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In this session, Cree knowledge keeper Marilyn Dykstra invites visitors who have completed the two years of Full Moon teachings to rejoin again to continue their commitment.

As the water starts to freeze, the sweat lodge is heating up as it incorporates all the four natural elements. Each direction carries songs, teachings, stories and prayers. Within the lodge, balance is practised, helping the people in the lodge gain strength.

We are sacred so we need to practise balance and strength within and outside of the circle. During this New Moon, let’s recommit to the teachings of the natural elements and continue to sustain our personal growth with all of our cousins in the human, spiritual and earthly family realms.

Method of teaching

The method of teaching will utilize Indigenous pedagogy as well as incorporate traditional tea and burning traditional medicines. Participants will discover their relatedness and interconnection with human rights and balance.

A special note

A special note: There will be ceremonial smudging smoke present.

This workshop is part of a monthly Wahkowtowin and Ways of Being series led by knowledge keeper Marilyn Dykstra. Each month, we will explore a variety of moon, pole and tea teachings in the Inninewak (Cree) tradition.

Wahkowtowin – which translates to kinship – highlights how relationships, communities and the natural world are all interconnected.

Participants will discover and reflect on their connections with each other, with balance and with human rights through teachings and a traditional tea.

Traditional helper Peyton will support the teachings while she continues her learning journey within Wahkowtowin.

Marilyn Dykstra

Marilyn Dykstra is a status Bill C31 First Nations woman from northern Manitoba. She has been immersed in a working matriarchal system that practised Indigenous ways of thinking and being since she was born. Alongside her family, she has participated in many peaceful social justice movements.

Marilyn uses her matriarchal knowledge as a foundation for her work in the Indigenous community, which has been ongoing for over 30 years. She still follows her matriarchal teachings, but she has also spent her life learning traditional knowledge and passing the teachings on.

She is a pow wow dancer and knowledge keeper, and she carries the responsibility of a bundle. She happily participates in naming ceremonies, sweats, pipe ceremonies, moon teachings and more.