Dream Pillows with Völva Donyelle Headington

Dream Pillows with Völva Donyelle Headington

During these Cold and dark months of deep winter, we are invited to spend time In rest and reflection. We are invited to move slower to stay in and to explore the dream world. Adding dreamwork to your spiritual and reflective practice can be such a rewarding experience.

Learning to explore your dream life can be challenging but worth the effort. Every culture and every people into antiquity have used dreamwork as a tool for such things as self reflection communion with divine forces, psychic work, astral travel and more. Using herbs, talismans and symbols in our pillows before we sleep is a very old practice.

In this workshop we will learn about the use of dream pillows to aid our practice and make our own dream pillows.

The following materials will be provided, and because these pillows are personal very personal, each participant is invited but not required to bring:

Cloth to make a pillow, each pillow will be 12”x12”, stuffing, needles and thread, scissors.

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Völva Donyelle Headington is an artist, poet and healing practitioner from Minneapolis, MN. A lifelong student of African diasporic culture, she has been practicing culture as a means for self-reflection and healing under the guidance of Community Elders at the Cultural Wellness Center for nearly 20 years.

This study has led her to a multi-discipline spiritual healing practice that includes traditional African and African American, Norse Germanic and Mesoamerican folkways.

A healer and spiritualist, she practices and studies from home, working medicinal and magical herbs cultivated in her garden.

Donyelle's fiber, sculptural, healing and literary arts are guided by a deeply held belief in “Living Ancestors” and their wisdom and power to guide and heal the cultural inheritance of the individual, community, and the land. Donyelle lives and works on the northside of Minneapolis, MN

Host or Publisher Sayge Carroll