Módraniht - A Winter Mothers’ Vigil - Breath, Ice & Ancestral Warmth
Join us for old Norse traditions, as we gather in sacred sisterhood to honor the Mother Goddesses and ancestral women who carried our people through the deep winter. On the longest threshold of the year, we kindle warmth, remembrance and the fierce, nurturing spirit of the Northern Mothers.
Move alongside us as we clear energy through medicinal practices working with evergreens and the practice of Qigong in preparation for a spiral labyrinth walk. Our intention is to walk in devotion to the Mothers who walked before us, embodying prayer for guidance, grounding and the turning of the light.
Treat yourself to the storytelling of Michelle Morton of Sacred Vibration Arts and the healing she offers through sound journeys that invoke the Great Mother, the deep rest of winter and the channeling of song likely woven by our foremothers themselves.
Guided by Dianna Wehr, she will initiate us into the alchemical nature of breath, ice and fire. We will find strength, vitality and resilience as we work with the charge of the breath as we move between cold and sauna, mirroring the old Nordic rhythms of purification, renewal and elemental balance.
Together we will carve simple winter sigils, symbols marking protection, blessing and ancestral guidance into pieces of birch to be placed on your hearth, personal altar or a winter fire. A tactile remembrance of the women who carved, marked, blessed and tended the flames before us.
Held within the sacred container of the Red Tent, this vigil invites you to adorn yourself in a festive ceremonial way or arrive as you are. Rest in ancestral warmth, and welcome the returning sun with the strength of those whose shoulders we stand upon.
Want to stay the night? CLICK HERE FOR ACCOMODATIONS.