Red Tent
Learn from other women's experiences and insights, and find hope, encouragement and support on your journey.
Thank You!
“If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.” ~ Gerald Good With Thanksgiving just ...
Attention vs Connection
Oftentimes we use the term ‘attention’ when ‘connection’ would be both more appropriate and insightful. A few interesting things would happen ...
Moon Journal 2018
Something amazing has been happening to me over the past year. Let me start from the beginning. As a moon lover and yoga teacher I encourage my ...
Let Go and Dare to Dream Bigger
I’ve been doing some inner work lately. My friend Clare Josa has written a brilliant book: Dare to Dream Bigger: The ‘Inside Work’ ...
Celebrate Your Relationship with Yourself
2017 has an air of generosity about it so why not indulge a little? I suggest you find a little time to yourself and celebrate your relationship ...
Breathing in the Rain
It rains a lot where I live. Sometimes for weeks on end, so we almost forget what dry weather feels like. This means we’ve got really good ...
New Moon Intentions
The new moon marks a void in the darkest time of the year. This is a time of absence, death and stillness. It’s a time of withdrawal into the ...
Moon Journal 2017: A Lunar Meditation Companion
For several years now I’ve been contributing to the wonderful Cycle Harmony community. I’ve shared with you my innermost thoughts and ...
Post-election Reflection: The Power of the Feminine
Many people were shocked and saddened over the result of US Presidential Election in 2016. Despite the mountain of negative press about his ...
The Power of Magnetism
When did you last feel attracted to someone? It’s a great feeling, just being drawn towards someone without thinking or understanding why. ...
Are You Resisting to What’s Happening
The past couple of weeks have been intense. I’ve felt tired, sluggish and uninspired. Something I attribute to some major changes my daughter is ...
Trusting in the Universe
Trusting is really hard. Trusting is what you do when you don’t know what’s coming next but you go ahead anyway. It’s what you ...
Contemplation on the Darkness: My Shadow Self
On the darkest day of the year I walk with my shadow. We are old friends, and my shadow is wise. She sees me differently to everyone else. She ...
Winter Yoga Practice: Stretching Your Body and Mind
With dark evenings, sheer morning skies and chill in the air, winter has arrived. It’s a time for staying indoors with warmth and soft ...
How I Learn to Love My Menstrual Cycles
During the last ten years I have made many improvements to my menstrual cycle by taking control of my health, tuning into my bio rhythms, ...
I Cut My Hair!
I cut my hair. It had been a long time coming, but I finally decided to get it done. My hairdresser has known me and my hair for a long time, and ...
Preparing for Menstruation with My Favorite Yoga Poses
One of the challenges with menstruation – and the female hormonal cycle – is that our bodies change. All the time. Some women naturally fluctuate ...
Altered States of Consciousness during Menstruation
We are busy people today, being efficient and productive in all manner of ways. We remain in control of ourselves. But sometimes this can feel ...
Five Steps to Giving Freely
Since my last post Reciprocity and Giving Freely, people have been asking me how to give freely. Giving freely is for most people a learning ...
Reciprocity and Giving Freely
One of the first things you learn as an anthropology student is that reciprocity is the glue that binds society together. Reciprocity comes in ...
A New Sisterhood
I’ve recently made some amazing friends. We meet every six weeks or so and learn and laugh, share and dream. I am surrounded by these ...
Spiritual Development
I’m changing. I am feeling peacefully introspect, and in the process I have lost my voice and am just standing still. Being. This change is ...
Women’s Wisdom: A New Relationship with Menstruation
I have just read Anna Fedele’s brilliant Looking for Mary Madgalene. It is a beautifully sensitive book, based on her PHD dissertation. The book ...
Women’s Wisdom and What We Pass On
Late summer is a time for making preserves and jams from the delightful fruits and berries that ripen. And making the most delicious puddings. ...
Women’s Wisdom and Global Warming
This has been a wonderful week. We are experiencing a heat wave in Norway and Bergen (usually known for its rain) has had sunshine for three ...
Women’s Wisdom
Today I want to share with you some thoughts on women’s wisdom. This is an interesting topic partly because it is so rich, and partly ...
Special Places for Women: Berlin’s Egyptian Museum
I have chosen Berlin’s Egyptian Museum as a special place for women because of the pressures around body image we women are experiencing ...
Special Places for Women: Home
I’ve been thinking about what kind of places encourage me to be all of me. The places I go to balance myself and get in touch with my ...
Special Places for Women: The Moors
The moors are in-between places, unsettled between the land and the wet. Sometimes calm and welcoming, but most times a wilderness. The moors are ...
Special Places for Women: The Sea
Growing up by the sea, I spent much of my childhood playing by the shore in summertime. Collecting sea shells and looking at the different sea ...
Special Places for Women – Mountains
Mountains have been revered as sacred places in many cultures. To this day, spiritual retreats and sanctuaries are often placed on mountain tops. ...
Special places for women – the Woods
As a child I spent great amount of time in the woods near my house. I played, learned and listened there. Sometimes I would play with other ...
Sacred Places for Women: Newgrange
Whether we live in urban or rural areas, some places tend to be more special to us than others. Some are individual, like the places I like to go ...
Community Development
This weekend was national day here in Norway. It’s a bit like the 4th of July in the USA with communal celebrations, parades and fireworks. ...
Grow Up Bullying
This week I’d like to share some thoughts on bullying. Many of us first experience it as children, but it is just as likely to take place at Uni, ...
Ancient Egyptians and Being a Woman
This spring I have been studying ancient religions. It’s been very interesting, partly because I have gained new insight into ancient practices, ...
Embodiment and Menstruation
Last weekend, I was lucky enough to spectate at the London Marathon. Each year, professionals and amateurs run this arduous course, with the ...
Body, Mind and Spirit in the Red Tent
It’s that time of the month again. As my bleeding begins, I prepare myself and enter the Red Tent. This means that I clear my diary for anything ...
Becoming A Woman
We’re born small and helpless, we’re given names and a place in society. We do this all over the world, and you could say that ...
A Conflict
I’ve just been involved in a conflict. It’s been unpredictable, hurtful and vicious, although there’s been no actual fighting and shouting. I’ve ...
4 Ways to Step Into Your Feminine
As strong, successful women, it can be challenging to let our hair down, even in our own relationships. I spent the better part of 2 years ...
Nurturing the child within
This week I’d like to share with you one of my favourite healing techniques. It’s about learning to love all our aspects, and this is necessary ...
What’s age, anyway?
Age is so relative. If it’s good furniture, old age is good. In fruit, young is usually pretty good. In some parts of the world people grow old ...
Spring is Coming!
The mornings are light again. Almost unnoticeably have they brightened, little by little, until now. It’s like a soft velvet veil has been lifted ...
Feminism and Respect
My girlfriends and I have been discussing what feminism means to us. We talked about our gratitude for the women who came before us, the ones who ...
Red Tent Dreams
As my period starts, my world slows down. I cancel my appointments, prepare my heat pack and sleep. This is sacred time as I enter my Red Tent. I ...
Intuition and Consciousness
A friend of mine recently sent me a link about intuition. It’s in Norwegian, or I would have shared it with you. It is a brief introduction to ...
Stormy Transformations
I cannot ever recall the Norwegian winter having been this stormy. It’s quite incredible as storm after storm keeps hitting the city. We haven’t ...
Oh the Good Old Assumptions
The other day I was waiting for a stranger. We had corresponded and arranged to meet, but I had no idea what the woman I was meeting looked like. ...
Sleep is a Feminist Issue
Do you get enough sleep? I’m guessing that you don’t, at least not all the time. I used to think that my occasional lacking sleep was my ...
New Year’s Intentions
New Year blessings to you! Whatever has been before, is gone. Before us lies a brand new, sparkling, magical new year. So how will we use it? ...
Solstice Celebrations
The Solstice is approaching. It is a magical event, a transformation, and a time for new beginnings. The Pagan name for the Solstice festival is ...
The Usefulness of Period Pain
Although we bleed every month, it’s always different. And it seems it always teaches something new as well. My period was very draining this ...
The Magic of Time
I’ve been thinking about time, trying to understand what it is. Time has always seemed to me the most mysterious of dimensions, the most elusive ...
Chocolate Meditation
I thought I’d share with you another insight from my meditation class here in Bergen, Norway. I teach simple techniques that involve the ...
The Alchemy of Autumn
I teach a regular meditation class, and it’s the highlight of my week. They are very practical meditation courses, we talk and exchange ...
Fall Reflection: from Samhain to the Winter Solstice
The days are passing so quickly – or am I just busier than usual? Halloween just come and gone, I barely had time to think whether I should throw ...
What’s Your Favorite Pie?
In connection with my studies last year, I spent a prolonged time away from my kitchen. The result was a strong desire to master something I ...