YOIK COURSE IN OSLO
We have been working on a joik-course for a while now. It is a physical/live course in Norwegian or English, and soon an online course in English version will be.
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MY DRUM TAUGHT ME TO YOIK
Photo: Fredrik Prost and I back in 2011 with the drum I built. I did not learn to joik in my childhood and I never thought that I would be joiking ever..
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SAMI FOLKLORE – “IN THE HOUSE OF ULDA”
In house of the Ulda – (the underground peope/ the hidden people/one of the sáivu-people) Read about the realm of Saivu here. The underground people are richer than people living.
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MY BIRCH SPRING EXPERIMENT
Birch is one of the most common trees in Scandinavia and has so many uses it is impossible to list them all… But lets give you an idea: burning wood,.
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WHEN THE YOIK CAME TO ME
Written by guestblogger Stéphane Aubinet, a researcher from Belgium. The yoik first came to me long before I started to do “research” about it, when I was a teenager living.
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SAMI GODS, GODDESSESS AND MYTHICAL ENTITIES
Here is a list of Sámi gods, goddesses and other mythical entities. So much has been forgotten about the Sami world view and beliefs and words over the years and.
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THEY DONT KNOW WHO WE ARE, BUT THEY DONT KNOW WHO THEY ARE, SO WE DONT KNOW WHO THEY ARE, BUT DO WE KNOW WHO WE ARE?
Photo: A view from the first printed map of the Nordic countries, designed by Olaus Magnus and published in Venice in 1539. Carta Marina by Olaus Magnus / Northern Lights.
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IS IT OK FOR DAŽA TO YOIK?
The later years I have met more and more people who are interested in joiking. Both Sami people and daža (non-samis) want to learn and know more about what joiking.
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CAN WE FUSION THE MODERN WESTERN SOCIETY WITH OLD SHAMANIC TEACHINGS AND MAKE THE WORLD BETTER THEN IT HAS EVER BEEN?
” Now is the most important moment in history of humankind. Because now we have to take a choice to even have a future. This time in history we have.
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WHAT DO INDIGENOUS PEOPLE HAVE IN COMMON?
Photo of Jungle Svonni and Lorenzo Seuny Izquierdo Arroyo by Marijke Kodden. What does it mean to be Sámi, or indigenous in any tribe for that matter? Well, the other.
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