our therapist’s needs as mothers. We would like to inspire other women to develop businesses that are women- friendly.
We invite you and your family to come to join us at the Red Tent to share what we have learnt in the ways of nourishing, healing and supporting you to be the strongest and most resilient that you can be.
Practitioners at the Red Tent
We have practitioners trained in acupuncture & Chinese medicine, psychotherapy, nutrition and massage, including pregnancy massage.
Acupuncture & Chinese Herbal Medicine
