The village – Online Membership for nature witches
Enter your spiritual homeland
You have collected witchy tools and ideas, but nothing ever really grew roots. Or perhaps your grandmother whispered about the spirits of nature, and you were never able to connect the dots of what she said. So you keep looking for the next thing that might be “it”.
The Village is a year of animism, folklore and self-discovery with a Finnish-Karelian folk witch. It is rooted in Finnic folklore, lived in your own practice and shared with a village of witches.
The Village opens on the 1st of November. 12 months residency.
Find that connection you so desire
You keep asking yourself: is what I’m doing real? Does it mean anything?
In Finnic folklore the forest has memory, water has a voice, and every place has its haltija (guardian/elf). This is how people lived in the north, and how they survived there. They gave, they asked and they bargained with the nature.
In the Village you will build deeper connection with nature and grow the roots you are missing. Connect into something mythical that alreayd lives in you. Ground yourself and find the connections you have been looking for. The north winds are calling you home.
Grow roots so you can rise
How your practice, your craft and you can grow over the year:
Your bond with the land becomes a relationship
The land stops being just something pretty to look at. You give, you ask, and you take care of the places that hold you. Connection without responsibility and reciprocity is just aesthetics.
You stop asking “do I have the right?”
Instead you start asking “how do I do this with respect? ” You learn from the sources, you honour where the lore comes from, and you let it deepen the relationship with nature you already have. What you’ve built over the years was never made up. It was only waiting for roots.
You stop practicing alone
Even a solitary witch needs a village every now and then. Here, you are seen. Keep your own practice and your own pace, but share it with people who get what you mean when you say the lake felt different today. Here, your way of seeing the world is not the strange thing. It’s just the thing.
Your practice gets a rhythm
The Village gives it a pace. Every month brings something to return to, something to make and something to celebrate. The calendar is not there to tell you what to do. It creates the conditions in which your practice and your confidence within grows and evolves, month by month.
You stop collecting and start creating
Magic doesn’t live only in books, and it doesn’t live on Etsy. It lives in the people who use it, live it and change with it. You chant the spells, make crafts and create rituals of your own. Your art becomes ritual, your ritual becomes art, and the two start feeding each other.
And if you have Finnic roots…
Maybe the thread broke somewhere along the way. Your family left, the songs weren’t passed on, and the old ways went quiet so that life could go on. In the Village you pick up the thread again and begin a new relationship with the tradition, one that fits the life you live now. You have a place in this story.
This is a village of witches
Here, no one asks if you’re witch enough. We are all equals here, honor each other’s paths and our differences. We build our own craft, our own rituals, our own way.
In the village you do not need to simplify yourself. The depth you bring is met with equal depth. Here you don’t need to explain why you take this seriously.
Some of us have Finnish grandmothers. Some found this tradition through a DNA test or sensed the magic when visiting Finland. Some have practiced alone for forty years. We don’t all practice the same way, and that’s the point. Everyone builds their own craft, and the circle holds the differences.
In the village you are not practicing or creating alone with a workbook and hoping it lands. Around you will be: witches, dreamers, memory keepers and cycle-breakers, all walking their own lore and connecting to the mythical versions of themselves.
Ninni is wonderful and knowledgeable. Her teaching style is warm, attentive, and generous. She has provided me with an important link to my ancestral heritage and helped me better understand the traditions that have been lost in my own family. I have practiced ritual for years, but with Ninni’s help I am learning practices that feel authentic to me and my lineage. What a delight it is to go on this journey with her as a guide.
– Karen Auvinen, Member of the Midsummer Circle 2026
Life in the village
Monthly theme
Each month opens one theme from Finnic (mostly Finnish and Karelian) folklore, and the question it asks of you. We begin with the water birds and the Mother of Waters, and follow them into the depths of the mind. In December we meet the spirits of the home. In January we turn to ancient cosmology: how the world was made, and where you stand in it.
Audio journeys
Rune singing and meditation woven together, so you can experience the lore instead of only reading about it.
The wheel of the year
The old agricultural calendar and the bear year. You get the key dates, the seasonal folk beliefs and the magic people practiced on them: what they did, and when.
Spells and rituals
Old spells and poems (runes) are the heart of the material. Use rituals from the lore, or create your own from the theme.
Witchy creative prompts
Each month calls you to make something: a folk craft, a spell, or some other kind of witchy creation.
Community
Between gatherings, the village shares ideas, half-finished spells and the strange thing that happened in the forest on Tuesday.
My approach
Witches’ North exists because of my deep love towards folklore and the land I live on. I believe that folklore is meant to be lived, and evolve together with time. I also belief in hospitality and openness, when it comes to culture.
I often call myself a skeptic witch, but the more I learn about folklore, the less skeptic I find myself. For I think that there is a lot of wisdom that lives in the lore, and that the mythology is a way to our inner words and deeper understanding of the world.
For me, the biggest magic is one’s ability to overcome fears and transform themselves into something that is more true to them. And our ability to create. I also am pulled by animism. I greet and sing to the forest, crows and the moon. I ask for strength from the ground and resilience from the waters.
What I do with Witches’ North is deeply rooted in the Finnic (mostly Finnish and Karelian) folklore and old spells. I seek for information from books and archives. I make own interpretations. I create own spells and sing them. I blend spells with meditation principles creating special kind of audio journeys which make it possible to experience the folklore in a whole different level. In bring forward this animistic world for you, and help you in finding your own way in practicing in it. While connecting like-minded people around the world.
I live in the Eastern Finland. My roots are in North Karelia and Karelia. Finnish folklore can be quite local, and the east and west have some major differences (more Scandinavian in the west, more Slavic influences in the east). I lean towards Eastern Finnish and Karelian tradition in my teachings.
Ninni does a beautiful job of being grounded in Finnic folklore, translating original material to be accessible for non-Finnish speakers, staying true to the sources while also bringing inspiration, knowledge from her own gnosis and practice. This course was an opportunity to learn in a deep way and to center the divine feminine in a way that mainstream sources often miss. Ninni is knowledgeable and also spiritually engaged with the material.
– Angela, Midsummer Circle -26
Hear from my clients
This is the first time the Village is open, but I have some comments from people attending my Midsummer Circle and Spellcraft courses.
How it works
Join now, begin 1 November. The learning platform, welcome materials open the day you join. You can access the materials in browser or via mobile app.
Live gatherings. 12 gatherings on Zoom, Saturdays at 19:00 Finnish tim, about two hours each. Each gathering has lore, small-group conversation and questions. Every gathering is recorded, so if you can’t make it live, you won’t miss it.
Monthly materials. On the first day of each month the new audio journey (15–35 min), the lore of the month, key dates and a creative prompt open on the learning platform. Some months include extra video.
Between gatherings. A private Telegram group and a weekly letter by email.
Access. Your access to all materials lasts until the end of October 2027.
Gathering dates: 7 Nov, 5 Dec, 9 Jan, 13 Feb, 13 Mar, 10 Apr, 8 May, 5 Jun, 10 Jul, 7 Aug*, 11 Sep*, 23 Oct*
(*May move to another Saturday once autumn retreat dates are set.)
Rise, my Nature from the void
Spirit from beneath the ground.
Come and stir the sleeping power
Come beside me as I chant
Arise now, and rise forever,
when my words awaken you
– A spell for raising power
Join the village
A year of Finnic folklore, animism and your own living practice. For nature witches who are done practicing alone.
Witches’ North’s Village welcomes anyone interested in Finnish and Finnic folklore. Your background does not matter, as long as you are curious and treat our tradition with respect. The Village doors are open only 4 times a year, so that the community has time and peace to grow and explore the themes together.
The Village – Founders
The membership begins on the 1st of November and lasts until the end of October 2027.
Two pricing plans available. To pay in smaller installments, choose One-Time Purchase and select Klarna as payment method.
about
My name is Ninni
I’m an Eastern-Finnish-Karelian witch walking my own kind of shamanistic path.
I write, I sing spells, I craft things. There are always a few projects waiting for their turn. I seek inspiration from nature and folklore, always building a deeper connection with myself and the world, always finding new layers in both.
I struggled through overwhelm, anxiety, and burnout. And an enormous creative block. I opened a conversation with my nervous system, my fears, and my shadows, and found the energy and courage to follow my own North star.
I’m not saying the overwhelm and anxiety are gone. But through them, I have become brave and strong (and some might say: insane) enough to build something that truly means something to me.
That is what Witches’ North is about: taking ownership of your magic and your power, together with the spirits, spells and wisdom of the Finnic folklore. Here we connect to something ancient and bigger than ourselves. We building momentum for change from inside out.
Our craft matters.
I walk with witches, dreamers, memory keepers, and cycle-breakers who are ready to live their lore.
Q&A
How much time does the Village take?
The live sessions take about 2 hours each. The weekly emails I send will take you a few minutes. The audio journeys will be from 15 to 35 minutes long and the creative prompts will take as much time as you want to give them. Same with the community disussion. Everybody’s journey is different.
What language is the course in?
The course and instructions are in English. However, all the example spells are also in Finnish. (Because the source material is in Finnish and my spell writing language is Finnish.) In some audio journeys there might be some spell singing in Finnish, but in those cases, you don’t really need to understand it in the moment, and you can check the translation in writing.
I’m not from Finland or I don’t have Finnish heritage. Can I still attend?
Yes, you can. As long as you respect the Finnish and Karelian and Finnic culture and acknowledge the roots, I believe it is totally OK that you join this online Village. I believe that respectfully learning from other cultures and cultural exchange makes you understand the world (and those other cultures) better, and understanding creates nicer people. We also share a lot of culture with the surrounding areas in Scandinavia and Baltics.
I encourage you to jump in, and then find your own balance for your practise.
Do I need to know Finnish mythology or be a witch to take this course?
No, you don’t. I will tell you what you need to know, and you can use your own life experiences and if you want, other mythologies or folklore to support your practise. You can also use this course to get ideas for writing poetry. However, you need to respect everyone on this course, for majority of us will be varying level witchy.
Do I need to finish in 12 months?
Kind of. This is a membership of 12 months, and you get the access to the materials for the 12 months. In the end of the time period, you will be removed from the group, unless you decide to continue into another year of the Village.
Is this more spiritual or scientific?
Both. Conscious of the history, but directed by your intuition and imagination. I use research as my source and rely heavily on old spells as my source. How ever, I add my own interpretations to my teachings and combine old spells into other traditions to make the audio journeys impactful. I am not a folklorist or scholar, I am someone who wants to find ways to live the lore in the modern life. It’s not a museum, it’s an experience.
Is this a live course or self-paced?
This membership has live workshop once a month, and additionally some self paced materials. I wish you take part in the community discussion if that feels comfortable for you.
What format is the Village in?
This circle comes to you via different channels. Once you purchase, you will be registered to my course platform. When the course begins, you can find all the materials there. The materials can include video, audio, text, PDFs. You will receive emails to remind you to return to the materials. There will be live Zoom sessions. The conversation group will happen in Telegram app.
I’m not creative or I can’t write/draw/craft/sing/do art, can I still join?
Yes you can! I think creativity is a very valuable part of our lives, specifically as an playful act. Creativity is play for the brain. You can explore the creative themes with this point of view and try to find this new side from you.
I would like to meet like-minded people. Can I do that on this course?
Yes, on this course, you will meet other people who are also exploring the Finnish and Finnic folklore and might have roots in Finland.
I would like to have support from actual person during my journey, can I get it on this course?
Yes, you will get to attend group meetings and additionally I will answer questions in the Telegram group.
If you are interested, I offer additional 1-1 coaching. Contact me at ninni (at ) witchesnorth.com or DM me in IG, if you would like to learn more.
1:1- coaching takes place in Zoom and one session is 75 minutes.
Ninni, what is your training?
Certified trauma informed integrative transformation and resilience coach (studies include 100 hours customer work), HIMA Happiness.
Drum relaxation instructor
Yoga nidra -instructor
Sauna ritual host (weekend course)
Winter swimming instructor
Reiki Level 1
Bachelor of Communications specialized in online media production and screenwriting.
Brewing:
Kolmen maailman kulkija – Year of guided shamanic path. (2026 Mar – )
Reiki 2 (Dec 26)
Heritage sauna practitioner (2026 Oct -2027 Oct)
Do you offer scholarships for your courses and circles?
Unfortunately, I do not offer scholarships.
Connection is the practice
In the core of Witches’ North is building connection that holds. To yourself, to others, to the living world, and to something older than all of it. This is where the magic lives.
To self
This is all about self-discovery and compassion. You cannot live fully from a self you don’t know. Your beliefs, your shadows, the patterns that protect you and the ones that limit you. These are not problems to fix, but territory to explore. When you know your own energy, your own voice, your own magic, you stop performing and start living.
To others
We are not meant to carry meaning alone. Shared ritual, shared witness, the moment someone else names what you’ve been carrying in silence. This is a biological and spiritual necessity. The right circle doesn’t drain you. It reminds you who you are and lifts you up.
To nature
Disconnection from the living world is one of the quietest forms of poverty. Finnish tradition knew what modern life forgot: the forest has memory, the water has voice, the land has its own intelligence. When you bring yourself to nature with intention, it meets you. Nurturing this relationship brings both healing and meaning. But more than that: it returns you to a conversation that was never meant to stop.
To something greater
Humans have always needed to make sense of the world. Across centuries and continents, the stories we’ve told are surprisingly similar. You are part of a long continuum of meaning-making. Mythology and science are not opposites. One tells the story of the soul, the other tells something more practical. Both are true. Finnic folklore gives you a specific thread to hold. When you find it, you find that you were never outside the story. You were always in it.