So, do you want to be in a movie?

Or do you want to experience the women's gatherings called Red Tent Temples, based on the well-known book The Red Tent: A Novel, by Anita Diamant (www.anitadiamant.com).  Large numbers of women have embraced the concepts in that book and begun local Red Tent groups... places where women can go to relax, de-stress, be pampered, and celebrate their womanhood.

Filmmaker Isadora Leidenfrost of Soulful Media (www.soulfulmedia.com or www.redtentmovie.com)  is creating Things We Don't Talk About, a groundbreaking documentary film about women's healing narratives from the red tent phenomenon.   A portion of that film, using the women of the Red Tent group from Grafton, MA, is being filmed at The Gathering Inn, on Tuesday, October 26th from 7 PM to 10PM.   You can also be a part of that experience. 
(You will need to sign a waiver if you want to participate in the filming.)

This is a different type of event for The Gathering Inn
but many of you have expressed interest in the Red Tent movement. 

Contact The Gathering Inn at 978-820-1139
for further information or to let us know you are coming. 

Space is limited!

 A minimum donation of $5.00 is suggested
 to cover the cost of soup, tea, and other goodies. 

Wednesday, September 8, 6:30 - 8:30 PM  

Please join us at the Inn Wednesday evening
and unwind from the busyness of life with some good food and good conversation.

Following dinner we will transition to the Gathering Room
 for a thirty minute guided meditation.

Take some time this month just for you
 and reconnect to yourself and your spiritual center.

Saturday, September 11, 7 AM - 5 PM  

We've scheduled a second kayaking trip for Saturday, Sept. 11th.  This is a great way to reconnect to the natural world. Start off with yoga and breakfast, then kayaking at Tully Dam in Royalston, followed by reflective discussion back at the Inn.
Saturday overnight available.  

 Registration deadline extended to Sept. 9th!

More details and sign up online.

Sunday, September 12, 9:30 - 11:30 AM  

Crossing to Avalon by Jean Shinoda Bolen.

"On pilgrimage to sacred sites including Chartres, Glastonbury, and Iona, Bolen, a physician, Jungian analyst, and professor of clinical psychiatry, traces their histories and significance. She relates these places' earliest uses by societies with earth-based belief systems to the concept of key energy centers all about the globe, and she links her inner journey of the spirit to her physical travels and the primal knowledge of the sacred that women have experienced for thousands of years without naming it. This quest for the holy grail involves more than a personal transformation; it is, she says, everywoman's secret, potential pathway to the roots of her strength and wisdom." ~ Whitney Scott, Booklist

Buy the book from Amazon.com and support the Inn!

This class will introduce you to a combination of yoga practices and mindfulness based stress reduction techniques based on the understanding that we are made of many "levels of being" known as koshas:  the physical body, the energetic body, the mind, the wisdom body, and the bliss body.. that inner place that is our true nature.

Designed to lead you into deep relaxation and a reduction of the stress response at every level to restore balance and wholeness.

 

 

Cost for six week session - $75.  For more information or to register, go to www.expressionsunlimited.org

 

Come learn about animal totems, take a journey to discover yours, eat a great meal and participate in a powerful drumming circle.

Last year's Medicine Wheel Workshop was a sell out, so sign up early!

This is a co-ed event, so bring your favorite guy along!

More information and online registration.

Build a Medicine Wheel. Discover the Four Keys to Unlock Your True Power and True Self. Relax, Release and Play with Sacred Movement. Let loose in the Drum Circle. Learn Reflective Journaling Techniques. Sounds Fabulous!

This is another co-ed event, so bring your favorite guy along!

All registration by phone: 978-505-0120

More information

Saturday/Sunday, September 25-26

Come see us at booth #37 at the Natural Living Expo,

New England's largest holistic health event at the Sturbridge Host Hotel.

Thursday, October 21, 7 PM

    We are beginning a new monthly sacred circle for any woman who has been touched by breast cancer. We will be meeting on Thursday, October 21st, at 7:00 PM and from there, by general consensus, decide the time and day of the on-going meetings.

We hope to offer empathetic support, encouragement, and laughter along with speakers, information about local resources, and best of all, information from those of us who have "been there-done that!" What to eat when you want to throw up! How to be beautiful and bald! How to forgive your body! Exploring the changes to your soul as well as your body. Celebrate what cancer can NOT take from us!

    We would appreciate a $5.00 donation for this meeting if possible to offset the costs, but don't stay away if you can't afford that, come anyway and bring a friend.

We are looking for a few women to help coordinate this event.
 If you are interested, please call The Gathering Inn at 978-820-1139.