Imelda Almqvist
When you meet teachers so full of knowledge, usually they are dead so you can only read their books!
When you can work with someone like Imelda in person you should grab the opportunity!
- Katharine Lucy Haworth, Shamanic Practitioner, UK
I can totally see you teaching at Harvard!
— Manca Geberl, Slovenia
Your book Sacred Art is much better than The Artist's Way. It is more scholarly. I like the exercises in both, but the text of your book was more valuable to me.
- Terry Clarbour, US
Thank you deeply for being in my life and worlds! I am the woman I am today through your fearless direction and invitations to explore, heal, and expand. You have to keep teaching!!! Your knowledge must be shared and the internet provides that vehicle especially when the world shuts down!! If teachers like you are silenced and unseen, even by a virus, we will find ourselves in the Dark Ages again!!
-Valarie Budayr, NM, US
Thank you for being such a wonderful teacher that I love crossing oceans and time zones to work with you!
- Megan Anderson, US
Your book on the spiritual traditions of the Low Countries is a wonderful contribution to cultural soul recovery, finely streaming together your poly-linguistic research and your depth of experiential work.
-Robert Moss, Way of the Dreamer, mossdreams.com
Finally, can I just say your research and scholarship is outstanding!
-Trevor Greenfield, Publisher/Editor at Moon Books, Formerly John Hunt Publishing, now Collective Ink
UPDATE ON THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS & ANSWERS TO FAQ
My upcoming book: PORTALS, PATTERNS AND PATHWAYS (A handbook for Rune Magicians, Star Gazers and Myth Makers) will be published in the UK on 26 May 2026 and in the US in June 2026! My publisher (Moon Books is an imprint of Collective Ink) recently changed distributors and that has caused a delay in the book being listed (with a pre-ordering option) on amazon.com. Apologies for the confusion this has caused in my loyal community of readers!
Due to an exorbitant raise in hosting fees (on the Teachable platform) I was forced to delete my online school, PREGNANT HAG TEACHINGS on 3 September 2025. Some of the material that used to be hosted there will only become accessible again when I re-schedule the teaching of popular courses. I know that this decision has caused disappointment and apologies for that too.
The next in-person Seidr Introduction course will run at my Forest School in 2027. People have also requested another sacred art retreat in Greenland but that matter is undecided at this time.
Imelda Almqvist, 16 October 2025
SHAMANIC HEALING For shamanic healing sessions I wholeheartedly recommend Sjoukje Gummels! She is trained by me personally and her website is Threads of Healing!
Hello and welcome to my website! My name is Imelda Almqvist. I am an international teacher of Sacred Art and Seiðr/Old Norse Traditions. I am also a painter and author of ten books. As well as writing non-fiction books, I write and illustrate shamanic picture books for children (The Green Bear Series).
My upcoming book: PORTALS, PATTERNS AND PATHWAYS (A handbook for Rune Magicians, Star Gazers and Myth Makers) will be published in the UK on 26 May 2026 and in the US in June 2026!
My paintings can be found in collections all over the world. You may have seen me in a TV program called Ice Age Shaman, in the series Mystic Britain, on the Smithsonian Channel. My on-line school is called Pregnant Hag Teachings.
I am the author of:
NATURAL BORN SHAMANS: A Spiritual Toolkit for Life (Using shamanism creatively with young people of all ages), 2016
SACRED ART, A Hollow Bone for Spirit: Where Shamanism Meets Art 2019
MEDICINE OF THE IMAGINATION: Dwelling in Possibility, 2020
NORTH SEA WATER IN MY VEINS: The Pre-Christian Spirituality of the Low Countries, 2022
THE SECRET GARDEN OF THE BONE MOTHER: From Dismemberment to Rebirth in 20 Paintings
THE GREEN BEAR SERIES: The adventures of Lars and Linnea!
The best place to follow me and see glimpses of both my professional life, and my life as a Forest Witch in Sweden, is on Substack. where I post 2-3 essays a week (on a variety of subjects) and subscribing is FREE. The comment section is always lively, please join the dialogues. Subscribers can even submit topic requests!
SEIÐR AND OLD NORSE TRADITIONS at my
FOREST SCHOOL IN SWEDEN:
My current cohort in Sweden is currently in their third year of studies. In 2026 they will study highly advanced work that is only open to people who have completed all modules of the professional program.
People often ask whether I will ever teach modules of my Seiðkona/ Seiðmadr program in Sweden on-line. That is impossible, because the spirits of the land are such powerful co-teachers! (We cannot visit stone circles and petroglyphs or sit out on grave mounds on Zoom!)
People have requested that I run the Seiðr Introduction course in Sweden (in recent years it has run in London because there was a lot of interest in the UK). My plan is to schedule this in the summer 2027. Registration is not yet open but expressions of interest are welcome. I am also planning future sacred art retreats there on the theme of The Forest Witch and Reclaiming The Hag.
CONNECT WITH ME!
My personal FB page (reached the friend limit years ago but all posts are set to "public")
Regular Instagram: almqvistimelda
Art only page: imeldaalmqvist
I set two admins slots a week to respond to emails. I only rarely check DM's on social media platforms.
