Abundance
Paganism
Workshop Series
September to March 2026 - 2027
Abundance Paganism is a seven-step journey into the nourishing and transformative sites where European animistic and polytheistic folk tradition meet abundance orientation.
This is the fifth run of this course, and this time it’s available in a hop-on, hop-off form. Take one or two workshops, or get the whole package for a discount!
A way toward cultural and spiritual re-sourcing
This course arose out of a strong call to find the path back to nourishing tradition after inheriting the wounds of culture-loss and culture-distortion caused by empire and colonialism.
Though I had been told through my life that paganism was a thing of the past, after I got to work closely with living indigenous cultures in Canada during my training as a teacher, it became clear to me that the broad features of indigenous cultures worldwide were still available to people of all cultures, including Europeans. Those features include animism and polytheism, seasonal festivities, the making of offerings, connection to land and sacred place, and ceremonial song and dance.
Though there is much grieving to do over the loss of cultural specifics, the basic elements we need for cultural healing are still with us, and always will be.
Beyond the building blocks of traditional cultures, I noticed my indigenous teachers emphasized abundance over scarcity, collaboration over competition, and multiplicity over homogeneity, in contrast to modern European and North American mainstream culture, which often values the opposite.
After years of literary, folkloric and religious historical research, I assembled this course as a toolkit for reconnecting with the basic elements of European indigenous spiritual cultures, often called paganism, with an orientation towards abundance, as it is defined by indigenous thinkers like Robin Wall Kimmerer — the knowledge that there is enough for all, and that this knowledge is what makes enough for all a social reality as well as a spiritual one.
In this way, I hope to make some headway in reviving not just the form of paganism, but also the most generative and beautiful way of being offered by traditional cultures worldwide.
In Abundance Paganism, we turn to the traditions of our ancestors to inspire an expansive new way of seeing the world...
...one that trusts in the flow of life and the creative power of connection — so we can at once empower and enrich ourselves and the many beings that surround us.
Empire, the force that tries to control and homogenize, has cultivated a multifaceted wound of scarcity within all of us. In order to leverage control, it rolls out a constant message that we are undeserving of true abundance — a script that we hear all through our childhoods and all over the media: you must hustle and compete to deserve security and wellbeing.
So many of us, without even realizing it, have internalized this belief in scarcity — which, left unaddressed, can limit potential, joy, and freedom in all areas of our lives, and cause harm to others.
This scarcity shows up in your sense that there is not enough for you; in the belief that competition, conquest, and unrest are natural ways of life that dominate our collective history.
It shows up in the dramatic imbalances of power we see in the world, and in the systems that keep so many people undervalued, under resourced, and underprivileged.
But when we choose to dismantle empire’s constructs in our own lives, we take part in dismantling its impact in the collective, too.
Healing the wounds of scarcity, and tending to the many places empire has harmed us, is deep and ongoing work. And it requires a worldview upgrade, to replace the limiting mindset that scarcity has instilled in us.
Abundance Paganism is so much more than a list of facts about historical religion. It is a call to return to the source of your connection with life, and your own unique destiny, to take joyful responsibility for living life fully, now, in face of loss and discouragement.
It asks you, in several ways,
What is indigenous to you?
And then encourages you to build upon that trustworthy foundation to make your heartfelt desires a reality.
It’s powerful stuff.
I’ve been living abundance paganism myself, and I can’t wait to share it with you.
What it looks like:
This series of seven 90-minute workshops will help you to cultivate a robust connection to ancestral knowledge via ritual, folklore, land, animism and polytheism, visualization and prayer.
This container is designed to help you to increase your sense of spiritual freedom and agency and deepen into a spiritual life rich with integrity.
True wisdom is not dictated by rigid religious systems but emerges from curious conversation with one’s inner self, ancestral creativity and the living world. This series of workshops offers a toolkit to divest from wisdom “on-high” and start attending to the wisdom of the earth, with ancestral knowledge as an open-handed guide.
The workshops:
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Rewilding Spirit: Wednesday, September 30
* Access the intersection between abundance orientation and traditional knowedge systems
* Connect with your anchor feeling to help you access generative intuition
* Uncover your own seed vision for your future
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Scarcity to Abundance: Tuesday, October 20
* Identify and reframe your internalized scarcity narratives
*Interpret pagan source texts with an abundance orientation
*Release perfectionism in spiritual practice
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The Unfathomable Other: Wednesday, November 11
*Connect with the non-human divine in the world with animism and polytheism
*See the body as a source of divine insight
* Regognize misconceptions about deities that reinforce harmful norms
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Ancestral Embodiment with guest teacher Marika Heinrichs: Wednesday, December 2
*Explore ways of knowing and sensing through the body that open your perception to a wider range of relationality, abundance, and support with land and spirit.
*Inhabit the emodied states of your ancestors
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Rituals for Abundance: Wednesday, January 6
*Observe the role of pre-emptive gratitude in traditional culture, in the form of offering and sacrifice
*Identify your own unique offering in the world
*Improvise an invocation ritual
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Grounding in Integrity: Wednesday, February 10
*Identify common sacred places in European paganism
*Get free of fixed identity’s enclosure of possibility
*Deepen complexity around appropriation and misappropriation
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The Forest is Good: Wednesday, March 10
*Deepen in knowledge of the centrality of tree-lore in European paganism
*Connect with your spiritual hunter-gatherer roots
*Cultivate greater faith in the self and the world
Join one workshop for £40
(approx $54 USD)
Early bird rate before Sept 17:
All seven workshops for £190
All seven workshops
for £240
(approx $325 USD)
Or 3 payments of £67 / $90
When we begin by treating ourselves with love and generosity, in all our tenderness and vulnerability, we find ourselves fueled by true, sustainable power, and we can meet the world — in all its suffering and pain — with the same love, gratitude, and generosity.
Empire is expert at perpetuating fear and shame. When we greet that fear and shame with yet more fear and shame, we further tighten the bonds of capitalism and colonialism around our collective life energy.
Instead, we will wield those primeval tools of generosity and gratitude to craft our new belief systems — and our new reality.
Schedule:
Rewilding Spirit: Weds, September 30
Scarcity to Abundance: Tues, October 20
The Unfathomable Other: Weds, November 11
Ancestral Embodiment (w/ Marika Heinrichs!): Weds, December 2
Rituals for Abundance: Weds, January 6
Grounding in Integrity: Weds, February 10
The Forest is Good: Weds, March 10
Workshops are at 11 AM Pacific / 2 PM Eastern / 7 PM UK and last 90 minutes. They will be recorded and shared with those who have pre-registered.
This workshop series is for you if…
organized religion gives you the ick but you long for deep spiritual experience
you get the sense the ancestors are trying to tell you something
you don’t connect with just one ethnic heritage but heritage calls to you nonetheless
you want to decolonize by engaging with European traditional culture but you can do without the guilt tripping and gatekeeping you encounter online
you want to ground yourself in integrity without sacrificing your sovereignty
the generic visions you’ve seen of paganism seem flat and lifeless but your instincts tell you there is something vital there for you
you’re aware of racism and race as a harmful construct want to know what’s beyond whiteness as an identity category
you crave the sense of magnetic direction that comes from inspired intuition
you have always felt a vague sense of mystical calling and suspect you are on the precipice of giving it form
you’re lit up by the latest archaeological finds and almost feel you could connect, etherically, with the people of that time
you loved Vikings or The Last Kingdom and would love to live like that, minus the brutality
you need to hear it from someone who has been there that your wildest dreams are a trustworthy compass, and that the world needs your dreaming, more than ever
When you begin to live the ways of abundance paganism, you step into a new reality: one in which play, optimism, and delight are the foundation for every decision.
Your creativity burns brighter than ever, and electric inspiration is your regular companion.
You begin to re-enchant the world, and find the magic and wealth available to you in every stone, petal, and step you take upon the earth.
From past Abundance Paganism participants:
I recently unearthed my journal from 2021's course and was astounded at how many of the things I desired at the time have since unfolded/arrived... and more. In these desperate times I'm grateful to reconnect to my magic, to be reminded that the natural world is abundant and that we are not separate from it. Thank you!
- Penny, 2025
I’m very connected with nature already, and I took Abundance Paganism to learn more about tradition & polytheism. The course helped me to bring more curiosity and joy to the things I was struggling with, creating more space, more options and more inspiration through an abundant mindframe. It connected me to ways of finding my own inner wisdom while also engaging with European traditions and ritual. It sets you up to make an authentic experience for yourself, without having to copy exactly what was done before.
The course really opened up my eyes to how limited I was creating my own experience and to see the multitude of possibilities available to me. New opportunities through work, social, and creative outlets began opening for me: more avenues to live a joyful life.
- Emily Bulmer
Danica is a wonderful teacher, and thoughtful guide. Abundance Paganism infuses scholarly and historical perspectives with relevant emotional tools for modern practice.
- Sam O.
As a student of history and amateur historian, I’ve always prized literal, empirical facts. This program helped me to sort through the limited historical information that’s available on paganism and folklore and glean what really resonates for me personally. I’m now better equipped to identify historical and contemporary biases in the information I read -- like the idea that all Scandinavians were vikings and believed in a fixed pantheon of gods, for example. Abundance Paganism added tone, colour and depth to my understanding of tradition, and definition to my daily spiritual practice.
- John Bracken
The abundance paganism course helped free me from waiting for a “perfect” situation to connect to spirit. I learned that by being awake and alive in my everyday life, I can connect with the sacred as I am now, where I am now. The divine does not need me to be anything other than I am.
- Penelope
Abundance Paganism opens gentle yet profound pathways to witnessing the unbreakable bond between your own being and the abundant Earth, which dwells waiting to be discovered in the sacred groves of ancestral worldviews.
FAQ:
How is the workshop series different from your Abundance Paganism course?
This series is a pared-down version of the course, which has included readings and meditations and a community space and ample activities — this workshop series consists of workshops only, which means you have the freedom to choose which or how many workshops you wish to attend! You can only register before the workshop takes place.
Each call will be recorded, and will available up to a month after the final call (March 2027).
Do I have to take all of the workshops to benefit?
It’s totally fine if you take a workshop here or there, depending on your interests, though of course they do go together very well!
Will there be a payment plan available?
Yes! You can choose a payment plan at checkout.
How long is each workshop?
Each workshop is 90 minutes long and held on Zoom.
What is an Abundance Mindset?
It is the practice of choosing thoughts and words that reaffirm the beliefs that we are constantly provided for generously, that the world is benevolent, and that our desires are a sacred compass. It encourages generosity, gratitude, optimism, flexibility, and trust in the wisdom of life.
Am I welcome to join the workshops even if I’m not of European descent?
Yes! While the traditions and texts I share are mainly from northern Europe, the main goal of Abundance Paganism is to equip and empower you to independently uncover your own unique traditions and spiritual path, whatever your background.
This sounds a little like spiritual bypassing to me. Is it?
Discussion of suffering, in all its diverse forms, is more than welcome here in the course. In addition to acknowledging the suffering caused by imperialism, colonialism, racism and empire, we will discuss, when relevant, how suffering is an abundant part of life, and provides the compost for the fertile soil of our future.
I desire that our pagan practices be responsible, respectful, and supportive of a world in which all beings are dignified and able to flourish in their diversity. Therefore I teach the value of self-awareness, attuned embodiment, and approaching relationship to others with integrity. I’ve also invited qualified somatic educator Marika Heinrichs to guest teach a lesson in order to ensure embodiment remains a key element in our integration of this journey.
As beloved indigenous author and ecologist Robin Wall Kimmerer prefaced her book The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World,
“All flourishing is mutual.”
Are you ready to embrace your own flourishing, for the good of all?
Your guide in Abundance Paganism
This is me, Danica Boyce, just after making an offering at a pagan burial mound in Gamla Uppsala, Sweden, the greatest Iron Age pilgrimage site in Scandinavia.
I'm a writer, educator and researcher in vernacular spirituality, folklore and song, and I am called to labour at the dream of undoing the wounds of imperialism by sowing love and connection to the living world. I have a Masters in medieval studies, a BA in English literature, and a Bachelor of Education in which I focused on Indigenous pedagogies.
For the past nine years I have been producing the popular Fair Folk Podcast, a research-based show making information about traditional cultures of Europe available to folks around the world. Since I began the podcast years ago I have built this pagan research, practice and sharing into a rewarding career.
I have my faith in the gods and my devotion to optimism — spurred on mightily by abundance orientation — to thank for the success of my transformation from ambivalent schoolteacher to successful and inspired pagan educator. I am wildly grateful I am able to spend my days sharing ritual and personal growth practice with others, travelling abroad for field research into vernacular spiritual tradition and song, and following my wildest dreams to the letter.
This series has a guest teacher!
Workshop 4, Ancestral Embodiment, will be taught by Marika Heinrichs! Marika (she/her) is a bodyworker, writer, and teacher whose work lives at the intersection of embodiment and justice. Marika's writing and teaching focuses on European folk wisdom as a pathway for people of EuroChristian descent to de-assimilate from whiteness and unwind from domination and supremacy. She teaches in both so-called Canada and internationally, and is the co-founder of a foundation training for somatic practitioners called Embodied Ancestral Inquiry.
Marika's people come from Ukraine, Germany, Britain and Ireland and she lives on Dish with One Spoon treaty territory in so-called Guelph, Canada — lands of the Attawandaron, Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee peoples and the current treaty territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit.
