Fall 2023
Nordic Womens* Retreat
November 3-5, 2023
Danish American Center
3030 West River Parkway South
Minneapolis Minnesota
55406
Workshops on Saturday include Donyelle’s ancestor doll workshop, Bethany’s SoulCollage®, hand crafting with Elizabeth, stav and song with Amanda, and altar setting with Rachel. Kari will teach Friggs Hand and Garden Gates, essential tools for communication and boundary setting. We will have ancestor potluck and a sandwich board for lunch. Sunday is the wrap up pot luck and farewell ceremony.
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Hosting The Nordic Womans* Retreat
The Guild began hosting Nordic Women*’s Retreats in 2016 as a way to create safe space for women* in the Heathen community for exploring and sharing Nordic traditions, songs, dance, handiwork, and ancestral healing.
The Guild has since provided many of these retreats to include sauna ritual, ancestor doll and dream pillow workshops, spiritual collage, staff rhythm and song, and teach the tools of Frigg’s Hand and Garden Gates for communication and boundary setting.
“There are some things in our öorlog that need healing and some things that we can take strength in.” Elder Sara Axtell, Healing Roots Community - https://healingrootscommunity.com/
Exploring European/Nordic/white identity and its intersectionality with other communities here in Minnesota and the United States broadly can be fraught with difficulties. Nordic Womens* Retreat provides a joyful and embodied way of working with the things that need healing and the things that give us strength. It provides a creative space to sit with elders and teachers within the Nordic root community.
