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The 10th Annual Women’s Belly + Womb Conference will be held Saturday November 15th, 2008
at the Sirius Conference Center in Shutesbury, MA from 8:30 am to 8pm, with an evening of preconference events on Friday November 14th.

This daylong gathering for women of all ages
features a wealth of concurrent workshops that provide opportunities for learning, healing and
celebration centered on the wisdom and beauty of women’s bodies and true selves. The
conference’s highlighting of the powerful knowing held within the body is in alignment with
today’s research that has unveiled that our bellies are truly the home of our bodies’ second “brain”
and is home to as much- if not more- synaptic firing as our minds.

In its 10th year and the only event of its kind in the country, the Belly + Womb Conference is the
inspiration of Massachusetts-based women’s empowerment leader ALisa Starkweather. Her 23-
year career is dedicated to creating and guiding programs and safe environments for deep
personal healing of heart and spirit.

With over a dozen teachers, workshops will be offered on a rich range of topics and along with the
day’s nourishing events, a vegetarian lunch and dinner will be served to all participants.
November 3, 2008
Starkweather explains why she sees the need for this conference today and the role she sees it
filling, “Do we need a women's belly conference? Absolutely! This is the center of our power where we give birth, speak, know, feel, love, digest, … and how many women do we know that hate their bellies?

This is a day of profuse women's honoring where we can reevaluate and reclaim and own the innate and mysterious power of being women together.
We have classes in everything from rites of passage, red tent temples, communications, singing, herbs for bellies and wombs, yoga, qigong, belly dancing, sexuality, breathing, healing, cycles and stages, and more.

We also hold a women's healing ritual, council and collective celebration in the afternoon.
Join us if you are able. The gathering holds 100 women. “
T
his year’s event is also supporting the non-profit “Fans with Cans” program and each participant
is invited to contribute canned food for the conference’s donation to local food banks.
A returning feature of the day’s offerings is the opportunity to experience time within a Red Tent
Temple. The Temple space is the core element of the grassroots Red Tent Temple Movement, a
contemporary model for a once-a-month time and place for women’s rest, renewal and support,
inspired by the ancient Jewish tradition of women gathering during menses to care for each other.
The conference will also provide information and inspiration for women interested in creating
open and welcoming Red Tent Temples in their own communities for women of diverse cultures
and beliefs.

The voice of a past participant is a window to the conference experience and intention:
Mariella Bozzuto of Rockport, MA shared that, "When ALisa wrote that it would be an unforgettable
day in my life as a woman, it was an understatement. It changed everything and I have been
blossoming ever since. It was the day of many firsts as a woman and it was like going inside out withmyself or from flat to threedimensional.

I found my voice for the first time and discovered my own
uniqueness."
In addition to the Belly + Womb Conference ALisa Starkweather is the visionary and facilitator
behind a number of other empowering programs and events for women including the women’s
mystery school, Priestess Path Apprenticeship, also in its 10th year; the annual Daughters of the
Earth Gatherings, and the Red Tent Temple Movement; she is also co-founder of Women in Power.
She has three CD’s of songs and chants, Women Rise Up, Daughter of the Earth and Calling Us Home.
Starkweather, a certified Shadow Work facilitator, has been a women’s empowerment trainer for
23 years.For more information about two special pre-conference classes, the conference’s full program, registration and ALisa’s other work, please visit www.alisastarkweather.com.

Release Date: November 3, 2008
Event Contacts:
ALisa Starkweather, Founder + Facilitator Joie Watson, Conference Communications
The Women’s Belly + Womb Conference Joie de Vivre Design + Communication
978.939.5366 413.337.8701
alisastar@aol.com joiedevivredesign@gmail.com
www.alisastarkweather.com
Penelope Olson, Conference Coordination
508.384.3829
penelope@penelopeolson.com
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