Kari Tauring is a völva (Old Norse for staff carrier), sharing her ethnic heritage through performances and workshops for all ages.

Kari was a Season One contestant on Norway’s award winning reality show, Alt for Norge. This is her audition video December 2008.

Kari summons her pre-Christian roots into her Immigrant Era heritage bringing Northern European spiritual and artistic expression to a new level. She balances this with her North American ancestors to create a healed and unified heritage. She is a bridge walker through time and space.

Formal Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts Double Major English and Philosophy, UST – 1990
• Master of Arts, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul – 1996
• Ordained – Church of Spiritual Humanism, September 2007

“Huldre Medicine” Terri Allen 2005 for the “Huldre Project”  - string skirt, fan and rattle based on Scandinavian Bronze Age finds circa 1500 BCE.

Archive links to prior projects: Discovering Origins/Building Traditions (1999-2006)