Healing Inherited Cultural Grief
Most often, people seek healing when they
are in crisis. Crisis reveals cognitive dissonance or duality of mind.
It is within the discomfort of this duality that we find out which threads
of oorlog need mending.
Iinherited
Cultural Grief – IHG, sometimes called Historical Cultural Trauma,
Ancestor Grief, or Unresolved Historical Grief. IHG is the phenomenon
of passing unhealed trauma from one generation to the next manifesting
in dysfunctional behaviors sometimes so mild that we think they are natural
to the culture such as passive aggressive behavior or self deprecation.
Sometimes the behaviors are extreme such as addiction, abuse, and suicide.
In Norse tradition we believe that the individual is the summary of their ancestors. Oorlog (meaning primal law) is the Old Norse word for something like "karma." It is the accumulation of ancestral inheritance: thoughts, feelings, beliefs, DNA and genetics, talents, temperaments and dysfunctions are passed through the oorlag. It is what makes up who we are now.
Oorlog is the past that can not be changed. But in Norse tradition, we believe that the present moment is where we determine our future.Kari teaches the use of Völva Stav to ground and center in the present moment, create a state of seidr consciousness, and begin to heal the emotional body surrounding trauma through song vibration that energizes the web of wyrd. In this way we create new patterns of functional and healed oorlog for the next generation.
Tools for healing include:
Traditional and culturally based ritual, song and dance with stav and
runes coupled with modern healing modalities such as journalling, drawing,
dream work, and communication and boundary setting tools like the Flower
Wheel (from Couple Communication I: Talking Together by Sherod Miller,
Elam W. Nunnally, Daniel B. Wackman, pub. 1979).
Kari created a radio
presentation about IHG for International Womens Day programing, March
2007- KFAI community radio.
Listen now:
I accept individual clients and worki in group settings. These teachings are part of Völva Stav.