9 Pillars and Awenydd Practices

This post is a landing page for the practices and concepts that I am being taught in the 9 Pillars tradition (Norse Shamanism) -  overlain with my existing daily and weekly practices from the Incan Medicine Wheel and the new practices I'm learning from a teacher in British native shamanism - she's an 'Awenydd' - a …

Journey to Find a Power Song and Pouch

This is a school assignment - my first final. The journey is to Midgard, to ask for a 'galdrar' or magical song, and our medicine pouch (pungr) - what it looks like and what should go in it. Also we are to locate our first tools - a staff, precious stones, tin buttons and a …

First Journey to Midgard

  To prepare for the journey I took a shower and then laid out my mesa/altar. I used singing to go onto trance. It was laborious. I carried with me my yew staff and a rock from my mesa to ground me. I went out my front door and down the path to my garden …

The Earth is in Our Bones

I grew up in a small town situated on an extinct volcano - up in the hills of it, surrounded by more mountains and forests. My mom was a hippy and a ski-bum. I learned to ski as a toddler and lost my two front teeth on the face of Red Mountain, BC. In my …

Trance with Song

  At the school we are asked to practice going into trance every week on Freyja's day - which is Friday. This is my first experience with crossing worlds via singing, instead of drumming or rattling. Amazing to be working on this, considering all the trouble I have had with singing this past year - …