ANOUSKA - ZANKHANA
The Ethereal Red Tent Collective
The Womb Cave - Bleeding Space
Available to be booked for events and festivals. A large 5 meter bell tent
with a 2 meter porch. Available for private initiations and ceremonies.
Available for bookings summer 2024.
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About The Womb Cave
The Womb Cave was birthed in 2020 when I was started a healing and curious
journey with my womb. Through retreats, ceremonies, online courses, shamans
and therapists I learnt to connect with myself, my womb and my body better than
ever. I then in 2021 attended a conscious & sober festival, yet when I came on my bleed I had nowhere to go, other than back to my tent, and then came the moment where I needed to wash my reusable pad and myself, again I had minimal options so I ended up washing my pad with a line of people waiting to fill up their water bottles, feeling sensitive, observed & watched.
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I knew this had to change so I started to mind map the idea of having a bleeding space at festivals. The ideas started flooding in and people's support and encouragement has helped me get to where it is today. It has transformed a lot through the years. I have studied the history of red tents and ceremony, the art of holding space and am now diving into studies on inclusivity, privilege and cultural appropriation. This space is no longer just about bleeding, as powerful as this time is these spaces are now about creating change, about being part of a ripple effect to change the very structures that disempower, restrict and control us. It is about using slowness, connection to the earth and our bodies and creating a healthy culture that is cyclical and full of earthly delights.
I send my thanks and deep appreciation to the many indigenous tribes and communities that kept these traditions of ceremonies, initiations, connection to earth and much more alive, whilst the UK lost ours through many wrongdoings and the massacre of those who tried. To the Witches who were burnt, I thank you and you will not be forgotten. Whilst here in the UK we try to bring back culture, community and ceremony to heal together it is vital we acknowledge our ancestors before us and the practices we are using to heal that aren't from our lineage.
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Our Mission
Our mission is far greater than to just set up a tent, but it is to be the the spark to a womb and earth led revolution. To be the start of a ripple effect that helps bring back all that we lost and bring forth all that we need. Connection, Intimacy, Safe and Nourishing spaces, Community, Education, Initiations and much more.
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The Womb Cave (Bleeding Space)
This is the bleeding space. It is a 5m bell tent with a 2 meter porch, It is draped in beautiful red materials, it has a fluffy red rug, a large red bean bag, red cushions and blankets and of course an altar. This space is for womb keepers. The intention for The Bleeding Space is for all who bleed to come and rest, be pampered, be nurtured, be heard and held and to be offered herbal teas, cacao, hot water bottles, and much comfort. We want to make sure that no person who comes on their period at an event or festival then feels alone, disappointed or worried. We want help bring in celebration that can be met with joy, grace and in ceremony. You don't have to be bleeding to come in, come in to connect to your womb, to slow down, to process, reflect and connect to other womb bearers. There are occasional guided meditations, singing circles and sharing circles within the space.
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Meet the Team: The Ethereal Red Tent Collective
Arabella
Arabella is a woman of the wild, over the
years venturing the world, she has stripped
off the layers of society’s confinements.
Choosing alternative living, as her playground of growth. Becoming an integral part of innovative communities, where self-expression, sustainability and heart-centred approaches are the core values to prosperity. She is a natural born space holder, Her mission is to encourage reconnection; to self, to others and to this earth.
Taila Rose
Taila believes that coming home - to Earth,
to Body - tending the Pathways of Aliveness
and Re.membering our Wholeness are the
antidotes to the Crisis of Belonging we currently find ourselves in.
She is a somatic sexologist, earth & pleasure advocate and relationship midwife; embodying cyclical living & rewilding relationships with self, other and nature.
Taila holds loving spaces to unravel; from (often unconscious) systems of domination, oppression and patriarchy, shame, guilt and fear - within and between us.
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Anouska
Is the creator of The Ethereal Red Tent
Collective and of the Wild and Nourishing Weekend Retreats. She is a qualified inner
child therapist, a yoga instructor, trauma informed coach and holds her own ceremonies, initiations and educational talks about menstrual cycles, feminine wisdom, boundaries and communication and much more
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Workshops - available for bookings
Wisdom of the Womb: with Anouska Cox
Duration: 2 hours
Here we will learn about the menstrual cycle and how you can live a womb led life. Talk of the seasons of the body, how to track your cycles and much more. You may wish to bring a pillow or blanket and a notepad and pen. Education is empowerment. This is open to all genders to learn about the womb.
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Yoni Puja - With Anouska ( Yoni Owners only)
Honouring and worshiping our portals, drawing yonis, mirror work, alter decorations, gazing into the portal that creates life.
Yoni steam and meditation: With Anouska
Using herbs from the land to cleanse and clear stagnant and unserving energy from the yoni. A warm steam to open and release tension. Many health benefits. Not suitable for pregnant women, people on their period or if you have a coil fitted.
Writings from the womb : With Anouska
A guided meditation into your womb and her unique truths and wisdom, allowing her to take over and write what she wishes you to know. Welcome her and surrender to her.
Womb massage: With Anouska
A guided gentel womb massage of self love and affirmations
Womb Led Revolution : With Anouska
Understanding the importance of honouring our cycles within our current societal structures/ how living within a 24hr cycle is causing disease within women and womb bearers world wide. An epidemic of the ignorance or the importance of the feminine and our bleeds and moon cycle. From burnout to educated, empowered and a deep understanding of the missing piece.
The Sacred Masculine Within: With Anouska
importance of the masculine and all the masculine energies within. Emphasis on boundary setting and knowing your no/ reading your bodies language - tapping into your body and what it is trying to communicate with you. Hear the truths of that vibration running through your body.
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Holding Grief : With Anouska
Grief never truly dies, we learn to carry it and some days it is still heavy. Here is a space to speak openly about your grief, finding relief in being held in this space and knowing that you are not alone in it.
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Connect to your energetic womb: With Anouska
For those who don't have a womb but wish to connect to their energetic womb. We all have one and its our direct connection to Earth and Spirit.
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Painting with your blood: With Anouska.
The art of alchemising your blood into art. Remembering how sacred this blood is, how powerful, how beautiful. An art form used to release shame and connect deeply with this rich blood.
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