Monday, September 22, 2008

The Power of a Circle

Our Dayton, Oh area chapters, which includes the original Kettering chapter, hosted a BOLD Red Tent event on September 13th. We gathered at Practice Yoga, an area studio where many of our DaL moms take prenatal and baby and me yoga. This space proved to be ideal as the energy of pregnant and women who had recently given birth surrounded us all as we shared our stories, our joys, our pain, our tears. It was a magically cathartic evening and each of us left more complete yet more vulnerable as we honored each birth for the complicated, individual and transformative experience bringing life into this world is for the woman who becomes a mother.

If you have the opportunity to attend an event in a BOLD Red Tent, I encourage you to take it. The theory that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts is evident when women gather together to honor the experiences that only we as women have. The force created transcends the space we are in, the strength we see in each other mirrors the strength we bury within ourselves.