“The great mother whom we call Innana gave a gift to woman that is not known among men, and this is the secret of blood. The flow at the dark of the moon, the healing blood of the moon’s birth - to men, this is flux and distemper, bother and pain. They imagine we suffer and consider themselves lucky. We do not disabuse them. In the red tent, the truth is known. In the red tent, where days pass like a gentle stream, as the gift of Innana courses through us, cleansing the body of last month’s death, preparing the body to receive the new month’s life, women give thanks — for repose and restoration, for the knowledge that life comes from between our legs, and that life costs blood.” ― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

Red Tent

A space for women to bleed freely, hygienically and sacredly.

Red Tent altar, Yinspace, Dreamersland, Poland, 2024

During Festivals many women and non-binary folks bleed.

Yet compost toilets (or worse dixies) often don't provide the necessary space for women to bleed in a sacred, blood and cycle honoring as well as hygienic way.

Often women are forced to either use unhealthy and unsustainable products (like tampons or pads) or they are forced to re-use their menstrual cups half way clean.

Same goes for period panties. Hence bleeding at a festival is most often experienced as a bummer.

The Red Tent is here to change that.

Bleeding is supposed to be one of the most pleasurable, enjoyable and sacred times of a woman's cycle.

We install a red teepee at a convenient space secluded for protection of onlookers yet easily accessible and noticeable for anyone in need of it.

Inside the tent it is cozy for the bleeding ones to lay down and rest.

Books, incense, water and some snacks provide support and nourishment.

Also there is a bowl with water and natural soap to wash out any cups, period panties, cotton pads or sponges.

We also provide hand sanitizer, a stock of SOS tampons (eco) and info material on sustainable period products and alternatives to regular tampons and pads.

Behind the tent there's a big beautiful mandala altar created from seeds carrying the intention of Earth, of humanity, of the collective.

A tube from inside the tent leads out onto the altar.

Into the tube women can squeeze or empty their blood or directly free bleed onto the altar by squatting over it as it is secluded from view (behind the tent).

As an indigenous proverb says: "As soon as all women give their blood back to the earth again, all men will come home from war and peace on Earth will reign"

Our blood carries powerful codes.

Our blood contains stem cells.

Our combined blood flowing onto this altar of Earth, of humanity, will serve as powerful catalyst and manifest the intention of peace.

This is a powerful spell.

Not only are we remembering and re-writing the story of the women's time of bleed and our blood being holy, needed, life giving and sacred, living a life that is sustainable to our cyclical bodies but also we are living more sustainably with the Earth through using low/no waste, non-toxic period products and offering our holy crimson blood back to her.

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