Red Tent with Leela

Join us as we chant and journey together as women who bleed without dying, women who give birth, and women who hold our wise blood inside. This is a sacred space of connection, exploration and celebration!

Please wear red.

This event is open to girls that have started bleeding and women of all ages. No young children, but babes in arms are ok.

Tickets are by donation - all proceeds will go to support our scholarship fund.

About Leela:

I am a practitioner, educator and guide based in Traditional Tibetan Medicine and wisewoman herbalism. I also practice Tibetan massage and Maya Abdominal Massage and am amother of two.

I host in-person Moon Lodge/Red Tent monthly in Westminster, CO (local women pleasereach out for details) and Wheel of the Year celebrations for families.

My story related to Red Tent and ceremony- My connection with sacred ceremony began as a child. My mother, a home-birth midwife, re-membered the spirituality of our ancestors as she raised her children. We celebrated the Wheel of the Year in the Pagan tradition, the Solstices, Equinoxes and Cross-Quarter Days. We gathered with other families in ceremony often around a fire and/or in a tipi. In circle I formed my young self.

As I became a young adult, I found my way to Deep Ecology and loving plants. I gathered a sisterhood of other young women feeling the Earth and our eco-system deep in our beings and celebrating the Wheel of the Year. One Summer Solstice I called a ritual at the off-grid community I lived at and led a ceremony in the sacred stone circle for 100+ people. Mostly our ceremonies were 4-10 people gathering regularly.

At age 21, I was called to study with wise woman herbalist and witch Susun Weed, in her live-in 3-month Shamanic Herbal Apprenticeship. Here, I learned of Moon Lodge, which is a version of what many know as Red Tent.

Since that time, I have been celebrating the Wheel of the Year and Moon Lodge/RedTent in the various places I have lived. When I moved to Colorado I re-connected with my pagan ceremony, Moon Lodge sister of nearly 20 years, Astrid Grove and we together visioned and created the first Red Earth Herbal Gathering in 2016.

Now, I am raising my two children in Earth honoring tradition. I bring together families for Wheel of the Year celebrations. My other spiritual practice is that of the Dzogchen teachings of Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche. I practice daily myself and 4 times per month with my sangha.

I practice Tibetan Medicine, wise woman herbalism, Tibetan massage and Maya abdominal massage focusing on women.