The Red Tent at Shakti

➤ A sacred, supportive monthly circle for healing connection, and joyful conversation.
About this Event

Join us every month for a Red Tent circle: a sacred, supportive space for female-identifying people to gather, rest, and share stories. Each Red Tent circle will be guided by a different practitioner who is committed to sharing wisdom, facilitating healing, and listening deeply.

Inspired by the Anita Diamant book of the same name, the Red Tent at Shakti aims to create a container where female-identifying people feel supported and empowered to care for themselves and for each other. Opportunities to learn and to deepen spiritual practices that honor the Divine Feminine and recognize the interconnection among all living beings will be the focus.

After each Red Tent, you are invited to stay for a community potluck, extending our connection and time together. There is a kitchen on site if the food you bring requires refrigeration or reheating.

Since the Red Tent is a sacred space, we ask that you arrive early and give yourself time to park and to acclimate to the space. Once the ritual has started, we do not want any interruptions. Please be considerate of your sisters and arrive on time.

If you have been looking for sacred space, healing connection, and joyful conversation, then please attend the Red Tent at Shakti.

✨ Event Details

On the 4th Wednesday of the month from 5:30 to 7:30 pm

• July 22
• August 26
• September 23

Cost is $15/circle

Limited to 20 female-identifying adults (18+)

✨July Red Tent with Kim Bushore-Maki:

The date for the July Red Tent falls on the same day that the Sun, our biggest source of energy, moves into its home sign of Leo. The Sun in Leo signifies the heart of summer and invites us to express our radiance. During our circle, we will:

• Create a group mandala made of nature objects that reflects our brilliance back to us
• Explore the strength which comes from listening to our heart
• Discuss opportunities, both quiet and loud, to serve as a leader

After our circle, we will eat delicious food from the garden. Please bring one of your favorite summer dishes to share with the group.

✨August Red Tent with Laurie Levknecht:

Crone, Elder, Sage

Do you self identify as an elder, a crone, a sage or an older wise one? Would you like to connect with other self identifying women in this stage of life?

Join Laurie under the Red Tent for a conversation about what a group like this might look like. What would be discussed and shared? How could the natural world support us in the aging process? How could we combine our leadership skills to benefit all of us and the greater good? What could we share with each other and maybe a wider group about healthy aging and saging? (Younger female-identifying people are welcome to attend this Red Tent! What do younger women need to see role modeled?)

✨September Red Tent with Lydie Ometto:

We gather just after the Autumn Equinox, a moment in the cycle of nature when day and night stand in near equal measure. From this point forward, the season gently shifts, inviting us into the colors, textures, and quieter rhythms of autumn.

Nature expresses each season openly and beautifully. The trees release, the light changes, the air cools, and movement begins to soften. These same qualities often live within us as well, perhaps not always as visibly, yet present all the same.

As we transition from the energy and outward movement of summer into the more reflective nature of autumn, we will explore the many parts that coexist within us. The active and the restful. The visible and the hidden. The part that moves forward and the part that longs to pause.

Together, I will guide you on a journey of connecting with these seemingly opposite aspects of ourselves, with curiosity and openness. Rather than choosing one over another, we will explore what each part may be offering and discover the jewel each carries in supporting the fuller expression of who we are.

Following, we will gather in circle and share. There will be space to reflect on both our inner landscape and the outer season unfolding around us.

As autumn arrives, perhaps we can welcome its invitation toward a slower pace while honoring the beautiful echoes and memories of an active summer.

Additional Details:

Registration required. Registration closes 24 hours prior to the event.

The registration fee is non-refundable unless the event is canceled by the facilitator.

Parking Information

Shakti in the Mountains Website

IMPORTANT: If you are not able to attend an event for which you have registered please so that we may offer that space to someone on the wait list. Thank you.

✨ Meet Kim Bushore-Maki

For nearly thirty years, Kim Bushore-Maki has served Appalachia as both a pioneer and champion of holistic well-being and community health.

A licensed clinical counseling professional, she became the first Master level clinician at East Tennessee State University's Counseling Center, where she provided therapeutic services and directed the Sexual Violence Prevention Program and the Alcohol and Drug Prevention Program.

During her tenure at ETSU, she was a founding organizer of the Tennessee Coalition for Healthy and Safe Campus Communities as well as Tennessee's representative for the National Prevention Network. She drafted ETSU's first Sexual Violence Response Policy and coordinated the region's first "Take Back the Night" program and fundraiser (the oldest worldwide movement to stand against sexual violence in all forms), the proceeds of which funded the first SANE nurses at the Johnson City Medical Center. Kim also served as Interim Director of Disability Services for 11 months.

In 2010, Kim followed her intuition and vision to found , a thriving healing-arts center that draws on somatic expressive therapy, archetypal psychology, wisdom traditions, and regenerative economics. Kim continues to maintain a small private therapy practice and also leads healing programs and retreats, guides the Shakti Stewardship Program, and serves as a community-building consultant to justice-oriented initiatives committed to building safe, inclusive, vibrant, and resilient communities. ​

✨ Meet Laurie Levknecht

Laurie Levknecht self identifies as a crone and an elder wise one, and is currently studying towards Clergy in the nature based Temple of Ara. She has many years facilitating groups, is a Polarity Master, and loves to sit in circle with other women. She is curious and wants to learn from others as well. As an elder, one of her goals is to model healthy aging for both young and old. Laurie is an RN, grandmother, nature based spiritualist, and tarot card enthusiast. She is currently supporting her community as Chair of the Washington County Library Board of Trustees.

✨ Meet Lydie Ometto

Lydie Ometto, sees Yoga not simply as a practice, but as a way of living and connecting more deeply with life.As an Integrative Yoga Therapist, Guided Energy Medicine Practitioner, and Spiritual Coach, her work is enriched by a diverse background in Physical Therapy, Massage Therapy, Acupuncture, Breathwork, and holistic wellness.

Lydie is the founder and director of InnerSeaJourneys. Inspired by nature and the wisdom found within life’s cycles, she offers trainings, retreats, immersions, ceremonies, and individual and group experiences that support transformation, self-discovery, and joyful living.

With a passion for continued learning and embodied living, Lydie creates spaces that invite people to reconnect with themselves, trust their inner wisdom, and remember their own light.

Lydie is the author of The Top 10 Mudras and contributing author of Awakening the Divine Feminine: 18 Stories of Healing, Inspiration & Empowerment. Learn more here https://www.lydieometto.com/