ICELAND SEIDR – Craft, Vision, and Power

Thank you for your mail and interest in the Iceland Seidr course.
However the course is at this time full with a very long waiting list,
and we have therefore closed it for new applications for the time being.
We will open for application again if or when the waiting list gets a
good deal shorter.

When/If it opens again it will be announced on
http://www.shamanism.dk/icelandseidr.htm , on
http://shenoahtaylor.com/courses/iceland-seidr-craft-vision-power/ ,  in
newsletter from Scandinavian Center for Shamanic Studies (sign up here
http://www.shamanism.dk/signup.htm ) and (fastest) on Annette Høst’s
facebook profile.”

https://www.facebook.com/events/570848760077196/

29 April – 3 May 2020:
Bjarnafjördur, Northwest Iceland.
Taught by Annette Høst in English, assisted by Shenoah Taylor.

We welcome you to join Seidr with Annette Høst in the Wild Remote Westfjords of Iceland.
We will be staying at Hótel Laughóll in Bjarnarfjörður, in a beautiful setting with a natural geothermal pool for our use. Visits from Owls, Eagles, and Hawks are not rare in that part of the country.

It will be a unique opportunity for an international group to learn Seidr in the very landscape of Edda poems and sagas.

Annette has studied and practiced shamanism since the early eighties.
In her work, Annette has especially explored the legacy of earlier Scandinavian shamans, folk healers, and wise women. She is considered an authority on Seidr, the old Nordic shamanic tradition.

Read more on Annette here :
http://shamanism.dk/whoah.htm

In Seidr, an old Nordic form of shamanism, the practitioners traditionally used a unique combination of staff, ecstatic song, and a magic seat as a means for contacting the spirit world. Seidr is described in late Viking age written sources, but the origins are much earlier, in fertility cults and shamanism.

On this course, we will explore both the craft and the spiritual basis of the Seidr tradition. We will work with Seidr as a community ritual as well as in pairs and alone.

The spiritual core of Seidr is inseparable from nature. Therefore, a key part of our practice is connecting with the spirits and powers of the land. On this course, we have the unique opportunity of working in and with the Icelandic land:
“Sitting out” (Útiseta) alone with our staff between mountain and sky, singing with dusk and wind, our Seidr work takes root in both our own time and the Nordic landscape.

To deepen our understanding of the Seidr tradition we will also view our own experiences in the light of the newest research into Norse myths and worldview, which contain so much more than the few well-known deities.

In the Seidr tradition, we find refined time-tested ways of dealing with power; we will explore the mysterious concept of Ergi, a way of handling energy through the shamanic union of surrender and consciousness. This way we strengthen an essential aspect of our shamanic practice: Knowing how to let the power flow through us, how to apply it wisely, how to ground it.

Seidr work is for both men and women, and can profoundly inspire our general shamanic practice. We become freer to choose the right ritual tool for the right task, and we deepen our experience of the power of earth.

You can read more in THE LEGACY OF SEIDR and KEEP IT CLOSE TO NATURE
Here:

http://www.shamanism.dk/icelandseidr.htm
http://shamanism.dk/legacyofseidr.htm
and here :
http://shamanism.dk/closetonature.htm

Price: 1.300.- EUR per person
* The price is based on two people sharing a double/twin room
*If you are traveling alone and are willing to share we will pair you with a same-gender roommate

Single room supplement: 115 EUR per person
*there are a limited number of single accommodations available and all single room are with shared facilities.

INCLUDED:
-A course in Seidr with Annette Høst
-Accommodation for 4 nights at Hotel Laugarhóll
-Full pension vegetarian meals while in Bjarnarfjörður
-Transport from Reykjavik to Bjarnarfjörður and back, (approximately 260 km, 4-hour drive from Reykjavik)

NOT INCLUDED:
-Flight/Boat ticket to/from Iceland
-Accommodation in Reykjavik before & after the workshop
-Meals not mentioned above
-Travel insurance
-Any other personal expenses

Contact us
** if you are living in Iceland and are not in need of transport from Reykjavik to Bjarnarfjörður
** If you rather want to rent a car and drive yourself & make a bigger journey out of this Icelandic adventure

To participate:
To apply for the course, please write a short letter to Annette at shamanisme@mail.dk about your shamanic training and own experience, and why you want to come on this course.
Previous shamanic training is not required, but it is indeed helpful.
Participants need to understand and speak English and
to be independently mobile, to walk safely in the mountainous terrain.

The course is arranged by Munay Travel, Olafia Wium, and Kristina Haraldsdottir.
For more info and to book please send us a message or e-mail us at info@munaytravel.com.